The spell visual and sound is so outdated and old is awful to cast and to see those ravens above your head that doesn’t go with the actual theme of shadow priest (like voidweaver).
Please fix it!
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The Ravens are an effect of the talent Insidious Ire.
Personally I love the ravens visuals. They look awesome in my undead shadow priest
And DP VFX on the targets looks cool compared to other dots in the game (Actually to me the coolest VFX for a dot)
I don’t mind tho if they want to add a glyph for some of these changes, but I wouldn’t like the visuals to change permanently
I don’t have that talent and I didn’t asked for that effect
I agree it needs to be updated, but not because of the Insidious Ire ravens. It’s just a puff of smoke and an Absolution shoulder piece with a translucent purple filter placed on it rotating upward. The quality of that animation is extremely low, but that’s par for shadow given Mind Spike, Dark Ascension, MFI, Yogg-Saron, and Shadow Crash. Also priest generally, with spells like Flash Heal, PWS, and PWR all using vanilla effects, and spells like Penance using 2007 particles. At least Penance’s ancient particles do mostly hold up, and are often masked by PotDS and Dark Reprimand.
As an aside, Devouring Plague should also be renamed to something more thematically aligned with shadow (Shadow Word: X or Mind X).
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Actually true, the updated Halo visuales it could have been great they could actually update SC,DV and more… Dark Ascension is just horrible to look at.
I prefer keeping Devouring Plague primarily because my main Priest is Undead but also because Priests used to have the best Disease dispel in the game with Abolish Disease which attempted to remove a disease effect every 5 seconds, lasting 20 seconds.
Because of this, I see the removal of Disease as a major focus for Healing Priests and since Shadow is basically the inverse of Healing Priests then applying disease effects instead of removing them fits with that inverse logic.
However, regarding the name change to something more fitting, you remind me of Legion when they had the talent Shadow Word: Void which upgraded Mind Blast.
Our talents were pathetic back then as well. So sad lol.
Edit:
Now that I think about it, I think Priests should get Cure Disease as default and then replace Curse Disease talent with Abolish Disease which would upgrade Cure Disease to become Abolish Disease.
That at least would be a slight QOL upgrade that could be quite useful in PvP at least when up against Unholy Death Knights but also against other Shadow Priests.
Oh man… I love this vfx lol, it feels so dark. I compare it to things like Corruption/UA from Warlocks and I feel like Spriest has way better VFX for that.
Looks cooler on big targets where you see it more clear.
I think shadow priest in terms of visual this expansion is the best so far. Specially Voidweaver Hero Talent.
I think all that could be adressed with glyphs. Specially for Shadowform which I think deserves some cosmetic glyphs
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