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amjr

11-25-2009, 08:06 AM

Hi!

I'm kinda new to this whole multiboxing thing. I'm just setting up my accounts and transferring characters. What I', wondering that is there anyone who multiboxes with shadow priests?

My intention is to set up following combination:

- Warrior as tank (already 80, can tank all heroics without troubles)
- 2x Shadow Priests as DPS
- Elemental Shaman as DPS
- Restoration Druid as healer

For a moment I wondered how nice it would be with 5 shadow priests... 5 different mind flays punishing poor mobs... But since I want to do heroics at 80 I decided to create a mixed team.

boxblizzard

11-25-2009, 08:25 AM

roflstomp

11-25-2009, 08:42 AM

ive been thinking of respecing my priest to shadow and druid to resto :) but i love my holy priest so not sure yet if im going to

Raskaz

11-25-2009, 10:05 AM

Shadow priests are fine especially with their support buffs. Their only downside, when it comes to heroics, is their lack of burst damage which comes even more apparent when you run with elemental shamans.

I've been running with 2 elemantal shamans and a spriest for quite some time now and due to their gear and how quick trash dies (heroics) my priest hardly ever casts any dots.

In the end it comes down to personal preferences and shadow priests are more then viable.

Regarding your healer I would rather go for a shaman one and spec your druid to balance which goes quite nicely with your shadow priests (low burst, great dots).

Mokoi

11-25-2009, 12:47 PM

im boxing 4 shamans and a demo lock.

I am really liking the damage they do, even at lvl 76 they will DESTROY any lvl 80 they get the first dot on, and i have more than done my fair share of /superlol at mind sear, which is WAAAAY OP..

In PvP I can see them being fun, but far too squishy. The new buffs are really why I started my team again, and we'll see how much better they are when they have those new buffs, but for now they are fun and only getting better.

I wouldn't say they are bound for a sure-thing 2200 rated 5v5 team, and would blow through every BG they encounter, but its a lot of fun, and thats better than winning sometimes.

For instance... Shadowmelding in a base in AV, and then popping out 4 shadowfiends and aoeing down a bunch of people with Mind Sear.. priceless :P just put it on a melee guy next to the tank on Belinda and watch all the other melee and the tank /loldie

aboron

11-25-2009, 01:13 PM

I've got 3 shadow priests as my DPS and they get the job done.

Having 3 of them I get to assign them one group buff each, so I'm not hammering one of their mana to zero on a rebuff. Having them all do VE is fairly effective group healing for themselves in boss fights and i just have the paladin's tank heal rotation throw an occasional flash of light on himself to keep even.

Everything in their achievements list was done as 5man PvE by myself. (links in sig) I'm a very casual player so I won't say it's a long or impressive list, but I don't think I'd have found time for doing more things with some other dps class.

One thing I definately like is the combo heal and aoe from holy nova - sure it breaks shadow form, but it makes a great burst to top everyone off and finish off the lowest mobs in a group that might have swarmed out of control until i can re-agro with the tank.

Ughmahedhurtz

11-25-2009, 03:27 PM

My biggest problem with all shadow priest groups? Having to switch out of shadowform constantly when doing anything really challenging. Instances at level once you hit BC are either a fear-bomb clusterfuck or hoping they kill off the mobs before dying horribly. I hated the instancing abilities of the group. They were awesome in world PVP and certain encounters due to WoTF + fear ward + massive renews/heals. My main gripe was having to pick between healing and DPS when they started getting beaten on.

Multibocks

11-25-2009, 05:42 PM

I dont much care for this group. Warlocksx4 and 1 healer would be more effective...Or even Warlocksx5. Maybe the new buffs in 3.3 will change my opinion, but Im not holding my breath.

HPAVC

11-25-2009, 06:36 PM

I love priests, my priest grips are more than just for shadow priests.

The spriest rotation is horrid in comparison to other classes for easy of dealing damage, if vampiric embrace was a effect like siphon life is now then perhaps they would have something. If they rolled back or reworked vampiric touch, perhaps to auto refresh on crits.

Channeling is also annoying, gyphing for range is annoying as well but at least you wouldn't have a problem with 4 shadow priests + tank with any range conflicts.

Mass dispel or an equivlent spell should have a coh like targeting system. That template is annoying. Perhaps a glyph that made the dispell magic have the same juice that mass dispell has.

Prayer of mending has logic errors with that many priests or even a number of priests which is a huge issue for running a large number of priests. Similarly the power word shield mechanics makes it rough for using the shield on others intuitively.

There isn't a good shadow hybrid alternative for this group, though having a silence/disarm is nice, really who needs that since they are going to roast single targets great.

Damn they look cool.

amjr

11-26-2009, 04:32 AM

Yeah, there are some issues with Shadow Priests. Bu I'll let my druid do the healing and Shadow Priests may concentrate on dealing damage.

