WoW - Shadow Priest (ME) needs a few tips

KNiVES said:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10734349&postcount=28

My main's a shadow priest by the way. Quartz is silly useful for me.

Monster's advice is useful to any caster except shadow priests. You don't want crit, and you don't want variety in your gems except purely +spell damage. You want all +9 spell damage. The size of your mana pool won't matter either. Number one priority is spell damage. The more damage you deal, the more efficient you are, as 5% of your damage dealt returns to you and your party as mana. If you are using Vampiric Embrace, don't spend points in improved VE as that only acts as increased threat generation. Never rely on the healing done by your Vampiric Embrace as a primary source. Most priests avoid Shadow Power for the same reason - crits are unwanted aggro, and unwanted excess damage if you crit a Death move. I have 7000 or so hit points, and when my Death crits for 3000 I am not a happy bunny.
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Ye I thought that for ages, and it does work in theory as that what most forums say etc. However when I tested my setup with a bit of excess crit and stuff I seemed to do far more damage, maybe its just how I play, but it meant I managed to sneak onto the top of the damage meters etc. However I did have to chug tons of mana pots as I was spamming the keys madly, was more fun anyhow :)
 
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what site was this?

sounds fun, cos im strapped for cash after christmas.. and 2 birthdays early january! ahh hell! :p
 
Monster said:
However when I tested my setup with a bit of excess crit and stuff I seemed to do far more damage
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If you do mostly 5 mans you may well find that stacking crit will get you better results, as your dots won't have a lot of time to tick, since mobs go down really fast. Consequently the high 'instant' dps of mindblast and SWD will come into play a lot more. In raids where the fights become much longer, you may find you're limited to dots and flay, with limited mana for mindblast. SWD may also become a liability, since if there's a lot of raid-wide damage happening you don't want to be critting yourself for an additional 3k with it. As mentioned above, gem with the +9 damage rubies. You also need to reach +16% spellhit for boss fights, but shadow priests get +10% of this from talents.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
If you do mostly 5 mans you may well find that stacking crit will get you better results, as your dots won't have a lot of time to tick, since mobs go down really fast. Consequently the high 'instant' dps of mindblast and SWD will come into play a lot more. In raids where the fights become much longer, you may find you're limited to dots and flay, with limited mana for mindblast. SWD may also become a liability, since if there's a lot of raid-wide damage happening you don't want to be critting yourself for an additional 3k with it. As mentioned above, gem with the +9 damage rubies. You also need to reach +16% spellhit for boss fights, but shadow priests get +10% of this from talents.
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Yep agree with everything your saying there, however I was doing SSC and similar instances, such as TK. I had my full hit rating also due to takens and +6% from gear. I did used to move kit around depending on trash or not, I also trusted the tank and had a specific healer watching my health.
Its probably not the best overall damage, but it seemed to work for me, more due to being able to chuck in extra SW:D before stage changes etc i guess.
 
With shadow priests, DONT get +crit unless your doing pvp, you have no good threat reduction and yours dots cant crit.

If your doing PVE stack +hit, damage and spell haste (makes mind flay cast faster ;) )

Pvp, stack stam, crit and resilience.

With regards to dot trackers, try http://www.wowace.com and search around, they have the best addons.
 
Spell haste is disputed with regards to usefulness - some say it throws off your spellcast rotation while others say the spellhaste could be replaced with other statistics that would serve a greater purpose. You won't be able to get that much spell haste anyway, unless you do the later Zul'aman bosses and higher tier heroic badge items.

This makes for a good read: http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t16977-shadow_priest_101_how_melt_faces_effectively/
 
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