01-24-2006, 04:08 PM
Hedon,Jan 24 2006, 01:35 AM Wrote:Main Problem with Shadow Priests in raids imho is the lack of epic itemization for this spec.
Look at the Prophecy (T1) and Trancendency (T2) Sets. They all have +healing insted of generic spellpower on them. This puts you in an awkward situation: since collecting the priest specific set items isn't worthwhile, you have to resort to collecting some generic not classbound spell power or shadow power gear. Unfortunatley these items are rather limited in supply and you have to compete with Mages and Warlocks for these. Though I've always dreamed of playing a shadow priests capable of raiding, I wouldn't want to spec back from holy now, because of all the +healing gear I have accumulated over time.
This is going to change with AQ drops though where you will find several items specifically tailored for shadow priests.
Regarding the talent discussion, I would sugguest to wait for patch 1.10 anyway when we get our big priest revamp ;)
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Yes, the lack of equipment hurts, I don't feel I have nearly the motivation to start raiding as other classes/builds. Right now I would say PvP is by far the easiest path to equipment advancement for the shadowpriest, both the rank rewards and the battleground rep rewards have some nice gear.
As for priests in 1.10: my money's on a big nerf, at least on the pvp side. Well-geared holy priests punch way above their weight in group encounters, and shadow wrath greens are easy enough to farm from the AH to make the shadow priest the easiest class to equip to end-game dps levels.
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