![]() ![]() Throughout the last few years of classic the shadow priest has been either an entire meme, or a complete support class. This argument only negatively impacts the DPS spec of the hybrid class and only dilutes spec diversity. ![]() The most common response to shadow priest viability in wrath is “there is no longer a need for shadow priests as their DPS is lower than pure classes and other hybrid classes such as balance druid, and debuffs are no longer unique.” Ghostcrawler put an argument together on 10/26/09 titled “Hybrid tax (2).” In this blue post, Ghostcrawler essentially argues that hybrid classes should do less damage because they can respec to fulfill a different role while “pure” classes must reroll entirely. As with any classic release there is already a “pre-defined” meta and class performance expectation. Wrath of the Lich King classic (WoTLKC) is right around the corner and the classic Priest/Shadow priest discords are flooding with questions regarding the viability of shadow priest in the next classic expansion. My name is Linelo and I am an avid shadow priest theory crafter, co-creator of the shadow priest sim and am a active member of the wow classic community Therefore, following the “bring the player, not the class” philosophy, and taking into account these later corruption changes, it makes sense to add hasted SW:P following the corruption model Later changes to haste snapshotting on Corruption, if applied similarly to SW:P, should ease concerns that hasted SW:P is overpowered (5)į. The original decision against hasted SW:P depended on (A), but also concern that it would be overpowered (4)Į. During wrath, devs considered adding haste for SW:P (1)ĭ. This is in some tension with “bring the player not the class” philosophy, also original to Wrath (6)Ĭ. Spriest balance in wrath reflects an older philosophy that hybrid DPS < pure DPS (2)ī.
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