#0 - Sept. 11, 2008, 3:19 p.m.
[/quote]Dispersion now reduces all damage taken by 60% (down from 90%) and doesn't regenerate health anymore.[/quote]
What the hell is the point in that? So you can die slighlty more slowly while unable to do anything? It was already a borderline useless talent, now its the worst 51 point talent around. I
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Twisted Faith now increases your spell power on all spells (Old - only shadow spells) by 2/4/6/8/10% (down from 6/12/18/24/30%)
So now a deep shadow talent gets nerfed to 1/3rd damage because it affects all spells? If I was going to be throwing heals around, I wouldnt be 50some points into shadow.
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Improved Shadowform doesn't give a chance to remove all movement impairing effects when Fade is used anymore.
So fade is once again useless in PvP, awesome.
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Misery doesn't increase the damage of your Mind Blast / Mind Flay / Mind Sear spells anymore.
So now the talent just gives extra hit to spells, thats real useful for PvP right? Hell its worse than it is in Live right now.
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Improved Fade renamed to Veiled SHadows. Now Decreases the cooldown of your Fade ability by 6 sec, and reduces the cooldown of your Shadowfiend ability by 2 minutes.
Great, so since fade is now useless in PvP (again), and the shadow fiend is next to useless because the thing is retarded, this is another pointless talent that would have been nice had stuff not changed.
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Improved Spirit Tap now let your mana regenerate at a 10/20% (down from 25/50%) rate while casting.
So once again Shadow Priest go back to being gimped by their limited mana in PvP. The other 2 pure casters (mages and warlocks) have lots of options to recover mana. Hell warlock have damn near unlimited mana. Yet shadow priests are pretty much SoL once they run dry.
I have 8 70s (with the 9th on his way), one of each class. I PvP with all of them, so I dont have any favorites.
i dont care about the "Shadow isnt for PvP" nonsense either, thats crap. Shadow was the PvP talent for years in this game, many people rolled a priest to "Melt Faces" (thats a quote from a CM) in PvP. For blizzard to expect anyone who plays a priest to be a healer in PvP now because of arenas just plain sucks.
I wasnt hearing any cries about Shadow Priests being OP in the beta, and clearly nothing that would warrant this total gutting of the new (and some old) shadow talents. Shadow looks like total garbage in the xpac, and if a priest was my only toon I would just up and cancel instead of dealing with it (it really is that bad).
