lol its on my action bar now. I think that changes depending on build though. Rayneon-illidan May 3, 2023, 4:19pm #4. 2. Opener: Causes ticks of Mind Flay to extend Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch by 1 second or 2 seconds with Mind Spike. ) 17Cast Mind Blast if capped on charges. This ability will trigger randomly and likely without you even noticing it - except that with the proper talents your Mind Blast and Mind Spikes will probably proc faster or twice at once (If the Shadowy Recall was from Vampiric Touch or SW:P). I only use it on instant for burst to build into instant mindblast. If you cancel flay half way through, you get half its damage. A Month. In combination with Mind Flay. Surge of Darkness doesn't exist anymore in 10. Currently, Mind Sear requires 50 Insanity minimum to cast. And man is it kinda weird to play. This was already done at the beginning of Dragonflight and every player gravitated towards the better dps option, which was mind spike at the time. But ive noticed during void eruption that without instant mind spike procs you are wasting void bolts, mind blasts, and empowered mind spikes. Considering Mind Spike's anti-DoT effect and Mind Flay's useful snare, the only situation I can therefore see Mind Spike being useful for (besides From Darkness Comes Light procs) is nuking totems, and when Shadow is locked, due to Mind Spike's Shadowfrost school. Mind Flay deals four ticks of damage over its duration, each tick occuring every 0. Please report the post above if it breaks one of our >rules<. In terms of base damage, Mind Spike deals around 20% more than Mind Flay. Mind blast always was just a face-fart and. Chillproof-moon-guard February 3, 2023, 5:44pm 8 1 2 Our Shadow Priest Class Guide is updated for the latest rework. . It was a mistake to ever think it should be apart of normal gameplay and used all the time. Mind Flay damage increased by 10%. WoWNoob Discord - Same community, different platform. You also play Mind Flay: Insanity so you still need to cast flay to use those after every plague cast. LIVE STREAM: COMMUNITY: 2 full channels of Mind Flay vs Mind Sear {with chaining} (4 GCDs), if your Mastery% is 50. But you better get used to using Mind Spike properly. Valdivion-malganis. 23Cast Vampiric Touch to consume Unfurling Darkness. Allow While Banished Aura State. Unfurling Darkness and Mental Decay have swapped positions on the talent tree. I don’t think anyone has actually tested that. It is not clear when to cast Mind Spike vs. Auspicious Spirits: The Dot Spec style. Interrupt this whenever another spell becomes available. Update on 6 September 2023: We've updated this article with the latest PvP and PvE class balance changes for WoW Dragonflight patch 10. Can accumulate up to 2 charges. Every 2 casts of Devouring Plague transforms your next Mind Flay or Mind Spike into a more powerful spell. Crypto If the argument is having both Mind Flay and Mind Spike available at the same time creates a situation where sometimes you use one and sometimes you use the other… then that alone is reason enough to not have Mind Spike replace Mind Flay because you would use both as they both have unique enough reasons to use one over the other. 19% of Spell Power ] Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 70%. Answered Prayers - After your Prayer of Mending heals 50 times, gain Apotheosis for 8 sec. Patch 10. The global cooldown is imposed on most spells in the game, preventing you from casting multiple spells simultaneously; the base global cooldown lasts 1. shadow_fiend. 10. It provides a quick nuke to use in situations where time is of the essence, such as when the priest has to swap targets frequently. Use Shadow Crash if you are using this talent and the target is stunned or cannot move. 1 reworks the class, removing its clunky AoE spender in favor of focusing most of its AoE into (Spell #199484), among other changes. Vampiric Touch and Mind Blast do a little purple spark, mind flay does a purple string. god shadow feels awful to play after the patch. 