Why no holy DPS caster?

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Seems like a no-brainer to me. I bet lots of people want to be a caster that burns their foes in the fire of the Light. Priest have ranged holy DPS spells but their two non-shadow specs are both primarily healing.

Why not give priests a fourth Holy DPS spec? Most of the groundwork is there. It just a matter of taking the existing holy DPS spells and empowering them somehow (Lightform? Sounds kinda dumb but, I dunno) and adding in some other DPS abilities and talents.

I know I’d play Light DPS priest. It sounds fun, and I’d be able to see my mogging better.

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Id rather a second shadow spec.
The game only has one shadow spec. It has 4 light specs.

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It’d probly gut holy and disc to do it.

Is it really shadow anymore? Is there no longer any difference between shadow and void? Maybe put more shadow into sub rogue.

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Shadow is void to me since theyre part of the same cosmological chart.

I just want to be on the dark side :stuck_out_tongue:

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Holy, Holy, Disc, and…Ret?

Shadow is Death

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Wouldnt paladin just be 3 and priest with 2 so 5, or disc not count cause it steps into shadow by a toe?

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Shadow is void

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Yeah 3 paladin specs, holy priest, and then i didnt count disc as theoretically its 50% holy

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Two things I’ve wanted for a time now are a Shadow Paladin spec and a Holy DPS Priest spec. I could settle for glyphs or something similar to Warlock’s green fire option though.

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I feel it’s like shadow is void, but void is not shadow. Or something. From the legion shadow priest stuff, it really seems shadow is just diet void, before old gods and that stuff.

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Holy priest could just have a DPS branch on the talent tree. Go down one branch and get healing points, go down another branch and get dps points at the cost of healing. At the bottom there is one big talent that boosts dps by 30% and reduces healing by 30%.

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Youre not fully right or wrong there.
Void is a sub part of shadow. Weve never been told of a different sub part, but if void was all of shadow then i dont see why it would be a different sub category.

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Well akTshUalLy… Affliction and Sub rogues are Void-based as well :sweat_smile:

But no, honestly, you’re right. You know what I’d love to see? A cosmic Void spec, with star cursed spell effects and such.

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So the Shadowlands was actually Void based? No wonder DKs weren’t featured.

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Reserved for Hero class in the Light expac.

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Because the offensive Holy users are Ret and Disc, the latter would probably be too close thematically.

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Why not play disc?

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Unholy DK, Shadow Priest, and Affliction Warlock.

3 of them are healers and one is a melee DPS. There are 0 holy DPS casters.

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Not shadow

Shadow

Mixed so i didnt count it

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A large number of their abilities are shadow based.