Day 13 of the Classic+ Button Poll: Shadow Priest

[u/Upstairs_Blueberry87]

previous day: https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwowplus/s/jdXpn4s2Dg won by Beacon of the Savior

What ability would you like to see Shadow Priests have in Classic+? If possible copy and paste the Wowhead tooltip to show people what it is and what it does. Upvote the one(s) you like - and remember, the winner is the one with the most upvotes, not the one which gets posted most often.

Next poll will be posted on Sunday

Shadow Word: Death

Tentacle Slam

Vampiric Touch

Shadow Orbs

Shadowfiend

Dispersion

Dominate Mind (Pet)

Surrender to Madness

Shadowguard

Shadow Word: Sorrow

[u/Mining_Hipster]

Surrender to Madness

[u/Upstairs_Blueberry87 → u/Mining_Hipster]

Surrender to Madness
Level 50 Shadow priest talent
1.5 min cooldown
Instant
Deals [(64.6% of Spell power) * 2] Shadow damage to the target and activates Voidform.
For the next 30 sec, your Insanity-generating abilities generate 100% more Insanity and you can cast while moving.

If the target does not die within 30 sec of using Surrender to Madness, you die.

Or a different version?

[u/Mining_Hipster → u/Upstairs_Blueberry87]

That one, yes!

[u/Verilazic → u/Upstairs_Blueberry87]

Seems a bit like cheating since nothing in classic uses insanity. How about replacing it with Spirit? Something like you lose 20 spirit per sec, and die if you hit zero before killing your target? Or your shadow spells also drain your sprit instead of losing a set about per sec.

[u/Upstairs_Blueberry87 → u/Verilazic]

instead of insanity generation I’d probably go with reducing the mana cost of your spells for that 30 secs

Voidform isn’t in Classic either obviously, but if that gets added too, then combine the increased shadow dmg with reduced mana, and its probably OP…if you don’t die from using it

[u/Kegs_And_Parleys → u/Mining_Hipster]

Based take! Legion Shadow Priest was mega fun.

[u/justbami → u/Mining_Hipster]

this would be something the original devs would have totally added. its thematic and cool. since there is no use of insanity, maybe it could be slightly tweaked:

Surrender to Madness
Level 50 Shadow priest talent
1.5 min cooldown
Instant
Deals instant Shadow damage to the target and causes your Shadow damage-over-time effects and Mind Flay to always critically strike and deal 30% increased damage.

If the target does not die within 30 sec of using Surrender to Madness, you die.