Yea, I’ll remember that when a rogue uses garrote silence on me. I’ll whip out my staff and start beating him. If only I thought of that strategy years ago!!!
When you play a dk or enh or a ret or legit any other class in the game, yes please do remember this.
Because you will not be able to use your defensives or magical abilities on these classes.
But you can still use most of your physical attacks and abilities.
Understanding what a actual silence is important for basic game mechanic knowledge.
Maybe you won’t be stuck at 1200 rating if you did understand.
Tbf I have meleed someone to stop them taking a base while silenced in 2700~ RBGs before. It’s incredibly niche and basically irrelevant outside of exactly that situation, but when it comes up it’s very funny.
Can you use a wand while silenced? I haven’t equipped a wand in years. If so, that might be a good strategy to deal with base captures in Blitz Brawl when silenced and countered.
This level of pedantry is actually hilarious, but I have to respect your dedication. You’re all up on your high horse about how wrong we are about things and getting riled up about how we should be describing Dispersion even more negatively in a PvE context because we can’t use basic attacks on the enemies while we’re using it.
Maybe we wouldn’t cancel Dispersion ASAP if we could use melee attacks. That would be a game changer.
My man , you called me a troll for saying it’s not a silence.
You insulted me for you being wrong?
I said it’s a silence as an unnecessary drawback to the defensive ability in PvE, you said “not it’s silence - it’s even worse.” The worse part is not relevant in PvE, which makes your comment purely an attack on the language I used rather than the meaning.
The nuance of what abilities the silenced condition affects on other classes isn’t relevant on priest in PvE, which is why I didn’t type out “prevents the priest from casting spells and attacking” but that technical inaccuracy has been your major focus since I pointed it out.
We all accept that Dispersion prevents the use of all abilities and attacks. That’s why priests cancels Dispersion in PvE at the earliest possible opportunity so that they can resume attacking.
Not sure, I straight up waddled up to a hpala whilst garotted and whacked him 
Bro you said dispersion silences you. I do not know your experience or skill level, you could be a new player for all i know. all i did was correct you that it does not silence you.
The effect of being silenced is relevant in all content. There are mobs that silence you right now in dragonflight.
So let’s move on from the whole dispersion silences you thing and go to here.
You are saying dispersion causes shadow priests to take more damage?
And then you say
I am not going to lie, i am completely lost on what you are saying.
Regardless shadow priest has VERY good survivability as far as defensives goes.
We do not have good mobility at all, so if you are dying in pve is it because you can not avoid certain mechanics?
Because our healing is literally best for pulsing damage as everything we do heals us.
Or are you getting 1 shotted? is our hp too low? or do we need higher % damage reduction on fade and flash heal?
Do we need something like door of shadows to teleport certain boss mechanics?
Okay, I’ll keep feeding you.
Dispersion prevents you from casting spells. That effect is commonly called a silence. Everybody else understood what I meant.
Because most defensives provide defensive benefits for their whole duration. Shadow priests are given every incentive to deactivate their defensive as soon as possible, resulting in more damage taken if there is still other damage being taken that isn’t immediately a threat.
Vampiric Embrace preferentially heals allies within range last I checked. It does decent healing, but it’s nowhere near the defensive powerhouse it is when it only has 1-2 targets to heal.
It’s this. Priest uniquely had mechanics that it literally could not survive in two raids this expansion and both were due to priest having movement mechanics from 2004 while every other class has 2024 movement mechanics. Priest is an outlier in several facets of design where it is uniquely incapable of performing.
Not every class needs to be capable of doing everything, but Blizzard has designed the game such that basically every class is able to perform to some degree in all situations except priest, which is uniquely disadvantaged against movement impairment, rapid displacement, and other areas (such as crowd control, interrupts, and dispel options).
Priest’s problems in DF wouldn’t necessarily be problems if every class had similar problems in other areas, but they don’t.
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Yea, someone needs to test out the use of wands while silenced.
Just did some research on wands. Guess you can’t use them to attack anymore?
" In retail World of Warcraft, when you are silenced as a Shadow Priest:
- You cannot cast spells while silenced.
- You can use your staff to perform melee auto-attacks on enemies within melee range.
- Regarding wands, in the current retail version of World of Warcraft, wands are no longer usable as separate weapons. They have been converted to stat sticks that provide bonuses but cannot be actively used to attack.
So, even if you have a wand equipped, you cannot use it to attack your enemy while silenced or countered. Wands no longer function as ranged weapons in retail WoW. Your options when silenced are limited to melee auto-attacks with your staff or other non-spell abilities that are not affected by silence."
Wands still attack, they’re just not their own dedicated slot. If you right click a mob with a wand you will start shooting it and it will put you on GCD. This is very annoying. I just think bliz moved away from wands entirely moreso than stopped them working. There’s no wands in current content pve for example.
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It’s honestly irritating how you are purposefully being ignorant.
Silence=can’t cast;
I would consider it a universal silence since it prevents a player from performing any spellcasting during the duration of the effect.
Yes
When a person starts to find that he/she is losing the argument, it is common that they try to manipulate the argument by commenting on the personal aspects of the person they are against in an effort to demoralise their opponent.
Also, you continue to bring up how you are playing at 2500 rating games. (Nobody cares!) The author quite literally stated this is about gameplay outside of arena.
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OK bro, so every stun every sheep, every fear, is a silence.
So when you are mounted it’s a silence right?
You have a silence debuff on you right?
if you get silenced by another player it will be on dr since you were already silenced right?
man lets check your pvp rating
exactly what i thought.
No, you bring up how bad someone is to show they have no clue what they are talking about, like you.
You do since you mentioned it, you jealous?
Again, you’re being purposefully ignorant.
A stun is total loss of control over your character
You have the choice to cast if you want to, you just need to dismount
What?
You are still being silenced. Like I said, silence=can’t cast
I haven’t pvp’d at all this season and I think even last season. I consistently hit 2100 in 2s when I did play; there was no reason to go above 2100 since there is no glad mount.
I assume that you have 2500 in solo shuffle, not 3s.
No, you are being a bully trying to disprove someone’s factual statements by commenting on their experience vs yours. Your 2800 means nothing when you are wrong. If I said the sky is red but you said it’s blue, and since I’m older than you and have more experience, I’m right and you’re wrong? No.
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whoa! you know what a stun is? 
Now try looking up what a silence is.
what statements are factual? that dispersion silences you?
Are you on drugs? wtf is going on? are you pranking me?
it means that there is a MASSIVE chance that i am right compared to a 1200 rated player.
If you were a scientist and this was your expertise then i would listen to you and understand what you were saying, i would not ASSUME i am right because i have no clue what i am talking about.
With that said gtfo, don’t reply to me no more, you are a troll to the max if you think dispersion is a silence effect.
silence means you can move but can’t cast spells but you can auto attack and use physical attacks still. durrrrrr
You’d be correct.
My 2500+ xp is also in an irrelevant bracket which is why I don’t bring it up.
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I think it has more to do with seeing what foolishness you will post next.
What did i post that was foolish?