2022: Moved racials out of the rotation into their own section. Yes, it absolutely is. I was critical striking with Mind Blast for over 100k when most non tank Hp pools were hovering around 150k. This article outlines the PvE and PvP balance changes to all classes in WoW Dragonflight, focusing on some rather severe buffs and nerfs across the board, so let's get started. Lasts 10 seconds (was 5 seconds). I don’t like this current iteration of the spec and I’m not asking for it to change for those of you that like it, I’m just asking for an alternative to it. Shadow Priest Needs Another Rework Background Regardless of what you want to call it, rework or not, Shadow Priest has design issues that are causing friction with playing the spec and keeps going through waves of harmful balancing changes. CryptoIf the argument is having both Mind Flay and Mind Spike available at the same time creates a situation where sometimes you use one and sometimes you use the other… then that alone is reason enough to not have Mind Spike replace Mind Flay because you would use both as they both have unique enough reasons to use one over. you should never be pressing mind flay. Allow Aura On Level Scale. That cannot change till they remowe it from the tree. Avoid mind flay until 28+ at a minimum, since rank 1 is weak, and rank 2 is weaker than a good wand. Well my leveling/quest rotation doesn’t actually use it more. Mind Flay damage increased by 20%. In the current build, Dark Accession only help mind blast, which is extremely weak. I played it a bit in BFA, but I can see it has changed since then. 19Cast Mind Spike: Insanity. TLDR use it for every spec. As mentioned above it can be used when locked out of shadow 3. Shadow has many spells to press rotationally, and this isn’t helping that. Shadow is wonderful, easy damage. The problem with Dominant Mind is that it has a short 30s duration and if you kill the trash you have to wait for it to pop out and then stop and kill it. Dispel Magic enemy buffs. Isuckatdots-kurinnaxx 6 August 2020 16:25 #19. . Bro, the best range with the most damage and survivability in game right now is the Mage. Use any procs of Surge of Insanity with Mind Flay: Insanity. Business, Economics, and Finance. Make Mind blast spread VT Make Shadowword death spread SW:P. 848% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 70%. However, with MoP, the Shadow Mastery Mastery: Madness acts to add extra ticks to Mind Flay, directly increasing its damage (but not. Hi guys, This is Ivan with his first macro post. 5 (2017-01-10): Removed. Two tick 11430 and take 1. use mind flay as a filler Don't bother with mind spike to keep it simple. There is no using voidform. WoW Classic Era and Hardcore Hotfixes -- Updated October 13. Note that in AoE, when talented into Distorted Reality, you can try and maintain Devouring Plague on multiple targets to increase overall damage. You can insert any available ability here, the point being you are pressing something. I main shadow. Mind Spike damage is now increased by 25% in PvP combat (was reduced by 25%). Mind Spike damage increased by 15%. In the Priest Specialization Abilities category. Void Bolt is also currently the only way to extend your DoTs, which is extremely useful in m+. Do not mind spike the boss (except for extreme. Also, it will always go after the Priest so the tank has to immediately taunt it. You can't get a surge proc. Drain life looks much better; Mind blast vs Shadow bolt. I’m having the same issue, and I have over the 50 instanity required to cast. Increases the damage of Mind Flay and Mind Spike by 10%. Just how the class feels losing mind spike procs and damnation. 02:35 AM. Ilyon-silvermoon October 31, 2022, 9:14pm #1. 18Cast Void Torrent. The number of spells/rotation spriest has is intimidating at first glance. Mind Flay as a filler spell. Mind Spike and Mind Melt are roughly 3-5% better than Mind Flay builds depending on the setup. Twistinfate offered the general consensus of the priest discord right now, which is that the mind sear bonus damage for ST is outweighed by the insanity loss. Wanting to keep the player involved and mindful of what is happening can lead to bloat and proc proc proc based reaction/priority based buttons vs spamming the same thing all over again. Mind blast and mind spike were always small animations on the target. Mind spike pushed to a branch on the tree instead of being in the core is a great choice. It deals Shadowfrost damage, yet also clears any existing Shadow damage over time effects on the target. Long explaination: I used mind_spike,if=pet. IDGAF about balance, if Mind Spike is available and it isn’t optimal to channeling mind flay, I’d still use Mind Spike. We all have different ideas about how specific the knowledge of the target's location should be. It will affect ALL periodic damaging spells, including Mind Sear, Mind Flay, etc. Mind SpikeSince our dev is having trouble putting identity into either, and they don’t want to put more power into filler spells(and we don’t want to spend talent points on fillers), I suggest baking them into their current powers, the