Insane Cloth Posse Adventures!

[mjdoom]

If one of your priests is willing to pick up Improved Inner Fire you might be surprised at how much a priest can tank with another priest behind him. Shoot for lesser used talents like Improved Inner Fire and Martyrdom->Focused Casting and of course pick up Improved PW:S. With the "priesttank" shielding himself and pumping out Mind Blasts (Shadow/Disc) with Vampiric Embrace while in Shadowform I would be interested to see how much they could tank. I quickly put together a build taking into account your group:

Discipline Talents (18 points)

Unbreakable Will - 5/5 points
Increases your chance to resist Stun, Fear, and Silence effects by 15%.

Improved Power Word: Shield - 3/3 points
Reduces the duration of your Power Word: Shield's Weakened Soul effect by 15 seconds.

Martyrdom - 2/2 points
Gives you a 100% chance to gain the Focused Casting effect that lasts for 6 seconds after being the victim of a critical strike. The Focused Casting effect prevents you from losing casting time when taking damage.

Focused Casting - 1/1 point
While active, you no longer lose casting time from taking damage. Lasts 8 seconds.

Mental Agility - 4/5 points
Reduces the mana cost of your instant cast spells by 8%.

Improved Inner Fire - 3/3 points
Increases the effects of your Inner Fire spell by 45%.


Holy Talents (0 points)
None


Shadow Talents (33 points)

Blackout - 5/5 points
Gives your Shadow damage spells a 10% chance to stun the target for 3 seconds.

Improved Shadow Word: Pain - 2/2 points
Increases the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain spell by 6 seconds.

Shadow Focus - 5/5 points
Reduces your target's chance to resist your Shadow spells by 10%.

Mind Flay - 1/1 point
Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 75 damage over 3 seconds and slowing the target to 50% of their movement speed.

Level 28: 126 damage over 3 seconds
Level 36: 186 damage over 3 seconds
Level 44: 261 damage over 3 seconds
Level 52: 330 damage over 3 seconds
Level 60: 426 damage over 3 seconds

Improved Mind Blast - 5/5 points
Reduces the cooldown of your Mind Blast spell by 2.5 seconds.

Improved Psychic Scream - 2/2 points
Reduces the cooldown of your Psychic Scream spell by 4 seconds.

Shadow Weaving - 5/5 points
Your Shadow damage spells have a 100% chance to cause your target to be vulnerable to Shadow damage. This vulnerability increases the Shadow damage dealt to your target by 3% and lasts 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.

Vampiric Embrace - 1/1 point
Afflicts your target with Shadow energy that causes all party members to be healed for 20% of any Shadow damage you deal for 1 minute.

Silence - 1/1 point
Silence the target, preventing them from casting spells for 5 seconds.

Darkness - 5/5 points
Increases your Shadow spell damage by 10%.

Shadowform - 1/1 point
Assume a Shadowform, increasing your Shadow damage by 15% and reducing Physical damage done to you by 15%. However, you may not cast Holy spells while in this form.

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Note that I did not include Improved PW:F because you have another priest that would likely have that talent. If not you could easily sacrifice some points from Mental Agility. With Shadow Weaving, Darkness, and Curse of Shadows this guy can probably pump out some serious damage when he is not tanking as well. I have avoided all threat reduction talents for the purposes of tanking but moving some points to fade or one of the two threat reducers could also help if this guy becomes artillery (as if you don't have enough already).

- mjdoom

Edit: Btw, if I remember numbers correctly (I haven't had improved inner fire for a while) a priest with IIF and in Shadowform will likely have damage reduction along the lines of either a high end mail wearer or a plate wearer with no shield. Don't have time to run the numbers right now...