Shadow priests

Depends;

Do you like spamming 1 button on cooldown? Play a mage.

Do you like useless cosmetic swirly balls? Play a shadow priest.
 
They do less healing, less damage, and run oom faster than disc priests.
 
One word: HOLY
Heard it here first ;)
 
I started off as shadow.
Got focused like a healer and didnt have the heals to keep myself up, when trying to heal or dps I went oom to fast. It was fun in wsg slowing the fc but it seems disc will help the team out more.
 
Yeah, their only real extra utility is mind flaying to keep melee on a target/slowing the EFC, which really only outweighs the added damage, healing and mana efficiency from holy/disc in a very good team environment. IMO, if you've ever played a shadow priest above level 20, it just feels completely gimped and naked at this level. It doesn't really get any of its spec-defining spells/tools until a bit later on.

It is easy to respec though, so I would definitely recommend trying it out for yourself if you're interested. If you have fun and feel like you're doing well, good for you! If not, try out disc and/or holy and enjoy being super awesome.
 
Disc is really the only viable spec. I laugh at holy, I dont even look at mind flay when spriests are trying to kill me.

Disc burst is retarted sweet can do like 1400 burst pretty easy depending on crit.
But I have wanted to try shadow. Problem is someone sees a priest and calls the whole fuking team to their side. Sometimes life as a priest is hard.

If you dont want to be targeted, just roll shaman because no one takes em serious.
 
The majority of ppl will call it blasphemy, but I do really prefer holy to disc. I do fine as a holy priest. Disc is king in bgs, it might be better, but I just don't like its' playstyle. Seems to be boring.Just BORİNG!!! Oh, btw, did I mention that disc is boring?
Holy seems to be more dynamic, and tbh i dunno why but in holy my survivability is much higher than in disc. And I prefer to kite enemies rather than tank them.The only downside is I oom faster than discs. As soon as I resolve this problem only the sky will be my limit.
P.S. Shadow is too ( I mean TOO) weak nowadays, and shadow orbs are unreliable.
Roll a mage or lock if you want to be a dps caster
 
See to me , holy is the boring spec. Flash heal spam is dynamic? Since when?
 
I got it the other way around veinte :D

I couldn't play disc because we use the quicker smites/holyfires in our comp to do quick and coordinated swaps, so it's not just dps/dps/heal, it'll be triple dps for a short while when everything is setup. Besides that you got tools to play in both O and D, chastice works amazing for that.. sooooo many uses and DP yea that speaks for itself.
 
Penance is also a great defensive/offensive tool, but I see where you're coming from.
 
it's not about flash heal but about holy word; chastise. it is too addictive to let it go. So many uses for it.I mainly use it to cc enemy healers or enemy FCs. Fear (8 sec cc), chastise ( 3 sec cc), Arcane torrent ( 2 sec silence), that's more than 10 secs of quality cc of an enemy healer.
He can't do anything at all for 11 secs. I think holy is underestimated.
And what happens if you eat a kick from a rogue? you absolutely have no time to penance or flash heal yourself,because you have only 100 hp left, one more dagger swing and you are dead. But no, you just chastise your enemy and fol yourself to full hp since my fols are much stronger than discs (by 30 percent) By that time, a fear pops up and I just use it to gain some space and kite.
I can't wait till mind control comes. Holy priests will be cc monsters.
But as i said, it all really depends on your playstyle. I enjoy holy you enjoy disc. Let' work together to win this bg xD
 
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