lsfreak wrote:
They're still hitting top 5 in most of the fights, and are approaching closer to their ideal damage cap than any of the other classes. On top of that, despite their drastically lower DPS, they're placing higher on the damage meters than people with higher dps. Most shadow priests I've talked to do the same. QQ about priest from a DPS standpoint, rather than damage output, is missing the point.
EDIT: Not saying it isn't a problem, it's just not as big a one as some people make it out to be. Could we scale better? Yes, but we're pretty close to on-target, a little below. Either that or all the spriests I've talked to are raiding with idiots for other DPS, which I kind of doubt, considering some of them are in the best guilds in the world.
From the thread, I gathered that their scaling wasn't what was on target, it was what they were given was too powerful at the beginning and neglected at the end.
The problems/solutions of the "QQ" on that thread revolved around three things:
-The kind of spells
-The stats on items
-The flat-chested scaling curve with gear
These all linked with each other.
Frozen Shadoweave and the rest of the shadow priest gear was greater than Tier 4 for other classes and dominated all the early content.
As Shadow Priests have 10% of their Spell Hit talent-able, they don't worry about getting Spell Hit upgrades from gear as much as other classes.
Shadow priests are a one-stat class. Everything comes from spell damage, as the only two crittable Mind Blast and Shadow Word: Death are both on long cooldowns.
Aside from Tier Gear and Frozen Shadoweave, many shadow priests upgrades throughout raid progression was mage/warlock gear, which come with amounts of crit and hit that shadow priests simply can not take full advantage of, because Mind Flay, the main nuke, works off of 19% of spell damage and cannot crit. (It's specifically coded for 19%, not following the 3.5 second cast time rules.)
This is an SSC/TK shadow priest in 3 parts raiding gear.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Korialstrasz&n=Racia
This is a BT/Hyjal T6 shadow priest.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Arthas&n=Norroth
1249 shadow damage on the first one.
1318 shadow damage on the second one.
Not as big a difference as one would expect.
As a one-stat class with not too much difference between that one stat in those difference environments...
Edited, Jan 10th 2008 7:51pm by Raglu