03-22-2006, 06:13 PM
MongoJerry,Mar 22 2006, 06:41 PM Wrote:It's not a matter of opinion. This is an absolute fact. Ragnaros grenades only mana users. Now, if your guild has found a position that allows shadow priests do deal damage without being in grenade range of your melee dps, then that's fine. But whatever you do, you don't want those shadow priests to be within grenade range of your melee dps. Otherwise, you end up with all your precious melee dps flying off into the lava, greatly decreasing your overall dps.
Don't get me wrong. I believe you. It's just that we didn't encounter this problem. Maybe we really have found a setup where only the priests/palas get bounced, maybe it's luck.
MongoJerry, Mar 22 2006, 06:41 PM Wrote:It's funny to me that your emphasis is so much on shadow priests. I'm a shadow priest, but our guild has our shadow priests focus on healing rather than dealing damage in this fight. It seems far more important to make sure that the melee dps stays alive and as much as I like vamp embrace, it alone isn't going to cut it. It'd be far more important for priests to conserve their mana for healing in case something goes wrong. If you have a significant number of warlocks in your raid, then I could see assigning one shadow priest to make sure Shadow Weaving is pumped up, but otherwise all priests ought to focus on healing rather than on dealing damage -- unless you have some wierd raid setup where you have an overload of priests.
I think it's my lack of english that you took me wrong. I don't really think you need to take shadowpriests. In fact if you are low on healer classes you don't want a shadowpriest to do damage in this fight. It's more vital to keep the tanks alive an let other meleedps survive.
Anyway, in a typical MC run we have a setup where 2 of our priests can do damage. I admit we have a little weird roster, since we are very crowded on hunters, mages and priests. But if you actually have the opportunity to let some of the priests do damage you do not only increase the damage the warlocks do, you can benefit from that embrace. It is not enough to keep melees alive but it helps the paladins to do their job flashhealing every melee in range.