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Is my shadow priest's DPS high enough?
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. On Wednesdays, shadow priesting expert Fox Van Allen comes from out of the shadows to bask in your loving adoration. All jokes removed to achieve SOPA compliance. Shadow priests are a DPS spec, and as such, it's only natural for us to judge our self-worth by checking our spot on the damage meters. But what kind of DPS should shadow priests be putting out? Is 10K enough? 20K? 40K? From time to time, I get emails from readers concerned about their performance in heroics, raids, and the like. This week, I'd like to share one of these emails and then give a public response. Why? Because, like it or not, we've all wondered whether or not our performance is good enough. My fiance and I play wow as shadow priests. Every now and then, I get her into a dungeon. Then the problems start. Every single time we have to pick up group, with as many guildies as we can, outsiders put down her DPS. Then it takes another month to get her to try again. Our guild leader tells us that 10K is an OK amount of DPS in the HoT dungeons. If that was the case, why do we keep getting made fun of? We are the only Shadow Priests in the guild. And, it is impossible to get help from the big raiding guilds on our server. So, I turn to the Master of Shadow Priesting to see if we can get some help. We follow EJ's rotation ... or at least what we can understand of it. Keep DoTs up, mind blast when it is up, mind flay otherwise, unless Dot's need to be refreshed. Keep empowered orbs up. On trash that will die quickly, mind spike 3 times, then mind blast, repeat. Signed, Tyler Is a Stupid Jerk and No One Likes Him* *Names may have been changed to protect anonymity.
Spiritual Guidance: Shadow priesting through the Hour of Twilight
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. On Wednesdays, shadow priesting expert Fox Van Allen comes from out of the shadows to bask in your loving adoration. He is also scientifically proven more beautiful than boomkin blogger Tyler Caraway. Players of World of Warcraft had been clamoring for quite some time: "We love escort quests! Give us more escort quests! We want a dungeon that's nothing but one big escort quest!" Well, good news, person who doesn't exist and never will -- Blizzard designed an instance just for you! Hour of Twilight is pretty much one big long escort quest involving Thrall. Dude's trying to deliver the Dragon Soul to Wyrmrest Temple, and a whole bunch of bad guys are trying to stop him. A whole bunch of bad guys with loot. I think that's the part I cared about the most. The loot. Saving the future was merely a side effect. Getting the loot requires you to put up with a lot -- one of the most annoying fights in Cataclysm, in my opinion. I'm talking of course about the Asira Dawnbreaker fight. Thankfully, though, her shadow priest frustrating silences are avoidable. Sort of.
Spiritual Guidance: The shadow priest's guide to patch 4.1
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Each Wednesday, the priestly Fox Van Allen takes on all topics shadow. If you'd like to see Spiritual Guidance in person, send your request along with a self-addressed stamped envelope to TICKETS, "Spiritual Guidance," CBS Television City, 7800 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90036. New patches almost always mean changes to classes, specs, and abilities. In this respect, patch 4.1 is no different. For shadow priests, patch 4.1 brings huge nerfs. It also brings huge buffs. There's an awful lot to keep straight. Thankfully, you don't need to go it alone. Spiritual Guidance is here to help.
Outland reputation set- Priest (DPS): Satin Battlegear
This is the PvP set for DPS-Specced Priests. The Battlegear sets are of a superior quality and are equal to the Level 70 High Warlord gear that can be purchased with honor points. The pieces can be purchased by becoming honored with Cenarion Expedition, Honor Hold/Thrallmar, Keepers of Time, Lower City, and the Sha'tar. Complete sets require honored with all five factions as listed below: Satin Battlegear Slot Rep Satin Gloves Hands Keepers of Time Satin Hood Head Thrallmar/Honor Hold Satin Leggings Legs Lower City Satin Robe Chest Thrallmar/Honor Hold Satin Mantle Shoulders The Sha'tar Satin Battlegear Armor Sta Int Resil Satin Gloves 97 33 15 14 Satin Hood 127 46 19 19 Satin Leggings 136 46 23 23 Satin Robe 156 46 15 15 Satin Mantle 117 33 17 17 Total 117 204 89 88 Satin Battlegear Dur Spell Gems Satin Gloves 30 25 Satin Hood 50 18 M, R Satin Leggings 65 36 Satin Robe 80 27 R, Y, Y Satin Mantle 50 15 R, Y Total 275 121 Set Bonus 2: 35 Resilience Set Bonus 4: Reduces the duration of the Weakened Soul effect caused by your Power Word: Shield by 2 seconds. Return to the complete Outland Battlegear list
