Question: I swear I have heard a couple of people say you can use Shadowmeld to avoid certain things - causes casts to lose LoS and fail, removes disarm, etc.
Is any of this true? Can someone give me a complete list of all the stuff that Shadowmeld can or can’t do?
Shadowmeld is like rogue vanish but you can’t move. If someone is channeling at you and you shadowmeld they no longer have a target to hit and the cast will fail when finished
i heard it can make you a better lover
Popping Shadowmeld while someone is casting a spell at you is kind of like a Rogue popping Smokebomb or a Hunter using feign death
Makes your enemy untarget you
I too find a better experience when my partner vanishes
It makes night elf the vastly superior choice for druids. Being able to shadowmeld and then jumping into flight form is the ultimate escape from sticky situations. Obviously less relevant now in the dragon isles. But shadowmeld then prowl is still perfectly good.
all of this is true.
It’s basically feign death.
You can for example as a druid use shadowmeld to drop combat and go right into flight form to cheese your way out of any WPVP in a flight enabled area. Use it to make rake be a stun since your using it from stealth, etc. Most of the time this is set up with macros.
Because you stop being a target you can also use it as a cheap counterspell for something targeting you, not actually countering it but causing the cast to start over since the target isn’t there anymore.
You can also use it to enable skips.
All 5 Night elves run past a group, then everyone shadowmelds, and the group resets, but now you’re on the other side of them, and have essentially bypassed fighting them.
This is also true.
It’s nice to escape many bad situations but is useless if you have dots on you, or if you get second hand aggro off someone fighting near you.
It works a bit like vanish and feign death. It can be used to dodge mechanics, but you need to know what will be canceled altogether and what will be immediately recast (in PvE at least).
So Shadowmeld does have a tiny amount of iframes associated with it. For example, if you get in close enough to do something like AOE fearbomb a night elf and they shadowmeld at just the right frame, they will immune it / avoid taking damage. This has become less egregious over time but there’ve been points in previous expansions where night elves have shadowmelded things like chaos bolt or Ebonbolt during Legion to successfully avoid damage.
A complete list right now would be difficult though.
Did they up the cooldown on it?
SHADOWMELD NEEDS TO BE ON THE SAME CD AS OTHER RACIALS WITH TRINKET.
No 30sec penalty for using a racial that is OP for rogue/Druids getting re stealth scenarios.
This isn’t true in the case of PvP because it does a couple of other things. It will auto-drop focus targets on the night elf in question, and will still get them out of combat, allowing them to begin drinking / eating even if they have dots on them.
It’s basically Vanish. You stop moving, pop that and you can cancel things that have you targeted with it.
It drops combat so if it’s directly targeted yes it will
But as soon as a dot ticks it breaks shadowmeld.
Doesn’t matter though. A focus frame doesn’t automatically reattach, it requires manual manipulation to reattach. A proper use of shadowmeld behind a pillar, dots or not, achieves a goal very easily and puts the night elf in question out of further harm’s way while also utilizing cover for the sake of regaining mana during something like an arena encounter or something like that. Mage rogue will utilize this tactic often, as will something like night elf healers in arena for the sake of immediately drinking.