can't open the talents on the phone). Major Spike Scallion is the final Merc which you can recruit in Jagged Alliance 3. This will tell the creator that they have to use "Smite" to get Mind Flay to work. e ) , tons of shadows flying out and everything kinda "resets" itself. Cast Mind Spike or Mind Flay; Cast Divine Star, Shadow Word: Death or Shadow Word: Pain if you are moving. I don’t think anyone has actually tested that. Priest Dragonflight Shadow. You can also weave Silence, Psychic Horror, and Psychic Scream in where necessary to keep the enemy team controlled. • • Edited. Like MB, mind flay insanity, devouring plague, swd, voidtorrent. Valdivion-malganis. 2, the glyph was a pretty harsh trade -- it extended the reach of Mind Flay by 10 yards at the. But ive noticed during void eruption that without instant mind spike procs you are wasting void bolts, mind blasts, and. Point is to make it clear that Mind Spike is simply a tool for a specific type of situation that belongs outside the normal gameplay loop. If the target's Mind Trauma debuff is removed by any source (dispels, duration ending), the Priest loses that amount of stolen haste. Mind Spike increases the critical strike chance of Mind Blast by 20%, stacking up to 4 times. Dark Ascension also has its original Cataclysm particles, but people seem to like them even if they are super dated and we could have. Dark Ascension, Voidform with something emulating the extension mechanic, Mind Spike, Surge of Darkness, Shadowy Insight, Mind Flay: Insanity, even a version of Shadow's Cataclysm mastery Shadow Orbs appears in this new version of the spec. The main thing about Mind Spike is that it's a dual school spell. You should fully channel this. It was a mistake to ever think it should be apart of normal gameplay and used all the time. Tortura mental and Mind Spike are only two no-CD single-target damage spells. Pretty sure they'll still use Mind Flay at least to refresh their SWP dot. I still wish we could build into one filler and completely drop the other, but this isn’t as bad as I thought. Flay is actually better than spike next tier because we need the talent points to reach stuff for the tier set and the changes to insanity procs meant we don’t clip the flays as much. 18Cast Void Torrent. Isuckatdots-kurinnaxx 6 August 2020 16:25 #19. Does not apply to damage from Shadowy Apparitions, Shadow Word: Pain, and Vampiric Touch. 2k averaged. That way we can still benefit from our mastery, which is already quite useless, and shadowy. If you spec mind flay: insanity and damnation for example, you could cast. Building 3 shadow orbs and. 5 seconds, which Haste reduces. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C’Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N’Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5 percent damage variance. 87% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 70%. Nobody that’s actually good excluding a few likes the mind spike playstyle. Mind sear was removed. Dark Evangelism can now also be triggered by Mind Spike. That’s really weird. The number of spells/rotation spriest has is intimidating at first glance. You can read all changes to 10. The number of spells/rotation spriest has is intimidating at first glance. Mine Talent spec is 2/1/1/2/2/1/1. Something to keep in mind if you are newish to spriest in DF. And what i mean by wasting is you arent able to use every ability on cooldown when it comes up or procs because of having to cast mind spike. Rayneon-illidan May 3, 2023, 4:19pm #4. It's spamming Mind Blast too much. Not sure what its role will be though as it looks like it would simply replace mind flay entirely. This ability will trigger randomly and likely without you even noticing it - except that with the proper talents your Mind Blast and Mind Spikes will probably proc faster or twice at once (If the Shadowy Recall was from Vampiric Touch or SW:P). Crits from Mind Spike and Mind Flay reduce Shadow fiend , Mind blast and Mind Spike reduce mind games cooldown , Mind Blast can proc a free Devouring Plague , i find it really fun to play. It is shadow and frost. They were super overpowered earlier this season but they are definitely much more in line now, and I’m saying this because I feel like Shadow is generally one of the more fun specs to play vs when its good But they are nerfing PI, MD, Mind Flay: Insanity(and also Mind Spike: Insanity) and they nerfed their defensives this current patch All of these. Mind Flay has a base channel time of 4. Devouring Plague still has its terrible vanilla particles, Mind Spike still has its terrible Cataclysm particles, and Mind Spike: Insanity doesn’t even get unique particles like Mind Flay: Insanity does. Pretty sure they'll still use Mind Flay at least to refresh their SWP