PVP Shadow priests

[Ualaa]

During the honor grind with the druids...
They went for a: Mages; b: AoE_Fear_Classes; c: Rogues; and d: Everyone else.

Don't like the AoE freezing, and they could power shift at that point.
Don't like being fear bombed, and they has Berserk at that point.
Don't like one stupid &^&^ rogue, who will chain sap the entire team.




For the click based healing.
Disregard the pictures, as they were from the previous guide.
http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3
My last post in that thread, reflects the current Grid/GridCustomLayouts for 4.0.x

The PvP brackets are: x0-x4 and x5-x9.
I find x3-x4 and x8-x9 to be the most enjoyable.

[Apps]

So, heres a quick update.
Priests
4 priests are now level 52. I did some swapping of specs again back to shadow, and I have learned the following with regards to working priests in PVP BGs…

Heal early levels, have one heal, and three shadow for upper levels.

I.e. 40-43 heal; and 43-45 dps / heal

I have found I can take just about any node of same number of players (4v4) in upper levels per BG. Vamp emb X3, with a Disc priest dmg and heals is very hard to lose one toon. Renew all, run in, bubble all, dot up, and maintain mind flay or sear, while 4th refreshes heals.

If I run into more opposition… I.e. (4+ vs 4) I am round robin’ing the psychic scream, and just take down targets. Of course some classes just give me trouble. Hunters. BM huntards seem to be the bane of my existence on priests.

Healing, well that’s a no brainer. I go Disc x 4 and announce to the BG at the start, what I am, and where Im going. The result is zerg ownage. My going stat is 31w-18l. I am on a 14 game win streak.

Rogues.

I chuckled at this, but now Im strongly considering dropping the priests for this rogue team. 2 combat, and 2 sub. They are specced towards quick escapes of traps, running away, stealthing etc. level 21 rogues. I setup the interface with target along with some basic macros to include SStrike, Slice n Dice.

I like recuperate, nightstalker, and relentless strikes, and precision as the early main talents for these toons.

As I spam the dps keys, IWT is refreshed, thus making the slaves run around the target like a bunch of wild monkeys, often they will be behind the target and get in a backstab. Stealthed, I open up with ambush, then go to town. I cant wait for round robin kidney shots.

[katsurahama]

Sounds like great fun

[valkry]

I did 5x spriests at 60 and I dominated. Devouring plague was all that was required, but round robin fears and disarms were hawt. And if I ever got in trouble I just holy nova spammed. But then blizz changed everything around for the xpac

You can see in my sig my priests :P

[katsurahama]

I just bit the bullet and transferred three priests from my first failed RAF attempt. It took me forever and I picked a server i had played on years ago. The Horde to Alliance ratio was way over 10:1 and I had rolled alliance because i never played them before. It took forever because it was nonstop ganking after the starting zone. It was a five priest group.

Anyway, my point is that i finally have five accounts entirely full of 60+ toons!!!! And I have enough unused 60 healers that I may try leveling this team up from 60 in bgs:

60 paladin
60 shamanx2
60 priest x2

I dont have 5x any single healing class left at 60. Spec recommendations for this comp? Apps, is there anything you feel like you miss having with five priests in BGs?

[Apps]

I just bit the bullet and transferred three priests from my first failed RAF attempt. It took me forever and I picked a server i had played on years ago. The Horde to Alliance ratio was way over 10:1 and I had rolled alliance because i never played them before. It took forever because it was nonstop ganking after the starting zone. It was a five priest group.

Anyway, my point is that i finally have five accounts entirely full of 60+ toons!!!! And I have enough unused 60 healers that I may try leveling this team up from 60 in bgs:

60 paladin
60 shamanx2
60 priest x2

I dont have 5x any single healing class left at 60. Spec recommendations for this comp? Apps, is there anything you feel like you miss having with five priests in BGs?

Ya. I run 4 priests, and I feel as though a warlock would cap this team off nicely. Just to spam seed, and have the AOE stun from Demo, would (in my opinion), should, be enough to give me an extra few seconds I need form those pesky rogues.

[Shodokan]

RR kidney shots will not be good due to diminishing returns with itself. It also shares DR with most other abilities they have now, which kinda sucks. Combat can get like a 9-12 second kidney shot though...

Shadow priests this expansion are REALLY powerful, so i wouldn't be surprised if they worked really well.