4x Shadow Priest are amazing

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07-31-2011, 08:33 AM
zenga

4x Shadow Priest are amazing

Dinged 85 on my shadow priests earlier this weekend. Levelled /transferred them to a new realm and got them a full crafted pvp suit + spire of scarlet pain (378 boe staff) ready for each.

Jumped straight into arena with a mate who has a resto shaman/ pally & druid. We tried out everything and not sure yet what works best for the team.

But ... 4x ...
fear on 23 second cd
4x disarm on 1,5m cd
4x dispersion on 1,25m cd
4x fade on 15s cd
4x mass dispel
4x vampiric embrace
4x ranged silence on 45s cd (better than strangulate)
4x leap of faith on 1.5m cd
4x fear ward on 2m cd
4x mana burn

Fear followed by Hymn of Hope and divine hymn is very strong, even if not for full duration and can be repeated.

I Basically opened with silence on healer, putting dots on 2 different targets. You see their health drop straight away.
Mind spike, mind spike, mind spike -> instant Mind Blast crit = this will kill anything.

On some occasions I experimented with mana burn on healer, but thus far it has not been really necessary.

Every game I think I saved my healers life twice with leap of faith. Simply amazing tool.

Took me 14 games to have my points for the week.

To me this feels like an improved version of a wrath shaman team.
07-31-2011, 09:07 AM
Lyonheart

I have a team of priests waiting to be leveled ( RaF ) I had leveled a team to mid 30s once, in WotLK, I remember them being a lot of fun in BGs.

How much did you pay for your staffs? I'm still farming BoE epics so I can get my mages some. ( they are 25-35K on my server ( Juljin, horde)
07-31-2011, 09:09 AM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lyonheart

I have a team of priests waiting to be leveled ( RaF ) I had leveled a team to mid 30s once, in WotLK, I remember them being a lot of fun in BGs.

How much did you pay for your staffs? I'm still farming BoE epics so I can get my mages some. ( they are 25-35K on my server ( Juljin, horde)

Think about 150k total. I server transferred them along.
07-31-2011, 10:06 AM
HPAVC

In PVE I love my shadow priest team as well, running with a DK tank they are pretty damn strong. Like you mentioned, some of their cooldowns are on quite outrageous timers.

The mind spikes and a mind blast + paralysis crit, death, death definitely forces a bubble, if you get someone that is asleep you just decapitated a player.

When the patch dropped that Mind Sear could be targeted on the tank, a lot of encounters got stupid easy. While its not the strongest AoE, its now at the full duration.

How do you have your character's glyphed?
07-31-2011, 10:57 AM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by HPAVC

In PVE ...

How do you have your character's glyphed?

Like this for now, still experimenting a bit with spec/glyphs. And on 2 toons have mass dispel glyph in favor of fade.

Note: I only play them in pvp, but I obviously see how stupidly easy mind sear is (even in a turtle in AV).
07-31-2011, 11:45 AM
Selz

Im quite interrested in this, how ever what class should I choose ? :)
07-31-2011, 01:18 PM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by Selz

Im quite interrested in this, how ever what class should I choose ? :)

How about priest? Think that 'd be a pretty good start.
07-31-2011, 01:33 PM
Toned

Have you tried 3 SP 3s? How does that work for you.
07-31-2011, 05:01 PM
Shodokan

I plan on trying priests at some point, was my next plan =P

Paladin healer might be better... aura mastery = dead target.
07-31-2011, 05:45 PM
Mercbeast

5 Disc ftw. FEAR MANA DRAIN WIN!!! I'm only half joking.
07-31-2011, 05:53 PM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toned

Have you tried 3 SP 3s? How does that work for you.

I haven't tried 3s yet. A bit uncertain how to approach the fight without a healer. Actually I'm not a big fan of running w/o a healer. I can see 2 spriest + random healer work (or boxing all 3, but then 2x shadow 1x disc).

As for the healer on the 5 team, pally is great vs melee, shaman is pretty awesome vs caster teams with wind shear. Will need more games/gear to find out what works best for me.
07-31-2011, 06:10 PM
Multibocks

Hmm this is interesting, requires a bit of control... can't wait to see how you do.
07-31-2011, 07:30 PM
Scelesti

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercbeast

5 Disc ftw. FEAR MANA DRAIN WIN!!! I'm only half joking.

back when i 5 boxed I played a 4 disc priest + warrior team to 70.

It was a lot of fun but ultimately in PvE the damage wasn't really there. I basically zerg'd through any and all mechanics with the outrageous disc damage healing.

I see shadow priests not being a bad idea. However probably just not my play style for boxing. Shadow priests, much like warlocks, require some build up before they can kind of burst. Really gives away the chance for a quick zerg kill like shamans, death knights, paladins and warriors have. I haven't played priest since Cata so I'm not 100% up on the information but the way I remember was there being a build up before you could burst. Your build up time kind of gives away what you're about to do and allows people to pop cooldowns to survive the incoming damage.

Their damage is bursty though, and by that I mean once stuff does get rolling, the damage is pretty unpredictable. If you can catch someone off guard with your DoTs on them and other necessary debuffs, GG.

Just my 2 cents. I wish you luck though, I wouldn't mind leveling up my priests again.
07-31-2011, 07:51 PM
Shodokan

Quote:

Originally Posted by isthisspam

back when i 5 boxed I played a 4 disc priest + warrior team to 70.

