Blizz should lean more into devouring plague for spriest

[u/Zulul98]

I love the changes they have done with devouring plague so far and I want just a little bit more. The CD reduction to 24 seconds is massive, making it baseline is huge, and the new talent that allows it to spread is awesome. I really think Blizzard should lean into devouring plague and make gameplay around that ability the identity of shadow priest. A talent that resets the CD of devouring plague would be amazing. I'll elaborate below.

Shadow priest is missing just a tiny bit of gameplay enhancement to really make it a "forever" spec. If I could wish for one more additional change to make to spriest, it would be to add one more talent that interacts with devouring plague. I made a post yesterday talking about spriest and I realized that spreading plagues and emphasizing on this ability would be my ideal identity for this version of the game. If we could get a talent that interacts with devouring plague and resets it CD, I think this spec would be peak. Something along the lines of getting a killing blow with shadow word death resets the CD of devouring plague. This would heavily emphasize spreading plagues as you would have a fun and satisfying gameplay loop of executing a mob with devouring plague on it, spreading it, and also getting the CD reset to then spread it even more.

I know there is a possibility that our raid tier sets enable this kind of gameplay with devouring plague, but I would hate for it to be gatekept until the endgame when we are pretty much done questing and dungeon grinding which is where plague spreading would be the most fun. I really want Blizz to lean into the class fantasy of spreading devouring plague. Maybe there is an alternative where we can enhance it in other ways, but this was the best idea I could come up with. I think this would also keep spriest balanced in PvP too because you would need to actively snipe people with shadow word death to get the benefit on a CD reset. I think it would keep you on your toes, and reward you heavily for doing so.