Priest Changes Coming!

[Arnath]

A well geared tier 2 epic mage will always (or at least *should* always) out dps a similarly equiped shadow priest quite easily.

A well geared tier 2 epic mage can indeed outdamage a shadow priest in most situations, but raid damage is often a different story because of the power of those 2 -threat talents. A shadow priest can get -45% threat on all damage spells with a pair of tier 2 talents, both of which will be improved in this patch. That allows for a HUGE amount of room with damage dealing in raids, where threat is a really big deal. Comparitively, mages only have Arcane Subtlety which is -20% to arcane spells, and warlocks have master demonology, which is again -20% and requires 25 points in a tree that besides MD, really isn't that great.

Arnath