It was a lot of fun but ultimately in PvE the damage wasn't really there. I basically zerg'd through any and all mechanics with the outrageous disc damage healing.

I see shadow priests not being a bad idea. However probably just not my play style for boxing. Shadow priests, much like warlocks, require some build up before they can kind of burst. Really gives away the chance for a quick zerg kill like shamans, death knights, paladins and warriors have. I haven't played priest since Cata so I'm not 100% up on the information but the way I remember was there being a build up before you could burst. Your build up time kind of gives away what you're about to do and allows people to pop cooldowns to survive the incoming damage.

Their damage is bursty though, and by that I mean once stuff does get rolling, the damage is pretty unpredictable. If you can catch someone off guard with your DoTs on them and other necessary debuffs, GG.

Just my 2 cents. I wish you luck though, I wouldn't mind leveling up my priests again.

aura mastery + two priests able to do 3 mind spikes > mind blast = dead target.

Its really hard to CC 4 priests lol

you don't even necessarily need dots rolling on anyone else either.
07-31-2011, 08:53 PM
Selz

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenga

How about priest? Think that 'd be a pretty good start.

Haha DoH... I ment Race ! :p
07-31-2011, 09:24 PM
Mercbeast

Quote:

Originally Posted by Selz

Haha DoH... I ment Race ! :p

Prob human for alliance. Hard to beat double trinkets.

For horde...I think maybe orc or if you were super aggressive maybe BE for the extra silence ;p
07-31-2011, 09:27 PM
Zub

Gnome! for extra pigtailness!
07-31-2011, 09:42 PM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercbeast

Prob human for alliance. Hard to beat double trinkets.

For horde...I think maybe orc or if you were super aggressive maybe BE for the extra silence ;p

I'm gonna ignore the first one that makes 4 belfs -_-
07-31-2011, 09:53 PM
Selz

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercbeast

Prob human for alliance. Hard to beat double trinkets.

For horde...I think maybe orc or if you were super aggressive maybe BE for the extra silence ;p

What did I miss here, orc can't be priest :confused:
07-31-2011, 11:09 PM
Shodokan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Selz

What did I miss here, orc can't be priest :confused:

he meant troll for the haste.
08-01-2011, 12:59 AM
Multibocks

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenga

I'm gonna ignore the first one that makes 4 belfs -_-

Lol gotta love AoE silence
08-02-2011, 06:15 AM
Selz

Is it possible we can get some footage of 4x shadow in action.. both pve and pve :p
08-02-2011, 12:19 PM
Svpernova09

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenga

I'm gonna ignore the first one that makes 4 belfs -_-

Belf preist represent!

I <3 my aoe silence. I played around on the tourney realm as a Troll and Tauren priest but I kept missing that silence. It's so clutch sometimes.
08-02-2011, 04:55 PM
Shodokan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Svpernova09

Belf preist represent!

I <3 my aoe silence. I played around on the tourney realm as a Troll and Tauren priest but I kept missing that silence. It's so clutch sometimes.

too true, belf silence is GODLIKE.
08-02-2011, 05:45 PM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shodokan

too true, belf silence is GODLIKE.

question remains, if they are godlike why do they look like fags?
08-02-2011, 06:13 PM
EaTCarbS

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenga

question remains, if they are godlike why do they look like fags?

The utility of silence far outweighs their appearance.
08-02-2011, 06:56 PM
Kekkerer

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenga

question remains, if they are godlike why do they look like fags?

Although not always true in wow, a power gamer's character frequently looks like he is wearing a bunch of hand me downs in other games.
08-02-2011, 07:05 PM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by EaTCarbS

The utility of silence far outweighs your appearance.

That's actually quite a good pickup line to score a chick, or not if she plays wow.
08-02-2011, 07:20 PM
Svpernova09

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenga

question remains, if they are godlike why do they look like fags?

FEMALE blood elves represent!
08-02-2011, 07:41 PM
Zub

Quote:

Originally Posted by Svpernova09

FEMALE blood elves represent!

are there any other sort?
08-03-2011, 07:53 AM
Shodokan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zub

are there any other sort?

Nope.
08-03-2011, 10:06 AM
zenga

Real man silence their opponents themselves!
08-04-2011, 10:12 AM
Multibocks

So how is this team doing? Any plans to record a few matches?
08-04-2011, 01:02 PM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by Multibocks

So how is this team doing? Any plans to record a few matches?

Haven't played them much since my post. Don't even consider them my main alts as they are on another server. A very casual side project at most :) That doesn't change the potential the team has, which is still pretty damn huge in my book. My post was more like 'this combo is really strong and not played/discussed a lot' rather than 'look at what I can do with it'. Over time they will gear up and I'll play them more, and on top of that I'm not really a rank 1 arena player :)

As for footage: yeah I can record, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to see it :P I have a very sweet connection, but anything that is upstream related blows, takes me like 8-10 hours to upload a 1gb movie to youtube (which is usually the time for a raidboss kill in HD for the guild). Still have a ton of stuff here that I need to find the time for to upload like fireland bosses, my legendary questline the guild asked me to record, etc ... that it's very unlikely I'll give priority to the priests. Feel free to contact my provider though and ask em to increase their upload bandwith. :P
08-04-2011, 03:16 PM
Multibocks

Don't make me level my priests lol. I just deleted one!

But I understand the alt side project thing. My Druid team died at 80. :(
08-04-2011, 05:02 PM
Shodokan

Priests look fun, and i can't decide between extra rets and ferals... hmm! decisions!