Originally Posted by
Lohe
Hello, welcome to the priest forum.
Since you are clearly unaware let me introduce you to how shadowpriests and hit interact.
Most of a shadowpriest's damage comes from dots. If you cast a dot and it misses the target
you only lose a fraction of the damage of the spell. In the case of VT, DP and SW:P this
fraction is equal to half a tick of the dot as well as one GCD of (usually) Mind Flay.
For Mind Flay you lose one and a half tick.
Seeing as missing one of these spells doesn't make you miss out on the full damage of the
spell which is the case when you're talking about something such as Fireball hit ends up having
a lower value for spriests than most other dps classes.
In fact, hit usually ends up as the lowest valued secondary stat.
Spriests are not even the sole exception to the rule of "cap hit first". Another obvious example
that springs to mind would be Feral Druids who much like spriests relies on dot damage and in
addition they rely on Shred, a move which refunds 80% of the used energy if it fails to connect.
That coupled with not being energy capped means a feral druid can afford to recast an ability
several times until it hits without it affecting the overall damage much.
Clearly you are just trying to help, which is a good thing.
However, seeing as you don't even know the class maybe it would be better for everyone if you
kept your advice to yourself.