I Tried the New Shadow Priest in WoW's Next Expansion

Hero talents seem really cool and I'm all for this brand new COSMIC DAMAGE stuff!
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[@void_bound]

I've been waiting so long for them to update shield and make it more shadowy Nothing screams "dark void" and "succumb to madness" like pink glitter and sparkles

[@andreware2039]

It seems like all roads lead back to the shadowlands 😮‍💨

[@videofabriken]

sp was really good in shadowlands

[@andreware2039]

@videofabriken ?????? You skipped the start of the video, did you?

[@Noriaela]

@@videofabriken The end we were ok but the start was awful 😭

[@Yerdone92]

All roads lead to more sucktion

[@videofabriken]

@@andreware2039 went straight to the commentsection 💪

[@EnderGoku9001]

No one escapes the maw

[@boogaa_tv9489]

Laughs in elemental shaman being forgotten since legion

[@TheBulge]

Ele sham in s3 is super cool.

[@theboogermcnuggets867]

Laughs in Frost DK, i feel your pain

[@MarieBunny1337]

@@TheBulge I really disagree.

[@TheBulge]

@MarieBunny1337 feel free to disagree. If you prefer to constantly tab target your mousover cast earthquake to spread a short af lightning rod debuff over rapidly blasting off giant meatballs across the entire screen then that's fine, some people like rubbing nails on chalkboards just for the sound of it.

[@gimmeyacum]

Stop cry, it's skill issue u bad af all. I carry with all bad classes even with the worst. It's always the player behind the keyboard. I guess u all over 40yo & just let u get carried.

[@AkiRa22084]

I'm really liking these hero talents. And the video was fun. Subscribed.

[@TastyScotch]

How long he looks at the uneven spacing on his talent tree without noticing he still has 1 talent point available 😂😂😂

[@ziggs123]

It's a bug

[@TastyScotch]

@@ziggs123 ah ok. That makes sense. Thanks 👍

[@ramistotle]

the new visuals look so cool!

[@johannfindeis4421]

2:40 commentary, they still havent finished feral after WoD Boni, we feel you

[@evoknz]

Character list backgrounds incoming in the shop soon, get ready

[@emyscarlet]

loved your shadowfiend 15:28

[@Zepulchure]

Im kinda hoping archon will bebthe holy loght side of shadow form. Would be an interesting aspect of priest damage

[@ziggs123]

They should make "Void" a school of magic. Getting kicked on shadow will let you cast Voidform/Void Torrent/Voidblast, but if kicked on "Void" it also locks you out on shadow, same as Mind Spike works.

[@zak8991]

Been saying this since Legion lol

[@dcalliou7]

That would defeat the purpose of silence or interrupt.

[@zak8991]

@@dcalliou7 No it wouldn’t. You kick a spell to lock them out of a school of magic. Like for destru locks you never want to kick them on fire because then they could hard cast fear or chaos bolt for free. But if you kick them on Bolt then it locks them out of “chaos” which is fire and shadow. Similar to how “shadow frost” school works with shadow priest. Which is what OP is talking about turning certain spells into shadow frost or “void”. Essentially giving shadow a “chaos bolt” that you would always want to kick

[@dcalliou7]

@zak8991 you realize bolt doesn't lock both right? I pvp on one. Void is and always will be shadow. It's pointless

[@zak8991]

@@dcalliou7 Lol you play one and you don’t know? You must be trolling.

[@HawkknightXC88]

Looks like the Shadow Priests is going to be great this expansion.

[@AlexPetcu84]

Great vid as always.

[@phenrixgaming]

im so excited for this new skill tree for shadow, it looks so cool

[@ancientseed2607]

I’m pumped, this looks great 👍

[@Funkyent]

BONI IS BACK

[@JaWanja]

Hey ´boni, do you still have your job as game developer or are you fully back to streaming?

[@asheranna]

Awww the mawrat is all grown up

[@derekmorris89]

This may actually have me come back to WoW since i oh so love my shadow priest.

[@florianbrandt1337]

Ich liebe deine Videos. Gute Laune pur

[@elmerenguedefresa7097]

God damn I miss ur shadow priest videos so much

[@angiepadilla6266]

Really missed your videos a lot

[@zometthecomet]

So what we get is dragonflight with a small talent tree in a a new zone ?

[@TheUghleeMonk]

I wish our Shadowfiend would apparitions like ours coming off.

[@JumpscareRodent]

Yes.. I would love to customize my character background and poses too

[@ledoz]

i cant wait to do BIIIIG void blasts

[@DanielCruz-qr6qu]

5:05 lmao i had the same reaction, zero effort went into that spell...i was expecting a mini "Star Bomb"...but nop, all we get is a dark blob on the ground. So far the VFX for voidweaver look very underwhelming. We have all seen how cool they can make these cosmic void spells(star bomb i am looking at you)...there is no excuse for them not to put some effort into voidweaver's vfx.

