Blue posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Priest
Mandatory talents
No. We're no longer in the business of giving specs a talent or ability that is so awesome that you just have to get brought to a raid. A raid should be able to function without a Shadow priest. They should want you because you're a good player, not because your presence passively makes everyone else better regardless of your individual skill.
Now we don't want you to be a liability, which is why we want Shadow damage to be proportionately higher than it was in BC and why we want Shadow to have great utility, including Replenishment and Vampiric Embrace. No, VE is not mandatory. Yes, other specs can bring Replenishment. That's so not every raid needs an X before they can enter the instance.
Do we see Shadow priests in raids, even in very uber guilds attempting hard modes? Yes. All the time. (Source)
i dunno what to say -_-
maybe you do?
/discuss