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Anathema: The complete Shadow Priest guide. v1.3
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For example, a hitcapped-without-needing-hit-gems shadow priest, with his Chaotic Skyflare Diamond already activated by other, better blue gems, finds himself with Heigan's Putrid Vestments
Socket Bonus: 7PP.
Number of non-optimal gems required: 2.
Each gem gains 7/2 = 3.5 PP to its standard value
14.31 PP + 3.5 PP = 17.81 PP
10.60 PP + 3.5 PP = 14.10 PP
Total = 31.91 PP < 38 PP; so, unless you have Runed Dragon's Eyes, you're better off with
Runed Living Rubies
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I think you mean
Runed Scarlet Ruby
,
Living
is not such a hot item. Small I know, I'm sure people already could figure that out too.
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5/5 MB is mandatory. What else were you hoping to pick up?
Warlocks and Mages have Soulshatter and Invisibility respectively to drop their aggro levels. We have no such aggro dump. Trust me, the extra threat reduction is very necessary.
The benefit of the non-hard-mode Ulduar build is pretty small, really.
Well... There is Fade. A much weaker version of those, but it is something...
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Paolo
For that same build, let's discuss the importance of Shadow Affinity. Let me get this straight: the
30%
threat reduction from Shadowform alone isn't enough? If that's the case, how can other DPS classes get away with not needing that much threat reduction? ... Considering that
Shadow Priests aren't the highest DPS dishers
to begin with ...
DPS isn't everything. We're talking about TPS here (threat), and the ability to control it while under the effect of Shadow Crash. A dot-based class like a shadow priest can't slam on the brakes the way a direct-damage-based class like a destro-lock can. If your threat is racing past the tank's (and let's say Fade is on CD), you won't be able to stop its forward momentum. You've accelerated a moving truck to high speed, and it's not going to slow down so easily. A destro lock, on the other hand, can just stop casting Incinerate (or whatever) and have a much faster threat "deceleration." So even if our DPS isn't #1, our ability to control threat is definitely an issue. (We're talking about Vezax here...on normal fights threat management should be simple. Shadow affinity is largely acknowledged to be useless in most other situations.)
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We aren't the only DPS class to lack a good threat-dumping ability.
Shamans have Windshock, which is garbage
Warriors have... ? nothing? I don't play one, only class I don't know.
Paladins have... nothing, Bubble doesn't count...
Druids have .... nothing I can think of.
DK's have... nothing?
We have it better than most, at least we can AVOID a threat spike. The other guys just have to stop attacking all together and wait for the threat to slowly overtake them.
I don't think priests have it as bad as we think re: our threat.
btw, Valan, I've left my hulk behind me.
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