Question for your shadowpriests

[Wheredoes]

Hey guys i know that none of y'all know me but i was browsing around different parses, and saw that your priests were putting out sick dps ona lurker fight, a fight that i normally don't pass 800dps, i was just wondering if they would have any suggestions i'll post my armory profile in here too gear wise i'm really not able to get much else besides the 225 glad mace in about a week or so, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... you can post in here or pm me.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Darkspear&n=Wheredoes

Thanks again and good luck
Wheredoes Shadowpriest Darkspear

[Draugr]

they sit in the water the entire non-add phase with their group, VE heals through scalding

[Trouble]

You have your pvp gear in atm so I can't critique it. =( General rule is make sure every gem slot has Runed Living Ruby in it. But yeah on Lurker we sit in the water and ignore spouts and go all out. You can ignore agro as well.

[Wheredoes]

it should have my pve gear on now

[Trouble]

I still see a Medallion of the Horde so hopefully that's the only pvp gear you're wearing. For that slot get a Darkmoon Card: Crusade if you don't already have it. It'll cost some gold but it won't be replaced full time ever and only sometimes even assuming you have a Skull of Gul'dan.

Weapon. You need to use some of those arena points and get a gladiator mainhand which is nearly the best you can get. Orb of the Soul-eater offhand from heroic tokens which is the best in the game.

The wand is ok but for max damage you can upgrade to a +24 or +25 shadow damage green wand. You'll lose a bit of stamina for that. The rest of the stats don't matter.

For gloves lose the tier 5 and get gloves off Magtheridon or Attumen. Gemmed with Runed Living Rubies they are a decent amount better.

Get boar's speed on your boots.

Get Runed Living Rubies in your shoulders.

Put Subtlety on your cloak.

Get +15 damage on your bracers.


Overall you'll gain probably like 100 or more spell damage from all those upgrades.


With your current gear you only need 3 points in Shadow Focus. I don't know if you're specced specifically for pvp or not, but you need Improved Fort. Not for dps but there's really no circumstances that you shouldn't have it. I'd spec Unbreakable Will because there's almost no time you should be wanding in raids. If you raid with more than one shadow priest you can drop down to 3 or 4 points in Shadow Weaving and work on maxing out Shadow Power. If you get rid of silence for PvE you can max out improved Mind Blast.


Overall there's nothing overly bad about your spec or gear, just minor tweaking. Beyond that playing a shadow priest is relatively easy. Problems with dps can usually be traced back to DoT uptime or using MB and SWD too little. Make sure you're casting VT in the last 1.5 seconds of its run so that it's always up. Don't let SWP stay off for more than a second. Don't leave Mind Blast off cooldown as much as you can help it. DoT multiple targets whenever the opportunity presents itself.

[Wheredoes]

hey thank you very much, ok one more question, are there any mods or UI's that you might recomend, i'm currently just running the basic ui witha dot timer as well threatmeter, but if there is better out there or something i could tweak along those lines i'd love to hear input thanks again

[Capnskeletor]

^^Pitbull and SCT imo.

[Wheredoes]

where might i go looking for those two, i've been trying to figure out some different things to do to improve more and i'm still not seeing the kind of dps i believe i'm capable of