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Yea it is fun isn't it.

The first time I leveled holy all the way, but I had an opportunity on another server and decided to create and level a priest there. This time I went shadow...what a difference! I only die when I am incredibly stupid, almost never use potions, food or drink. And I slice through the content like it was butter.

I use Jame's guide, but seem to always be a level ahead of him.

This is much more fun. I plan on becoming Holy at 60 (I'm 54 now) and Disc at 70.

But with duel spec...hmmm.

Pretty sure that's because the guide is a little out dated with the new XP boosts in Vanilla and BC

teacake, is there a post of yours that isn't chock full of absolute truth and/or hilarity? Because I can't find it.

That seems like a reliable number, seeing as the cake is a lie and it amounts for close to 50% of your personality.

actually, 90% of statistics are made up.

Just as 90% of this thread is 50% mental

Having leveled 2 holy priests, when I went horde I decided to level shadow. I am leveling like crazy and it isn't at all like pulling teeth :p

But my guild is desperate for a holy priest...when the day arrives for the respec there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth haha...

I can't wait to be able to play shadow at the click of a button for dailies and some heroics etc. Come on 3.1 already!

Yes and no. In the early 60 5-mans, if you're not healing then you'll be dpsing right along witht he other spellcasters. You'll get the killing blow just as often as they do, so depending on your spirit and intellect, you could be low on mana. You'll probably be drinking just as much as they will, however, so there's no real danger of falling behind.

In the later 60s, however, your mana efficiency in 5-mans will skyrocket after training Shadow Word: Death. Just pop it when the mob's health gets low and you will get the killing blow ~75% of the time. It'll take some practice for the timing, but you should see a drastic increase in Spirit Tap uptime.

I'm loving being a Shadow Priest, even though being a healer is my calling.

In 5-mans (regular) I run into mana problems due to not really having the time on trash to get a VT/MB combo going in time to proc Replenishment. In heroics, the only time I run into mana problems (if you can call it that) is on bosses. And it's only a problem if you consider finishing a boss at 13.5k mana left out of 17.6k a problem. I will miss the mana regen on Dispersion, though.

As for Mind Sear ... With a 5 stack of Shadow Weaving (which will happen within one mind sear, if not before), I'm hitting ~1250 per mob per tick with crits for 2500. Higher if my trinkets proc. Once you get used to it's idiosyncrasies, it's lovely. Just VT/VE/SWP/DP (if you want to waste the 4th GCD) and MB the target and MS the rest of the group down. Doing that, I can take groups of 6 or 7 at a time and the target dies at the same time as the other 5 or 6. Very nice spell. I've made a couple mages jealous with it.

[Edit: Sometimes, English > me. I really dislike having CRS some ... what was I saying? -- ed.]

Edited, Mar 12th 2009 3:06pm by Shamandin

I remember when I was leveling my shadow priest and I first got shadowform. All of a sudden instead of being a prime squishy target in cloth I was going around cloaked in black. I noticed right away that allies instead of running right at me to try and gank would suddenly hang back and get out of my way.