5 boxing shadow priests

[rand0minc]

Hello all!
My brother 5 boxes shammys and I want to 5 box as well.

SHADOW PREISTS PvP.

The biggest problem is obviously fear, healing, and armor. All 3 make the shammy a perfect multi boxing character.

But, UD priests have fear ward, will of the forsaken, and a 30% bonus in armor i believe without inner fire. (they can also heal if you didn't know lol )

Any advice guys?

Thanks,
Nick

[Fat Tire]

Cloth=Squishy

Shadowform or not


If just for BGs, you will do fine. If you get the jump they will die, if they get the jump on you I dont see fear helping that much. There are melee that have abilites that ignore fear. A Warrior's bladestorm would tear you apart in short order for example.

There are some priest boxers around here that have more experience. Hopefully they will share.

[Multibocks]

Ya I made the mistake of RAFing up 5 priests and then I regretted it. I played with them for about 5 hours before giving up. The synergy just doesnt seem to work.

[Slats]

I played 4 Shadow Priests and a Paladin all through TBC (wishing I was Shaman the whole time).

They are very cool looking, they do great damage as long as you are close up - but with all the changes to them - for what they bring to the table they are just to complicated to box.

If you get rushed by a bunch of melee you dont have alot of answers - good thing about Druid/Shaman is they can be in an animal form and not get sapped - with Priests you will often get sapped and simply cant live through much CC.

My biggest issue was mana - I think they've fixed that alot now in WOTLK but I tried them out and the synergy just didn't feel there - they play quite differently now.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The problem with shadow priests is that you can't use your most awesome ability (renew) in shadowform. Without that, you're pretty much dead meat in PVP and instances. The only exception is when you have a well-geared tank that can let your vampiric embrace do all the healing. My first group was a gang of shadow priests. Fun, but very gimmicky and not all that useful.

Disc priests, on the other hand, with enough +dmg...

[rand0minc]

Thanks for all the help guys. I think the bottom line is that the cloth is the main issue.

Admins can close! Thanks again!

[Fat Tire]

Thanks for all the help guys. I think the bottom line is that the cloth is the main issue.

Admins can close! Thanks again!

Don't write off cloth just yet! One word.

Warlocks

With Pets, aoe fear, seduce, ability to port,SL and a ton of utility. I think locks are a great in PvP. I like them so much I have a set myself. Quite a few people around here have a set of locks.

[blast3r]

Thanks for all the help guys. I think the bottom line is that the cloth is the main issue.

Admins can close! Thanks again!

If you did want to do clothies mages or maybe locks. But yea, shaman are the best for pvp I have found so far. but then again i am looking forward to get my pallies in good pvp gear and cause problems for the alliance in alterac valley! When a healer follows me around it already causes major headaches for them. love it!

[daviddoran]

I'm working up my 3 warlocks to compliment my pally/priest duo, I plan on alternating them with my 80 T7 mages. I've contemplated multi priests (have one 80, one 70 and one 58) but I've found, that at least for boxing, shadowpriests only stand out on Mass AOE with mind sear (and they are REALLY good at that) and on a boss fight, where you have time to build up a dot rotation. Short trash fights of less than 4 mobs and my priest does half the dps of my mages. Boss fights they are the same, with the priest often hitting the top. Maybe I can adjust my macros for non boss fights, but as it stands, my priest sucks on trash, and if I only had shadowpriests for dps on heroic trash, It would be a lot harder as my tank would be taking a lot more hits.

[DrChaos]

im 5 boxing human spriests and have NO problems in pvp at all. absolute ownage. that is all.