
Originally Posted by Ilmater
I have a shadow priest in our guild with +836 spell damage... so not bad at all for Kara raiding. However, he's been at the bottom of the damage charts every run we've been in, and he's competing against lots of different classes and gear levels (many below his). So I'm not sure on a few things and I was hoping that some shadow priests here can help me answer a few questions:
- When do you use VE?
- Does VT generate threat like VE does? (don't think so, just checking)
- Would you EVER use VE in a 10-man with 3 healers?
- Where should a shadow priest be on the damage charts in Kara (realizing he has to shackle, etc.)?
- What spell rotation do you use? More specifically, what percentage (guess if you don't know) of your damage comes from each spell? (most of his was from SW:P and Mind Blast, I think)
I'm not coming down on him, I think he's a good guy and plays well (he can manage to shackle just fine), but I just can't believe he's at the bottom of the charts over demo locks and such.
Any help/advice is appreciated.
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The long answer is wade through the 25 pages of
The Shadow Priest Thread
The short answers are:
-Almost always use VE. If you're only in Karazhan, always use it.
-Last I saw, the consensus was mana return from VT is threatless (or close enough to consider it threatless) but I'm not sure if this has been proven one way or the other.
-All the time
-Depends on group synergy, gear, and spec, but should be competitive with everyone.
-Shadow priests don't have a clean cycle of spells with so many various CDs and DoT times. It's more of a priority system, Cast the highest spell that either is missing like a dot or off of cooldown like Mind Blast. The basic order I use is VE, VT, SW: Pain, SW: Death, Mind Blast, Mind Flay. He'll need to get a feel for when the damage from SW: Death is too likely to cause his death (Curator during evocate, Netherspite with blue beam, etc) but most of the time it's fine to use. The other thing is how long his mana will hold out. For mana concerns only, first drop Mind Blast and then SW: Death from the above priority list to help mana last longer.
For general split of damage, here's my latest Gruul kill with me going all out for damage (and all drunk for other reasons I won't get into so not my best performance.)
WWS This is a reasonable % split on the damage.