Why aren't Shadow Priests powerful here?

[Nitrogen]

Shadow priest fails because spell haste does not affect Mind Flay on private servers.
Likewish with arcane mages and Arcane Missles. Both builds would own if it did.

[Unholyme]

Personally, I only have problems with some classes and that is it.

Fear isn't broken in PvP or at least i never had a problem with it. Only down side is most warriors are immune to fear and rogues just trinket out of it and keep us stun locked.

We still can "face melt" but we need everything to proc. Fully buffed and the target has all my debuffs i only do a 2.5k mind blast, that is with around 2k spell damage.

Swp does per click around 700 maybe 800, the only good source of damage we have is SWD and that does about 3kish. But is also damages us,which sucks......alot.

All in all i am happy that bill is changing the gear, it really needed it. But intill then i am going to re-roll as disc/shadow and go back once the new gear is out.

[FourWingedAngel]

I'm actually playing a Shadow Priest as main character on SB. His name is Endymion and 2 days ago I reached the cap of pve gear from sunwell.

I've tested what's wrong with them.. apar Touch of Weakness (that critted 1600 once) all SP spells have a really small spell damage scaling. My mind blasts (with all 12 spell damage gems in every slot) hits for 1700 more or less and crits 2500, 3k with full shadow weaknes debuffs and misery.

I got a shaman on NS, with mostly same gear and gems that are not only 12 SD. I critted with a Lightining Bolt for 3.2k.. And a shaman in an event with a gear similar to mine (no donors items) could bring my hp to 20% while i got full shield and 10k hp...

Actually I think SPs need more scaling on damages, expecially on dots since they scale not so higer than Mind Blast

[Deathmaster]

Hey Endymion.. do you remember me?

[Billtbc]

Reworking the Shadow Priest custom set is next on my list. There is a bit of maths do be done first to make sure the stats add up.

So keep an eye on the Priest donation page.

[FourWingedAngel]

Ye death I remember you

Bill, i would like to see a change not also on donation gear but also on the class it self. (About set, what about use Priest T6 helm for skin? it quite suit it ehehe)

[Logik]

shadow priests aint much against a paladin (ret/Shock)

[FourWingedAngel]

Originally Posted by Logik

shadow priests aint much against a paladin (ret/Shock)

well, let me say that an equally geared paladin without worgen buff can't do much against mana burn+shields+dots ehehe

[NaRcOtIcS]

Hey guys, thanks for making this thread becoming so active shortly, and having a administrator, not a gm, answer it is almost as good. Thanks, and when Bill gets it reworked maybe they'll be OP. :D

I also think that dots that last 12 sec doing 500dmg every 3 sec mean 2k damage in 12 sec. Combine that with 4 other dots with the same effect that 8k damage in 2 sec, minus 2k resisted and fear not working, use mind blast and flay and the enemy should die. However, this doesn't mean the enemy won't attack back or heal or cure it.
I believe it's because fear is slightly broken, the SP set is weak at the moment, equipment and gear give too much hp to be DoTed down, and lastly because people heal it off and attack us so we can't DoT or use spells. However, I believe a priest on shadowburn will work properly because every level 70 ish player there has 6k ish hp, and doesn't have all their sockets filled. So, it doesn't matter if fear is broken, they're getting 1k hp down every 3 sec and they have 7k hp.


LONG LIVE THE SHADOW PRIEST!

[FourWingedAngel]

Actually what kills SPs is Worgen, I don't understand why that buff is consdered legal even if every1 knows that is bugged in proc and in haste increasing..

btw, a full shadow specced priest got SW-Pain, Mind Flay (channeled) and Vamp. Touch as dots wich are all despellable (ppl not despelling it means or that they don't need to despell them to win or simply are stupid >.>)

I can agree about fear that since is broken SPs have harder life than in retail..
Btw, back to the top, Worgen is the worst of all^^