Bring back Mind Spike as it was in MoP! Make it a talent to replace Mind Flay!
Can we just get shadow word death back baseline and have a new talent to make mind flay proc insanity generating void tentacles as a st fight replacement >.>
Fantastic job guys!It's so much better than the piece of !@#$ review we got for Feral ♥Hoping the developers read and understand the issues stated within your publication.
TL;DR: If you value your sanity, both IRL and in-game, do not play Shadow.Beyond that, I kind of feel like this post was written in a bit of a vacuum. Shadow is definitely in a bad spot, but other classes and specs also suffered some losses moving into BfA and this post sets a tone that only Shadow did. In addition, it seems like the post also overlooked some stuff. Mass Hysteria was mentioned several times as being a big loss to Voidform, but reading this post it would seem evident that the loss of all other artifact traits (like orb and tentabro) don't really matter and newcomers to the spec wouldn't even be aware that they were things we used to have.Again, while the core message is still true (it's pretty hard to put a positive light on Shadow right now), I feel like this post didn't really cover everything.
I wonder if SP could step away from their current spec since they are losing their artifact, and go back towards their MOP or WOD ways. Something has got to change, because I have felt SP worsening as we progress through expansions.
Love these suggestions and hopes. How "incomplete" is the spec right now though?
The last 2 weeks I've gone trough the process of looking for alternatives because so many people already trashing SP in BfA. That said I can tell you that people are crying for almost every spec. It feels like they always try to find the bad things, but hey: There is no best spec that is topping meters in every situation. Furthermore, every spec got a slow-down, it's not SP-specific.IMO they took SP in a good direction. So many people complained about SP not being viable in M+, that's definitly gone. I'm not a high M+ runner, my level was between 15 - 20 and man, SP is pushing some damn good numbers! No more heavy ramp-up! (+ 10% stamina is always nice!)It took some time to get used to not have my SWD when enemies are low and it feels weird. But I like that we have far more options in the sense of talents to choose between now (positive!). I too miss the fast paced gameplay which was, on the other side, damn error prone when it comes to movement. Fail one VF-cicle and your damage dropped so hard and cooldowns were out of sync. This isn't a problem anymore.We are also far less affecteced by the GC change! I want people to try the spec for themselves before listening to all the anxious people who just build their opinions upon changelogs or other peoples opinions. Sure, if someone just does not like the spec as a whole, that's another thing.Just have the will to try new things and be as objectively as you can. I dislike the community for instantly flaming nearly everything Blizz releases before the expac is even released but I love the community for people like the authors who are trying to analyse objectively and not insta bash and say "don't play guys, it's not viable"!Pls show some shadow love and wait for BfA, sepecially for 8.1 ;)
So I haven't really seen any comments about shadow since the xpac launched and we've gotten into it but I'd like to throw out there that I'm LOVING shadow compared to legion now. Sure it's not perfect but I'm killing it in mythic dungeons and having a load of fun doing it :)