Voidweaver Shadow Priest - The War Within Preview (Hero Talents) (2024)

I've been hitting refresh waiting for a video on voidweaver, sounds so cool, let's gooo!

Great coverage, I've been coming across your videos a lot and you're really thorough so I just subd - thanks again

From a disc pov its a huge win, basically the current tier set amped up and leaning realy into certain aspects of the class fantasy. Please do a review on that too cause I’m very curious how it feels cause this talent tree gives them so much offensive power on paper it looks absolutely nuts

I'm super excited by this! The leech talent made me lol.

Blizz needs to add a cosmic void skin for the class like green fire for warlocks.

soon as i saw this in reccomended i clicked on it faster than i can blink XD. been waiting to look at spriest hero talents.

couldn't wait for your take, as a pvper i riff off what you have to say a lot sims wise so i dont have too narrow of a perspective. you help me pump thanks man

This looks awesome! Thanks for the analysis, makes me excited for spriest in TWW!

Oh yea been waiting for this video😂

Wish that you had access to the alpha for a more in depth review, but thank you for sharing your thoughts on it. Can’t wait to see how it turns out in the end. 🔥

I saw the first Talent icon and deadass thought they were bringing back Searing Nightmare... almost got a meltdown xD

Looks nice shadow priest

Void blast animation looks sick

I have been waiting for yout to make a video about this. Yay. I do hope they improve some of the visuals. The rift looks pretty rubbish at the moment, considering we have so many awesome void spell visual effects to draw upon. The question is, will we finally get to have our PW: Shield and levitate use a shadowy animation.

This looks so fun, it fits in the spriest theme of ramping up damage and all of the interactions seem so cool, I like the fact it has nodes that synergise with different build paths too, im optimistic about it!

Rift looks awesome, like a little blackhole. :D
Just wished they'd update our Shields, they still look the same since vanilla while Paladins got theirs updated using shaders and mages had it graphically updated. :|

Even after all the reworks void torrent is still a super cool ability so happy to see Blizz add some fun stuff to it with one of the hero talent trees.

Super excited to leech health from allies

Lol this intro music cracks me up everytime because it’s so opposite to the way Publik portrays himself.

Another thing, with this does our spell priority change with Void Torrent over Mind Blast since it upgrades it? Or are Void Blast charges filled on activation?

Another question I have for Voidweaver. For Void Eruption, do we cast that before Void Torrent? Or is VE something we’d go into after Entropic Rift?

I wish void blast would look like the sod mindspike. I wish there would be at least an glyph coming out for this

How will it feel using Void Eruption/PI/Pot, do you pop CDs before just sitting in Void Torrent, or will you take 2 seconds of your Entropic Rift using GCDs to pop cooldowns? Seems clunky either way, but I have been out of the game for a bit, I could be way off.

Yeah Dark energy ftw.

If you take voidwraith is there any point in taking mindbender at all? Would the dps go up or is it basically a refunded talent point?

Wait, this tree is shared with disc? Do the talents morph for disc or are they making void torrent baseline for disc? Or am I missing something

Do you think anything you've seen either here, in the Voidweaver talents, or in general War Within content, will help spriest feel less sluggish or one-note in terms of movement and utility, or will we still be a snail class? I like that this set of hero talents seems to offer some amount of AoE which, in my mind, alleviates some of the pain of relying on SC, but I'd really love to have even a fraction of the movement other classes seem to have baked in.

This looks great so far. I only hope they add a charge to Shadow Crash or uncap it going into TWW. Something to still help us spread our DoTs. This seems to ease the Psychic Link priority for AoE damage a little, but with Shadowy Apparitions and the Insanity generation we should still get a change to Shadow Crash.

Does Embrace the Shadow's healing work with Shadow Word: Death?

I see a lot of pvpers on the forums talking about how the slow etc wont do anything due to the massive amount of gap closers and mobility from the other classes, and i cant help but agree with them at this point. Not to mention the ability to lock down a priest with the long cast of void torrent. It begs the question, does entropic rift still materialize if you only get half a cast off before youre are kicked,stunned, etc? Or are you just dead in the water at that point. A lot of potential flaws in there.

So they finally gave us that black hole talent u were talking about back in bfa, sorta

Ok now make PI a personal for priests and revert the percentage nerf on it

Seems fun, but a bit weird that the vfx of the "rift" wasn't tore open right at where the enemy stands but sent out by the priest and "flew" to the location. So, you may have to wait for its arrival.
Also, new vfx for Void Torrent is cool, but feels a bit too dark. Void Blast vfx is cool as well. I thought it was another channeling spell when I watched the play style video. I misunderstood. 😂

I wonder what the range on Void Leech is. It says "nearby" which makes me think ~12 yd. If that's the case, Embrace the Shadow will be far superior in dungeons at least. It probably will be anyway, but in raids it will be much easier to be near someone to leech from.
Other than that, this looks like a very positive start for Shadow hero talents! Especially Dark Energy. For some unknown reason, i'm expecting that to be nerfed to the ground before release :(

Would embrace the shadow make shadow word death actually heal you now? 😮

I hate that shadow/void is becoming glitter and stardust. I wish the effects were kept shadowy and less cosmic.

wait im confused how is this also disc? is it not a healer spec?

I wish Shadow Crash would be easier to use.

i just realized they changed it from mind blast to void torrent.

16 - 8 = 10

I don’t understand how half of these talents will apply to disc priest

Why is wow head saying to me entropic rift gets triggerd of a mind blast

Thinking of switching back to shadow next xpac (been a lock for df). These hero talents seem to be much better designed than the locks

I dont understand the talent tree. Now we have 3(!!!) talent trees… for what we need more talents 🤷‍♂️

Damn bro the #1 spriest content creator didn’t get an alpha invite?

I find this style of having three talent trees very confusing.😐

I will not roll spriest I promise :/

Blizz " we detected shadow priest enjoying the spec...we must nerf to balance the force"

To each their own, but imho void blast looks like shlt...they have made a bunch of cool cosmic void animations for a bunch of mobs and even that plunderstorm skill had an amazing expanding void animation...but when it come to player skills the best they can come up with is "two dark purple lines"? Really? Has the bar been set so low?
These "void" skills look just like any other shadow priest skill.
This is what cosmic void is supposed to look like: th-cam.com/video/NMoktu57YVs/w-d-xo.html

By biggest problem with Spriest is mindgame and halo. Remove them, they just clutter the gameplay

Little boring, but nice additions to spriest

another expansion of shadow crash dot application huh, seems like that's the future of shadow, being a lame ass dragonflight piece of goo spec forever

You should take a drink of water before recording. Throughout the video we were listening to your mouth smacking before every sentence.