no thanks, im a 2004 spriest and my suggestion is to get rid of sear and searing both, they are dumb and garbage and take away our class identity because whoever is in charge of class design thinks we are just purple dust cloud mages now. What they need to give us is our gawd damn DoTs back and let them actually do damage again, so that when we spend 6 globals applying VE it actually starts doing goood aoe damage.
Replace searing nightmare talent with a talent that gives 3% haste per target with VE.
Give us back mana regen through shadow damage.
Make Spriest Great Again
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The really screwed up in not offering shadow more options. Searing Nightmare would be fine being a talent if we had one other option that performed better for AoE.
If spirits were a little faster and did more damage it would be awesome. There is almost a build there, but it just needs a little oomph.
Letās be honest, Searing nightmare should be baseline. Itās kinda wonky not having actual aoe damage without having to spec into it. The talent should just buff SN by adding VT to the dot spread, or maybe allowing SN to proc apparitions. Even with this buff shadow would likely still be behind fire/frost/MM/balance/unholy/WW aoe.
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Oh manā¦ when the tank pulls big ole packsā¦ SN is just way too nice. Love the numbers, the hitsā¦ the soundā¦ we pump.
Was awkward to use at first as i was so used to Miseryā¦ but changed my bar a bitā¦ and its a wrap. Love it.
You lose essentially nothing ST (twist of fate is cool, but eh)ā¦ and the AOE pros are just too high. You NEED it.
And yesā¦ it needs to be baseline. Itās all we got 
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Void eruption should be our main AoE spender ability. Would be so awesome to constantly explode with those bolt things everywhere.
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If I were redesigning Shadowās AOE spells, Iād do the following (just brainstorming, could use feedback):
- Remove Mind Sear
- Remove Searing Nightmare
- Buff Vampiric Touch & Shadow Word: Pain
- Void Eruption is instant cast, has no cooldown, and costs 50 Insanity
- Shadow Crash remains a talent
- Psychic Link: Mind Blasts hits 4 additional targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch within 40 yards (for 100% of damage, up from 50%)
Mind Sear, even with Searing Nightmare, just feels dull to me. Somehow Mind Flay feels better. Possibly because our AOE damage is so distributed between DOTs, talents, Eruption, and Sear that Mind Sear itself does almost nothing: it doesnāt feel impactful. Compare to Eye Beam, or Bladestorm, or etc - where large portions of the specs AOE damage are invested into a single high intensity spell: those feel very impactful, Mind Sear is the opposite.
Shadow should be about multidotting for most AOE situations. Psychic Link with good DOT management should be amazing for council fights and most Mythic+ packs.
When there are giant trash pulls, spamming Void Eruption and Shadow Crash would look and feel great.
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Yeahhh that sounds hella good man. I can def get behind that.
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Fully agree here. Mind Sear almost feels broken, to be honest. There is almost no point in using it unless you take Searing Nightmare. Right now there just isnāt a lot of synergy between many of our dmg abilities and I feel like I have to drop everything to aoe, or drop everything to multidot a 2-3 add fight or drop everything for single target damage. Frankly shadow dps is currently kind of boring, itās really just racing to do as much as you can while in void form and then being bored for the rest of the timeā¦
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I feel like the big problem is we really have to either spec aoe or single target more than any other expansion.
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Well done youāve just put more thought and effort into fixing the class than the entire balance team since launch.
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Searing nightmare should be baseline, thatās my 2 cents.
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