Anyone who thinks Spriests aren't viable in PvE or PvP is either trolling or oblivious. - fixed
Yes, when you're decked out in full H or HWF gear... the differences become really apparent. But otherwise, shadow brings so much healing utility to a raid that it's not funny. If anything, the real issue is that we do so much random passive healing between VE, divine star/halo and keeping ourselves up with DP... we help make any non-absorb healer look like crap.
I'd love to see a warlock or mage help top off a raid just before or just after a Swelling Pride for example.
Last edited by Blackmorgrim; 2014-02-10 at 07:28 PM.
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/s...?s=6529&e=6786
A big part of it is that Shadow is hard. You need to learn how to play it.
But then, I suppose (from a design point of view) it goes back to if you only want to DPS, why are you choosing a single spec of a hybrid over a pure dps class?
Ever heard of Healthstones?
But yes, shadow is viable, at least for PvE. Below average for 25-man, suboptimal for 10-man, but viable. I don't know about 25, but at least on 10-man boomkins can heal just as much, and shaman can heal even more than shadow without the dps loss. Shadow's off-healing as utility is highly overrated and does not make up for its dps deficiencies. H Thok is the only fight I can think of where you might actually want a shadow priest's utility.
"Viable" was more geared towards Pvp, where they are not. They are viable in PvE, just overshadowed by almost every other class.
And before you ask, I would define "Viable" in pvp by saying "In this comp, would including a shadowpriest make it better?", and the answer is always NO.
Last edited by Venaliter; 2014-02-11 at 06:04 AM.
For PVP i'd like to see less build-up and maybe orbs that persists through death. and not being so easy to lock down and train in arena. i'd like to be viable for once.
For PVE i'd like to see blizzard focusing less on aoe damage and instead making our single target damage more on pair with the rest of the classes.
That wouldn't be the definition of viable. That's the exact definition of OPTIMAL. Viable is can it be used and do well? Yes, Shadow can. Can you replace an spriest with a different class and do better with equal talent/gear? Yup, probably.
Viable is not the same thing as optimal.
I really don't care about single target dps as long as our multi dotting is really strong, in this case we are one if the weakest multi dotters in the game.
I would prefer having strong multi dot to strong single target. It's fairly rare where there are more single target fights than multi dot.
So again, if you go and check the rankings.. All of the same names appearing at top is is purely good rng, "gear mechanics" (meaning?) and the fact that they all just happen to use a tactic that optimizes their shadow priests damage?
Tell you what, I've gotten many top rankings, and my raid don't give two shits about it.. We haven't tailored any stategies for my needs. I haven't been favored any gear. Rng, maybe.. But wouldn't that be strange considering the consistent high rankings? Or am I (and all of the other consistently high ranking priests) just that lucky?
Rng might play a factor for the very top. But to say that "most of the top rankings is from cheesing" is just wrong. (When I say top, I mean top 20ish. Not top 3)
Last edited by mmoc771d918182; 2014-02-11 at 04:07 PM.
Those logs make me Rank 7 on Proraiders. How is that not impressive?
On that try i had 11.6% uptime on Toxic power. Thats very bad. So on a bad try i was beaten by 1 person in the raid.
The only fight where i fall behind is Iron Jugger because of the pure single target. On the rest of the fights i can win or be in the top 3-5 all the time.
Last edited by mmoc148d9ca724; 2014-02-11 at 05:21 PM.
You ranked on one fight in those logs you linked and that fight was Mal w/ ToF cheese, how is that impressive? I'm not saying you're not a good player, but going around saying people need to "learn to play Shadow" because the rest of your raid isn't as good as you is meaningless. Ever look at some of Drye's best logs? He's often destroyed by the rest of his group even when he puts up a high rank and that's because everyone and their mother in his group are ranking every fight.
just a quick glance, you're just padding everywhere which a lot of people can do but they dont due to, fight mechanics meaning things like knockback on malkorok, I have also had a fair amount of ranks way higher than yours until I quit my priest for warrior but I never found them impressive cause they really didnt come from solid play and mostly from just padding on useless adds and abusing mechanics rest of the raid didnt do/care about and it was also 25 man which has a way more competitive scene when it comes to top players. Thing that makes it look embarrassing is that youre boasting about ranks for encounters where you took advantages of useless shit that doesnt even matter but on encounters where you can not actually do that you arent doing anything impressive at all, bottom line is: thread topic is derailed cause people are fishing for compliments yay?
Ofc im gonna cheese Malkorok to do better dps, everyone does it.
And the fact that im ranking higher than Drye means nothing?
I am going after ranks, means i play to get them. I ranked 3 on Malkorok on that rank and you can check all my ranks. I am always in the top.
Sure im padding on some bosses but most of them arent padding. Sure i Mind Sear the adds on Sha of Pride and Immerseus but thats needed if you want a high rank on Proraiders.
The worst padding i do is doing dmg to the yeti on Thok.
On bosses like Iron Jugg there is a limit to the dps you can do if you dont get lucky with your trinket proccs.
Last edited by mmoc148d9ca724; 2014-02-11 at 06:21 PM.
Wait, what? I didn't fish for compliments. Couldn't give two shits about what you think of me ^^ I was merely responding to the guy saying all top ranks is a result of cheeseing.. I used myself to compare, as I don't know the others situation or how they're being treated in raids?
What is all this padding that I am apparently doing? To me, the definition of padding is doing "worthless" damage. Damage that does not contribute to the kill. Please point out ONE situation where this is being done in my logs? With the exception of paragons where I multi dot for DI (for an inside guild discussion might I add)
I have to thank you for your contribution to the discussion btw. Personal attacks are always nice. Also, please, do link these amazing logs of yours.
Last edited by mmoc771d918182; 2014-02-11 at 06:22 PM.