Well, i've started playin wow during it's initial release christmas 2004, didn't really started playin untill last year october last year, my guild is currently only at vael, i'm a shadowpriest, and having no problems with it. i've a question i've read numerous posting of shadowpriest in high end guilds but yet to see any high end guilds in my server, proudmoore taking any, what about blackrock?

This post has been edited by nVidiaFX: Apr 28 2006, 01:00 PM

Oh yeah, during BWL encounters even i've not told to do so i'll be always off shadowform but in MC is a diffrent story nuke all the way. I guess so holy or disc priest are much favour in all guilds, well i'm happy with what i am doing atm just lookin for the right guild as my guild only raid every weekends and weekdays for 20man, i'm lookin forward to raid daily.

That's just through, well i'm not tryin to be a lil arrogant or wat, but atm i can truely say i really know how to play my class, whenever i do mc/bwl i'm always on the top 10 of both damage and healing which my vampiric heals 30% of my shadow damage done my SWP: ticks for 2400 over 12 seconds, continious mindflay+mindblast heals like 1000 per 8 second.

That's show that u dont know how to play ur priest or evenshadowpriest well and certainly dosent know the mechanics of the game, only noobs go oom even i have to say that. It would be only take a retard to get aggro with talent help - 45% aggro talent + 30% (salvation) thats -75% aggro management not too mention with help of fade. sigh. QFT

Dear friends,

Priests have a hard life. Day in, day out, we spend so much of our time trying to keep you up in battle. Back when you were duking it out with Morgraine in the monestary, there we were in the back, feeding you health so you we could clear the instance. And then there we were in Mauradon. You insisted that you didn't need a shield to tank the princess, my mana bar begged to differ, but nevertheless, I kept you up, and did so thanklessly.

And now we raid- it's no different, except now I get to use dispel more frequently. While you're distracting Onyxia, there I am, silently sitting in the back, casting away so the raid doesn't wipe.

So you see, we priests have a hard job, and every once in a while we need a break. This is warcraft, after all, a game all about killing things, and even we, yes, we, the healbots, enjoy killing something every now and then. At level 60, the best place to do this is in Battlegrounds.

I understand when you get frustrated at the idea of me not healing you in battlegrounds. Really, I do. When you say "Lern2playurclass," however, I start to get upset. Lern2play, indeed. Have you ever seen the shadow tree? Not a whole lot of healing there. Why did blizzard create the tree, then? It seems to me that if blizzard didn't intend for us to kill stuff, just like you, then they wouldn't have included shadow at all. But there it is, right in front of our faces, plain as day but dark as night, and there you are nagging me to heal you.

Warcraft lore is also full of shadow priests, as well, and boy, are they nasty things. Take Nefarian, for example. Nef's a shadow priest. Well, actually, he's technically a dragon, but for all intents and purposes, he's a shadow priest when he's in human form. He mind controls, turns purple and stuff. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. But anyway, how the hell do you think Nef got to where he is today, by quietly sitting in the back and tossing a flash heal every now and again to his chums? No, Nef got to where he was by MELTING !&$%ING FACE AND DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN HIS PATH, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I INTEND TO DO. I'M NOT YOUR PERSONAL !&$%ING HEALBOT, YOU UNGRATEFUL #@%$!. PLEASE, AFFORD ME THE LUXURY OF NOW HAVING TO BE AN EXTENSION OF YOUR HEALTH BAR FOR ONCE. I'M HERE TO KILL STUFF, JUST LIKE YOU, SO STEP OFF. THIS ISN'T BRD.

AND LEARN TO SPELL IT RIGHT. PRIEST. P-R-I-E-S-T. "I" BEFORE "E," MOTHER!&$%ER!


rofl. true in a way

This post has been edited by nVidiaFX: May 1 2006, 07:04 PM

Aggroboy and perhaps to many other wow players outside may have bias perceptions against shadowpriest well i am here to answer a few questions. I've started WoWing approximately 14 months ago during the xmas/pre new year rush, but i wasnt constantly playin my toon due to sucky pc specs and i level myself from mid 50's to 60 last year nov. i respec from shadow to holy/disc to help out my new guild as they were startin to clear ZG and so. Later, i respec to shadow/disc when my guild was up to domo and we have quite a number of healers so no problem and everyone was cool with my decision. DKP wise wasnt really FFA, but i was shadow so i was able to bid on + DMG and Healing.



I feel that its not the matter of how many are going to spec into affinity and silent resolve. I feel that it's a responsibility and learnIIplaytheirclass honestly. IF ure a shadowpriest and considering to PvE this both talents are a must, again i stress the word must That's what i said in the previous post i believe leveling a toon to 60 is simple, but understanding and mastering the full potential of ur toon is hard.



Sadly, my shadowpriest is not on the horde side so i am not too sure about the BoS thingy on the horde side. But to be frank, most of the time i dont get the BoS buff, i always ask for kings and BoW with the -45% aggro talent imho its totally sufficient to control ur aggro, just watch ur DPS and also fade when necessary? Besides that as a shadowpriest PVE spec, u have to know ur roles u dont just DPS all the way, u also have a fole of decursing,VE healing, DPS and also not too mention emergency backup heals. If a priest is topping the damage meters u have to know somethin is not wrong.

DPS role: Shadow Priests CAN be number one in the damage charts, but a good SP almost NEVER will, because that means he has been A) focusing too much on upgrading his damage gear at the expense of his healing gear, B) being risky with agro, C) been neglecting his other duties of keeping up the tanks (even in full DPS mode you can still bubble if theres trouble), or D) some combination of the above. Shadow Priests have no unique DPS abilities persay, but their three damage spells are more than adequate. 1. SWP, the best DoT in the game. 2. Mind Blast, a high damage burst spell on an 8 second cooldown (though for most SPs this is reduced to somewhere between 5.5-6.5 seconds) that causes high agro (though for many SP builds, they have 45% aggro reduction. Add in the 30% from Blessing of Salvation, and aggro becomes almost negligible). 3. Mind Flay, arguably the most mana-efficient damage spell in the game, 3 second channeled no cooldown. Based on these 3 spells you can probably guess that your raids SP will focus on slapping down his DoT, and then blast away at a single target. Vampiric Embrace only strengthens this trend by giving the SP all the more reason to focus on a single target. At this, the SP is amazing, just dont expect him to bust out an AoE anytime for you, and dont expect his mana pool to last as long as a mages or warlocks despite MFs efficiency, as they just dont have the gear or talents to compete (not to mention the SP will most often be interspersing his damage with bubbles and/or heals) taken from the wow forums.



Again, its all about to learnIIplay and speaking from experience allthough during my 14 month play time ive never been up to nefarian or even pass broodlord only up to vael i've no problem with my mana raiding as a shadowpriest really. u have 40 ppl raiding if the 39 other members wipe because of one shadowpriest OOM and drinkin i think u shud /gquit imho. I 've around 6.2K + buff in MY DPS gear approximately +350 Damage and healing. Yes i do run out of Mana during the continious pull, so what i do is just be alert drink quickly asap durin the interval of each pull works fine for me.

My opinion: raiding is not the time to have fun. It's hard to actually have fun in a raid, regardless of class. Do your job, and you get your phat dps loot to melt faces in PvP, now that's the fun part.

Why do u raid if u're not having fun? Nevertheless as a healer or shadowpreist melting face in BWL i am still havin lots of fun, especially ure guild is in attempt of trying a new boss and remember the continious death and try finally u get to kill him and the phat loot? priceless.

and u guys can read this link for my details, for any more question about SP and concept ill try my best to answer

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...mp=1#post794184