Hey I’m coming back for 9.2. I need to pick a main. I want to be ranged and do mythic+ and heroic raids. How do warlocks and shadow priest look and what one is gonna be the funnest?
Shadow is a blast. Plus you can heal.
Granted warlock will always have at leas one viable dps spec. But shadow is more fun imo because it has a pretty high ceiling and the theme is cool. Disease and plagues. I’m a plague doctor yo
I feel like locks are more sought after - especially for raids. M+ they’re both kind of undesirables. If you ever heal I’d say priest for the flexibility but you didn’t so I won’t. If you like warlock I’d play it. I hate lock and love spriest.
i was having the same debate and went shadow so i had option to heal. glad i did bc it’s now my main. priest went from being one of what i thought was my least fav classes to one of my fav. Shadow is pretty fun and disc is a blast. Feels like you’re really contributing to anything you do with so much utility.
warlocks are in a good spot too tho. Aff and Demo are really strong
thought i should mention i only pvp so if you’re looking for pve i have no idea which is better
pick warlock.
Warlock is great for PI in M+. All specs and in the top of all classes/specs for it. Please brez makes it highly sought in M+. The ability to summon also comes in extremely handy in M+ at times. SSing the healer also can save the timer if you wipe, say on a boss.
Also, if you want to stick with dps vs playing healers it is way better cuz you have three specs. On the other hand, if you like healing you have two healer specs included.
Shadow is not that good now either. I mean others might argue, but that’s what I see in these forums and in dps rankings.
Warlocks are always in high-demand due to needing gates and their damage is respectable in raids.
Shadow Priests are harder to master and are basically only good for boss damage. I play Shadow offspec in our Mythic raids and I’m always #1 on boss damage. That kind of single target damage is good for trying to push dps timers. However, the specs AOE damage is bad unless you make sacrifices with talent choices. Other classes can deal AOE damage 5x easier than you can without even picking talents.
So yeah: that’s my honest review. Shadow = great for single target damage and you can play a healer if you want… Warlock = good all around and always desirable for gates. Affliction also does dumb amounts of aoe damage in keys.
Well in the scope of 9.2, if you were after picking the “stronger” or “better” option then id choose shadow, ill be switching to maining my spriest for this tier myself. Currently on PTR, shadow is performing extremely well(even though its only 1 lego still, and shadow stands to gain A LOT from the 2nd lego) and the tier set looks exceptional in both the amount of raw output and its versatility and its synergy with the legos SP will be running (Pallid Command+Shadowflame prism). With SFP and the tier set, it improves shadows damage profile drastically because it allows shadow to have viable cleave/AoE WITHOUT having to sacrifice multiple talents for AoE, of course in some cases you will opt for SN and AoE talents and in that case it seems like Shadows AoE will actually be quite strong since SN can be pretty strong consistent AoE on big packs, the tier set adding significant AoE/cleave damage, and shadowflame prism adding even more AoE/cleave(which is synergistic with the tier set as well). Now Demo looks like it will likely be able to compete with Shadow on single target, but spriest will likely be a lot better for cleave/AoE, Destro seems like its still going to be prety bad, and Aff looks like it will mostly just be a AoE/spread cleave beast again.
Wondering how well double pi will be if I pi my pet and myself. Uwu.