Quote Originally Posted by Morganti
I was on the edge of rolling a 5man priest team yesterday to play around with, but I didn't pull the trigger. Convince me!
At level 42 and some +shadow/+spelldamage gear, a pair of SW:P will kill enemies of around 2000 health, my Vampiric Embrace ticks are fast and strong enough to let my guys draintank elites, at level 26 in Arathi Basin a team of five rogues tried to steal the Lumber Mill but two AE fears and a lot of dots and two mind flay took care of that without a single death.

Dot as many enemies as you can, shield and wait until they die, enjoy massive EXP, drink and prepare for next pull - that's the fastest gameplay unless you double/triple pull elites in instances instead.

So that's with two priests. With five priests at 42 in the same gear as I had and build, that means 5000 health gone to one 300-something SW:P per priest.. AT LEVEL 42 :shock:


Now let's pretend these priests are level 70 in
shadowform (+15%)
darkness 5/5 (+10%)
misery 5/5 (+5%)

Highest rank SW:P, 525 mana, 1236 damage over 18 seconds (without the extended SW:P duration talent that increases the damage by a third). Then you're bound to have at least 500 +shadow/+spell at 70, and these are applie 100% to the Damage over Time effect of SW:P

That means 1736 before modifiers which add a total of 30% damage, which makes it 2256 shadow damage over 18 seconds. But let me add the +6 secs to SWP duration talent for an additional third.

3000 Shadow damage over 24 seconds.

Times five. 15 000 points of Shadow Damage over 24 seconds. That's with 500 +shadow/+spell on each guy. I think I heard someone achieving +1800 once, with top notch gear and buffs.


and then if you roll undeads and spec right you can cast Devouring Plague (maxrank: 1216 shadow damage over 24 sec, damage dealth heals caster) for free for an additional crapload of damage.

and Mind Flay, 528 shadow damage over 3 secs at max rank by default without any talents or modifiers counted into the equation.



Five shadowpriests at level 70 = Doomtrain for most players

:)


(edit: Oh, forgot Vampiric Touch, 650 damage over 12 secs and party members gain mana, before modifiers and talents etc)