Surge of Shadow in pvp?

[Iannis]

Hey all.
So lately I've been seeing a ton of shadow priests in pvp, bgs, rbgs, arena, ashran, etc etc
They are dominating. Not that it means much but almost always topping BG damage done.

I haven't touched my shadow spec in a while. Did something change? Recent buffs? Everyone figure out
how to play shadow? What gives?

[snaxattax]

cascade change made it really strong in rbgs

[Regen]

Cascade, Surge of Darkness/CoP combo makes for a lot of DPs and spread dps, shadows just always been really good at BGs and such, but like above said cascade buff made us very very strong

[Yvaelle]

It's worth noting that while Cascade does a lot of good spread pressure, it isn't really effective damage for getting kills - so like Ret AoE or DK dots, it helps us top the BG damage done, but it doesn't necessarily translate to being good at scoring kills or doing well in arenas.

[rorian]

cascade being overpowered spread damage is pretty much why for bg damage. this is why you see rbg teams stacking a couple shadowpriests now as it can just be silly spread damage in a team fight.

Like Yvaelle said, this doesn't really help in things like arena, so you see spriest have some trouble and has to play specific comps where they could have a partner like mage babysit them and somewhat keep the melee off of them