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Edit: original pathing https://www.reddit.com/r/Priestsofwow/comments/y107sv/the_shadow_we_deserve/

This is another full writeup based on all feedback floating about. This was inspired by the Shadow Word: Podcast which Publik organized. I believe this is the Shadow we all deserve. More Spirits please!

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Tier 1

Devouring Plague

  1. No Changes

Dispersion - Shadowy Apparitions - Silence

  1. Dispersion now has Intangibility built in.
  2. Shadowy Apparitions are now also triggered by Shadow Word: Death during execute or Deathspeaker procs.

Unfurling Darkness - Coalescing Shadows - Psychic Horror/Last Word

  1. Coalescing Shadows now empower Devouring Plague instead of Mind Blast and Mind Spike.
  2. Edit:. Unfurling darkness now causes vampiric touch to apply to an additional target on a 15 second cd instead of proccing an instant vampiric touch.

Misery/Dark Void - Void Apparitions - Shadowform/Void Eruption

  1. Dark Void now has no cooldown, costs 10 Insanity and applies Shadow Word: Pain to an uncapped number of targets.
  2. Void Apparitions causes Shadowy Apparitions to explode on impact for Uncapped AoE damage. Edit: Only affects apparitions summoned by Devouring Plague casts.
  3. Voidform provides stacking haste to a hard cap but no flat damage increase. Voidform is extended by spending insanity. Voidform is balanced to be the superior damage option in any long fights where you can maximize extension. Shadowform fills all the gaps in content where voidform struggled during previous ramp iterations.

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Tier 2

Shadow Crash - Harnessed Shadows - Shadowy Insight - Mental Decay - Void Bolt

  1. Shadow Crash now has a hasted cooldown again.
  2. Shadowy Insight is no longer an RPPM but is a flat percentage proc to allow scaling on multiple targets.
  3. Mental Decay now causes Shadowy Apparitions to generate 1 insanity on impact and extend Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch duration by 1 second.
  4. Void Bolt is instant and costs 30 insanity. Each tick of Mind Flay generates one stack of a buff which, at 10 stacks, will cause Void Bolt to instead generate some insanity and have no cost.

Maddening Touch - Psychic Link - Shadowy Recall - Shadow Orbs - Puppet Master - Surge of Darkness - Mind Melt

  1. Psychic Link now affects Mind Blast, Void Bolt, and Mind Flay.
  2. Shadowy Recall provides a chance for Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch to tick twice.
  3. Shadow Orbs provide a 15% chance per Coalescing Shadow consumed to generate a Shadowy Insight proc.
  4. Surge of Darkness has a different effect depending on whether you selected Void Eruption or Shadowform. In shadowform, it causes Devouring Plague and Vampiric Touch damage to have a chance to make Void Bolt free stacking up to 3 times. In Voidform, it causes Void Bolt to become free, but gives it a 5 second cooldown.
  5. Mind Melt provides 25% increased crit chance to your next Mind Blast or Shadow Word: Death, stacking 2 times. It does not reduce cast time.

Tormented Spirits - Insidious Ire - Auspicious Spirits

  1. Edit: Auspicious Spirits now provides a 50/100% chance to summon an additional apparition to attack the primary target of your spells which generate apparitions.

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Tier 3

Encroaching Shadows - Mind Flay: Insanity - Damnation/Void Torrent - Mindbender - Deathspeaker

  1. Encroaching Shadows now causes Devouring Plague to summon twice as many Shadowy Apparitions instead of increasing initial damage. It also causes Shadowy Apparitions to travel faster.

Mind Devourer - Screams of the Void - Malediction - Inescapable Torment - Pain of Death

  1. Edit: Screams of the Void is now applied by Mind Flay: Insanity, Void Torrent, and Void Tentacle at increased effectiveness. Regular mind flay still provides the current buff.
  2. Pain of Death now increases execute range of Shadow Word: Death by 15% at 2 points to line up with the 35% twist of fate range. It no longer provides cleave as Shadow Word: Death spawns apparitions by default. It still increases Shadow Word: Death damage.

Nzoth - Cthun - Ysharaaj - Yogg Saron

  1. Nzoth no longer has a chance to detonate stacks. Stacks detonate automatically if the target dies or the stack count reaches 5.

  2. Cthun tentacles are now summoned automatically after concluding a Mind Flay: Insanity or Void Torrent channel. They are also summoned by casting Damnation. The tentacles no longer generate insanity; instead, they deal single target damage and apply screams of the void.

  3. Yogg Saron now summons your living shadow to cast a fully empowered shadow word: death on your target after you have cast 13 spells which generate shadowy apparitions (critical strikes count as 2 spells). The backlash damage is dealt to the living shadow.

  4. Edit: Ysharaaj adjusted to fill the role of 1 min cooldown previously occupied by Dark Ascension.

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