I always look forward to seeing people come forth and share their ideas of how to address the issues revolving around Priest and Specifically Shadow.
Having said that, I have my own thoughts and ideas on the best direction to take shadow in and I don’t think I need to restate them here.
But, I do want to address your AOE ideas.
Yes, Shadow Crash needs to either be replaced outright with a different spell for dot spreading or at the bare minimum have another spell compete with it in them sharing the same talent node.
But the idea revolving around making Vampiric Touch be both the dot application as well at the dot spreader just doesn’t sit well with me.
So you’re saying you want to use VT the same in both single target and multi target to spread dots… yet affect 11 targets within its radius?
The issue with that is that if you only intended to dot 1 or a few targets, then you can accidentally dot more then the ones you want. What if you or someone else needs to cc the other targets or threat has not been established from the tank on all the mobs and you cause some mobs running around wasting your time and the tanks time to get things back in line?
Basically, you have no control which targets receive the dot or not because you have to use the spell regardless if it’s a single target or not.
Then if it did spread 11 or so targets with dots for a single cast, you can just cast a few and dot up packs and packs of mobs without much effort which would just be too OP imo.
It just would not feel like a shadow priest.
It would feel completely different from anything to the core of what Shadow has ever been or should ever be imo.
As for the other ideas, as I said, I have my own ideas as to the direction to take for Shadow and I will just say we have a difference of opinion as I don’t think I need to rehash them here again.