Is the new shadow priest more or less complicated than say previous incarnations?
Yes.
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it’s simple. They don’t even have aoe spender now, just dots exploding all the time.
You’ll need to be much more specific on when your baseline version is to compare against.
Was simple enough for me prior to 10.1 idk how 10.1 is but i think they removed some talents that kind of made no sense to have because it would of been used passively whenever it was up anyways ( felt similar to Mage talent we’ve had for years where you can try to minmax that talent but it’s super hard to track and time so it would be more of a dps loss if you did try ).
Less complicated for sure. In fact one might even call them “bare-bones”, "slap dash, or even, “cobbled together with the barest semblance of functionality”. If one were so inclined.