Just got back to the game and am pretty out of touch with class/spec updates. How is spriest looking in PvP scenarios? Are we still melee caster, or are we getting more instants? Are we still punching bags? Any mobility updates? Any spell protection updates? Any nerfs to melee micro cc’s and mobility? I don’t know if I’m going to be able to do another 2 years of DF style shadow priest. Any modernization in how we apply VT?
No change basically, will probably be kinda crap like it is now or worse with the torrent minigame we will have to play every 30 seconds.
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Yes and it’s even worse. Dks getting more mobility, along with other melee classes.
If you don’t like the DF playstyle, you ain’t gonna like next expansion. Spriest ain’t getting more mobility unless it’s a problem for pve like raids or mythic +. The team don’t care about pvp, or else there wouldn’t be a million micro-cc
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So sp is more or less the same, but with the new hero talents?
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we reverted a bit back to BFA where we are more the less the same but now we have to build up/turret again.
So if you are in PVP and targeted by more than one person, GL getting that entropic void going.
And archon is pointless.
in 1v1 you should be fine cuze SP have always been strong here in this area. But in wows pvp, that’s irrelevant. 1v1 usually never happens outside of duels lol.
I hope proc rates go up, or they give us more instants. If devs haven’t noticed, it’s uh, kinda hard to get cast off in Ranked Melee Suffle
You will still be endlessly crowd controlled by assassination rogues with garrote, kick, and stun. Yes, you can theoretically be shut down for 15+ seconds casting nothing other than your big defensive cooldown dispersion. But the assassin rogue will easily counter that by waiting until dispersion ends and then use vanish to repeat the crowd control cycle on you again while continuing to do big damage because diminishing returns recycle after I think 18 seconds.
Oh, and now you can expect more DKs sitting on you because DKs are getting decent buffs in TWW.
You can easily get the rift out.
The issuenis everything else afterwards. Thats when the bfa ramp up comes in
Void blast increases duration
Devour plague increases final burst.
More devour plague equals more power.
More void blast, more time to get more devour plagued.
Again bfa build up and dump. Gee how great!
But you can be cced so much that this is rendered pointless. Same thing happened in bfa with void eruoption.
Pretry much welcome back to bfa
I doubt we getting instas.
Shadowlands was the best iteration we ever had after legion ended. Unfortunately we are not coming back to it anytime soon
The value of the rift is, at this stage, almost entirely in the access to void blast. You cast that spell twice you’ve gotten 65% of the rift’s value, you cast is a 3rd time then that’s 95% of its value.
Not juet the blast.
More devour plague dumps, more dmg it will do.
Both are important and hard to do in pvp setting
In terms of relative value they’re kinda not. The rift dot is cool but its moreso just there, same with the explosion. The blasts are what actually matter.