Seems like it could be pretty effective with the group healing and mana drains - just wondering if anyone has used it successfully?
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Seems like it could be pretty effective with the group healing and mana drains - just wondering if anyone has used it successfully?
I know there was a guy who played a pally and 4 shadow priest team .
honestly I cant see how this would play out... i'm trying to come up with a reason why this won't work and yet I can't..
well shaddow priests are sqwishy...
Would certainly be one of the most effective teams on losing for sure, shadow priest is most likley the weakest pvp spec atm.
Priest are defently squishy and if i remmeber correctly generate alot of threatQuote:
Originally Posted by 'Multibocks',index.php?page=Thread&postID=208613#p ost208613
They have one of the best aoe abilities for boxers. Mind sear does massive dps to groups of 4+. It is channeled and low mana cost. They do decent single target damage too that is easily macroed.
My shadow priest is much less squishy than my mage. With inner fire and shadow form(-15% damage taken) he seems to have the same survivalbility of my moonkin.
Heh threat doesnt matter in arenas.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Marathon',index.php?page=Thread&postID=208685#pos t208685
I've got 5x shadow priests at lvl 66 and have done a few BG's with them. My initial thinking was exactly the same as most here - they've got big healing power, good single target dps, 5x shield, plus 5x fear. My experience in the BG's didn't pan out as I had hoped. After running a few games, I fell victim to cleave toons and would get torn apart by melee who were alway immune to fear for some reason (fear is useless), or mages who would nova my team in place and finish me off with a blizzards ... granted, this was before 3.1 and psychic horror, but I had major problems with melee. That being said, I was a total n00b (played pvp spriest solo in vanilla wow, but that's it) and new talents could make this class better to box, but the AOE (especially melee) is a major roadblock. I still plan on taking them to 80, but may end up speccing them disc, or at least far enough down the disc tree to get Reflective Shield ... 45% dmg return x5 seems like a good counter to aoe ...at 80, my disc priest shield absorbs somewhere around 4k with only 1k spell power - so a 20,000 damage return may be effective. Glyphed holy nova would be enough to restore ~9-10k hp to your team per tick (with about 1k sp) which may be enough to heal through it. The strategy would have to be more along the lines of DOT and kite (DOTS are AMAZING!!) - you don't have time to sit there and cast.
I played a group of shadow priests to 70 back in the day. Problem is they couldn't do instances very well as on any bosses they'd take enough damage to have to shift out of shadowform and renew or flash heal, which was a big drop in DPS. Even tried it with 4x plus a paladin and still had to drop shadowform on bosses. Just wasn't worth it IMO.
My brother is one of the Top 2's players on our battlegroup and top players in wow-us. Him and I sat down actually yesterday and spoke about me boxing another class and SP came up. The issue is Shadow Priests are the lowest Arena spec out right now and just get rolled.
But on the counter one of the Top Specs is Dis Priest and I considered rolling a spike team with Dis priests, but mana is a major issue. And your main would most likely have to be a Pali / so you would run 4 Dis spike with 1 Prot Pali for survival. Because if you lost your main it would most likely take to long to switch to the next group.
The issue with Shadow is no heals and so you can't run in shadow form, another option is running Dis till Shield / Reflect then going deep shadow for that shadow dmg boost. But you can't run in shadow form otherwise no heals. Still a vaiable build but if you had say (5) Accounts with Arena Tournament upgrades and you can create instant 80's, then that's the way to go. :P