dot. Easy. I hear that isn't optimal and adding one more button to put a clunky mind spike in is going to be my breaking point. Shadow had mind blast and mind spike procs throughout MoP and WoD, also the “proc” you get after casting devouring plague isn’t a proc. Demography-tichondrius. If you want to do endgame content at a decent level, you HAVE to play the meta unless you. 17Cast Mind Blast if capped on charges. Mind spike replaces it if you look at mind spike in the shadow tree, it says it replaces mind flay. dark ascension is great for a mindspike build. also remove mind sear and focus around. I main shadow. Mind Spike: InsanityBlasts the target for (276. . Mind Spike and Mind Spike: Insanity damage is now increased by 30% in PvP combat (was 25%). those DoTs are so strong on DPS that Priest can NOT afford to lose them. I realize they don't want to add glyphs attached to brand new spells, which is why I specify "post 4. You can swap points between Mind Devourer and Dark Evangelism. Even when my instanity is 100 the icon remains greyed out. 0 (2023-05-02): Damage increased by 9% and now replaces [Mind Flay. Assume a Shadowform, increasing your spell damage dealt by 10%. They spent how long “redesigning” the class just to remove cd’s so you can mash more buttons. The buff lasts for 10 seconds, so don't use it right away if you're capped on MB. Mind Spike damage increased by 15 percent. 1 Like Hpellipsis-whisperwind (Hpellipsis) February 3, 2023, 5:29pm 7 This is very true, if you;re playing the standard yogg saron + ysharrj build for single target you. 0. I started playing SP with Dragonflight and never had more fun with a spec in my carrer since I started playing WoW back in 2005. I only use it on instant for burst to build into instant mindblast. Mind Sear was the “fun button”, and now it’s gone. They went from being a rare occurrence to being in almost 70% of the groups for high keys. But all of the builds I tested did quite similar damage, which is great as well. save your mana on all those expensive dots spells. In the Priest Talents category. Shadow has many spells to press rotationally, and this isn’t helping that. For fights such as the Spine of Deathwing in Dragon Soul, Vampric Embrace helps relieve your party members of the healing debuff faster. Deathspeaker increases the damage of Shadow Word: Death by 10% in PvP combat (was 25%). Mind Flay damage increased by 20%. Can accumulate up to 2 charges. It does not specifically tell you when you should be casting a filler, but if you have nothing else to press it will tell you how to prioritize Mind Spike vs. Dark Evangelism - Your Mind Flay and Mind Sear damage increases the damage of your periodic Shadow effects by. Mind Spike and Mind Flay coexisting is something we’re going to try but are wary of. But ive noticed during void eruption that without instant mind spike procs you are wasting void bolts, mind blasts, and empowered mind spikes. . Mind Spike: Insanity damage increased by 20%. Making you have 3 orbs for each Mind Spike and Mind Blast. Snozbeary-malganis 28 June 2019 10:20 #11. blizz. Making you have 3 orbs for each Mind Spike and Mind Blast. [Mind Flay] to be casting as filler and when Archangel is up, so to get max of it, also to refresh 5x [Dark Evangelism]. Mind Spike and fully channeled Mind Flays grant 1 stacks of Mind Trauma and fully channeled Void Torrents grant 3 stacks of Mind Trauma. I played it a bit in BFA, but I can see it has changed since then. If you cast Mage Armor at the beginning of the day, once you cast Mind Spike once, you'll have negated the spell slot loss to Mage Armor by dealing damage. they could make a choice - mind flay vs spike, could allow forking tree with 2 different playstyles one fast with spikes, another slower with flay. You can't get a surge proc. Well my leveling/quest rotation doesn’t actually use it more. Shadow is wonderful, easy damage. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C'Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N'Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5% damage variance. I don’t like this current iteration of the spec and I’m not asking for it to change for those of you that like it, I’m just asking for an alternative to it. I personally en…The cast speed of Mind Sear from Idol of C’Thun no longer scales with Haste. Idol of Y’shaarj increases damage done by 5% when Mindbender is summoned on a feared target (was 15%). • • Edited. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C'Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N'Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5% damage variance. We prepared dedicated. It’s still based on time-gated RPG mechanics. Try not to let evangelism fall off if these are low HP adds on a boss. Mind Flay is a priest ability learned at level 10 for those with the Shadow specialization. