Whats wrong with Shadow?

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It might be because I mostly PvP but I’m having fun with it. Is there a major problem once you hitt 120 that I should know about?

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Shadow Priest is better in PvP than it is at raiding at the moment, but that wasnt always the case. In PvP you dont use Voidform very often because you lose a lot buffs, but in raids you heavily rely on Voidform to get high Dps, but they nerfed the hell out of Voidform in BfA, so Spriest arent as good at raiding anymore at the moment.

Voidform use to last like 3x longer before BfA, but now its just a purple fart.

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Oh that sucks… I use voidform in PvP and noticed that it didnt have the umph that it used to have. I still enjoy the class overall though.

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There’s a lot of justifiable crying about pvp and end game dps. But some changes are coming Tuesday. In a few seconds we’ll be flooded with the it’s not enough spam

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Before BfA staying in Voidform was also a lot more fun because I’d be able to build up soooo much haste especially with the Surrender to Madness talent, it would get to the point where its like im playing Guitar Hero on my keyboard.

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I don’t mind shadow. Although I am a bit miffed that the changes coming in 8.1 don’t address what most bugs me about the spec. Namely that all too often it feels like a waste to use void form, because fights just don’t last long once you do. You so often feel like you’ve wasted a bar of insanity for very little reason. So I would find myself just sitting on a full bar of it for ages, just waiting for a worthwhile fight and getting no benefit from it.

I would love there to be some kind of passive bonus based on the amount of stored insanity. Say like 10% bonus damage for a full bar. Whatever’s fair. Just so it doesn’t feel like a total waste to sit on it, and so there’s some actual choice in activating void form. Or maybe a way to drop out of void form at will. Or or, just one ability that spends a chunk of insanity to cast. How about bringing back mind spike for this? Or some other retired shadow spell.

Actually my biggest gripe with shadow at the moment is shadowform. It looks god damn terrible now. I absolutely hate it.

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#bringbackoldshadowform

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I guess I didnt notice the change? Did they change the appearance of it?

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Dramatically. But at least it’s not quite as bad as middle of Legion version.

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That and losing shadow word: death as baseline. Oh and void torrent as baseline too please.

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Oh man, how could I forget that?! Yeah that is definitely the worst. They effectively just removed a talent choice for that row. The spec feels incomplete without it.

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You’re a god right now at 111. My advice is lock the xp there and enjoy! It’ll never get better than that until maybe the last raid of BfA.

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My biggest thing with Shadow is the GCD. In Legion it was such a fast paced fun spec. Now its kind’ve underwhelming during Void Form due to the GCD. Adding in that insanity drains much faster, in Legion it wasn’t hard to get to 40-50 stacks with Mindbender, now you are lucky to get 20-25. Plus with the nerf to Void Form itself, you get much less haste from it.

So it’s all kinda bah. I still enjoy it though. A bit at least.

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I suck at pvp and pve on mine, but thats probably just a me thing. I leveled my main from scratch and used my boost on this priest. I think i probably just need more practice with her.

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If you were born as a walking, talking edgy hedgehog, you’d have problems too.

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I used to love shadow years ago… before they took away our disarm for PVP. I’m still miffed about that. I could still do it but when they made suicide a talent I walked away completely.

:cookie:

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Numbers wise the class isnt that bad, there need to be somebluffs, but its playable. The bigger issues are mechanical. The spec is just very cumbersome and there are issues with how voidform work that need to be addressed and arent really being fixed with the new patch.

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