Shadow Priest for Herioc 5-mans

[homerjunior]

They are good and most ideal 5-mans have them but on a scale from 1-10 (10 being the highest) How needed in a 5-man are they please give reasons why and what you would replace them with

[opt]

VE&VT&Misery are all helpful but it depends on your setup.
Are you running affliction locks?
Are you running a zerg team or a tank, healer and 3 dps.
For VE&VT to be useful the duration of them must be of decient time, like bossfights are there real strengths.
There not going to top the dps meters like a mage or lock would but they are a utility but it depends, its sorta situational.
Running the 3dps setup the downside of a shadowpriest is that cc isnt a viable option, mindcontrol with a duelbox would kinda suck.

[Skuggomann]

For heroics ther are few tankign classes.


If 5man heroic was my gole id go for:

1X Paladin = salv :)
3x Mage = BADASS nuke and sheep X3! :P
1x Shaman = Totems! :) o jea and that healing part XD


but if you wana go normals and then straight to Kara id go:

1X Warlock = Pet tanking!
4x Mage = sheep and real nuke

Speccem Demonology/Fire for instance and Destor/fire for Raids (25% more firedmg is awsome!)

[marvein]

VE&VT&Misery are all helpful but it depends on your setup.
Are you running affliction locks?
Are you running a zerg team or a tank, healer and 3 dps.
For VE&VT to be useful the duration of them must be of decient time, like bossfights are there real strengths.
There not going to top the dps meters like a mage or lock would but they are a utility but it depends, its sorta situational.
Running the 3dps setup the downside of a shadowpriest is that cc isnt a viable option, mindcontrol with a duelbox would kinda suck.

QFT, I donly put a spriest into my team if I had an affliction lock to go with it, otherwise the only priest in my group would be the healer.

my perfect setup for heroics would probably be
paladin tank
resto shaman or holy priest for healer
2 fire mages for dps/CC
1 lock, maybe for more CC and good dps.
or an elemental shaman