Shadow Priest

[Zachery]

Ok so i was playing WoW ofc and i was trying to find gear for my shadow priest and someone told me that it was pointless because shadow priest where going to suck in Cata

i havent read much info on cata so i wanna know before i spend my gold trying to gear him

thanks

[Repo123]

They told you wrong. SPriest in cata are continuing where they off in wrath. They are quite potent offensively, and are considered by many to be OP'd.

[Zachery]

They told you wrong. SPriest in cata are continuing where they off in wrath. They are quite potent offensively, and are considered by many to be OP'd.

ty very much!

any way i can find out what is best in slot for my priest?

[Dillybear]

s priests are lucky since their dots already scaled with haste/crit(though they lost the time from haste) so their stat priorities shouldnt change much from 3.3-4.0.

[Nabuza]

Spriest are not getting shitty in cata. your friend needs to rethink where he gets his info

[Onestring]

Once again, Don't play a class because of its DPS play it because you enjoy to do so! class changes that "Nerf" or "OP" a class happen almost every patch. But if your staying on that class anyway as you enjoy the odds are when its changed again your going to be doing better for the experience!

I still play my DK as Blood DPS. Yes I could get higher DPS as unholy (Ditto with frost) and yes I know come Cata that's not going to be at all viable. But I enjoy it and to be honest I have found I can out DPS a lot of frost/unholy players with better gear. The point is, Don't listen to whines of a classes possible top DPS as half the time playing a class/spec you know well is going to provide better results then something that you don't enjoy and are not comfortable with.


EDIT - Fixed some typos

[Zachery]

thank you all a few more questions

anyone know the proper rotation for a shadow priest during a raid?

also what are the best glyphs?

anyone able to link me some where where they have best in slot gear posted?

i might have more after i think :P

[booh1992]

Well I don't know best in slot, nor proper rotation.. and I just have random glyphs for mine because holy is my main spec atm.
But I loved being a shadow priest in BC + Wrath and it will still be awesome in Cata. Just look up on www.wowpopular.com to see the most popular glyphs/gear/gems etc.
And I already have my spriest spec for cata sorted out

[Coraline]

Spriests don't have a set rotation. Basically what you want to do is make sure all your dots are up on the target (swp/dp/vt) and mindflay till dots need recasting. DO NOT clip dots OR mindflay, this will ruin your dps A LOT. There are some macros/addons to prevent this from happening. You'll want to cast your vt at about a second to a half a second left on the tick, other than that throw in a mindblast occasionally to keep replenishment up and you should be ok. As far as glyphs go you'll wanna use Mind Flay/Shadow/Dispersion, minors don't really matter just use levitate/shadowfiend/shadow protection or something else random.

[Kagenoshi]

shadowpriest.com has everythign you ever wanted to know bout spriests.

[dekadron]

If I were you I would not spend a lot of resources gearing up a shadow priest now, with cata coming so soon. Even the best of wotlk gear will be replaced quickly in the next expansion. Save your resources for cata!

[Anatar]

shadow will be really nice in cata compared to WotLK.
Some more interesting spells, a nice dps cd in archangel and the shadow-orbs mechanic is wonderful!!!

i´m really locking forward to cata!!

[dekadron]

current dps "rotation" for shadowpriest is a priority system that looks like this:

1. keep up your 3 dots: vampiric touch, devouring plague, shadow word: pain. don't "clip" them (this means recasting before the last tick ticks and the dot falls off; in other words, let the dot fall off!)
2. cast mind blast on cooldown
3. if you're not doing #1 or #2, then mindflay
4. sneak in shadow word: death when you're moving and don't have to reapply any dots

I still play my DK as Blood DPS. Yes I could get higher DPS as unholy (Ditto with frost) ... But I enjoy it

Heheh, I have corpse explosion on my blood DK tank. Yeah, I know it's stupid and it's a bad spell, but it's a fun spell and I like it. All I really do is tank heroics on him these days anyhow, so why not have a little fun?

[Kiora]

Ok so i was playing WoW ofc and i was trying to find gear for my shadow priest and someone told me that it was pointless because shadow priest where going to suck in Cata

i havent read much info on cata so i wanna know before i spend my gold trying to gear him

thanks

Shadow Priests suck in the regard that it sucks for people to run into a strongly geared and talented Shadow Priest in PvP. We're strong right now in Wrath and a lot of our little issues are getting smoothed over in Cataclysm (Better mana efficiency, control and stronger burst are coming).

That guy just wanted to prevent another Shadow Priest from being made.

And regarding best gear: http://www.shadowpriest.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=24134
For Glyphs I'd say go with Mind Flay, Shadow and Dispersion for now in Wrath.

[Blackmorgrim]

Shadowpriests are far from sucking in Cata. They have some issues atm, like potential for poor scaling with mastery, and that some of the more interesting mechanics for dps were concentrated on the pure dps classes like locks and mages. Locks and mages will totally outclass shadow in aoe fights, as both now have aoe's that leave a lasting DoT.

Affliction gets Empowered SoC, which drops corruption on all targets hit by Empowered SoC.
Fire Mages get ignites that proc off all fire spell crits, including living bomb.
The only thing new about mind sear is it now crits for 200% damage, but like all other aoes, the damage has been nerfed significantly.

The 'sucking' is more that as much as things have changed with shadow... the more they've pretty much stayed the same.

[Grrumpy]

I know if you search the forums on mmo-champ you can find a good BiS pre-raid gear list. It looks pretty good!