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C’Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N’Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5 percent damage variance. Generate Insanity with Mind Blast, Void Bolt, Mind Spike, Mind Flay; Spend Insanity with Devouring Plague for Single-Target or Mind Sear for more than 3 targets. Mind Flay, including. So has anyone figured out when it's a good time to use Mind Spike? Since now it clears dots, I won't be using it in PVP or PVE, since I want to keep pressure on my enemy in PVP, and in PVE it hurts to break the flow of Mind Flay. 848% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 70%. If you don’t have a mind blast or DP available, then you cast mind spike as a filler. According to the Priest discord taking flay over spike is a 1-3% DPS loss in most situations. Rip Mind Sear. Developers’ note: The rotation has a lot going on and much of that is due to the frequency that Mind Flay: Insanity and Mind Spike: Insanity are available, so we’re adjusting the frequency of the effect. 3 (2016-07-19. Can be used while sitting. Baseline we have mind flay, mind blast, SW:P, vampiric touch, devouring plague, mind sear, mind spike, shadowfiend, shadow word:death which is 9 abilities already! In the class tree we add in divine halo/star, power infusion and mind games (because they are throughput choices they are no choice at all) which is another 3 that are pretty much. What was a bad spell in Cata is now somehow ever worse in MoP. The spec also has access to the brand new tier set for Season 3: 2-set bonus: Priest Shadow 10. Generates 15. Where did you get your build from? The Discord theorycrafters have all been saying VF is at least 2% stronger than DA in all content, so I’m 2 paragraphs in and your breakdown is already throwing up gigantic red flags for me. Shield, Mind Blast, SW:P, Wand to death. All processes are up, no cooldowns which to care of--Mind Flay damage increased by 15% (this includes Mind Flay: Insanity, but not the proc from Idol of C’Thun). So the clock is ticking, and raid testing has begun. Now you may say hey numbers schumbers. Patch 7. Priests have enjoyed the unique experience of being sought after in Season 2 of Mythic+ due to the dependence on utility spells like Mass Dispel and Mind. mind flay and void torrent are counted as dots. 3) Change the IDs in the bot on Mind Flay to do Smite. At 28% I should do on average 28% more or 19. Cast Mind Flay as your main filler. Lasts 10 seconds (was 5 seconds). WoWHead - The largest database, this should be your go-to (don't forget to read the comment section!). I must have misunderstood the patch notes and was feeling pretty bummed since I thought they’d removed one of the spec’s most iconic. We don’t have plans to make major changes to either spell for Dragonflight launch, but they will be on our radar for the future. Deathspeaker increases the damage of Shadow Word: Death by 10% in. In a future build, Mind Sear will tick every 0. The only talent that affects Mind Spike but not Mind Flay is the talent immediately after Mind Spike, Mind Melt. Do not mind spike the boss (except for extreme. 2. The consequence of Shadow going FOTM was that it made it harder for Disc and Holy to get into keys because Shadow brings the same exact toolkit. Mind Spike damage increased by 20%. It can be a hindrance more than anything if you’re trying to time keys. Casting flay and cutting it short on the gcd whenever a more important spell becomes available is more flexible than spamming mind spike. Improved Flash Heal - Increases healing done by Flash Heal by 15%. Is this a common. Before the change it wasn’t really a caster and now after the change is a “true” caster a real caster class. 2 Priest Patch Notes + Tier Sets. Generate Insanity with Mind Blast, Void Bolt, Mind Spike, Mind Flay; Spend Insanity with Devouring Plague for Single-Target or Mind Sear for more than 3 targets. I played it a bit in BFA, but I can see it has changed since then. Cast Mind Flay instead of Mind Spike while DP is on the enemy target so that MS does not remove it. Thus it has always been. Surge of Insanity generates 12 Insanity over its duration (was 16). Cast Mind Flay and Mind Spike as filler spells; Shadow Priest PvP Burst Rotation Shadow's burst rotation is almost entirely instant except for Mindgames. Many talents that saw little play or had very low gameplay impact, such as and Coalescing Shadows have also been removed, with new options such as Voidtouched and Mind's Eye taking their place. This prefers targets without. Is there a decent build for epic bg/wq that doesn't have so many buttons? I can't even look at the screen trying to track all these procs and cds. Mind Spike as