Insane Cloth Posse Adventures!

[kandrathe]

Our current idea for our lack of a tank is to use kiting and aggro juggling where crowd control and high DPS on the focus fire target don't cut it.  It's variant play for sure, but several of us are old D2 players, so variant play is mainstream for us...
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I have a shadow priestess and I must say that tanking and killing are not usually an issue against mobs up to lvl+2. I can self tank Elites up to my level, but much of this is dependant on any special attacks. Since I'm trying to be tank, healing and DPS when a mob/boss has a special attack something suffers. I have trouble against cleave or surger type attacks blowing away my shield, and since I'm usually in shadowform I cannot heal unless I leave which makes me more vulnerable.

For reference, my tanky Priest build is;

Shadow Talents - 33/33 points
# Blackout - rank 5/5
# Shadow Affinity - rank 5/5
# Improved Shadow Word: Pain - rank 2/2
# Improved Psychic Scream - rank 2/2
# Mind Flay - rank 1/1
# Improved Fade - rank 2/2
# Shadow Reach - rank 3/3
# Silence - rank 1/1
# Shadow Weaving - rank 5/5
# Vampiric Embrace - rank 1/1
# Darkness - rank 5/5
# Shadowform - rank 1/1

Discipline Talents - 8/18 points
# Unbreakable Will - rank 5/5
# Wand Specialization - rank 3(5)/5 <--
# Improved Power Word: Shield - rank 0(3)/3
# Improved Power Word: Fortitude - rank 2/2
# Improved Inner Fire - rank 0(3)/3

I had intended on respec'ing to something more healing focused once I get to the mostly party play mode. As an objective measure, at level 48 I'm killing level 50 Dune Maul Enforcers in about 6-10 seconds taking 0-10% dmg and using < 1/3 of my mana. My dmg meters are measuring 160-200 dps. I get alot of raised eyebrows from the Warriors/Warlocks/Mages/Hunters as my kill speed is often as fast or faster. For gear I've been balancing +stat gear with +spell power. I have just over 3500 mana, and with my PW:F I have about 2500 health, +35 healing/dmg.

My standard salvo against non-casters is Mind Blast(~350), SW:P (51/tick), Shield(605), Mind Flay(~120/tick ~300), Mind Flay(~120/tick ~300), Mind Blast(~350) -- Usually (~6 sec) now a normal mob is < 10% with some time left on SW:P so I wand them to death. I'm being conservative on the damage numbers because I'm not counting crits, and each shadow spell has a 10% chance to proc blackout, and a 100% chance to proc shadow weaving. Against casters I try to employ silence and mana burn if needed.