Mind sear damage is good if everyones dotted, that’s not the problem with the trash ability, Currently you almost only ever use it with devourer.
So you ccast your free sear, uh oh swirly, uh oh mechanic, uh oh displacement, uh oh your turn to kick
If mind devourer was removed, spriest would BE BY FAR THE WORST SPEC IN THE GAME.
The ONLY thing that makes spriest viable is the random mind devourer procs and assuming you get the FULL cast off.
Source; top 500 in NA for keys as spriest and 4th on my realm. however i’m giving up spriest now because its so bad with all the movement needed
This isn’t true though. You use all your insanity in AoE on sear.
The insanity gen is sluggish and varies wildly based on cds, and the dot application is overly rigid, but to say you barely get to mind sear outside of procs is not even close to true.
No you don’t, some packs are only 2/3 pulls.
It’s better to use DP for mind flay insanity and the extra 12% dmg bonus an extra dot has on the target for psychic link, and dont even bother saying “wtf u run mind flay insanity”
It was a thing people tried in week 1 to get more snap burst damage for the super short pulls in m0s.
In actual keys it’s really, really bad. Typically you drop that choice node altogether for keys, or you can opt to grab MF:I in tyrannical for the extra boss damage.
I won’t pretend I’ve run any high end content. My highest Key has been a 5 and my guild is still working through normal. But in situations where there has been cleave or multi target, the Death Speaker build has been fun, engaging and effective.
Ok, but compared to what? To the other build that is just way better? I mean this just feels like the searing nightmare situation in shadowlands where ppl just were praising misery playstyle and how superior and competitive it was compared to SN…not because it realy was…but mostly because they despited the SN playstyle …even though it was miles ahead of anything else.
But if a properly spec’d shadow priest is in the same group as you, they’re gonna slap your dps off the meters. Play as ya like, but in the interest of keeping things accurate, playing deathspeaker is suboptimal
I recognize that the build is sub optimal. In drawn out fights it loses steam. But for the content I have been doing I have been finding success for the time being.
As content gets harder and I move into more demanding fights, Ill need to make the proper adjustments.
Absolutely agree. Death Speaker is 100% sub optimal. In short fights I enjoy pretty high burst cleave. My intention wasn’t to spread miss-info. Just to point out that in certain content, specifically when the fights have been shorter, the build has worked.