Question is in the comment. Simple, what is the best horde race for pve shadow priests?!
Question is in the comment. Simple, what is the best horde race for pve shadow priests?!
Goblin is probably up there, probably followed by Troll, then the others are somewhere behind them.
Goblin has 1% haste buff always which makes it the best. Troll is an extremely close second since they have a berserk buff which increases haste by 20% I think however its a 3minute CD and doesnt mean anything if you're forgetting to use it. Blood elf is nice for fights when your basically chewing through mana on multiple targets. Arcane Torrent returns a nice amount of mana if you use it when you have power torrent, darkmoon card:volcano, and lightweave (tailoring cloak enchant) proc'd. All of your shadowpriest questions can be answered in detail at www.shadowpriest.com (fantastic website, I've been going there since TBC)
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I'd say that the on demand troll racial is probably to prefer over 1% haste, so troll as far as racials go. If you can't stand their goofy looks, and the fact that they look pretty shitty in gear, then goblin is a good second choise.
Goblin look awesome, that is opinion. A flat 1% haste is better for a shadow priest than the clicky Troll racial. Shadow Priest need to hit a certain haste breakpoint for Vampiric Touch which happens to be really high. The Goblin racial makes it so much easier to reach that breakpoint, leaving more room for mastery.
I pretty much agree. However, mathematically Berserking breaks down to more Haste (1.11111% [repeating]) than the passive 1% from Goblin. That said, I'd rather have the passive Haste as a Spriest than the On-Use. The only situation where I'd rather have a Troll is where the boss is a Beast where a Troll gains 5% passive damage.
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I've been wondering this for a while but I am way too lazy to do the math myself, assuming you are well above the haste threshold on your own and you have DI, how big of a dps would troll be over goblin (berserking obviously wins over 1% haste for the reasons kelesti listed). Im curious because if the number is minor I would probably take the blink instead. If you need exact numbers my armory is in the sig.
Probably Goblins for the passive 1% haste. Trolls are also pretty descent with a more "burst" racial.
Trolls are the best for pve, beserking is slightly ahead of the 1% passive racial but the difference is really miniscule. Personally I like my goblin simply because rocket jump is OP compared to the other racials you get from trolls + a portable bank you can use every 30 minutes + exalted discounts even if you aren't exalted.
Edit: And here I read PvP, fml.
Go goblin, rocket jump can be a huge dps gain in certain fights.
Goblin. The most important part of PvE is dodging fire, and rocket jump helps with that.
Goblins are the easy route, though a good troll that knows how to time beserking with cooldowns/procs will always dominate by a good margin.
Just because it ends up being more haste and you can use it with buffs doesn't mean it is better. You aren't adding in the bonus mastery you can get with goblin, and also that if you are below the haste cap before berserking, you will most likely do less damage in the end.