Priests in Mists of Pandaria

[Barnacles]

I know Beta is Beta and all, but from what I've seen and heard, we're becoming more utility and less damaging and it's caused some concerns for my raid, as we have a rather large bench of about 4 or 5 people at the moment. All three of our shadow priests including myself are exceptionally strong players, and I'd hate to see the other two priests benched because we have too much utility in the raid and not enough damage.

Has there been any consensus as to their direction with Shadow Priests in Mists? I know in past patches we've been neglected or our entire design was uprooted which was painful.

Either way, if I get benched, I'm gonna have a hella fun time in PvP. That's for sure.

[Kelesti]

You are getting more utility, yes. Where you get "less damaging" from, I have no idea. They haven't balanced "utility" classes since BC.

[Tokas]

some random nonsense