talents we do have; – Dark Ascension - Mind Spike already adds crit into the mix, and with some of our new talents, Mind Blast. Here, they cannibalize one another and are further culled by the Elder Brain itself. i read the guide it mentioned to use it sometimes, but never said when. One huge drawback is the style of play. The two biggest differences are the addition of Mind Spike as an optional Single Target filler spell to replace Mind Flay, as well as the removal of as an AoE spender. They’ve gone way overboard. If not, don't forget to show support by upvoting! As far as pvp, you almost have to take it, as being mobile and casting instant cast mindspikes are essential to survival in pvp vs channeling mindflay where you are a sitting duck even more than the wheelchair you already are. I played it a bit in BFA, but I can see it has changed since then. Casting flay and cutting it short on the gcd whenever a more important spell becomes available is more flexible than spamming mind spike. Mind Flay: Insanity deals 120% more. But thats not a bad thing. Dark Evangelism can now also be triggered by Mind Spike. blizz. . If you cast Mage Armor at the beginning of the day, once you cast Mind Spike once, you'll have negated the spell slot loss to Mage Armor by dealing damage. Both cooldowns devalue the use of periodic damage spells, and when you have talent choices like Mind Sear, Mind Flay: Insanity, and Screams of the Void, all of these talents feel bad to use when both. Can accumulate up to 2 charges. This build doesn't use mind flay or mind sear. But here's a compromise: make a glyph that allows Shadow Word: Pain to stay on the target when we use Mind Spike. so you are supposed to use this in place of mind flay, which is your spammable/filler, but only in certain situations. Next best are Holy Fire and Smite (spell damage depending), finally Mind Flay for both dps and DPM (This changes with talents and rotation. This build is the default single target build for Shadow, with an option to use either Mind Spike or Mind Flay depending on your preference. It probably belongs at the bottom of. With the new talent tree introduced in 2. Fixed opener to be easier to read. I must have misunderstood the patch notes and was feeling pretty bummed since I thought they’d removed one of the spec’s most iconic. (That can scale, and give me higher spell slots). The other talent this is. Cast Shadow Word: Death while Mindbender is active and the target has equal to or less than 20% health. Mind Spike now replaces Mind Flay. I agree to bring back Mind Spike as a burst tool. One thing that I’m trying to figure out involves optimizing casts during high haste void form phases. Again, you’re limiting options by just having one set of talents that work with mind flay and another set of talents which work with mind spike. Mind Flay damage increased by 15 percent (this includes Mind Flay: Insanity, but not the proc from Idol of C’Thun). " It could potentially be that the first hit of mind spike is equal to a MF, but after that it starts hitting for more and more. When doing the rotation normally, Mind Flay or Mind Spike is your filler spell. ReplyMind Melt - Mind Spike reduces cast time of your next Mind Blast by 50%, stacking up to 2 times. Felt really hectic and engaging. We have moved to Warcraft Wiki. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C’Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N’Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5 percent damage variance. These options are extremely close together. 05 Nov. Shadow Priest Talent Trees in Dragonflight Season 3 Dragonflight brought with it huge changes to talents, bringing new talent trees to life and allowing vast customization with them. Mind Spike damage increased by 9 percent and now replaces Mind Flay. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C'Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N'Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5% damage variance. Mind Flay and Mind Flay: Insanity damage is now increased by 30% in PvP combat. Blizzard, it is not the 1st of April yet! Please tell us that this is another of your out of seasons Aprils fools jokes! I still find it hard to believe what Blizzard is planning to do to SP. Just fish for the free mind sear procs and use mind sear above 75 insanity. Shadow Priest Talent Trees in Dragonflight Season 3 Dragonflight brought with it huge changes to talents, bringing new talent trees to life and allowing vast customization with them. There’s a case of too many and too little. Mind spike needs its own branch, in fact it needs its own trunk, the old mind spike single target rotation needs either proper support or it's not worth bringing it back. 19Cast Mind Spike: Insanity. For the time being, this seems to spell the demise of Mind Spike for burst damage. Mind Melt - Mind Spike reduces cast time of your next Mind Blast by 50%, stacking up to 2 times. Can accumulate up to 2 charges. Generates 12 Insanity over the duration. 