i feel like some people are probably taking spectral guise above Angelic Bulwark against sh*t you shouldn't be and it's causing a skew in results. Bulwark is actually the best choice against most things.
glyphing inner sanct and fade will also help if you aren't doing so now.
anyways, that said.. i think shadow needs a decent short cd defensive and they're good.
something like dropping Angelic Bulwark to a 60 sec cd on use ability or something.
otherwise the class is pretty fine imo.
I agree with your other points, especially how spriests are going to struggle with the DR nerf, but I really hate this misconception.
Behind mages (who have stupid mobility), locks are the least tankiest caster, they just have a few good cds. They have no armor increase so their armor is the absolute lowest in game and just a 10% dr where spriests have 15%. Locks who get melee trained die incredibly fast outside of their cds, faster than anyone else pretty much unless a mage sucks at kiting.
Those cds make EVERY lock spec capable of being tankier than ACTUAL tanks. Passive damage reduction is one thing but lock defensives are ridiculously over the top and class as a whole is absurdly and undeniably the tankiest CLASS in the game.
And then we have demo that had to get hit with tank level rbg nerfs to ensure it wasn't solo-carrying teams in cft maps.
Originally Posted by High Overlord Saurfangi7-6700 @2.8GHz | Nvidia GTX 960M | 16GB DDR4-2400MHz | 1 TB Toshiba SSD| Dell XPS 15
They get a 60% armor bonus, a buff against melee and nerf against casters.I might be wrong but I heard you're getting increase armor or something along those lines right? If that's the case it ain't too bad becusase wizard cleaves last ages anyway.
Yea, I seriously don't get the whole armor increase as a way to offset the nerfs for pvp. Especially priests who already run inner fire this will put spriests at plate level, which is stupid since they are cloth. Is it that difficult for shadowform to increase pvp resilience by enough to create a 15% reduction in damage, therefore having no effect on pve which is why its being nerfed in the first place? That or give it to their pvp set bonus, same for locks/booms who lost their passive DR. Especially locks, who will now be squishier than mages since they get no compensation at all.