Couple of things also popped into my mind yesterday...

How much do you make money when running heroics or normal mode lvl80 dungeons? I'm wondering how to keep my economy in balance :)

Mokoi

11-26-2009, 04:42 AM

I love priests, my priest grips are more than just for shadow priests.

The spriest rotation is horrid in comparison to other classes for easy of dealing damage, if vampiric embrace was a effect like siphon life is now then perhaps they would have something. If they rolled back or reworked vampiric touch, perhaps to auto refresh on crits.
Fixed. Vamp embrace IS like siphon life now.

Channeling is also annoying, gyphing for range is annoying as well but at least you wouldn't have a problem with 4 shadow priests + tank with any range conflicts.

Fixed. Range is now same as all spells

Mass dispel or an equivlent spell should have a coh like targeting system. That template is annoying. Perhaps a glyph that made the dispell magic have the same juice that mass dispell has.

I prefer mass dispel on a click, lets me choose where to put it, sure a targeted one would be handy, but its a tradeoff.

Prayer of mending has logic errors with that many priests or even a number of priests which is a huge issue for running a large number of priests. Similarly the power word shield mechanics makes it rough for using the shield on others intuitively.

meh.. passive healing > PoM

There isn't a good shadow hybrid alternative for this group, though having a silence/disarm is nice, really who needs that since they are going to roast single targets great.

Damn they look cool.

The look cool. nuff said =)

amjr

11-26-2009, 10:47 AM

Fixed. Vamp embrace IS like siphon life now.

what? Have I missed some critical patch note or... How is VE being changed? Self buff now?

Fixed. Range is now same as all spells

This one I've heard. It's excellent. MF from 36 yards instead of 24 (If I remember the numbers right)

meh.. passive healing > PoM

Any idea how much passive healing 2x VE from two shadowpriests does in lvl80?

The look cool. nuff said =)

No arguing. Shadowform is looks really nice.

DrChaos

11-26-2009, 11:14 AM

Im boxing 5 shadow priests on sargeras. I Originally made the team to do family runs that needed dps. 5 in my family play wow and it was a various mix of players. I have no problem with a basic dps rotations. I have no regret making a 5 spriest team. Of course my main is dual spec for healing and have no issues with one healer, 4 spriests at all when it comes to boxing them in instances. I have to say in not a pure pvp'r but its fun as hell to jump into battlegrounds and see stacks of horde die to 5 mindsears. Quite fun right there. I wanted to have a mix of chars across 5 accounts that would enable me to use whatever chars wherever we needed them.

Still working on the set up of other classes and learning the curve to play them all at the same time. Yes, I still use one computer and 2 - 25" monitors to play my 5 teams with no loss of fps. If your gonna do 2, go ahead and roll 5...... no turning back.

HPAVC

11-26-2009, 11:36 AM

what? Have I missed some critical patch note or... How is VE being changed? Self buff now?

This one I've heard. It's excellent. MF from 36 yards instead of 24 (If I remember the numbers right)

Any idea how much passive healing 2x VE from two shadowpriests does in lvl80?

No arguing. Shadowform is looks really nice.

Yeah, he is talking about PTR, VE is basically a debuff that you apply for single target attacks, so you toss a 4k mind blast at a target as an opener and your healed 600 and your party is healed 120 right then and there. Mindflay is also a 30 yard spell in the PTR.

Multibocks

11-26-2009, 03:33 PM

I saw the PTR changes and Im hoping it makes a real difference. Though I really dont need another team to gear up!

gitcho

11-26-2009, 05:22 PM

I've got 5 shadow priests at 80 in half deadly/furious ... the dots are killer. 1 Cleave > 5x priests. Mind-sear is amazing. 5 disc priests in arena is NOT viable. Anything else you would like to know?

Fishbeak

11-26-2009, 06:00 PM

I box prot paly / 2 x Elemental / Shadow Priest / Balance Druid

When I need the healing I move one elemental to resto.

I like the mana return and health but I do box with a friend that runs prot warrior / mage and even with similar if not better gear I can't keep up with a mage using the shadow priest. So if you are looking for straight up dps having multiple shadows is not ideal, but then again it is a game and you should play what you like.

amjr

11-27-2009, 05:59 AM

Great information. Thanks everyone. I like Shadow Priests and uber-pure-DPS is not what I'm after. Main thing I'm looking for is nice versatile group. With my setup 2x spriests, elemental shaman, resto druid and tank warrior I get nice buffs, passive healing and enough DPS to handle heroics.

Druid and Warrior are going to be most focused characters. Those I also use to play with friends - either tanking or healing. So now I only need to level my shaman and second priest from their ~60 to 80.