a filler vs Mind Flay (with instant procs) Mind Games Mindbender Shadow Word Death Vampiric Touch + Shadow Word Pain Shadow Crash Void Eruption that gives another filler spell on top of the CD and changes your priorities yet again Mind Sear vs Devouring Plague (with free casts that change priority depending on targets and. Mind Flay: Insanity has been renamed to Surge of Insanity. Feels like a button mashing simulator to do mediocre damage. SHAMAN In a future build, Mind Sear will tick every 0. Here is a sumary of what made the. If its damage is equal to mind flay, it could very. Devouring Plague transforms your next Mind Flay or Mind Spike into a more powerful spell. Useful for quick fights when you want quick burst. Think about it, mind flay was shadows character for literal expansions, and now that talent is completely obselete numbers wise. Mind Spike damage increased by 9 percent and now replaces Mind Flay. Mind Blast deals 30% more damage and generates 4 additional insanity. WoWHead - The largest database, this should be your go-to (don't forget to read the comment section!). 07 Nov. Namely the idea that the caster knows the location of the target for the duration of the spell. 1 patch you can reduce the cost of casting by 15% of it's already low cast, becoming extremely mana efficient as far as damage output goes. There's no luck involved in proccing it It doesn't have anything to do. As a Shadow Priest, Mind Flay will become your most oft used offensive ability. Avoid any discussion on mental health and choose options based on building a relationship with him. Mind Spike is a shorter cast and is easier to fit into windows where the rotation is busy and less punishing if you have to. Allow While Banished Aura State. It can be a hindrance more than anything if you’re trying to time keys. As you may be able to tell, the duration of Mind Flay is triple that of the global cooldown. patch notes: Button bloat: Shadow has more rotational abilities than most other specializations. casting in general regardless of the form is not optimal in pvp. ago. Enjoy an ad-free experience, unlock premium features, & support the site!Because of this, Inner Sanctum and Mind Flay provide the most survivability and indirect dps increases, while Vampiric Embrace provides the most survivability and support. Shadow Priest in Mythic+ 2. Please report the post above if it breaks one of our >rules<. When interrupted while casting a single-school spell such as Mind Flay or Frostbolt, players will now be able to cast dual-school spells such as Mind Spike (Frost and Shadow schools) or Frostfire Bolt (Frost and Fire schools). Scorching Ray makes three attacks, for up to 3 chances to trigger additional damage from Hex. Playing SP and DH in TW Arygos. Avoid mind flay until 28+ at a minimum, since rank 1 is weak, and rank 2 is weaker than a good wand. Essentially there is no room for mind spike to be cast because there is always something better to press. For this reason it is suggested you take Mind Spike if you are looking for overall damage. Mind Sear always goes with Mind Devourer, and speccing further into Yogg is pretty good for AoE. ) Check out the rotation page on wowhead or icyveins for more info. Gedankenschinden and Mind Spike are only two no-CD single-target damage spells. . Mind Sear should be further down the left part of the tree for a dot-oriented playstyle. When in voidform press void bolt whenever it’s off cooldown, espcecially if you’re running the void bolt talent. Even better once you get 4 set Dragon Soul as your Shadow Fiend will grant you 3 orbs each time it hits. TalentMind spike x2, insta mindblast with 60% crit, paralysed for 4s, flay, death, death. WoWNoob Discord - Same community, different platform. Possibly as a new talent down the road. Mind Spike damage increased by 9% and now replaces Mind Flay. Cast Mind Blast on the main target once you get DoTs on as many enemies as you can. 20Cast Mind Flay: Insanity. Haven't had the chance to experience the practical application of. 19Cast Mind Spike: Insanity. It does more base damage, it is spamable, and it gives your next mind blast 90% chance. In single target mind spike is your filler unless you get an empowered mind flay, in aoe, you. I noticed we have another filler spell now called Mind Spike and that it buffs our next Mind Blast… But when do I use it? We also have Mind Flay which I love using, but I can’t help feeling that it’s a bit. Scrambling for every 0. You also play Mind Flay: Insanity so you still need to cast flay to use those after every plague cast. Difference is 5 insanity vs. Mind Flay version: Drop Mind Spike, Mind Melt, and one point of Mind Devourer. Mind Spike is a Shadow priest talent. Mind spike would be your casted filler spell when you have nothing better to