It’s official, Shadow is the worst performer on Mythic Sszorak by a significant margin.
Looking at 95th percentile logged parses, shadow is sitting dead last at a lowly 178k. The delta between top and bottom is over 50k now, and shadow is 11k below the next spec in 26th place above it.
Is it really too much to ask for a small single target bump to be able to at least compete with the middle of the pack? We have like 3 decent fights this tier.
It all comes down to the dilemma they put themselves in with psychic link.
They can’t buff our ST without directly buffing our AoE too.
I agree we need it. But I dont envy the designers with that puzzle.
Even if they did a ST buff of like 10% to mindflay and mindblast it would barely move the needle on psychic link damage.
We would still lose in aoe to warlocks, shamans and moat melee classes.
They have already reduced psychic link and could drop it 2% more if they really want us to continue to flounder across the meta.
It’s almost like they openly admitted that Plink is an issue when they added Shadeburst but did nothing about it.
Every Shadow Priest damage issue falls back to Psychic Link, and i like this spell but when it start limiting my gameplay… yeah no i’ll pass, its just not acceptable. Rather have it deleted entirely actually.
Edit: We also need Blizzard to realize Void Volley isnt being added to psychic link, why else would they nerf it if their excuse was tone down spread cleave?? either revert the nerf or make it count towards PL. So tired of this spec and these devs not having a single clue what to do with it.
Every time we get nerfed its due to one or two fights screwing over the logs and then they nerf the spec in every aspect until its dead last everywhere till it gets ‘addressed’ months later and only for it break and get nerfed into dumpster fire. This cycle is getting TIRING.
It definitely needs a rework, probably talents in a .5 patch, but too late for that already for the next one.
Also, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Shadow Word: Death in a worse state. It hits for hardly anything. Deathspeaker talent and the Death and Madness node should just be baseline. Twist of fate begins execute range at 35% like most other classes with execute, but for some reason Death is only bonus damage at 20% health baseline. No one ever takes these talents they are just useless. Bringing back an execute damage proc of SW:D would be an avenue for buffing our single.
Look, i saw an interesting idea on this by a popular streamer. Won’t name him. The way it should be is, everytime Shadow Word:Death hits your primary target it increases the damage done by your Apparitions on your primary target by 1% stacking up to 5 times. SW:D being cast on the same target refreshes duration. It doesn’t get out of control but yet won’t be overpowered.