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If you insist on taking Dispersion, this is what I'd do (though I'm no Shadowpriest player). This is probably what would work best, though.

And to answer a few unasked questions; Inner Focus has synergy with imp mana tap. You don't need 3/3 Shadow Weaving in PvP since you will have a stack of 5 up in no time anyway. Psychic horror is useless, it decreases the damage of an enemy that should now be way out of melee range. I can only see it work against mages, locks and hunters. Oh, and; imp fade gives you the ability to break snares every 20 seconds. That's pretty sweet, seeing as a priest has no snare breaks whatsoever right now.

EDIT: Nevermind. Keylogger post deleted.

Edited, Oct 20th 2008 12:27pm by lsfreak

Haha XD

Don't fret Dragonscale. There used to be another post in between those 2. Some prick decided to post links to keyloggers up here, claiming it was his characters' armory... Isfreak replied to that post, and lateron an admin deleted the whole post.

You're better off dropping the points from Shadow Power and Mind Melt imo. With 2 points in Mind Melt, I'll only have a 1% crit chance against any decent arena team, if that, due to Resilience. Take those and dump them in Improved Blast or Veiled Shadows (more snare escapes). If you're solely BG'ing, then I'd probably drop the points from Unbreakable Will and just have fun dumping more into Shadow Power and Imp Blast to nuke the people in crap gear getting S2 stuff for leveling =D

Don't worry, this is completely new anyway. With the improved Shadowform talent fade does indeed break snares on you. For priests, I'd say that's a really good thing, since that's basically the only thing they lack; they can outheal stuff well enough, but they have absolutely no kiting abilities.

I'll leave the detailed info to Isfreak though, he's probably more knowledgable of the shadow tree than me.

Anything that slows you down: Crippling Poison, Concussive Shot, Hamstring, Frostbolt, and so on. Not sure if it would work on Judgement of Justice or on Curse of Exhaustion, I know there's been special cases with those in the past (mainly druid shapeshifting).

From playing around with my Priest as Shadow I'd say that a couple of points in Imp Mind Blast (or even Mind Melt) would be more valuable than Imp Fade. I just don't find myself in a situation where removing a slow effect is that crucial that 6 seconds off the CD is that important.

That's just from running around in BGs though. I haven't tried arena-ing seriously as Shadow yet.

Edited, Oct 27th 2008 12:54am by Placeholder

You probably could've made a new thread for that, but oh well. Twin Disciplines indeed increases your SW:P and Devouring Plague damage. Twin Disciplines increases healing done by Devouring Plague because of the simple reason that 15% of DP's damage becomes healing and TD improves DP's damage. More damage = more healing. Last, I'm not sure, but I don't think SWP ticks proc Shadow Weaving; just the first cast does.

Hey,

I could use some help working out a PvP spec for level 49 that is current to WotLK. Most of the advice online seems pretty old and not very helpful.

I'm not planning on making a twink, I just want to chill out at level 49 and PvP for a while (but I feel like I need to respec, because I don't currently have silence, and I have points in Holy).

This is what I'm considering:

Spirit Tap: 3/3
Blackout: 5/5

Imp SW:P: 2/2

Imp Psychic Scream: 2/2
Imp Mind Blast: 4/5
Mind Flay: 1/1

Shadow Reach: 2/2
Shadow Weaving: 2/3

Silence: 1/1
Vampiric Embrace: 1/1
Imp Vampiric Embrace: 2/2

Darkness: 5/5
Shadow Power: 5/5
Shadow form: 1/1

Improved Shadow form: 2/2
Misery: 2/3

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What are your thoughts?

The armory is down, but I'll link my character when it's back up.

On a related note, these are my stats:

STAM: 69
INT: 177
SPI: 161

Bonus damage/healing: 126
crit chance= 5.52%
health= 1438
mana= 3517
mana regen= 132

My stam is low, compared to spirit and intellect. Is my stam way too low, or just a bit low?

Any and all help will be appreciated,

Thanks!

Focused Mind? No Imp VE? He's already low on health, and you want to gimp his survival tools? Unimproved VE is one of the most pointless spells in the game. No, something like this is going to serve him much better at 49. Since he's already low on crit and shouldn't take Shadow Power, I'd might have moved the Mind Melt points to Imp Mind Blast as well since it will be one of his highest damage dealers whenever he's protected by a group.

And to the 49er himself...

Yes, you are very low on health. Hit the Auction house and start getting things like of the Eagle (Int/Sta) and so on. Since you won't be relying on Spirit Tap, spirit has less use at your level in PvP. Starting out with a huge manapool and healthpool will do you much better since the fights will be fast-paced instead of drawn out draingames. As soon as you can, sit and drink/eat and get back up to full fast.

Also, I suggest hitting Shadowpriest.com to find the latest working TabDot macro. It will allow you to just spam one button to put SW:P on every enemy within range.

There's one thing I just want to share with you, though. I PvPed as Shadow at every single tier except 60. 19, 29, 39 and so on. Never dropped the tier until I'd picked up all the BG items I could (even though there's several PvE items that are better) as a Priest. I'm just saying this so the next paragraph might be supported somewhat by experience...

Don't bloody refuse to heal! You are a Priest, no matter what color you are. Popping out of Shadowform gives you access to a whole range of wondrous things like Renew, Flash Heal and delightful group heals. Never stay inflexible, since BGs are teambased. Unless the team wins, you are a bloody loser no matter how many kills you rack up, and unless there's another healer present you'll just have to face the facts. Which is that you will do more good outside of Shadowform healing the group than staying in Shadowform melting one face while your teammates are dying all around you. However, if there is another healer present, stay in Shadowform. You'll be DoTing everything around you, doing massive damage while slowing flagcarriers and fearing enemies. When there's other healers present, you are definitely worth more as a facemelter than backup healer.