Anyone boxing with shadow priests?

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Originally Posted by HPAVC

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.

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Fixed. Vamp embrace IS like siphon life now.

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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.

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Fixed. Range is now same as all spells

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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.

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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.

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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.

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meh.. passive healing > PoM

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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.

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The look cool. nuff said =)

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Originally Posted by Mokoi

Fixed. Vamp embrace IS like siphon life now.

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

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Originally Posted by Mokoi

Fixed. Range is now same as all spells

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

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Originally Posted by Mokoi

meh.. passive healing > PoM

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

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Originally Posted by Mokoi

The look cool. nuff said =)

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No arguing. Shadowform is looks really nice.

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.

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Originally Posted by amjr

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.

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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.

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

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?

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.

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.