Not much to be said, Void Plague and Shadow word Pain are instant casts and will down you or get you very close to death without using any other spell. That was before their DOTS could crit. Now they for sure kill you when Void Plague is critting for 600+ dmg per tick.
There is no counter play. Reduce the damage just a little bit, where they have to do more than use those 2 abilities to guarantee a kill.
jUsT cLeaNSe iT.
Yeah if I had a cleanse I would.
I’ll be honest idk how anyone can play the game not as a self healing hybrid if a shadow priest is on the other team.
I wonder if this would be as much of a problem if healers just existed in SoD PvP. Currently none do.
Thankfully I can cleanse, riptide and maelstrom heal.
they buffed void plague when they nerfed shadow word death, if you want void plague nerfed you get the OG shadow word death back. choose wisely
Or they could bake there spells power into abilities with….
Idk
A CAST TIME.
Every caster has instant casts that nuke peoples health pools and it lowkey ruins any counter play.
how cleanse?
This may be a surprise to you, but not everyone plays a shaman and can cleanse. Having a dot that is soloing players that is only cleansable easily by shamans isn’t a shamans being OP issue.
It’s a void plague issue.
Me personally; I’m chilling and pissing on priests.
There’s a version of this game where every class can heal and remove debuffs, you even get to fly on dragons!
why would I play that version of the game when I can play this version of the game where I can heal and own better than other classes, while the opps just have to take it from the plague of instant cast caster cheese, and own harder than enhance ever could in retail?
I’m kinda curious, what can a warlock do that priest can’t? Except for summons and looking cooler.
Depends on the summons, I mean priest has more shadowy dead summons the diet necro that is warlock lmfao
Win every dueling tournament?
Nah I’ve meant the portal that summons players. I know our shadowy friends have gotten a zoo.
Wait, there were SoD pvp tournaments? Sweet! Which phases?
If you like to PvP SoD is not the game for you, even as a Priest, I learned that lmao. Its just not interactive and not fun compared to Retail or even Classic Era
Did you know the counter to a priest is your own priest? They can dispel both SWP and VP and even Devouring Plague from other priests. So its a battle of who has more priests.
Or, you know, just bring shamans and paladins to mix it up.
Anyway, wheres your shadow prot pots?
This isn’t goona be what you wanna hear but sod is NOT a pvp game… the pvp is 
. Many classes do huge damage, far beyond what they should relation to player health
Priests have been the number 1 class for 2 phases in every aspect of PvP. It’s not even about just dots they have a spammable 42 yard cast and SWD for crazy burst.
In general, it seems SoD devs do not understand classic PvP. You can’t give casters high burst instants + crazy range on casts. For example, an aq40/nax frost mage in classic can crit for 2.2k frostbolts, meaning 2 frostbolt crits + fireblast kills every class except BIS warriors. However, even as melee you can run in directly to them and you’ll be in intercept/frostshock/rep range to interrupt.
On the other hand in SoD phase 1, a druid can run in a straight line spamming starsurge killing every melee in the game with zero counterplay.
with this gear my sw:D does around 600 damage, 1k’ish crit. C R A Z Y B U R S T imarite? meanwhile boomies nukes you from orbit with a +2k starfire + 600 starsurge burst. But hey lets all on priests right?
Dont even get me started on paladins they just run you down and kill you before you can do anything, pray you have your 5min cd trinket up on hoj
warriors, any good warrior will melt you before you can do anything.
hunters, lol
warlocks CB’s oneshotting people left and right
the list goes on and on
I have a screen cap of getting hit for 10k plus change from an insta cast Lava Burst.
The dots might eventually kill you, they are strong – 18 secs later after the priest cast them.
Plenty of time to do something.
I don’t know, they are powerful certainly.
But so is just about everything else in the game.
The devs do not pvp lol… or actually test anything.