3) Change the IDs in the bot on Mind Flay to do Smite. Mind Spike: Insanity damage reduced by 11 percent and generates 6 Insanity (was 8). Being essentially forced into taking, as you say, the higher damage Mind Spike probably does not sit right with many old school SP. I think it should be a great idea to let mind flay to be cast when running , since shadow priests are very weak when a meele is hunting them , Devouring plague is the only spell we have then , And it sux , atleast i think mind flay would be great if it could be cast when running What do you think?If you have that mindset, it feels pretty damn smooth to just hit mind spike when you get a proc and mind flay when it doesn’t. those DoTs are so strong on DPS that Priest can NOT afford to lose them. Mind Flay is somewhere between a 1%-3% dps loss over Mind Spike, according to people who do that type of math. From Darkness Comes Light is good for it tho, especially in terms of pvp and mobility (which. 1 patch you can reduce the cost of casting by 15% of it's already low cast, becoming extremely mana efficient as far as damage output goes. 1 Like. Upcoming 10. Both of these spells are spammable filler spells, that require you to plant, existing at the bottom of your rotation priority and contribute little to your overall dps. AOE MOD is CTRL and have your cursor where you want your. Dark Evangelism can now also be triggered by Mind Spike. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C'Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N'Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5% damage variance. Problem with mind spike. Mind spike would be your casted filler spell when you have nothing better to do. Addons used: Weakauras: The entire center group is Weakauras and includes all the Spells, the Insanity bar and the Castbar and everything else you can think of. Cast Mind Flay to generate Insanity as your filler spell. After. Mind Spike provides a quick nuke to use in situations where the priest doesn't have time to set up the normal rotation, such as when adds are dying too fast or you have to swap targets a lot. Mind Spike: InsanityBlasts the target for (276. 0 shadow was fun, there were too many players crying for a full redesign though when it was undertuned when all they needed to address was mind flay vs mind spike and shadow crash. Maddening Touch - Vampiric Touch has the chance to generate Insanity whenever it deals damage and deals increased damage. Twistinfate offered the general consensus of the priest discord right now, which is that the mind sear bonus damage for ST is outweighed by the insanity loss. This was already done at the beginning of Dragonflight and every player gravitated towards the better dps option, which was mind. Mind Spike damage increased by 15%. It also increases the damage of Mind Flay and Mind Spike by 10%. A spell. Generates 12 Insanity over the duration. Mind spike for example used to have an animation but currently it's kind of not doing anything. Mind Flay would be broke as heck if you could move, but it’d give some sort of perk vs Mind Spike. While. Most Warlocks will want to use Hex because of its good synergy with Eldritch Blast. I also think that the mind flay talents being recommended by sims are overrated in practice. Mind Spike damage increased by 20%. LIVE STREAM: COMMUNITY: That’s cool it’s still here. Mind Spike and Mind Spike: Insanity damage is now increased by 30% in PvP combat (was 25%). Mind Flay: Insanity Assaults the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing [ 352. In the current build, Dark Accession only help mind blast, which is extremely weak. Reply With Quote 2010-12-10, 12:34 AM #8Mind Flay: Insanity We’ve made a change to Mind Flay: Insanity targeted at shortening the amount of time spent channeling Mind Flay: Insanity while increasing the value of casting it. Mind Spike vs Mind Flay For every Shadow Priest build you have the option between Mind Spike being your primary filler spell, or keeping it as Mind Flay . Mind Spike and Mind Flay coexisting is something we’re going to try but are wary of. Mind Spike as a filler vs Mind Flay (with instant procs) Mind Games Mindbender Shadow Word Death Vampiric Touch + Shadow Word Pain Shadow Crash Void Eruption that gives another filler spell on top of the CD and changes your priorities yet again Mind Sear vs Devouring Plague (with free casts that change priority depending on targets and. Mind Sear was the “fun button”, and now it’s gone. first priority is keeping all dots out. The problem with Dominant Mind is that it has a short 30s duration and if you kill the trash you have to wait for it to pop out and then stop and kill it. Mind flay build actually seems kinda ok, wish the tentacles spawned more though. 