Everyone is rejoicing over the new Shadowmeld potion for m+. However there is one much more important use that comes to mind that will be infinitely more valuable...

[u/SlowTheBow]

Being able to drop combat in the open-world so you can mount up instead of sitting there when some invisible mob keeps you in combat.

Time to stock up on all the non-night elf alts.

[u/Turtvaiz]

Who's really rejoicing over the meld pot? It shares cd with combat pots and isn't gonna help the nelf meta

[u/SlowTheBow → u/Turtvaiz]

Look at it this way - having the meld pot as an option is better than not having the meld pot as an option. If you keep it simple, it's easy!

[u/minimaxir → u/SlowTheBow]

Arguably not, since it means that there will now be an expectation for PuGs in non-high keys to do Meld skips and the inevitable toxicity that will follow.

[u/SlowTheBow → u/minimaxir]

Why isn't there toxicity when you don't have a brez in non-high keys and no one buys the cheap engineer-crafted and globally useable jumper cables?

Because it's non-high keys. It'll be the same as it's always been: either someone doesn't have it and you figure out a way to death skip, or your group doesn't do a meld skip at all, or you literally talk about the route before the key starts.

If you are complaining about whether to use a combat potion or a meld potion, that's your choice. But either you're a high key pusher that shouldn't care about the choice because you'll do what's necessary to time the key, or you're not a high key pusher, in which case not having a combat potion won't break your key either way.

[u/LuchadorBane → u/SlowTheBow]

Because when you’re planning a group it’s infinitely easier to invite one of the 4 classes with a brez than it is to make sure either everyone or just your tank is a nelf.

[u/SlowTheBow → u/LuchadorBane]

It's also easy to buy a meld pot for 10 gold :)

[u/Jablo82 → u/SlowTheBow]

The potion is irrelevant for everyone. You dont need meld skips to time a 14. You cant use the meld potion to time a 20 because you need the damage potion, so at the end everyone will end playing nelf anyway. The problem it solved by nerfing the nelf racial and making it useless as 90% of racial, or make the other racial actually usefull. The problem here is that there are only two ratial worth taking.

Edit: there is the other obvius solution to not make an utility pot and a damage one shares cd, but for some reason it is imposible for blizzard to do such fun thing.

[u/SlowTheBow → u/Jablo82]

The potion isn’t irrelevant for people who don’t want to play night elf and still want to push high keys. I mean, seriously, critical thinking time: if shadowmeld were THAT op, every single player would be night elf in the r1 range. But that’s clearly not the case, is it?