RoW for VR build with piston or orb of voidsight.
Voidsight/piston (I prefer voidsight since piston gives little stat gain to make a difference in stacks) and Sandman's for StM.
RoW for VR build with piston or orb of voidsight.
Voidsight/piston (I prefer voidsight since piston gives little stat gain to make a difference in stacks) and Sandman's for StM.
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Ok thank you both, i hope i kept my sandmans one... if not, even the 640 one will do the job you think? Might be able to get one on ah
Well, such thinking is exactly what made me boost a mage just in case, but the issue is that I highly prefer playing the spriest (as do many other) as opposed to mage or warlock for example.....For me the swap to mage will happen if, and only if, spriest turns out to be so bad as to do 70% or less or less of a mage.
At that point I think you'll be better just going voidsight and piston
Main damage on priority targets, it sucks with cleaving because you waste globals on SW:P and VT pathetic insanity generation. But yes, proper StM usage will make shadow the highest damage on a single boss target.
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Not sure what results you are looking at. If StM is performing poorly, it is because there is a lack of fight knowledge so people don't know how to deal with mechanics as they come, or StM isn't second nature to them yet. This will change in time with player and fight experience. Half the people using StM don't even know the proper usage of their insanity generators and insanity stoppers. Please do not think beta performance is indicative of legion spriest performance for StM.
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Low performance for StM = death.
Low performance for all other dps = small dps reduction
The margin of error is much small, but the reward is worth it.
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A third of the DPS specs do better than shadow without StM? Please stop pulling random stats like that out of your arse because it's not true. At all. Shadow without StM is amongst the highest performing specs in raids. It's hard to predict just how much of a boost StM gives you over the course of a fight because it depends on fight length and the type of fight, but it's not an exaggeration when I say that shadow is possibly the best, at the very least the best caster, at the moment. Why are you trying so hard to scare people that show interest in shadow, with misinformation no less?
I've been playing this class since the middle of Wrath of the Lich King, many other people for much longer. You must understand how now having it pulled out from under, while little shits sneer and go "Maybe try rolling something else?" leaves a bad taste in many people's mouth.
Priests using StM will do highest damage on a boss over the whole fight, and if they time their dots properly, they can be highest damage on single priority adds up to ~120 stacks. At that point any gc/ds that are not large insanity generators (like dots) will kill you, so they must remain on one target for the rest of the fight.
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I don't consider myself little...
I understand your guys' frustration but the new shadow playstyle has been known since alpha. Any grievances uttered now are just unwarranted except for the purpose of complaining. With pre-patch tomorrow and people struggling to figure out how to play the new spec, the last thing needed in these forums is negative feedback toward people who don't have access to the beta. They need help with gameplay, talents, and stats.
I do have to laugh a little at the things I'm reading.
"Shadow priest is shit, does no damage compared to mages lol"
"StM is the worst thing I've ever seen LUL, playstyle is SHIT"
"SHADOW PRIEST IS SHIT LAWL WHO ELSE HATES THIS PLAYSTYLE? LIKE IF YOU AGREE!"
I bet 99% of the people posting that have:
-Not played on Beta to see how insane Shadow Priest DPS is
-Not looked at any logs to see how insane Shadow Priest DPS is
-Not even played Spriest on live, to compare it to Legion and see how insane Shadow Priest DPS is
-have an Arcane Mage that they regularly play, but will begin flaming the Mage Forums once Legion launches because Arcane isn't the best spec anymore
Seriously you guys. Some people here put no thought-process into the things they write, and just type something for the heck of it.
If you have no constructive feedback to give concerning the Shadow Priest, than I believe this thread is not for you, and you should save the rest of us time by just not posting it's easily ignorable if it's just 1 person talking redundant crap, but when people begin reading that and AGREEING (even though there is 0 evidence for their claims), then I begin to question your state of mind, respectfully.