Void Blast; can it be a permanent upgrade? (Disc/Shadow, Voidweaver)

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I’ve been doing a lot of leveling in TWW trying to get my sea legs back with the game after having been away for pretty much all of DF, and I decided to dust off my Priest (who hasn’t seen action since SL). I settled on trying the Voidweaver hero talents because I usually play Discipline and Shadow, and it’s really cool! I love the aesthetic and feel of it especially, with the spacey blues and void-themed effects. Void Blast especially feels FANTASTIC to press; excellent sound effect, great animation, good feedback, and just overall feels good to press for both specs. Discipline especially feels so much better when you get to throw Void Blasts around instead of Smites.

Could we just get Void Blast to be a permanent replacement for Smite (Disc) and Mind Blast (Shadow)? I don’t even want it for the numerical increase, I just want it because VB feels incredible to press, so much so that having to go back to casting Smites or Mind Blasts feels like such a massive power loss (even when, in actuality, it isn’t that much of one). Even if it was tied to a legendary or a MT-like challenge and just ended up being an animation + SFX swap for the spells (like swapping Druid forms’ appearances), I’d do it in a heartbeat.

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it really should be a permanent change, it would probably make Voidweaver feel better especially for shadow, since you wouldn’t have to keep holding your Mindblast to use it in the Rift windows
Voidweaver needs an update, it’s a talent tree with so much concept but is so unpleasant to play.

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Remember that archon and voidweaver designs are still in their first drafts. They’ve had no mechanical changes since they were introduced in alpha.

While Blizzard has a well-established record of showing priest minimal effort, we can likely expect to see one or two voidweaver and archon talents receive a noteworthy change whenever they decide to give priest a few minutes of their time.

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Probably season 2 is my guess. I don’t forsee any changes until late december/early January. Priest feels rough at times and their hero talents just dont feel impactful like other classes.

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They’re impactful in a bad way.

The class should function at a baseline level without the hero talents active and should feel more powerful when they are active. Instead, priest simply doesn’t function at all without rift/halo/premonition active and does function when they are active.

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