2-3 Enemies (that will live a reasonable length of time) Devouring Plague (with 3 OR MORE orbs) Mind Blast (with LESS THAN 5 orbs)Use Mind Blast on cooldown (very important), spam Mind Spike (not so important) in between and cast Devouring Plage when you have between 3 and 5 orb and it seems like a good idea to do so. Plater: Nameplate Addon (A good nameplate addon is probably the most important addon you can have as a Shadow Priest, or any spec that have to handle. Major Spike Scallion is the final Merc which you can recruit in Jagged Alliance 3. Cast Mindgames. 1 Like Hpellipsis-whisperwind (Hpellipsis) February 3, 2023, 5:29pm 7 This is very true, if you;re playing the standard yogg saron + ysharrj build for single target you can go a full minute without ever having to resort to a hard cast mind spike. Developer note from the offical 10. Please report the post above if it breaks one of our >rules<. Ascended Blast, Ascended Nova, Devouring Plague, Holy Fire, Holy Nova, Holy Word: Chastise, Mind Flay, Mind Spike, Mindgames, Mindgames, Purge the Wicked, Smite, Unholy Nova, Unholy Transfusion, Void Torrent Modifies Damage/Healing Done +10%: Inescapable Torment Modifies Damage/Healing Done +46%: Flash Heal Modifies. We don’t have plans to make major changes to either spell for Dragonflight launch, but they will be on our radar for the future. Row 7 Talents. Lasts 20 sec. I personally en…The cast speed of Mind Sear from Idol of C’Thun no longer scales with Haste. Love that build. Always instant / Short cooldown Mind Blast & Mind Spike. 557%. Revert mind sear back to a builder. WoWHead - The largest database, this should be your go-to (don't forget to read the comment section!). Spam Sear + SN as you would without voidform, just do way way more damage. Blizzard, it is not the 1st of April yet! Please tell us that this is another of your out of seasons Aprils fools jokes! I still find it hard to believe what Blizzard is planning to do to SP. Only 10% haste can be stolen per target, up to 20% haste total. Mind Spike is a priest ability learned at level 44 for those with the Shadow specialization. They went from being a rare occurrence to being in almost 70% of the groups for high keys. SW:I does 2x mind flay damage ticking for 15k SW:I benifits from mastery. A few thoughts on mind spike vs SW:I Keep in mind these numbers are estimates. Buckle up it’s going to be a wild ride. Learn how to use this in our class guide. Getting rid of mind flay is an absolutely wild change. The duration of your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch is increased by 1 sec when enemies suffer damage from Mind Flay and 2. Balanced-boulderfist. Allow Entering Arena. We’re working to reduce this by having Mind Spike replace Mind Flay and removing Mind Sear. Improved Flash Heal - Increases healing done by Flash Heal by 15%. For each additional spell slot level, Scorching Ray fires an additional beam for an additional 2d6 damage and another chance to trigger Hex. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C’Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N’Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5 percent damage variance. I noticed we have another filler spell now called Mind Spike and that it buffs our next Mind Blast… But when do I use it? We also have Mind Flay which I love using, but I can’t help feeling that it’s a bit obsolete with us having Mind. Mind Spike and Mind Spike: Insanity damage is now increased by 30% in PvP combat (was 25%). Considering Mind Spike's anti-DoT effect and Mind Flay's useful snare, the only situation I can therefore see Mind Spike being useful for (besides From Darkness Comes Light procs) is nuking totems, and when Shadow is locked, due to Mind Spike's Shadowfrost school. The Glyph of Mind Flay underwent a major change at the end of last year. cause critical Mind Blast to trigger Glyph of Mind Blast on the target, root the target for 4 sec. Mind sear was removed. It can be a hindrance more than anything if you’re trying to time keys. Mine Talent spec is 2/1/1/2/2/1/1. 