Shadow Priests are ugly

Been playing as shadow more since there is so much solo content and Holy/Disc hit like a wet noodle out in the world. I can’t get over how ugly Shadow Form is, how many holy effects there are that just don’t look good with the role and how underwhelming most spell effects / animations are.

This is especially galling considering how many good looking shadow effects the N’zoth mobs have.

The cool thing I like from shadow are Void Eruption, Void Bolt, Shadow Word: Void, and Void Form. The transformation to Void Form looks especially cool if you don’t have ugly Shadow Form turned on when you cast it.

Shadow Mend looks really dumb. Power Word: Shield looks horribly outdated and of course doesn’t match. But the biggest offender imo is Shadow Form. It really needs a glyph to turn it off completely.

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Adds insult to injury when enemies in the Stormwind Horrific Vision have a dark energy shield, and we still have bloody Power Word Shield as a sparkly light bubble.

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Maybe once they run out of druid glyph ideas they can work on some for other classes lol

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Honestly Shadow form shouldn’t even exist anymore. It’s a useless +damage button that should just be rolled into the spec

There’s no reason to have it as an active ability

If it had some interaction with spells, like reducing damage taken, but preventing holy spells, then it would make sense.

But having an ability that’s basically “Hey, don’t forget to turn this on every time you log in!” Is completely pointless

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Yes but we need holy and disc spells. Including when we get shadow locked. But yes I agree shadow form should just get naturally adopted into the spec

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I got the new toy Shadowy Disguise. Why isn’t this what shadow form looks like? Can we get a glyph of actual shadow?
https://i.imgur.com/It4r3P9.png

Thats only because you chose to make it solo content, it can all be done with a party / friends. Its an MMO after all too.

Really all we need is Voidform now. We should have Shadowform rolled into the spec and use Voidform as our transform. Back when it was the Classic version of the spell and said graphic applied ( dark phantom ) it was cool. Now? I look like I am made of purple mud.

Right there with you. Blizzard has neglected Shadow for years, and I’ve been fighting to get better visuals for years. Do you know how long it took them to update Shadow Word: Pain? How long it took them to restore a visual for Mind Blast? We had no visual for Mind Blast for 3 expansions. Think about the forum hate Mages would be spewing if Fireball had no graphica; representation for 3 expansions.

This is a major reason I say Mage is the favored Class. They got 3 reworks of graphics, and this expansion 8’ish different versions of Water Elemental “because it made sense due to the zone / patch theme”.

Well now here we are. Shadow / Void spells everywhere! Surely it makes sense to update the Player’s spells and effects using NPC mobs that do the same thing right? Right? Maybe give Shadow Priest some Glyph variants on Mind Blast, Shadow Fiend etc.?

Wrong!

Shadow Priests aren’t Mages, so we can choke on warm kielbasa I guess.

At this point. I give up on trying. I guess we’re stuck with this until someone calls Blizzard’s Developers out on this discrepancy and bias during a live Q&A at Blizzcon. I say that not because I like the idea, but because at this point I don’t know any other way to get them to pay any attention to, or commit to resolving; an issue that they’ve casually ignored for 15 years.

Multiple Priests, including myself have voiced this concern for 3 Betas now. IMHO the Developers seem to be intentionally tone deaf to any concerns like this if it isn’t coming from one of their precious Mages.

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And not to mention they just crippled what used to be a dps powerhouse into literally one of the biggest underperforming specs in the game. All during what is essentially a shadow themed patch. I really want to know why they hate priests so much. Anything good that comes our way gets taken away and then people either reroll, switch classes, or in many of my friends cases just quit the game. I’m not rerolling or switching specs because blizz is that out of touch with what they are doing to the game. If account wide essences were a thing, sure I would switch but not now. Not after I have all essences, rank 12 cloak, and a lvl 80 neck… we can’t even pug without getting declined for an hour before someone takes a chance on us. And I’m 467 ilvl with a 1500 raider io. Make sure if you want to see shadow buffed you all make it known and maybe even go to my thread “destroyed shadow” and comment your opinions. Something needs to be done before we lose even more good shadow priests to blizzards lack of care for one of the games most famed classes. And to my knowledge this should be shadows time. Everything is shadow or void based but yet shadow is awful right now.

Also, I noticed the effects on other characters with high corruption looks a lot like Shadowform… which seems lazy to me.

In all honesty so priest spell animation needs huge updates they are all so dull. Pally gets amazing three dimensional looking bubbles and we get a 2d gross yellow glow. Pwr is lame. Shadow form used to look really cool back in the day. I used to love it. Druid spells are amazingly involved and look a lot better. Priests get hit with a nerf stick and get told we better like it and not a single good update to baseline spells or visuals

I really love the shadow form visual. Love the graphic animation and color. Plus it’s unique to us. Shadow is cool.
I think voidform however looks a little tacky.

I hate effects that hide my character. I want to see my character and their mog that I take time to make! I don’t wanna see a shadowy blob mess or a fat chicken bird(balance druid has the same pointless button). Void eruption would be so much more IMPACTFUL if it were a transition from a regular toon to that. It would be more awesome. I can’t take my priest serously because of this. Even with the glyph that currently exists, she still looks like crap and i can’t see what she’s wearing in any detail.

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