SP the least mobile melee spec

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It seems that Shadow Priest has the least mobility out of all the melee specs

is this by design or oversight?

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Must be by design since they didn’t reintroduce door of shadows

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The class need more than a 1.5 min cd for mobility

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I think Shadow Priest is supposed to work without mobility. Where and whether those design elements exist is another thing…

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It’s by design. Priest does not have a melee spec.

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Sp is more melee than melee lol

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Shadow priest is a melee spec ???

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Yes it does.

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You can thank MoP for this mess. I have very fond memories of Cata spriest actually being able to kite bad warriors and dks, then mop came with 3 charges/3leaps or 2 deathgrips/chains of ice spam with no cost etc.

Now everyone “needs” at least 3 or 4 instant gap closers and 4 or 5 blinks/teleports to deal with them.

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this is pve’s fault actually. for so long, melee have been not as desired in raid due to boss uptime where as range just could perma do dmg from 40yd away. blizzard doesnt like it when any range, except mages and bm hunters be able to freely do dmg on the move with 0 downside.

and ofc they want melee to quickly be able to swap targets if needed in pve so thus they got more mobility.

so their philosophy of giving casters a downside in pve and throwing melee a bone, they have in turn created a pvp meta where melee have insane uptime while casters, except mage, have hardly any gap openers.

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That’s strange, back then I raided at a very decent level (sold h rag carries and stuff) and don’t recall melee not being invited to high end raids.

I seriously doubt it was only due to pve reasons, I would agree pve was a factor but the way many specs were granted things like warrior triple stun and double silence would suggest they just wanted specs to have many reduntant abilites.

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Anyway it’s a stupid ability, too short 30y iirc and the cast time was stuck to 1.5s
You are dead even before the cast is off and like said above there is way too much gap closer anyway.

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Evoker is more melee than shadow priest

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also boring af spec change my mind
i gave up leveling mine

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I just don’t understand who or why they thought VF or DA being a cast time was a good idea.

It doesnt feel good to use in both pve or pvp.

Or actually, make every offensive CD have a 1.1-sec cast-time with around 40% haste.

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Probably has something to do with the ideal of being a ramp. They probably don’t want it macro’d together with PI.

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Bottom tier complaint checking in but having voidform be a cooldown which turns into a weave spell feels bad. Like i need it accessible to where my fingers usually go but only every 2 minutes?

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Get back to cooking hotdogs, Target doesn’t pay you to post here on the forums

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It’s by design yes.

Also everything that is supposed to make that manageable for the priest is nerfed/removed as well. In no particular order off the top of my head:

  1. Focused Will

  2. Void Volley

  3. Catharsis

  4. Removal of Void Origins (Void Eruption/Dark Ascension Cast Time)

  5. Removal of Instant Mind Spike and Damnation

  6. Angel’s Mercy Talent

Could be more but that is all I can think of for now.

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