This EU post makes a good point. And the comments on fixes. Shadow priest feels big suck ngl
I don’t look forward to doing much of anything anymore with my guild etc feeling useless and replaceable by literally anything. Or even an empty spot tbh.
Useless utility. Useless runes. Useless specialty runes.
But mb I’m espresso depresso yk ;-;
Blockquote
Keinkrieger
"
Shadowpriest treatment
So in P4 we got sort of attention coming from p3. We did not end up battling tanks in Dps and have had a good season overall. Balancing was kinda fine and all good
T1 6P was fun, even tho the range was and still is no acceptable ( 24 yards) it doesnt fit the kit at all and should be changed )
We did not get spell pushback, tbf we didnt need it in MC much and was OK for the circumstances
The Gaslighting was acceptable and people got used to the SwissArmyKnife mentality
.
.
So now with this surprisingly short notice P5 incoming and BWL around the corner, we are in Despair
Major Points and i focus on the only realizable and reasonable things
-Spellpushback → heavily needed for BWL, thats just unfair and no fun to a perma casting class
-Tier 2 Bonus - Well its like many other classes, poor Design, no fun at all and not even worth it over old Tier 1 Bonus
But theres an easy fun fix to that. We want to keep the T1 6p bonus bcs its fun and fitting class spell. You obviously think the same by making us still play it over the new T2 Bonus and the Coreforged mechanic.
So based on that rather do this
→ Make old T1 6p Bonus the new T2 Coreforged 2set Bonus
→ That enables us to play the new T2 6p Bonus
To not make us to want to snapshot that Bonus pre Pull and have hard times to get raids to enable people to do that → Make the T2 6p Bonus dynamic and not snapshotable
→ So we end up having a straight forward Item dramaturgy by not wanting corefoged 6p but wanting the full new Set and holding on to the old T1 6p.
Even damage wise u know that would perfectly fit with the incoming VE nerf which should enable us to do more Damage. This is what u Gaslighted us with @Agrrend
VE and the hole SAK mentality. Now u realized what the spell actually does and Nerfed it. So give us something cool to comprehend this and be fair
If you let this stuff go live now we end up
-Getting utility gutted for nothing to make up for that
-on top of that heavily handicapped with way more spellpushback and to one of the most immobile classes ingame
-boring set design and basically useless new set bonus which will only be used for aoe ( which theres basically no boss fights in BWL )
-Mindflay issue with its casts range (24y) - we cant just run back and forth just to get the spell off so we forced to stay out of the caster camp to use our tier bonus
You let VE untouched for 4 seasons. argued the hole swiss army knife identity and now we kinda “outscale” the natural ceiling of what a spell possible could do → nerfed it by “half” but did not give us anything in return.
Damage would be the only reasonable and acceptable measure to make up for that. its not even out of line or smth you would have to think much about since Shadow is the still the very last dead dps spec ( with boomkins in p4 ).
So iam really seeing my solution about the tier sets - > it has the perfect quality of life with reasonable dmg boost to make up for the utlity cut
-despair buff actually only buffs 3 spells which havent been to 200% before ( SW:D / MS / MB), its a smal dps gain, no big deal
-still no scaling, which is fine ( well kinda have crit scaling but theres no crit to get ) as long as u give us different sources of dmg increase
-apparently we got the QOL things fixed for Fearward and Disease to cast in shadowform
sry not native english speaking"
User. Boxingring
"
In terms of actual suggestions on how to fix shadow priest, here are a couple:
a.) Fix all the QoL stuff mentioned by Keinkrieger above
b.) Increase Shadow Form Bonus Damage from 30% to 100%. This would result in a 56% buff to our dps, putting us slightly below Retribution Paladin. Being top 2 for 1 phase after being bottom 3 for 4 phases in a row sounds fair
c.) Reduce Vampiric Embrace healing further, but make it so that any overhealing applied gets converted to a shield, thereby giving shadow priest some actually useful utility
d.) Reduce our dps further, but make it so that any overhealing applied gets converted to a shield, thereby giving shadow priest some actually useful utility
e.) Make Homunculi and Eye of the Void apply their debuffs as an aura, so that it permanently applies to any enemies that are close to them. Eye then has to also be changed to stay in melee or just apply the curse on AoE from range
f.) Make Vampiric Embrace healing raid wide
g.) Give any target healed by Vampiric Embrace a 10% damage buff for 10 seconds
h.) Add Misery from TBC
thats just a few ways to quickly fix shadow priest, and there are many more
i hope blizzard takes action sooner rather than later, or we might risk every shadow priest quitting the game once they realize the state they are in in p5"
Forgive my editing I’m on my phone and a forum noob obv