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Open letter on the state of Shadow Priests
We, the Shadow Priest community, are concerned about the direction the development of our beloved spec is taking, and would like to learn more of your intentions for our proposed role in the upcoming WotLK expansion.
Coming from the BC, Shadow Priests were pretty weak in competitive PVP, but rather sought-after in PVE for their utility role (mana battery)
Some of the changes to the shadow tree suggest, that the PVP role of a Shadow Priest in WotLK should indeed improve, and are very welcome by the face-melters among us. But our PVE role, which many Shadow Priests belive depended mainly on our mana replenish abilities, sees a drastic change in potency, when compared to some of the other intended changes.
More classes get strong mana regen abilities similar to, or better than ours (Mage water elemental, Retribution Paladin, Survival Hunter, Shaman/Mana Tide/Spring (if it goes raid-wide as hinted)), while our Vampiric Touch was severely weakened. Although we do understand, that an essential ability for raid progression, such as mana regen, shouldn't be limited to one spec, we are worried, that the remaining abilities a Shadow Priest has to offer, are not good enough, to make us a welcome and integral part of any raid.
What we would like to know is:
- are there plans to increase our DPS to be on par with other (similar) specs, to strengthen our role in raids?
- alternatively, are there plans to enhance our utility role in some other fashion, possibly by building upon our 'vampiric role' ?
- Do the developers share the Shadow Priests believes, that Shadow Priests profit less from gear upgrades (especially crit/haste) when compared to other classes, resulting in comparatively worse scaling?
(our main spells are limited by cooldowns (SW
, M
, inability to crit (all DOTs and Mind Flay) or weak spellpower coefficient (mainly Mind Flay))
We, the Shadow Priest community, are concerned about the direction the development of our beloved spec is taking, and would like to learn more of your intentions for our proposed role in the upcoming WotLK expansion.
Coming from the BC, Shadow Priests were pretty weak in competitive PVP, but rather sought-after in PVE for their utility role (mana battery)
Some of the changes to the shadow tree suggest, that the PVP role of a Shadow Priest in WotLK should indeed improve, and are very welcome by the face-melters among us. But our PVE role, which many Shadow Priests belive depended mainly on our mana replenish abilities, sees a drastic change in potency, when compared to some of the other intended changes.
More classes get strong mana regen abilities similar to, or better than ours (Mage water elemental, Retribution Paladin, Survival Hunter, Shaman/Mana Tide/Spring (if it goes raid-wide as hinted)), while our Vampiric Touch was severely weakened. Although we do understand, that an essential ability for raid progression, such as mana regen, shouldn't be limited to one spec, we are worried, that the remaining abilities a Shadow Priest has to offer, are not good enough, to make us a welcome and integral part of any raid.
What we would like to know is:
- are there plans to increase our DPS to be on par with other (similar) specs, to strengthen our role in raids?
- alternatively, are there plans to enhance our utility role in some other fashion, possibly by building upon our 'vampiric role' ?
- Do the developers share the Shadow Priests believes, that Shadow Priests profit less from gear upgrades (especially crit/haste) when compared to other classes, resulting in comparatively worse scaling?
(our main spells are limited by cooldowns (SW
, M, inability to crit (all DOTs and Mind Flay) or weak spellpower coefficient (mainly Mind Flay))