I was tired of how very fast-paced retail wow has become, and I was also tired of the changes to shadow, its trash I guarantee you NO SHADOW can 1v1 any class… so, I stopped playing for a bit, then I remembered how in Vanilla Shadow used to have VE as an aura, making shadow a beast because you could dot and kite and heal…. I decided to play classic era…I was excited to have that moment again… just to find out these trifling developers also made it a temp buff? like if you guys HATE shadow that much just delete the class and spec off the game! I don’t play any other class, I don’t even play disc or holy…I ONLY play shadow, so they have ruined my class in every expansion and version of the game my goodness good riddance!!!
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For me the bigger issue is the lack of control shadow has now, in a world where melee have 20 gap closers and anti-magic control, shadow losing psychic horror with no real replacement was slap in the face, and as predicted it’s just a damage bot now.
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It was always a temp buff my friend. I’m sorry to say. Your memory of the effect is more likely because the original curse lasted 60 seconds. But it was never permanent in classic.
There was a stretch of time where it was a 5 minute personal buff though, after Wrath. Maybe that’s what you’re thinking of?
Also was never a curse.
It was always a magic debuff or magic buff pending the era.
I checked the wiki before posting. Apparently it was initially a curse then changed to a magic effect.
Yep, I play classic since they made it, now its in MoP, I left Classic to join midnight to level this Priest to play Shadow the visuals are great the game play is meh, and we have no defense against melee. They pruned us when we didn’t need pruning.
MoP Shadow Priest is fun my mindblast on my Classic Priest crits for 85k, mindblast in Midnight crits for 32k
Eh something going for shadow atm is that they are immortal walls.
Downside is you need to drag games to 60% dampening for win cons
All you need is a healer that doesn’t let you die for two minutes when dmg is high enough to 100-0 someone in a single healer CC lol. I agree that the spec is tanky, but being tanky doesn’t really count for much right now at least in SS.