do. Mind Flay: Insanity Assaults the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing [ 352. Maddening Touch - Vampiric Touch has the chance to generate Insanity whenever it deals damage and deals increased damage. How to Recruit Major Spike Scallion. Addons used: Weakauras: The entire center group is Weakauras and includes all the Spells, the Insanity bar and the Castbar and everything else you can think of. We also have. Shadow's cooldowns have also received some additions and changes, with Void Eruption both changing to a two minute cooldown and becoming an optional spell thanks to the. Mind Spike also increases the critical strike chance of your next Mind Blast on the target by 30%. I also hear there is heavy pvp happening in the Beta as well. But you better get used to using Mind Spike properly. as Blizzard mentioned that Mind spike and Mind flay should no co-exist. Your direct damage spells inflict 15% of their damage on all other targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch within 40 yards. Stacks up to 3 times. 10. 2022: Cleaned up Devouring Plague lines to be more clear. And ofc the old mind flay talent was soo good back when we had shadow orbs. Before current patch mind spike was optional so I wasnt too concerned but now its effectively mandatory which was something i was worried about returning. Mind Spike: Insanity damage increased by 20%. EDIT: Actually don't think that what I said above is the case. Shadow Priest UI. " It could potentially be that the first hit of mind spike is equal to a MF, but after that it starts hitting for more and more. Higher values of mastery lowered the dps gap, highest I went to was around 2k mastery which resulted inSo in theory if you get kicked on it you also can't cast any frost spells (which you probably none of). Again, you’re limiting options by just having one set of talents that work with mind flay and another set of talents which work with mind spike. Shadow Priest Talent Trees in Dragonflight Season 3 Dragonflight brought with it huge changes to talents, bringing new talent trees to life and allowing vast customization with them. Mind Spike damage increased by 20%. so you are supposed to use this in place of mind flay, which is your spammable/filler, but only in certain situations. Wanting to keep the player involved and mindful of what is happening can lead to bloat and proc proc proc based reaction/priority based buttons vs spamming the same thing all over again. Shadow: Casting Mind Flay while your target is affected by your Devouring Plague causes your Mind Flay to deal 33% additional damage per orb consumed by Devouring Plague. No longer replaces Mind Flay or deals additional damage with [Mind Blast]. Surge of Insanity generates 12 Insanity over its duration (was 16). 24Cast Mind Spike: Insanity if available. Mind Spike also now replaces Mind Flay when taken, reducing the number of filler spells Shadow has and greatly simplifying its Single Target rotation. Mind Spike build probably handles movement better. Mind spike 2x for instant MB with 100% Crit chance (it goes even above 100% but its w. Psychic Link We’re adding Mind Flay to Psychic Link, so that talenting into Mind Spike is not required to have an AoE filler spell. Cast Mind Blast whenever available to generate Insanity. . Mind Spike: Holy Word: Chastise: Holy Nova: Purge the Wicked: Void Torrent: Devouring Plague: Inescapable Torment: Mindgames: Holy Fire: Mind Flay: Vampiric Touch. 05 Nov. While. Cast Mind Spike with Surge of Darkness procs. World of Warcraft ForumsThis means that if you get interrupted casting a pure shadow spell (Mind Flay, Vampiric Touch etc), you are still able to cast Mind Spike. Meanwhile, refresh dots within pandemic range and use insanity generating spells on cd (shadow crash, mind games, halo/star, shadow fiend, etc. In terms of base damage, Mind Spike deals around 20% more than Mind Flay. Reply With Quote 2010-12-10, 12:34 AM #8Mind Flay: Insanity We’ve made a change to Mind Flay: Insanity targeted at shortening the amount of time spent channeling Mind Flay: Insanity while increasing the value of casting it. Psychic Link We’re adding Mind Flay to Psychic Link, so that talenting into Mind Spike is not required to have an AoE filler spell. The dot consumption just feels very dated as a mechanic and it works directly against our mastery. But thats not a bad thing. I was critical striking with Mind Blast for over 100k when most non tank Hp pools were hovering around 150k. Creator wont even notice what you just did there :P. Mind Flay damage increased by 10%. You can also weave Silence, Psychic Horror, and Psychic Scream in where necessary to keep the enemy team controlled. Mind Spike will likely sim with a higher number, however, if you consider the following