Speaking as an Enhancement Shaman we can agree it is over tuned currently (truly it’s only because of Way of the Earth) lets bring them down a peg as well when the nerf bat eventually comes lol.
A well played Shadow Priest is hands down the most deadly class in pvp currently.
They wand my grounder and tremor or just simply move out it like a competent player, I can throw tremor around but it’s never been reliable if were being real, they dispel my frost shock and dispel ghostwolf so I literally can’t stick to them. Lets not forget on top of that when I’m low they can silence me, and of course those sneaky black out procs (helps being an Orc some).
They dot and run, and since my only movement speed increase is ghostwolf it literally renders me helpless if they know what there doing.
Say I manage to get up to them, they disperse (which they can do while mounted I found out) meanwhile there dots eat me alive.
They are a hard class to beat that’s for damn sure, and that’s having the tools Shaman do. I can’t even begin to imagine being a Warrior or a Paladin facing a good Shadow Priest.
I’m not sure what the answer is, but I can’t imagine other classes fair well at all.
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Is there some sort of forum meeting where you folks get together and decide what class to post about Nerfing?
Yesterday it felt like Shaman
Today it feels like Shadow Priest
Alls I know is I feel like I am missing out on some kind of fraternal organization that hides in the shadows and decides this stuff.
Like the free masons only more trolly
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I’m just suggesting bringing them in line a little bit more lol.
I’m a damn Shaman, advocating, I know I’m overtuned. They are also overtuned.
Fine…
Don’t tell me. I understand. I don’t know the secret handshake 
void plague needs to be tuned. probably the most broken dot/rune currently.
Shaman is fine, if actually underperforming really, its priests that are broken.
priests are fine honestly, its the shaman that are broken
SoD is broken. The economy is currently broken. It’s what makes it fun.
problem with nerfing shadow priests is they don’t exactly have the knobs to turn, I’m pretty sure they haven’t nerfed a base ability yet in sod, only changed / buffed and have only lowered values related to runes.
Shadow priests were already good at 40, throw in the insane amount of spell power for this level and extra sources of damage and a defensive.
Priests are the most overtuned class right now. Shamans not quite as strong, but still a little overtuned. I can deal with shamans for now, but priests definitely need to be nerfed.
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It is an unwinnable fight for Boomkin. Zero counterplay. Nothing to do in a dueling scenario. The class is outright broken
I imagine you get silenced, feared, your healing dots are cleansed and you basically just wait to die lol.
Silence ends the match. Blackout is an instant loss (and procs 2-3 times a fight)
They are also remarkably mana efficient. So if you do manage to string together RNG stuns + crits, they have easy, mana efficient answers
Yeah I can’t imagine a Boomie doing well against one.
At least with Shaman you can attempt to kite.
In the open world, I can travel form and run away. In a duel, it is a neat zero% chance to win
Here is how I would fix Shadow Priest in PvP (without gutting them in PvE):
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Nerf void plague by 20-30%. This reverts the previous buff and further lowers the spells damage. Then buff Mind Spike to deal 20% more damage to targets afflicted by either SWP or VP, or even 10% for each buff to total 20%. Since there are ways to remove diseases and magic effects available to all classes (restoration potion jungle remedy) and Mind Spike has a cast time (thus can be kicked, silenced, counterspelled, etc) this will allow for more counter play in my opinion.
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Increase dispersion CD to 3 minutes, reduce damage reduction to 70%, and make it actually cleanse the movement impairing effects it currently does not cleanse. Also, let it remove incapacitate and other abilities that impair movement. Currently the spell is broken and only removes some abilities while others go right through despite what the tooltip states.
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I play neither of those classes and from my perspective SPs are way more broken than shams. It’s mostly the dots, wathever you do (kill the priest, run, …) you still die because SW:P is very powerful and void plague is busted.
It’s whatever class just killed them, so they charge to the forum with tears in their eyes to scream, “Nerf! Nerf! Nerf!”
It’s what happens when people take a video game way too seriously.
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