[@ntn8265]

Most of them look a bit underwhelming, need to ask blizzard to make it better, take to forums and spam ask it, they said and showed they’re willing to listen and iterate

[@ChromaticEagle]

It’s alpha my guy they’ll update the visuals later on

[@faculty5999]

in game development visuals are almost always the last things to polish so don't judging to soon :) tbh all of the new skills looks amazing after the polishing look at the new covenant skill animations.

[@DankMemes-xq2xm]

this comment didn't age well ,huh

[@nameidk478]

Very cool mr. Anbone

[@ChadsYTLife_]

Dang i already like the looks of void torrent currently :/ i wish they kept OG mindflay without the shadow feature over it unless you're in shadow form that would be cool, like mind flay without the shadow unless you're in shadowform and then void torrent the same unless you're in shadowform then it gets the shadow feature look over the move

[@Thoinks_]

Anboni is best in slot shadow priest and always will be, cool vid boss

[@phoenix7289]

oooo holy shit please let shadow priest stay like this!

[@twikkedtv76]

that dark ascension wings can be darknaru theme kında .d it ll be soo cool

[@bunnylee9202]

I might go back to main shadow

[@ItsZenp]

Boni, Buddy. The long hair is looking really good on you my dude. Hope you have a good day : )

[@GamingTranceSeer]

Great now they just gotta have mind flay castable while moving

[@alex_shaner]

void talents look sick, now they just need to add star bomb from plunder

[@pushbackx562]

Dude hell yeah lol. Anti melee shadow priest for the win

[@salte9223]

Wait... they literally implemented the 1997 spellbook from Everquest...LOL

[@petr9516]

not sure why for SP the rift procs from Void Torrent and for Disc priest it procs from mindblast. A bit weird

[@zak8991]

they orginally had datamined it as mind blast for shadow, but obviously that would be too strong...lol. So they just tie it in with CD's respectively which makes more sense

[@petr9516]

​@@zak8991 Well having it bound to baseline ability make much more sense, being too strong or not is only play with fine tuning of the numbers not actual gameplay. I have tried both versions and disc feels much more smooth

[@zak8991]

@@petr9516Yea I agree about it being baseline. Forcing shadow to go torrent for probably the whole expansion if you play that hero would probably get boring. But unfortunately shadow doesn’t have any innate “shadow burst” CD. If they had it tied in with MB for shadow the rift would be tuned to feel way less significant. And probably would change prio where you want to make sure to cast MB on CD or when it procs otherwise you would lose a ton of overall. Having it on a CD is nice because it’s a one in done burst rather than another maintenance dot you’d have to juggle

[@DereineBrotmann]

"last spec" meanwhile Assa and Enhance do not have a single Hero talent at all :D :D

[@GacktSama1992]

I can't decide to go retail or cata classic, I stopped played SOD because the phases were getting so bad, so I am thinking about going cata classic

[@ultralance7470]

You should quit and play other games, you’ll save money and be happier

[@Thevoidlezz]

THink they just need to center all of the shadow tree under the talent point counter.

[@RobertoVillaLobby]

Looks nice but shield really really really really does need a shadowy form. Just purple would be fine already.

[@HKRazieL]

it is centered, what is not centered is the shadow tree on the right you can see the talents are not under the 0

[@GuyerTown]

4:30 i cant wait for someone to blame a wipe on void leech

[@Mini-kyu]

Shop is the first button. :) Yay....

[@LightCombat00-ej6em]

no instant cast? bout to have a rough time trying to cast once more with the million micro ccs in the game

[@zak8991]

Only if youre being trained. But honestly every caster apart from fire mage and boomy have a hard time getting damage off while trained. Thats the way its always been. If your highest damaging ability was instant then casters would be gods

[@Krone-wow]

Just bring shadow priest as it was in Legion

[@davidw.5984]

You know shadow got multiple reworks in dragonflight. Before any other class

[@fancen]

yea get it

[@Bloomingmandrakes]

Did they get rid of mind flay?

[@MarieBunny1337]

No, in this video it's replaced by Mind Spike. If you don't spec into Mind Spike, you have Mind Flay instead. :) You can even see him play with Mind Flay later on in the video.

[@michaelpope3185]

bruh i quit this shit years ago but dam why u gotta suck me back with this... u make it look so fun

[@jenaaidy]

what archon needs - a glyph to turn into a starcraft archon in holy and dark archon in shadow!

[@vigormortishs]

1:14 the sheer terror in his eyes

[@angrys13]

haha "the new zone!"

