MoP Shadow Priest rotation

[halabar]

Looking at what Khatovar tested, I tried a few other things (didn't know about the 0,0 macros), and came up with this.

/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence Shadow Word: Pain,Vampiric Touch,Mind Blast, 0, 0
/cast Mind Flay
/cast Devouring Plague
/cast Mindbender

Went with a different level 3 talent (Mindbender) which does fire off pretty much on cooldown. Got a bit of a dps gain. All the failthru spells due trigger.

Need to go and try it in a LFR run, and see how real-world performance is.

I don't think it's going to be possible to use the SW:I talent, I can't find a way to get the macro to proc it at the right time. Even adding the extra 0,0 times it out right, but it still doesn't trigger. If I put SW:I in front of some of the other talents, it will hang on that until it can be cast.

[leroyreborn]

/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence Shadow Word: Pain,Vampiric Touch,Mind Blast, 0, 0
/cast Mind Flay
/cast Devouring Plague
/cast Mindbender

I did a test with this macro on a fresh lvl 80 i coped over ( reason because the pre-made do not have the glyph shadow word:death witch i use in my macro i wanted to compare to)
I got 11.8k dps with the macro above but was able to hit 13.2k with the macro i came up with on the test server. sounds like you do not like long cast sequence macros witch it is but did not have any problems with it . ran a 5 min test on each macro to come with the a good average dps

here is the dps macro i been working on. like i said before need the shadow word: death glyph to make it work.

/castsequence [nochanneling] Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, Shadow Word: Death,Mind Blast, Mind Flay, Mind Flay, Devouring Plague,Shadow Word: Death, Mind Blast, Mind Flay,
/cast Mindbender

[halabar]

here is the dps macro i been working on. like i said before need the shadow word: death glyph to make it work.

/castsequence [nochanneling] Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, Shadow Word: Death,Mind Blast, Mind Flay, Mind Flay, Devouring Plague,Shadow Word: Death, Mind Blast, Mind Flay,
/cast Mindbender

OK, got the glyph, and tried it out on the dummy, and it's a solid dps increase, doing right at 20k with lvl 85, 378 gear, gems and chants, on the 85 dummy. I like adding the SW in, as it will allow for that to seamlessly be used in combat.

I noticed that there's a few spots where it pauses for a GCD or two, so it can be refined a bit more (might be haste levels too), but it's certainly an improvement over what I had.

Thanks!

[leroyreborn]

OK, got the glyph, and tried it out on the dummy, and it's a solid dps increase, doing right at 20k with lvl 85, 378 gear, gems and chants, on the 85 dummy. I like adding the SW in, as it will allow for that to seamlessly be used in combat.

I noticed that there's a few spots where it pauses for a GCD or two, so it can be refined a bit more (might be haste levels too), but it's certainly an improvement over what I had.

Thanks!

yeah there lest one place it hang for a sec while waiting for mind blast but think if you added in mind flay then mind blast would be sitting of cool down for couple secs and would not make it around to refresh the dots in time. will probably look at it more see if i can figure some thing out

[kate]

Looking at what Khatovar tested, I tried a few other things (didn't know about the 0,0 macros), and came up with this.

This might be a dumb question, but what does 0,0 do in a macro?

[halabar]

This might be a dumb question, but what does 0,0 do in a macro?

Provides a time gap, similar to what the old ,,,,,,,,,, did. (I am a noob at this part, but that's my understanding).

[halabar]

another version...

/cast [noform] !Shadowform
/cast berserking
/use 13
/use 14
/castsequence  [nochanneling] reset=target Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch,Mind  Blast, Mind Flay, Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Mind Blast, Mind Flay,Devouring  Plague,
/cast Mindbender