Shadow Priests Seem Lacking

Back a few years ago when Burning Crusade was the newest expansion out, I leveled a Priest to 70 and did some Arena and Battlegrounds with him. My talents were in the Discipline tree, and I was a pretty good healer that could take a hit and continue to heal my allies and then toss a quick heal on myself. I remember at level 70 seeing Shadow Priests was pretty common, but I noticed at level 80 that I rarely see a Shadow Priest anymore.

The other day I decided to dust him off and try him out again. I know before that Shadow was the leveling spec, but when I was looking at it, it seemed really boring with nothing really new even though he has new talents and a couple new spells. One new talent gives you a fear-like ability that fears them for three seconds and they drop their weapon for ten seconds. That sounds a lot like deathcoil.

Plus all their spells are pretty boring all you do is Vampric Embrace, Mind Blast, then Searing Pain until the moster is down. Pretty easy and pretty boring in my opinion. Seems like Shadow doesn't have that many spells to use and seem pretty immobile with not that many escape mechanics to get away from Melee.

It's no wonder I don't see Shadow Priests anymore I think that class is on its' death bed for pvp at least.