[@shotgunammo]

Its not cosmic damage, it syas that it deals shadowdamage, it just said that ur doing a cosmic voidblast that dsals x amount of shadowdamage changes look rlly cool tho

[@antoniojones1356]

My name is actually anbonio in my lady’s phone so I really like your name lmao

[@Kaneki_Live]

top left in the video beginning. broooo

[@jamisonjamisonx]

I just love how they really addressed the absolute sheer number of talents we have resulting in an unnecessarily complicated rotation...oh wait, they didn't address that did they.

[@dakhaos588]

They have. They remove a couple of defensive abilities and some abilities for some specs.

[@robertgowdey]

Casting void torrent without DP target yeah mkay

[@ahbayat89]

yo dont tempt me to sell my another kidney t o play this game :D

[@phnxx5301]

how can u say we are so back? SP was whole DF meta.

[@Qstorm88]

🔥🔥🔥

[@totomen666]

People started to leaving in hordes after D4 and OW2 fiasco - so now Blizzard for real started to work on WoW talent trees, 1st time since 2012. Voting with wallet - seens working out.

[@-.-Monster]

they made shadow priests a frost mage and people are going bananas over it

[@codylord4716]

Blizz needs to get rid of the holy bubble… It would not take much to make a glyph for it. All of the visuals look so good and then there’s that 🙄

[@alexis1156]

Still not as fun as s1 dragonflight s priest. They just needed to make a choice node between link and sear, then add the dot extension to plink too, some better talent connections, and crash at 20 seconds. And it would have been great. Instead they did a completely unnecessary spriest rework, that was mostly a failure. Good damage, but that's just balance, the gameplay suffered.

[@bradcogley8146]

LMAOO casually points out the shitty craftsmanship

[@austinperez4028]

i just wanted upgraded graphic

[@thekill1197]

Hasn’t voidform always had tentacles?! Also, I hope they eventually do a void looking power word shield!!!! We need it!!!

[@deletedTestimony]

Let's be honest Blizzard is unhappy shadow priest even has to still exist

[@lightcred8758]

can't wait for the 12 nerfs before release :)

[@0oByakurao0]

So .... same rotation 😂

[@hvdiv17]

So the 20th priest rework 😂😂

[@BeastMastery]

So it plays 100% the same as DF with a few more passives? Mmkay.

[@aku_]

Lets be honest about this. You get loads of passive powers that, in the end, have to also be balanced so they're already useless hero talents? "I get 20% more damage on Vampiric Touch and Shadow Word: Pain" but in reality you don't.

[@akirameru675]

You sound like a blast at parties.

[@aku_]

@@akirameru675 I'm just gonna assume this is an AI response.

[@akirameru675]

@@aku_ assume whatever you want, party animal.

[@autumnsphere7581]

@@akirameru675he is right. And you sak

[@psyhense]

That's because they're class flavour talents

[@fenaxtv]

I like there is no dmg meter

[@iskandar7688]

[@travisshannon9040]

Uhhh Spriest isn't last this time.. Shaman is last lol.

[@GPTLeader]

What is a Shaman?

[@bryant9967]

feel the same bro, shadow priest is always at the end, maybe a developer hates the shadows :(

[@Lorfind949]

wow's genuinely dead now, at this point blizzard needs to move on and make something new instead of constantly trying to polish this turd

[@abaiser9258]

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[@Anthony-um7yl]

pls come back too retail

[@gaburierusan8179]

Not that impressive

[@IzzoSkizzy]

i completely skipped dragonflight, i may completely skip this as well

[@Gerritson]

You missed out on one of the best expansion to date, and it looks like youre gonna miss another amazing one chief

[@IzzoSkizzy]

@@Gerritson pretty sure that's subjective. glad you enjoyed the xpac, i won't be

[@_Quattr09]

DF was horrendous for Spriest mains. We had a good month or two at the start, I suppose.

[@bogguslife]

@@_Quattr09sp has been solid in raid and meta in m+ for majority of the xpac?

[@_Quattr09]

@@bogguslife I was speaking for PvP. Not tuned into PvE at all.

[@bulgarianevangelist]

Bro stop blasheming ❤

[@ultralance7470]

Such a boring expansion…. New talent system is basically just more talents. They could have expanded the web and it literally would’ve been the same. The hero trees are not innovative nor are they really that original. Wow peaked in legion and this looks like literally more of the same shit as usual. So glad I quit putting money into this crap

[@WallaceRochaTeixeira]

I've seen better content coming out on 8.2, Nazjatar BFA patch, than this expansion lol

[@KyleRohan]

Should I come back to wow? Quit in Cata and played here and there over the years but I'm missing the nostalgia and copium.