[5.0.5] Shadow Priest

[Skye1013]

Aye, that's what I'm saying, Spirit/Hit (usually Spirit) is best used in blue sockets, but even then, you shouldn't be using pure blues.

[Levantine]

Your Energized gem makes me sad then.

[Skye1013]

I wouldn't look into my gems too much. They are largely based on AH pricing or what my JC can make. And what AMR suggests (cause I'm lazy.) For whatever reason it has me putting haste in over int in most sockets, though according to icy-veins, that's actually correct with their stat weights. Running the sims with my gear (see stat weights I posted earlier today) has me mostly in Brilliant, so I'll be looking at them later.

[Worldie]

You telling me Purified gems on your realm go for less than 500g each? :<

[Levantine]

Like, 60 last time I checked. It's great, the gem market on SC is completely tanked.

[Worldie]

One would expect Silvermoon market to be perfect (7k population 99% alliance), but Veiled gems are so absent.

Either ways, I don't like FDCL + DI gameplay. Too many procs, when you got more than 1 target often you end up wasting procs due to too many of them at same time. I'm playing Mindbender + DI right now (istant MB still very cool when moving). Surprised by the amount of damage Mindbender does.

[Skye1013]

I was kinda "meh" about Mindbender. If I got rid of either proc, it'd be DI for TF, or even PI to go with my on use trinket. Without DI, it makes the Glyph of Mind Spike feel less wasted, since I'd have to get 3 MS procs within a single MB cd for it to lose out on one (and even then, the MS proc lasts long enough, I can probably just save it until after.)

[Nooska]

On the subject of talents, L90 talents, what are people using, and why?

Personally I'm using Divine Star, as I find Halo too uncontrollable, and Cascade, while I haven't tried it, seem like its a bad damage cooldown on a singletarget (nothing to bounce off).

[Skye1013]

I'm using Halo, because it's pretty and really not as hard to control as one would think (also, there's an add-on for that.) For single target... I can't really say that any one is better than another, since they're all pretty much designed for multi-targets. That being said, you'd ideally swap it based on the fight type. If everyone is spread out, Cascade would shine. For stacked/lined up fights, Divine Star. Halo could be used for spread out as well, but would probably work best if there were two groups (within 30 yds of each other) kind of like how most people did Zonozz.

Of course, that's largely based on the healing sides of them, but still holds true for dps.

[halabar]

Afraid I'm a facemelting priest.

Wait a minute... we need to compare notes... I'm a purplecloudpriest, and I'm awesome at single target, but terrible at the multiples...

[Worldie]

Quick add me to id - msn - skype - something

[Nooska]

I'm reasonable at both

Multitarget = SW:P galore (and instant MBs) - throw in VT if there is time to add som einstant MS here and there.
Single target; ^SW:P>^VT>DP3>MB*>MS*>MB>MF
(* meaning instant from either proc or from double MS with glyph for MB)
Oh yeah, I use the L90 talent somewhere too - Divine Star I use - before MF

[Fatty Goatsteak] come at me!

[Worldie]

The proper ST priority for SP is DP3 > MB > MS (FDCL) > Cascade/Halo > SWP > VT > MF

[halabar]

The proper ST priority for SP is DP3 > MB > MS (FDCL) > Cascade/Halo > SWP > VT > MF

But you still wind up opening with the dots, and I only use MS on things like Elegon's sparks, since I'm specced for ToF/Bender instead of FDCL/DI, since I hate watching procs.

Also what a lot don't realize (nor did I until reading H2P) is that Halo has a sweet spot, after which damage goes back down. So Cascade is better if you can't reliably get into position to maximize Halo.

[Worldie]

Cascade is better more or less in all the fights in this tier since there's always positional requirement including being in melee range, where Cascade still does more damage than MF, while Halo barely hits for 16k or so.

The "max dps" spec is FDCL+ToF, however, this varies greatly from fight to fight. I change talents fairly often.

I also don't like FDCL and DI much, since they are RNG, and RNG is never good.