The PvE "Sidekick" Shadow Priest build

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How many shadow Priests do you have raiding on Terenas? What a luxury to have a few of them. :) But I like your build, in that it's useful for guilds which may have fluctuating numbers of healers/dps on given fights and know that they can swap you around mid-raid to different roles. And when Gruul pwns the MT at 2% and he's running around one-shotting everyone and people on Teamspeak are yelling "KILL IT! KILL IT! KILLLLLLLLLLLL ITTTTTTTT!" you can swap into Shadow and melt face. :)

-Bolty

Currently only 2 shadow Priests. Vorlord would make 3. Blizzard has removed most/all of the spirit from our (mage) gear at our current T4 level. I am oom in ~4 minutes of spamming my damage spells. With tricks (pot/gem/evocation) add another minute or two. Alternatively I could lower my dps and go more mana efficient. Shadow priests are the battery to keep the mages dps'ing. I believe as your shadow priest's gear gets better, so too does the incoming mana which leads to mages climbing back up the damage charts. All your mages sitting oom at the end of Gruul wanding to get some mana back is really a problem.

IMHO they have made the shadow priest spec one of the most valueable for raiding just because of the game changing behavoir of VT. Two shadow priests plus three frost mages can run a long time and put out a crazy amount of sustained dps. VT to power the water elementals/mages and cold snap to get you 3 cycles of elementals for a battle. It's like powering 8 dps'ers to not have to worry about going oom and doesn't really take any extra skill to make it happen.