The War Within SP Beta - Return of the Flay

[@Ezerael]

Dragonflight really is WoW 2.0 and ofcourse TWW will simply be a slight alteration of Dragonflight. What came before Dragonflight is dead and buried. Now we can be satisfied with spamming our buttons while mostly it's the healers competing. DPSing in Dragonflight/TWW feels like constantly pulling on a rope, it's not fun, it might be entertaining for a bit but what made WoW fun has been deleted. I mean, shadow is just not fun anymore, it's not exciting to have the entire spec revolve around rotating halos and mindflaying, imo the fun part with shadow was having mind flay, but not having my entire spec built around it, I still don't get why regular mind flay is a gimped wet noodle EX-Void bolt proccer spell that always feels bad pressing. The dots are super lame aswell, it's just super bad for shadow now, it's not that it's a bad spec it's just that it's so changed to something less fun. But IMO I think most specs are less fun nowadays, just too much fighting game design with cds and combos and rampers. And shadow really doesn't fit into that genre, hence the new and less fun shadow.

[@georgeblack1977]

agreed 100%, the reason cata spri feels so good to play is mind flay being a modifier/ramper but then your dots do good dmg when snapshotting or set up for huge burst combos. It actually feels rewarding for getting cast off, TWW is harder to cast and less rewarding for casting, who in their right mind cannot see that. The meta in retail is becoming all instant cast casters which is basically ranged melee now so whats the point of playing a CASTer?? Cata spri isnt even that great in terms of meta but its at least fun and does get better s10/s11. The outplay potential gets way higher in those seasons because melee cleaves aren't as good.

[@StahpSP]

This dude gets it

[@CassidyOG]

Blizzard doesn't understand what made their own game fun. It's absolutely pathetic - this is what predatory capitalism does to a game. This garbage isn't worth playing and it's time people stop giving them money. The game turned to dogshit the moment they gutted complex base mechanics in Cata and onwards on their way to implement "class fantasy" and "pruning". They removed every single mechanic that added depth and skill-expression in order to streamline and remove the soul of the game. This is why the game feels completely shallow despite Blizzard's half-ass attempt at re-introducing old abilities. If they were smart, they would revert absolutely everything back to WotLK and see what they can do from there. This new bullshit shadowpriest "fantasy" that they started projecting in Cata is something that has never appealed to SP mains. I certainly didn't ask for this, and I do not know anyone else who did either. They made up their own mind about what something should be instead of leaving that to the players. They were "fixing" something that didn't need fixing. Imagine sitting on 12 million subs and running it into the ground in a matter of months. Rofl.

[@LeCaptRage]

@@CassidyOG Maybe, just maybe thats only your opinion. Legion and DF were 2 out of 3 of my favarotie xpac and am not alone. War within simply looks to be better than DF and thats a + for me. I enjoy the actual state of wow and hope it keeps going in that direction.

[@BackyardPvP]

Good video - you are a very good shadow priest - no wonder I don’t do good in pvp with sp you have to play this good to achieve 3 rounds in solo shuffle - think I’ll stick to my easy to play fury warrior that has good burst and healing - mages, especially frost will get you as fury but I’m okay with paying that price to have fun

[@aaronr9551]

This is beta and not a true reflection of the game.

[@georgeblack1977]

If they buff'd mind blast dmg by a fuck ton and make DA/VE instant cast, give instant cast mind spike insanity with big dmg buff and give VT dispel cover, voidweaver would be so good and fun to play

[@StahpSP]

ya too bad they giga nerfed voidblast already

[@mistakai4226]

Remember when getting someone into execute range meant that swd + mind blast was almost always a kill?

[@StahpSP]

death is laughable, mind blast hitting 2% of hp pools too /cry

[@sur2016]

thanks for the vid, its so hard to find any good SP Arena Vids. Overall SP Arena feels so slow and not impactful compared to other classes .... I'm really struggling with whether I should level SP at all.

[@nigeluno8896]

Yeah i feel you. I think im going to main lock this xpac and play spriest as my alt.

[@sveekx]

meeh i dont know probably will get a small buff atleast and even tho its not really that powerfull it still looks viable kinda

[@mistakai4226]

Were missing close to 1000% damage on mind blast, vt, and swd.

[@CaptainCoachTV]

Spriest feels op, just not a lot of agency since they rely on tanking/casting

[@mr.guizee7764]

Good video :D btw are you putting extra mastery in gear? Mastery greatly surpass versatility and haste in terms of dmg. I follow in retail, I have like 28% haste 21% mastery 41% versa and my mind blast hits for >300k with Mastermind. Unfurling Darkness is hitting >540k on ppl with all 3 dots.

[@StahpSP]

honestly my gear on beta is prob trash i might not even have enchants lol

[@fly20214]

Is this after the 11.0.2 Updates? Thanks.

[@StahpSP]

Yes

[@SinRoot]

Cute debuff borders. It's a base game new feature or BigDebuffs addon update?

[@StahpSP]

I was using an addon called omniauras

[@fatabbas1330]

We are pretty good in bg but we suffer from the same problem in arena. We will be a lot better just with some small adjustement like our void form insta cast again by pvp talent, something that make dispelling our dot relevant and a rework on shadow crash to istantly spawn on ground.

[@praedonius9693]

Is that gladius you're using?

[@StahpSP]

Gladdy

[@praedonius9693]

@@StahpSP It works in DF?

[@hrd1711]

Is DP no longer a priority?

[@StahpSP]

its your main damage spender and gives u Mind flay insanity which is your best damage spell so yeah its def prio

[@milandavid6405]

hey @stahp i really want to play a mind spike build, how does the mind spike insanity compare to mind flay insanity dmg wise?

[@StahpSP]

Ok burst but way less overall damage. Not nearly as good imo - make sure to take mastermind tho

[@ericpatterson906]

Having omnibar made Sp feel tons better on beta haha. I'm enjoying SP the same amount as I always have, has flaws but so does most specs imo (shrug)

[@StahpSP]

agreed

[@Nolldurtv]

Yeah i am not using archon..

[@njhbvcdtnksq]

R1 shadow priest position 10:26

[@StahpSP]

facts

[@grimgangata1629]

lmao the 149k mind blast

[@StahpSP]

complete disbelief

[@robertgowdey]

"uh uh guess who's back - Foxy Shadow" - milcahh_us _illidan

[@robertgowdey]

How are you insta dotting some guys?

[@StahpSP]

shadowcrash / unfurling darkness

[@KarameloKoala]

What you say tells me not to play spriest, your gameplay tells me to play spriest

[@Daylyfe]

What about Voidweaver?

[@tonedubs6414]

Eh, it's pretty rough to cast your void blasts

[@StahpSP]

@@tonedubs6414 will play this in the next vid

[@soskillful585]

wtf is giving you so many mind flay insanity procs.

[@StahpSP]

Hall

[@emirfatmi3426]

Watched ur videos, I will definitely not buy the expansion, I'm main SP and this is just not fun. 140K mindblast and casting halo, and 0 dmg on the dots, no thanks will stay on cata

[@StahpSP]

im happy this video served a purpose for you!