2022: Cleaned up Devouring Plague lines to be more clear. Mind Flay has a base channel time of 4. Cast Mind Blast whenever available to generate Insanity. Before Mind Spike appeared to be the default AoE filler interacting with Psychic Link, which was fine by me. Anyway, I was in BH yesterday and after the fight one of the other members was trashing my rotation even though I had done more dps than him and the other spriestMind Spike damage reduced by 6%. Shadow had mind blast and mind spike procs throughout MoP and WoD, also the “proc” you get after casting devouring plague isn’t a proc. SHAMAN In a future build, Mind Sear will tick every 0. Mind Spike increases the critical strike chance of Mind Blast by 20%, stacking up to 4 times. I personally hate spike. A spell. Devouring Plague transforms your next Mind Flay into Mind Flay: Insanity. Mind Spike damage increased by 9% and now replaces Mind Flay. We're throwing around a few different ideas:But they are nerfing PI, MD, Mind Flay: Insanity(and also Mind Spike: Insanity) and they nerfed their defensives this current patch. This is actually unnecessary button bloat. also remove mind sear and focus around. Mind Spike damage increased by 9 percent and now replaces Mind Flay. Mind Spike: Insanity damage reduced by 11% and generates 6 Insanity (was 8). If you really hate spike that much, you can drop these two points for Voidtouched and another flex point, all sims and data. Is there a decent build for epic bg/wq that doesn't have so many buttons? I can't even look at the screen trying to track all these procs and cds. Crazy. 5 or 1 to be more consistent) - This can be a little buggy sometimes, yet to find a. Related. Patch 10. Again, you’re limiting options by just having one set of talents that work with mind flay and another set of talents which work with mind spike. Mind spike and mind flay are mostly fillers with nearly the same function. WoW Hotfixes - Updated October 13Considering Mind Spike's anti-DoT effect and Mind Flay's useful snare, the only situation I can therefore see Mind Spike being useful for (besides From Darkness Comes Light procs) is nuking totems, and when Shadow is locked, due to Mind Spike's Shadowfrost school. That’s really weird. There are situations where MS and MF. Stacks up to 3 times. I recommend dotting up your target, then using Mind Flay for maximum damage. For the time being, this seems to spell the demise of Mind Spike for burst damage. Cast Mind Flay instead of Mind Spike while DP is on the enemy target so that MS does not remove it. Mind Flay would be broke as heck if you could move, but it’d give some sort of perk vs Mind Spike. Mind spike replaces it if you look at mind spike in the shadow tree, it says it replaces mind flay. Mind Flay: InsanityAssaults the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing (285. They went from being a rare occurrence to being in almost 70% of the groups for high keys. they could make a choice - mind flay vs spike, could allow forking tree with 2 different playstyles one fast with spikes, another slower with flay. I am moderately geared at an ilvl of 349 and I am specced and glyped in a way that supports the Mind Spike rotation. Patch 7. 1 Like. Also a travel time for spells is kind of a disadvantage. Feel free to improve anything you guys want and thank you for this great community. It's also very useful on Deathwing. We’re working to reduce this by having Mind Spike replace Mind Flay and removing Mind Sear. Addons used: Weakauras: The entire center group is Weakauras and includes all the Spells, the Insanity bar and the Castbar and everything else you can think of. Whispering Shadows-Causes your Shadow Crash to apply Vampiric Touch (and Shadow Word: Pain if talented into Misery) to up to 8 targets. 86%, Mind Flay is better than Mind Sear for 2 or fewer targets. Invest on one or the other gameplay, not both. 1 patch you can reduce the cost of casting by 15% of it's already low cast, becoming extremely mana efficient as far as damage output goes. Before the change it wasn’t really a caster and now after the change is a “true” caster a real caster class. Think about it, mind flay was shadows character for literal expansions, and now that talent is completely obselete numbers wise. Pact Magic spells are always cast at the highest level possible, which increases up to level 5. However, the side effect of these changes is that it now feels like Mind Spike is lacking purpose. When doing the rotation normally, Mind Flay or Mind Spike is your filler spell. Can be