scenarios, Mind Flay is actually a more practical spell and will most likely outperform Mind Spike in many scenarios:. . Mind Flay (Spammable) - Allows you to spam the keybind without the spell overlapping. Mind Spike have slightly higher DPS, but will consume Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, Devouring Plague on the target. Mind Spike damage increased by 9 percent and now replaces Mind Flay. Can accumulate up to 2 charges. LIVE STREAM: COMMUNITY: 2 full channels of Mind Flay vs Mind Sear {with chaining} (4 GCDs), if your Mastery% is 50. Classes Death Knight Blood All damaging abilities. Bro, the best range with the most damage and survivability in game right now is the Mage. Unfurling Darkness and Mental Decay have swapped positions on the talent tree. It was a mistake to ever think it should be apart of normal gameplay and used all the time. Twists your Shadowform with the powers of the Void, increasing spell damage you deal by 10%, and refreshing Mind Blast's cooldown. 0 shadow was fun, there were too many players crying for a full redesign though when it was undertuned when all they needed to address was mind flay vs mind spike and shadow crash. Cast Mind Flay: Insanity. Mind Spike: Insanity damage reduced by 11 percent and. 75 seconds for 3 seconds, consuming 25 Insanity per tick and will not be castable with less than 50 Insanity. In the current build, Dark Accession only help mind blast, which is extremely weak. You hard cast mind spike as your filler if you have it selected in prepatch, and you will probably do the same at level 70 as well if nothing changes. Cast Mind Blast; Cast Void Torrent if you have all DoTs on your target (make sure to use all Mind Blast and Shadow Word: Death charges before Void Torrent to. I still wish we could build into one filler and completely drop the other, but this isn’t as bad as I thought. Mind Blast only better for them if clip second tick away only do 3rd damage. I. When doing the rotation normally, Mind Flay or Mind Spike is your filler spell. Maddening Touch - Vampiric Touch has the chance to generate Insanity whenever it deals damage and deals increased damage. You continue to spam Mind Flay / Insanity until there’s less than 1 second left on the insanity buff, then let go of shift. Cast Halo unless adds are coming within ~20 seconds. 21Fully deplete all Mind Blast charges. When you hear “Mind Flayer,” you probably think about Stranger Things — or maybe Dungeons and Dragons. One of the most glaring issues that I am experiencing when using these two talents is that they both favor similar build paths/playstyles. Macro to target last target only when focus doesn't exists. It could also only let you move at 50% speed or something. At the same time, being able to build your own Shadow Priest was a goal with this iteration and we believe the tree allows for that. If you really hate spike that much, you can drop these two points for Voidtouched and another flex point, all sims and data shows. Mind Flay: Insanity has been renamed to Surge of Insanity. Generates 6 Insanity. They worked out and sent out a hotfix yesterday, which means that snare reduction talents/gems no longer affect the duration of the final tick of Mind Flay. But Mind blast is way better than the rest, Holy Fire is typically like +50% of Mind Flay damage per mana (that including 25% mana regen rate while casting) and Smite is often 20. Hey everyone! 🙂 I have just picked up Shadow Priest and I’m absolutely loving it. Yes, it absolutely is. 虚空形态 物理 185916 - - 瞬发 - 施放虚空爆发时激活。用虚空之力扭曲你的暗影形态，使你造成. This means you should cast it always when the talent procs. if enemies will die too quickly for. Mind Spike should also replace Mind Flay per your suggestion for sure. Single Target Build for Shadow Priest. use void form with if you want to play mindflay. But here's a compromise: make a glyph that allows Shadow Word: Pain to stay on the target when we use Mind Spike. I. 87% [ 314. . 1. There a lot of additional changes to both Priest and Shadow, with things like talent changes in the class tree, Power Word: Life rework, improved Mass Dispel removed etc. Dark Evangelism can now also be triggered by Mind Spike. Where you play the way before Shadow Orbs or Voidform was a thing. If there is a movement where the above-explained stutter stepping does not cover it entirely, the second most ideal way to deal with movement is to use some ability while moving. In the current state of spriest u barely use mind flay (never). 2. i read the guide it mentioned to use it sometimes, but never said when. That starts the dot weaving sequence. Shadow Priest Needs Another Rework Background Regardless of what you want to call it, rework or not, Shadow Priest has design issues that are causing friction with playing the spec and keeps going through waves of harmful balancing changes. 