Spriest needs careful tuning in Midnight

Classes Priest
1

With the reduction in complexity and gameplay I think tuning is going to be a huge problem for SP in the near future. Our talent trees are inefficient and split into 3 separate design directions that barely interact with the spec. 1) Pets that provide insanity on medium to long cd, 2) critical damage on dots + apparitions and 3) mindflay, mindblast /voidblast

  1. Shadowfiend > mind bender > void wraith, in my mind are wasted talent points and doesn’t do much for the spec outside of some insanity generation. In addition these talents block off other, more impactful talents, limiting real choices.

  2. Our tree is filled with endless % modifiers to abilities that do no damage. Why would we want to sink 2 talent points into 8 % crit chance 40 % crit damage for SWP and VT when they tick for 150-300 when shadow word madness can crit for 9k. – Voidweaver hero talents even has a flat 35 % increase on these dots and it’s still negligible.

We have like 8 talent points for apparitions and most of them are not interactive with gameplay in the slightest, they appear to want apparitions to be part of our gameplay, but again, does no damage despite huge talent point investment. All of these talents are MASSIVE modifiers, ranging from 15 to 100 % increased damage on the abilities. Forcing you to all in on the talents or be left with mediocrity. Which again, takes away from meaningful / interesting choices. This continues with other talents that influence other sources of damage such as insidious ire (25% with all dots up), and mastermind (40% crit dmg), which will force the the base values of flay to be low. Please just reduce the number and strength of the % increases and have the spells do more baseline damage.

  1. Currently we are always forced into low single target damage tuning due to psychic link and the above mentioned talents. Mindflay and mindblast are not allowed to hit hard in single target because it will cause P-Link to scale out of control. I think that there needs to be a drastic increase in single target damage and a nerf to P link spread damage. Or there needs to be a buff to single target damage spells when 1-3 VT’s are out, then losing that bonus damage in aoe situations
2

Psychic link as primary aoe will always be a problem.

3 Likes
3

If they intend to keep it we have to have some sort of compensation when only a few VT’s are out. I already have concerns with algathars coming back and dot application issues in that dungeon, pair that with low ST damage =/

4

Amen!

Keeping that as the only aoe will only hurt the specc.