used while sitting. Mind Flay with Mind Melt and Idol of C'Thun. (2) Set Bonus: Smite and Penance damage increased by 20% and Smite extends the duration of an active Atonement by 2 seconds. Your Mind Flay, Mind Spike, and Void Torrent damage increase the damage of your periodic Shadow effects by 1%, stacking up to 5 times. at leas in channelign you can castle part way and not really lose too much. . There's so many combinations available which never existed back then, which is exciting, and the spec. Mind Spike: Insanity damage increased by 20%. But ive noticed during void eruption that without instant mind spike procs you are wasting void bolts, mind blasts, and. Lasts 6 sec. I've done it countless times. But all of the builds I tested did quite similar damage, which is great as well. You typically want to start thinking about recasting Mind Flay about halfway through the channel. World of Warcraft Lore Trivia Game - Stump Sean Episode 2Ascended Blast, Ascended Nova, Devouring Plague, Holy Fire, Holy Nova, Holy Word: Chastise, Mind Flay, Mind Spike, Mindgames, Mindgames, Purge the Wicked, Smite, Unholy Nova, Unholy Transfusion, Void Torrent Modifies Damage/Healing Done +10%: Inescapable Torment Modifies Damage/Healing Done +46%: Flash Heal Modifies. Generates 16 Insanity over the duration. If the target's Mind Trauma debuff is removed by any source (dispels, duration ending), the Priest loses that amount of stolen haste. (4) Set Bonus: Smite has a 100% chance to cast an additional time during Shadow Covenant, dealing Shadow. Cast Mind Flay and Mind Spike as filler spells; Shadow Priest PvP Burst Rotation Shadow's burst rotation is almost entirely instant except for Mindgames. . It always feels like I’m doing something wrong, mostly because with all the procs I feel like i just have too much to press. The dot consumption just feels very dated as a mechanic and it works directly against our mastery. A blue post stated they don't want Spriests using Mind Spike as a part of their normal DPS rotation, so if that starts to happen it'll probably get nerfed. For fights such as the Spine of Deathwing in Dragon Soul, Vampric Embrace helps relieve your party members of the healing debuff faster. Balanced-boulderfist. You should fully channel this. Casting Devouring Plague increases the duration of Voidform by 2. Filler priority with this build: Mind Spike with Surge of Darkness procs; Mind Flay: Insanity when available. Mind Spike also now replaces Mind Flay when taken, reducing the number of filler spells Shadow has and greatly simplifying its Single Target rotation. Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C’Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N’Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5 percent damage variance. Nobody that’s actually good excluding a few likes the mind spike playstyle. There’s so much other stuff to be doing. Point is to make it clear that Mind Spike is simply a tool for a specific type of situation that belongs outside the normal gameplay loop. mind flay and void torrent are counted as dots. It's like a destro lock getting kicked on chaos bolt and being unable to cast anything at all but as far as I know if they get kicked on shadow they can still cast chaos bolt. • 6 mo. , one incapacitated humanoid grappled by the mind flay. I don’t want to build and slow burn, it doesn’t work. Shadow has been FOTM since the MDI. In the Priest Specialization Abilities category. Wowpedia. It also provides Shadow with a spell. Cast Mind Spike or Mind Flay if you have a Surge of Insanity buff up. That starts the dot weaving sequence. If you choose to use Yogg-Saron instead of C'Thun, Mind Spike will serve as your default filler spell instead of Mind Flay. Generates 16 Insanity over the duration. This is honestly convoluted as hell. When one of these tadpoles has sufficiently. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit. 5k and mind spike hits for 23. At quick glance, besides being less appealing aesthetically, Mind Spike is a slightly more empowered filler spell. Mind Spike is a Shadow priest talent. Before current patch mind spike was optional so I wasnt too concerned but now its effectively mandatory which was something i was worried about returning. can't open the talents on the phone). Spending insanity is higher prio than using your insanity flay procs i believe. Premium. Mind Spike damage increased by 20%. Mists of Pandaria spriest was top tier to me. 1. Aside the low damage mind spike has another problem. Really cool talents, and now compare them to the current ones… Just makes me.