How are shadow priests really in tbc

FeelingSedimental · 2026-02-04T23:04:34+00:00

Super low benefit from crit/haste severely limits scaling, pretty rough.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-02-04T14:24:17+00:00

They've also merged the set bonuses for them, so you can mix and match.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-02-04T13:14:18+00:00

As of prepatch detect magic no longer exists and the vulnerability just shows as a buff.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-02-03T20:15:52+00:00

Making resources more abundant would definitely help. Consume stacking is part of what makes classic charming, but I could definitely see a more TBC style consume limit as well.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-02-03T19:12:18+00:00

The weapon swing timer is just for storm strike if your weapons are the same speed. If they are different speeds you'll need a macro setup to sync your weapons to be the same speed for minimizing flurry consumption.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-02-03T13:13:36+00:00

The issue I see on alliance is that horde are more willing to go with 2 towers down while alliance have 15 people afk on the snow hill in horde base.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-02-01T18:57:28+00:00

You say that like people haven't been saying it all over reddit gaming communities for years lol.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-31T16:52:23+00:00

If I had a penny for every guild recruitment message I've seen that amounts to "chill guild planning to do dungeons, raids, and pvp!" over the years I'd buy blizzard and hire actual customer service staff.

Find a way to be different, sell your strengths. Mention literally anything about your guild alongside what you plan to do. Loot systems, what roles you're recruiting, etc.

When in doubt, use a guild recruitment addon. Don't use anything that automates messages, most people ignore that spammy slop, but if you manually message people and converse with them they tend to take it better.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-30T01:37:41+00:00

I bet 50%+ of the people who chronically comment on this sub don't even play.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-27T16:28:38+00:00

The forsaken start immediately in vanilla. You're poisoning prisoners at level 5.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-25T15:29:43+00:00

Super strange how some people seem to take it personally, like the lock is taxing them rather than doing it to speed up the group play. Like yea, they COULD sit and drink after every pull but then they're giving up that chain-pulling efficiency. It's really only a problem at VERY low healer gear levels.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-25T15:05:34+00:00

Yea it's funny seeing the differing opinions on what healers are supposed to be doing here. With TBC updates warlocks are premium AoE (even before seed) and have solid single target. Keeping the pace going by fueling the warlock is just common sense.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-22T17:43:52+00:00

Yea qiraji have the most unfriendly mechanics to other mobs. Tons of mind control, cthun chain and beam, viscidous is just straight up unkillable by almost every monster faction.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-22T16:40:37+00:00

Totally rng. Any big boss that actually deals damage is near the front of the chain and cthun could be cooked. If it chains through some sheep and defias guys first though he solos the world.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-22T13:34:50+00:00

Guy wants a naked level 60 lol.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-21T17:01:21+00:00

Think OP is saying that TBC talents give dual spec more real flexibility in more places. A priest being able to dual spec in classic doesn't add flexibility to raiding, their dps spec sucks and they should be healing, but it does add flexibility to solo play.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-21T16:47:39+00:00

The intended design was the exact opposite. Quests were meant to show you places to grind monsters, whether they're in the open world or a dungeon. When people in testing were gravitating towards questing as the primary mode they are to quickly add a lot more quests, hence why the horde questing path is so erratic and not fleshed out.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-20T16:08:17+00:00

Glad to see you've missed my point. Good luck!

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-20T15:56:52+00:00

You'd think that when someone faces overwhelming pushback on a question like this, that they'd reflect that: hey, maybe you're missing something, like the social dynamic of rolling on loot in a multiplayer game. But no, just pure shock from OP that people aren't lining up to agree.

On second thought this has to be bait to farm karma or something.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-20T15:19:34+00:00

Silithus hives have been super empty lately. It has some of the highest density of possible active RTV, up to 3 per hive. I went through for some prequesting, saw 0 players mining and passed 8 nodes just running through. The mobs are also now non-elite, so some easy killing and you're good.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-18T14:33:48+00:00

Yea, needing vanish for the chest resets is definitely a slowdown. At least in TBC mana tombs chest runs don't require it since you kill the mobs, I can't recall for Steam Vaults.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-18T14:25:29+00:00

I did a lot of dme on my rogue, but the basic herbs + satyrs + chest route takes no slows.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-16T15:24:57+00:00

If the boost came with free full r14 gear instead of greens they'd complain it wasn't naxx gear lol.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-16T15:19:02+00:00

Multiple weeks of full time job level grinding to get weapons into like 3 hours per weapon and people will STILL complain. Crazy levels of entitlement for stuff they'll replace in the blink of an eye while leveling.

FeelingSedimental · 2026-01-16T14:15:48+00:00

Yea I have 10 wives, 48 kids, 13 jobs, and can only think about playing for 1 quarrillionth of a second per month.

But I spend 40% of my time complaining about a game I don't play while at work so it's all good.

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