Shadow priest used all his mana on Pika and couldn’t even break Pika’s shield on a disc priest.
You have screwed up shadow completely.
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I’m sure Blizzard will fix this issue based on the clear and concise report you’ve presented here as well as the wealth of supporting evidence.
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Yep we definitely should balance around level 30 duel tournaments in beta. Especially when the participants are hyper-twinked and supported by cash injections from thousands of followers.
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Whoa a multi-R1 pvp’er no-diffed someone playing a class that doesn’t come online until level 40?
Say it ain’t so.
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I’ve been actually playing shadow priest and have seen those clips.
You do no damage until you get rank 2 mind flay and rank 3 mind blast. Then your damage actually becomes pretty decent, combined with a lot of passive self healing. Like one mind blast should break a power word shield if you have decent SP. One and a half mind flays.
I do think they need a little something else to press, but the raw damage isn’t terrible.
Mind flay now gets a stack dmg bonus as it ticks. It’s surprising people think shadow priests are gonna be amazing before getting shadow form.
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dont worry we now have a 5 point talent that gives you 3% bonus spirit when we fully cast mindblast/mindflay were totaly gonna put 5 points in that totaly -.-
totaly gonna help with the oom issues 
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Damage will be tuned that’s kinda irrelevant. Bliz gave us a raid buff, fixed the mana issues (And potentially created more with how often we need to cast DP but we shall see).
The problem remains that bliz put all of the spec’s power on 1 talent point.
Spriest has a glaring issue of being awful until 40. Until we get shadow form we can’t make any real judgements, but it does kill their narrative of classic being a journey when your class isn’t viable until 40.
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What exactly do you think they are doing?
Honestly even more shocked mind blast still has the threat modifier.
AND THEY REMOVED SHADOW AFFINITY.
Are they expecting me to tank dungeons?
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just get improved innerfire and u got this, tank that dungeon with innerfire and dmg reduction from shadowform 
I will give flowers where they’re due though.
We said we had mana problems, couldn’t see why we would be brought to raids, and rotationally devouring plague wasn’t doing enough to spice things up.
We got mana battery, better group heals, better personal mana generation, devouring plague made a permanent second dot, and the changes to the disc tree mean we’re much more freely able to get the good mana and damage talents there.
I almost feel a bit curmudgeonly pointing out mind blast threat, but it’s definitely going to be a problem.
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the problem is disc priest. powerful Shields do not belong in a classic game.
They expect you to talent into silent resolve in the disc tree. it’s all spells now. Though perhaps with salvation on you maybe you can avoid it?
in 2019 in the 30’s bracket I found s. priest was more a cherry picker kind of thing,
go find those dudes in crappier greens than you even. It works better then lol.
I cannot lie, when I boosted in anniv…one was a priest. its that 1 to 40 (45 if you keep the points in wand under disc). Its a labour of love. Lots of labor. walk in 58 feels much better, ngl.
I mean it’s not like shadow is the only spec with threat talents in their tree. It just feels odd to leave the threat modifier there when originally it was only a hold over from disc tanking which had been scrapped and hasn’t been revived.
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I’m actually jealous the priest threat talent does more than just reduce threat. Druids over here eyeballing it like hmmm do I really mind being hit in the face as a moonkin? eh
The changes to spriest, specifically brining back at least a form of mana battery so we have a reason not to only be healer in raids made me want to play priest again. Primarily cause its gonna be even worse finding tanks and healers now cause of the dungeon xp gutting. Also. Mind control. Walking players off the boat to be doomed to a six minute swim is never not funny
I want my spriest in group 1 with the troll tanks. The double dip on VE healing and spirit heal regen in combat is delicious.