01-23-2006, 05:57 PM
And I hate to say it this way, but I think the experience of being a healing priest is really important to being a good endgame shadow priest. You have to know when to start getting out of tunnel vision DPS mode (where you watch every cooldown, and get your button rhythm going) to healing mode (whack-a-mole is very apt). I still keep my resurrection monitor and emergency monitor up, but I often toggle off my CTRA windows when I'm in DPS mode, for instance. Maybe not having to spec out of shadow, but at least playing an FFA healer in MC a few times, or being that only healer in a strat or scholo run -- not a lot of pressure, because there's a lot of overlap to make up for it, but still the ability to get the feel of healing in the instance to know exactly when your help will be needed. . .