Quote Originally Posted by Jezebel
Quote Originally Posted by unit187
3 mages 2 priests is waste, better to use 1 priest-healer and 4 mages

2 priests will reduce your dps greatly
im not so sure..

5x SWP is enough to kill most people right off the bat. plus SWP is instant, can be cast on the run and doesnt require you to be facing your target.. very nice for multiboxing. mindblast does respectable damage and is fast casting.. 5 mindblasts followed by SW would (i think) pretty much instakill any target). if you could quickly take the enemy priest out of the game you could easily win a battle of endurance and theyd have noone to dispel your SW:P's.

granted, priests will never equal mage burst damage.. but what they lack in instant DPS they easily make up for in being able to survive ridiculous amounts of DPS. all youd have to do is keep SWP up on a few targets and heal, and eventually you will win.

but again, i havent played official in a long time so all my recent experience is on p-servers.
well we werent talking about 5 shadowpriests
and after all swp is dot and it takes time untill it kills the target.

ofc as 5 priests you can stand on one place, dot everyone and self heal but it isnt effective timewise and also you will just use all your mana on self healing. Also reduced damage from dots because you are out of shadowform...
Also sw:death against 1 target? I assume 4 of your priests will get damage returned because only one can kill a target