Recently my girlfriend started playing WoW after I had been sucked into it and her brother asked that she play so we could all party. So I re-rolled, she made her first character and he stayed as he was. There were two problems, first: it was a PvP realm. I had played on PvE before and generally didn't like the thought of PvP at all, but meh, it's worth it so I can play with her rather than alone.
Second: Her brother was level 40 while we were level 1.
Now being run through instances is fine, fast levels are good gear. However I enjoyed it more when I was grouping with random people for the Wailing Caverns, much more than standing back and throwing Rejuvenation on a tanking mage at the start of the fight. She felt the same, all we did was stand still while he fired off frostbolt and the mobs didn't even reach us.
So we went off and quested alone, which was great, up until level 25 or so. Right, time to move into contested territories. Yay -.- I'd already run through some to get FPs, ganked in Stonetalon Mountains just wandering about. I lost count of the amount of skeletons in Ashenvale and Tarren Mill really didn't sound like it'd be any better.
So, with questing leaving us incredibly vulnerable, grinding maybe a little less and being run through instances making the game a chore of just standing around, we quit that server and re-rolled onto a PvE.
I've played two Druids, one to 40 before I switched to played with my girlfriend, another to 27 on that server and I'm making another now, because I just love the class. She played a Paladin but didn't like it because her DPS sucked and tanking was boring.
So now she's a priest, wanting to do DPS but be able to heal at the same time. Now when we levelled together last time I had two sets of gear, one leather from going Feral (which I was specced in) mainly for kitty form, and one mix of cloth and leather for healing when I needed to. Both were pretty good sets, but not into the realm of +spell hit or +spell dmg at that point, just Int, Stam, Spirit, etc.
We easily soloed Tears of the Moon when we were both 26 with her tanking and me healing, even though neither of us were specced for that. We ended up with the level 30 target, and three 25s all at once because of their grouping. But no matter, I went down at 25% mana at the worst and she was only ever down to 50% health, god I love HoTs.
So now we've got new toons, level 1 all over, no help from anyone and I'm wondering on a spec for her. Shadow is obvious, since it's for DPS that she's playing but within that I've really no idea where to go. The ability to heal me rather than DPS should the quest/fight require it is something we're looking for too, preferably without speccing into it like when I was healing as Feral. How well do Shadow Priests heal outside instances on normal quests?
I played about with a talent calculator today, and here's what I got for a result at 70, though I've no idea what it'll be like. I know I missed Wand Specialization but she won't be doing any melee as soon as we hit 12 or so and I grab bear form.
She likes grinding a little when I'm not on, but when we're both there we'll always be questing together or something similar, so could someone please have a look at this build and tell me how it'd fare?
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=bZf0xZxGMtrtRhtEo
I'm aware she won't be able to use the Holy Tree benefits in Shadow Form, but they're mainly for healing. I was planning for her to take Improved Renew straight away so she can just throw it on while I'm in bear form then DPS. and after that head straight for Shadow Form at 43.
Advice, anyone? Sorry for the super long post and thanks in advance for replies.