I’m actually enjoying mine. My only gripe is going oom from using power word shield and a flash heal every so often. Imo they should cut the mana cost of PWS in half for shadow.
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Paired with demo lock and rdruid it’s extremely toxic.
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Shadow priest as a whole or PWS?
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Both demo and shadow are tanky.
You pair them with rdruid and they become livelords.
might just be the demo lock and rdruid… and their synergy
sp is average at best outside of lock comps currently.
I’ll say its pretty fun though for the most part especially when you can cast. Melee lobby shuffles are another story
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Uh yeah splay has been a really good comp for a while now but out of SP, Rdruid, and Demo I think Rdruid and Demo are the bigger outliers. Not saying SP is bad because I don’t think it is, but going oom from using some simple rotational defensives (not spamming flash heal) seems kinda fried to me. Maybe that’s wrong though 
Spriest is good it’s just boring af so you don’t see people playing it alot.
Spriest, affliction lock all = no fun zone in arena.
I’m kind of on the other side. Regardless of how weak or strong they are in specific comps, I find the actual gameplay of the current iteration of sp extremely unsatisfying.
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any class paired with demo and rdruid is extremely toxic like what?
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Yeah mind spike actually feels awful so I just grief myself and don’t play it, would like for sp to be a dot spec again and not a generic wannabe burst caster
Yeah I miss the older design philosophy of the spec being a tankier attrition based caster.
I find modern SP, busy, cumbersome, overly reliant on juking and precog with major telegraphed burst windows they are shoehorned into. Non insanity mindspike is basically SPs smite and it feels like !@#$ to actually press.
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Honestly even when I crit for 200k+ with insanity it just doesn’t feel good to press lmao
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landing big mind spike into catharsis is really satisfying.
The most aids part about SP is having no reliable repositioning mobility. In shadowlands you have night fae blinks and door of shadows. Now? Just fade and walk 10 yards only to get gripped back instantly.
Mages: https://imgur.com/gallery/GlUoxFn
warlocks: https://imgur.com/gallery/CFZ8v3m
boomkins: https://imgur.com/t/mustang/u520VnP
…Shadow priest : https://imgur.com/gallery/fUF3V
Spriest need a rework.
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Mind spike is fun when you can get them off. These melee have become clever and just want me to be the little spoon while the big spoon me from behind so I can’t cast hardly anything.
Don’t they get like 2 per expansion?
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Should make it three because it’s not working.
It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t thier only dps spec.
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Wouldn’t be that bad if they didn’t nerd us every single tuning round, and if they didn’t nerf some spell for 80%.
It is what it is but sp will never be more than ‘’ playable ‘’.
Took me ages to get use to not casting PW:S constantly… had to unbind it for awhile