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About time they listened, christ
I am… somewhat sceptical that Void Torrent is properly tuned. They got it right compared to old torrent, but even on sims there it's almost double the value of anything else on single target, and the row has sparing to little aoe value, which is fine. I think the better direction to good would be to tune torrent down a little (9% increase instead of 11 maybe) and then to play off Bender's lack of opportunity cost and gear it towards cleave damage in much the same way the shadowflame prism legendary is trying to do. Shadow's talents mostly do well at being a tool kit you chop and change based on what you're doing, and continuing that here seems the best way to make sure all three talents see their fair share of use across all of SL's content.
This change has another possitive effect, which is that it is easier to not lose damage because you have to move while you are casting Void Torrent. I personally liked the change a lot (thought it might even been a buff on damage to the spell, but if math says it is not, then it is not), because it personalices the spell, and gives it a clear niche, plus clears the field for both mindbender and damnation in regards of 'when and where' you want to use each of them. Another great talent row now.
I like this for raid encounters but I think I would have preferred and AoE burst ability. None of the talents on that row are great for AoE. AS is on ptr with azerite but once we’re focusing on SN builds, it’s much less valuable.
Haha lazer go brrr
A damn good change
great video! what nameplates do you use? they look great. Would love to switch to whatever you got going on.
I have been playing the prepatch voitd torrent. feels very flavor of the month. Im glad they changed it though, bc i basically use VT instead of Damnation bc of the on demand DP and the focused damage, and dot refresh.
Was looking forward to hearing you input on the changes! Shadow looks like it is shaping up nicely to be a really well designed spec! thank you!!
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What if we use Void Torent at the very last second of void Eruption to get its damage amplifier for its full channel?
awesome bro ! nice work !
Are you playing only shadow priest ? How long have you been playing it ? 🙂
Great video. I'm a huge fan of giving talents their own strengths and weaknesses so we have reason to swap them out for different encounters and content types.
It would be cool if picking Void Torrent and Ancient Madness would make it so you want to start off Voidform with a mega Void Torrent, but there are already 2 spells you want to use asap with Mind Blast and Voidbolt unfortunately.
Publik, thanks for the timely update !! What would it take for Blizz to show the shadow priest appearance on the login screen, instead of the holy priest appearance? tia
Well that sucks, I really like how it maxed all our dots…not sure I like that it doesn’t interact at all anymore
That Panda boi is nice
pretty disappointing. having a sweet opener with misery into void torrent that also applies dp was so refreshing. 2 gcds and youre at full dmg. the closer were to release the less excited i become with shadow. once they worked the pandemic into dp a few weeks ago the spec was perfect and they should have stopped doing anything but number tweaking.
Now if Fae Guardians could be made interesting for any spec I'd be real happy with Priest going into SL
I love the change because it doesn't really make it awkward when using it during void form in between the void bolt CD. I always had to clip a full channel when pairing it with hungering void and really hated it.
Also Spriest Hype.
Its better but i feel like it should have some interaction with VF so it is worth casting in it
This is more if nerf than rework. Same with prevois build where they nerfed shadow but you fail to recognize as what it is.
Shadow priest needs an aoe insanity spender spell, similar to Devouring Plague which works good for single target. Spread the word 😛
I actually like the idea of it being "never cast it in void form". Gives you a nice big thing to do in between void forms when you generate insanity at a slower rate etc
Forgive me for being so nit-picky about something that has nothing to do with the content of the video, but in your final graphic where you list your patreon supporters, they're called "patrons" not "patreons". It should be "Old God Patrons" not "Old God Patreons".
Sorry, can't help but notice stuff like that lol
How is Shadow getting so much attention when other specs literally get nothing?
This is so nice for initial insanity generation. Generating enough insanity to use a searing nightmare or 2 starting from zero felt really horrible. Using this at the start of a dungeon pull to get your insanity rolling in 3 seconds is very nice.
Love this change!
Should they just make Shadowflame Prism into the Mindbender Talent and rework the Shadowflame Prism Legendary around that?
Publik is the MVP for these vids
which nameplate is that ;D?
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they should make first strike of mindbender spread your vampiric touch to 3 targets
Have always loved the animation of VoiT happy it’s getting some love
Always thought the void torrent animation looked terrible lol.
Thank you
Maybe too strong but they could have made it proc SA everytime it ticked to compensate for the 3 sec cast in aoe situations.
now you can forget that on m + you will get
Been leveling a spriest for the last day or so, it's fun so far but doesn't quite feel as good with grouos/aoe as affliction. But I'm also only level 26. Hoping it picks up.
What transmog is your back, that looks like a spider ?
Torrent not being hasted was important back when VF had a deterministic stacking mechanic. IDK how I feel about its channel not being hasted now..
I'm still thinking about choosing my main between sp or lock affli. I'm afraid as gear stats evolve with the expansion, sp will make sometimes no damage enough…