So I noticed something while looking over the talent tree for shadow.
Blizzard has said they wanted to get rid of button bloating with shadow since they have to many buttons in their rotation. as they referenced Mind spike MF:I and Mind Sear.
My solution: Literally dont take the abilities you dont want to play with.
and I know this sounds like a crazy concept at first but when you look at the talent tree you realize how easy it is to not play with these 3 abilities.
Lets start with Mind Sear: you are already taking Coalescing Shadows which allows you to get VE, so if you don’t take Mind Sear, you are literally only losing Mind Sear and nothing else.
Mind Spike: Again you already have VE from CS so mind spike isn’t needed and the other 2 talents Surge of Darkness and Mind Melt are based off of Mind spike so obviously you wouldn’t want those anyways. and instead of taking those 2 you can put those 2 points into whispers of the damned to still get Void Torrent. so again you literally are missing out of just Mind Spike if you don’t want to take mind spike.
The last and most simplistic one Mind Flay: Insanity… Simply take the other option, you literally have 2 choices here.
This idea that Button Bloating in shadow is a problem can easily be solved by simply not taking the abilities you don’t want. this wont stop you from getting any major capstones or other abilities.
I would love for shadow to stay the way it is and people actually change their talents rather than nuke the talent tree of all choices and force players into playing the spec all the same way. its going to be keep VT on everything and do your boring single target rotation and let passive Aoe do its things