havent seen one of those in a long long time. im guessing they are balanced and no one wants to play one? 
Shadow priests have their issues, but i swear they are not as bad as they want the PvP community to believe that they are. Almost every time Iāve had one in a shuffle lobby; they end up winning at minimum 4 rounds.
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Every spriest player sangbags their spec so nobody plays it; greedy bastids.
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ig so sir
This is because anyone playing Shadow right now is either someone who actually mains it, or is someone good farming elite sets.
I donāt get it, itās pretty fun as SP rn. I miss swap for 2s, feel like I die so easy without it as double dps now 
Maybe because the damage is all pad and doesnāt feel like you can close the match out?
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Itās because you stopped posting Fry Saturday night gifs with me.
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Stop playing double DPS 2s, goofball.
Just the 2c of a never better than mediocre on a good day spriest, but a long-time thourough enjoyer and always the spec I identified as my main sinceā¦ Legion (maybe even WoD?). It just feels like they stripped the soul out of the spec - I tried so hard to force myself to come to like Midnight Shadow, still occassionally do, but for me thereās just barely a flickering candle of a connection to the spec this xpac.
Every xpac and every season it was the first toon Iād level and gear, and would frequently do 2 or 3 before any other class for no other reason than I just really enjoyed the spec.
Looking at damage charts after games, sure Shadow can frequently top and even just gap the hell out of 2nd place, it aināt a question of can it do damage. Itās just that none of it feels meaningful. For me it doesnt have a damn thing to do with whether or not the spec is good or bad or viable. For me there just isnāt one single damage ability that I get excited about pressing. No āhere comes the boomā button, no keystroke that = āyou better use a defensive cuz Im finna bust.ā
Sure the double whammy of losing both stun and swap at the same time stung, but it wasnāt just those two prunes. Blizz leaning even further into having ~20% of your dam just be yet another nonthreating pad in the form of those dumbass ghosts is yawn-inducing and disappointing. Tentacle slam is stupid, stupid animation and somehow less reliable than Crash.
The 2 best feeling buttons to push donāt even have anything to do with damage - giving your teammate Power Infusion so hopefully theyāll crank, and Mind Control.
Iām sure my answer is 500words too long, wouldnt blame anyone for not even reading it, I donāt care. I just miss the connection I had with the spec for so long. Hell after finding myself just neutered of any feeling w/ Midnight spriest, Iām still wandering around wondering what the f my āmainā is or might be. I really miss it.
I canāt think words other than āuninspired and apatheticā to describe how I feel playing that spec now, and thatās probably being gentle.
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The spec is dog$hit thatās why you donāt see them, thereās a reason WIZK the spriest main for gators back who won the AWC hasnāt played a round this expansion.
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Funniest thing about all this that blizz decided additionally to losing stun/lay you will also tab tarbet sw pain all expansion long for ez mode early onset arthritis.
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Well, thatās not gonna happen.
Iāll bet it does!
the spec is heavily dependant on your teamā¦
I can sit there and blow my whole burst into someone and they just dont die. People always sit at like 20% and i have no kill power.
If a healer is good, they never let me get near them for fearā¦ which means only silencing off my teamās cc or running in for a fear after is what i can do.
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This feels like itās always been this way. Either Shuffle, or LFG no voice, you kinda rely on your teammates to keep you alive and rotate correctly.
This. But itās also pretty miserable to play in a warrior meta with no stun.
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The spec feels alright if Iām not queueing into warriors granted you can fade their spear.
spriest bad, hard countered by certain melee, our tier set is bad because blizz nerfed void volley multiple times for no reason
no mobility, gutted utility, way too many fear breaks used for free in this game (again, warr hard counter gross monkey class)
playable tho