So what's the point of Shadowform again?

Classes Priest
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Just read the tooltip, and it just gives a flat 10% spell damage. So what’s the point? Why not just give us a 10% buff, and get rid of Shadowform?

It made sense when it gave spell damage, plus physical damage reduction, but now we have focused will, so there’s no point.

It just seems silly to me to have a permanent spell damage buff tied to an ability. If it’s going to be active at all times, why not just bake it into the spec?

If it was removed, we’d also get to enjoy transmog like every other class… Just saying :roll_eyes:

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Think of it as a placeholder so when they delete Voidform they still have Shadowform in the game files to restore :slight_smile:

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Because it used to remove shadowform when you cast light based spells and now its left in as flavour and coolness

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I’m pretty sure it’s so we can distinguish a dps priest from a healing priest. I remember reading something where it said that blizzards goal was to make all class/specs distinguishable from one another.

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Then my suggestion would be to have shadow energy build up around the priest as they build insanity. Shadowform really has no more use, I don’t mind being purple in Voidform, but when it’s a simple 10% spell power increase I’m with tc, bake it in and get rid of it.

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Why is this an issue?

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Because in its current form it looks stupid and has no interesting use. It used to mean something. Healing took you out of shadowform. Losing your damage reduction when you healed was a risk. Its just another global to spend when you rez now.

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Then add another use to it.

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I think that’s what we all want…

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Seems like you failed reading comprehension too

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No I didn’t. Post on your main.

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Get AOTC, then talk.

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I feel like the whole, levitating, void tentacles, and shooting mind lasers at things kind of distinguishes us enough already.

Honestly shadowform is like an arcane intellect now, except it doesn’t even benefit your group

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No, shadow form is more like a boomy with the Glyph of Stars astral form.

I don’t make the rules, just stating what I heard from blizzard. I doubt Ion gives two sh!ts about your cosmetic quarrels with shadow form.

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I have multiple AOTC’s and several mythic kills on different tiers. Post on your main.

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No AoTC on this tier though. And getting Mythic kills when its not current content doesn’t count. Get AoTC, then talk.

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I think Shadowform looks cool imo

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I got mythic Imonar when it was current content you wank.

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It’s not… people want to remove class identity when so much of it is already getting removed.

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It is when the ability has been stripped of all interaction and any kind of fun. It is no longer is removed by casting holy spells, no longer gives damage reduction, no longer adds anything to the spec other than flat damage.

It’d be like Blizzard giving you an Aura for auto attacks that you have to turn on every time you log in. What’s the point? Why not just bake it into the spec and remove a completely useless button?

And class identity is hardly any argument when shadow has been overhauled twice in the last 2 expansions :roll_eyes:

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