PlaguePriest: A Shadow Priest Blog

A Haven for Shadow Priest new and old

So, your interested in Rolling with a priest…Way to go! Here is some information you may find helpful starting out:

Basically Rolling a priest is a lot like a little kid in a ice cream shop. All day you have been excited to go get your favorite scoop of ice cream. You talk about it to everyone you see and you know exactly what you want. You arrive with your parents, look over the counter and order your ice cream….Then you eagerly dig in. But, upon your first bite you look around and you see what other people ordered, and you think to yourself, “Damn I should have added that”, and “God that looks really good over there!” then you look down at yours and think to yourself….”SHiT I though I knew what I wanted, God damn it MOM! Give me some more of your pain medications!!!!”

Namely I think this comes from the fact that as “Priest” we can do a lot, but we don’t do one thing super-duper well. As a priest I feel you should know walking in what you need to expect. As a Priest we don’t expect to be racking super high on the DPS, we lack good burst damage, we take damage badly, most of our damage is done slowly over time, our glyphs are lame, talents much need of updating, and our base stats are on the weak-end of poor.

That said there are real reasons it’s fun to play a priest.

 Because we don’t do 1 thing really well, we also don’t suck at everything else we do, which is quite a lot. This give us amazing flexibility that make other classes often look at us with envy. As Shadow, our damage is done over time. Sure you may die from time to time…but so will your foe and as you get higher lvl’d they will die fast in while shitting their pants. We have decent passive abilities that restore both mana, and life to whole parties. We have good crowd control abilities and good buffs and debuffs. In the middle of a battle if the main healer dies, we can make fast switch into holy, that can often save the raid from a wipeout. I’ve often read about other shadow priest feeling gimped, by having to sometimes heal and how they shouldn’t have too. You know, I think that limits some people from being great priest. If you want to do purely DPS and want to take less damage, and want to kill people faster…then go be a rogue or a warrior or something else that there are 10000s of other people choosing and only require hitting only one button over and over. But the fact is that priest are a rare breed in WoW, no one can heal as good as us, no one has better party buffs and debuffs like we have, and the versatility we offer to raids make us superstars…….even as shadow… especially as shadow…

In the following days I’ll add information about races, talents and spells. I’m not a theorycrafter so don’t expect a bunch of number crunching mumbo jumbo here. I use what works and field experience is way better than what “should work on paper”. Peace out!...arg I mean KIL KIL KIL shadow priest!!!