75 seconds for 3 seconds, consuming 25 Insanity per tick and will not be castable with less than 50 Insanity. Mind Flay: InsanityAssaults the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing (457. • 6 mo. Lasts 6 sec. Auspicious Spirits: The Dot Spec style. You hard cast mind spike as your filler if you have it selected in prepatch, and you will probably do the same at level 70 as well if nothing changes. Getting rid of mind flay is an absolutely wild change. Mind Spike damage increased by 9 percent and now replaces Mind Flay. Mind Sear is in the first section of our talents, which realistically means you taking it is not costing you anything (albeit maybe some utility if you are also running Mind Spike). A Spike build has a lot of short and instant casts, a Flay build has a slow and generally slower gamemplay. Buttons feel worthless. Patch changes [] Hotfix (2023-07-24): Damage increased by 12%. this fact leave Mind. Mind Flay as a filler spell. Mind Flay 300 more DPS if clip right on tick second and same if tick all three. Flay is actually better than spike next tier because we need the talent points to reach stuff for the tier set and the changes to insanity procs meant we don’t clip the flays as much. Void Torrent damage increased by 15. Cast Mind Spike to reduce the cast time of your next Mind Blast. WoW Classic Era and Hardcore Hotfixes -- Updated October 13. Mind Spike damage increased by 9% and now replaces Mind Flay. It got like 7 buffs and boom many liked how it played. This means that if you get interrupted casting a pure shadow spell (Mind Flay, Vampiric Touch etc), you are still able to cast Mind Spike. Generates 16 Insanity over its duration (was 12). I started playing SP with Dragonflight and never had more fun with a spec in my carrer since I started playing WoW back in 2005. The damage is quite weak and the forced concentration really nerfs it, but as I said- it gives me a spell slot back so its basically a level 1 spell that does 3d8* damage. Currently for mandatory spells we have 4 dots (sw:p, VT, DP, mindgames). World of Warcraft Lore Trivia Game - Stump Sean Episode 2Ascended Blast, Ascended Nova, Devouring Plague, Holy Fire, Holy Nova, Holy Word: Chastise, Mind Flay, Mind Spike, Mindgames, Mindgames, Purge the Wicked, Smite, Unholy Nova, Unholy Transfusion, Void Torrent Modifies Damage/Healing Done +10%: Inescapable Torment Modifies Damage/Healing Done +46%: Flash Heal Modifies. Premium. Devouring Plague damage increased by 15%. This build doesn't use mind flay or mind sear. Mind Soothe feels better than ever. Im getting a little concerned with the number of active abilities shadow priests are getting in dragonflight. WOTLK-WEAKAURA. It feels so lack luster. Blizzard, it is not the 1st of April yet! Please tell us that this is another of your out of seasons Aprils fools jokes! I still find it hard to believe what Blizzard is planning to do to SP. next is spamming mind blast and DPs. Mind Spike and Mind Melt are suggested over Mind Flay in almost every scenario. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C’Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N’Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5% damage variance. Shadow's cooldowns have also received some additions and changes, with Void Eruption both changing to a two minute cooldown and becoming an optional spell thanks to the addition. There's so many combinations available which never existed back then, which is exciting, and. The Talent Surge of Darkness lets you cast Mind Spike withour removing dots from the target when it procs. They went from being a rare occurrence to being in almost 70% of the groups for high keys. The change to Mind Sear* (edit) making it purely a spender instead of a filler spell can feel clunky at times, but they did massively buff the damage it does to compensate. Please report the post above if it breaks one of our >rules<. Mind Spike does not make any attacks, and does not trigger Hex. I’ve been using lots of Macro on this website and I think is time to give back something. Always instant / Short cooldown Mind Blast & Mind Spike. It’s usually Blast - Pain - Mind Flay (then finish with wand). those DoTs are so strong on DPS that Priest can NOT afford to lose them. Mind flay build actually seems kinda ok, wish the tentacles spawned more though. 313% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 15 sec and slowing their movement speed by 30%. Dragonflight Mythic+ Talent Builds for Shadow Priest 4. Mind Flay's power comes from the fact that it is channeled, cheap, and "spamable". Also a travel time for spells is kind of a disadvantage. This as a whole declutters the filler rotation which is good in that sense. next is spamming mind blast and DPs.