09-19-2005, 03:06 AM
mjdoom,Sep 18 2005, 11:10 AM Wrote: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.
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This spec actually nearly exactly matches one of the priest ideas we're kicking around. Real problem is to decide when to get these talents -- part of the fun is to have two priests with vamp embrace on while mind flaying, and getting shadowform is better than improved inner fire. To get both will be very late in life -- hopefully we're still going by then.
With my priest I have done some shadowform tanking. Without improved inner fire I get just over 35% damage mitigation. It was awkward when I tried it, but that was only because of the cooldown on mind blast and the need to deal with multiple targets.
With our group that shouldn't be as much of a worry (silly me, I hadn't thought of mind control for even more humanoid CC -- thanks for the tip, Tuftears!)