Does anyone else feel like Shadow Priest could use an AOE Insanity spender again? At the start of Dragonflight, we had Mind Sear, which made spending Insanity in mass AOE feel a lot better. Now, spamming Devouring Plague in those situations just doesn’t feel great. Would love to hear others’ thoughts—should we get something back to fill that gap?
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What if Shadow gets a burst spender that does a bit of splash damage too?
Would help questing, PVP, and packs that die quickly.
Sod has an interesting ability for shadow that puts a void zone on the ground, maybe something like that?
They could just easily re-add the sepulcher 4-set. Though they’d probably just make it a worse version like they did with the 2-set.
If Shadow had an AOE insanity spender we would need what Balance druid has where our damage resource naturally regenerates to 50 before each pull. That way we can start pumping within ~5 seconds of a pull.
To give Shadow an AOE spender, they would probably have to nerf Psychic Link into the ground, because right now our AOE spenders are basically our hard-hitting single target spells (MF: Insanity, DP) that “cleave” via Psychic Link. And then we would be massively nerfed on one of our strongest (and a very rare) damage profiles: sustained spread cleave. I think only Balance druid can ~match our sustained spread cleave damage profile.
I kinda do like the idea of having a shadowy apparition that explodes, or a “black hole” type of ability.
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You do make some solid points actually
There is the Entropic Rift already filling that fantasy as it is exactly a black hole like thing… But I would love if it was a standalone spell instead of linked to Void Torrent. Would at least offer some flexibility to Voidweaver’s talent builds.
I’d love if the Rift behaved a bit more like a Black Hole does: instead of the snare, it would use gravitational force to pull enemies towards its center (more like a slower Ursol’s Vortex).
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Yes! That would be awesome.
Added bonus: it instant sphagettifies kills minor enemies (those small ones with tiny health pools) if they are sucked towards the center of the hole 
Fun effect but I doubt Blizz would do something like this.
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No it didnt. It was terrible bc any time you or your targets moved it was a waste.
Give me an aoe spender that isnt chanelled or based off of the location of 1 target and i may be on board
Also, after playing this frost mage and seeing.how it does aoe… Jesus, shadow crash is soooo bad.
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That’s fair, yeah shadows AOE is pretty tragic when it comes to movement huh.
I suggested a while back that Shadow Crash might fill that role. But I’d rather they make it a hard hiting cooldown with faster missile speed instead of an annoying DoT applicator. Have it hit all enemies with 8 yards of the target’s hitbox rather than a baseline circle that doesn’t hit anything else if you shoot it at a large enemy.
Merge SWP and VT into a single AoE spell for shadow. I’d like to see most of our AoE come from Shadow Apparition if they got rid of psychic link. Or have a choice between the 2 because right now there just isn’t any synergy. Our AoE relies on DoT application, just give us a reliable and consistent way to apply them.
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How bout… Mind Sear…
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