What Made Shadow Priest So Good in TBC?

[Music] hi guys welcome to another video today we're going to be discussing what made for Shadow Priests so strong in the Burning Crusade obviously when I say Shadow Priests is strong I'm definitely not talking about their DPS but true value of a Shadow Priests is he stupidly strong the support but actually brings to the raid but probably the strongest support class in the game what we in the Burning Crusade next to a shaman now this doesn't mean that shadow priests are stacked out in raids you're probably only gonna see want to in a 25 man raiding group and I don't think those world-first hardcore guilds will actually use a lot of Shadow Priests if I won't use any at or not simply because they'll stack loads of warlocks and hunters just to get get it done but you will see shadow priests in really high demand in any kind of like typical normal hardcore guild and more casual guilds when it comes to dungeon Shadow Priests probably the most loved the class on the dungeon X or a prop paladin if you've got a prop Holden and I shot a priest in near any group it's gonna be a really really smooth room it's important to know though the amount of DPS I Shadow Priests actually provides for raid is very hard to measure because you won't physically see on a DPS meter because it's actually way more significant than people realize because Shera priests give the raid mana and healing which can be then turned into mana and obviously there's loads of d buffs that a Sherri's provides as well which increase in the maximum dps of the entire braid just Before we jump in guys apparently only 11% of the people who watch my videos are actually subscribe to the channel so I would appreciate people did actually quickly subscribe and him for notification bail if you want to see more content like this so what made a Shadow Priests so strong in the Burning Crusade the first element we're going to be looking at is a vampiric touch which is a debuff applied to the target obviously it deals damage which scales of your spell power but the main thing was interesting about this debuff is 5% of your total show damage generates manner for the whole arty depending on the raid 5 this meant that you can give a cast DPS about 25% of that mana back it's obviously very useful because when Cassidy PS our low gear the middle of a lot of money to spend a mana potion this is an absolute godsend so if I don't go in like in the last phase of a fight because I would obviously massively reduced their DPS we're also really good on progression bosses because obviously when you're progressing on a boss you're probably fairly under geared for that boss which means that the fights probably going to last a very long time because you don't be able to you just don't have a DPS to kill it in a decent amount of time which means you're gonna have to spend more mana to do your DPS so when you bring your Shara priest for mana of every single cast DPS and every single healer will have more endurance in those longer fights but lovely this manner efficiency is also very useful in longi arena fights the next element we're going to look at is a vampiric embrace so this ability Beaufort's her priests apply it to the target which means about 25% of shadow damage is actually dealt as healing for the entire party is 15% when it's not talented but when you have it talented it will be up to 25% so what miss does is it provides a constant flow of background healing on to the party and it's great countering damage from bosses it saves the healers even more mana because obviously less healing will actually be required on to parade it also allows walls to be a little bit more reckless of our life top ability left up if you don't know will take health from Bobo Locke and bring that back his mana also hell was piled and out with Cielo blood which whenever you seal a blood everything of your malice wings basically will actually drain your health in fact i Paulding probably benefits from being in the same group as a shadow priest out of any other class as simply because of the ability spiritual and treatment which means every time they get healed they also generate mana so if we're going to get heal for healing sorry we're gonna get mana from vampiric touch and vampiric embrace so parlons get a ridiculous amount of mana back with a shadow priest in the group an AoE healing is really good in battleground and for arena next let's have a look at some of the debuff such Shadow Priests how first of all we have shadow weaving is Siddi Wolfert cause of a target 10% more shadow damage him it's a very useful because walk to the best dps in the game and will be massively SPAC so it's a ridiculous dps b4 boost for the entire raid next we have misery which are basically just for same thing a shadow weaving but it's only 5% and it's for every single spell type so a massive DPS boost from every single caster dps in the game and yeah just overall really really strong nice to start looking at all the other kind of cool things but a Shadow Priests can do and how good their support toolkit really is first of all we have a really good single target purge and dis spell which is called dispel magic where it moves to buffs from an enemy and then to debuff from a friendly target they also have master spell which removes one debuff from a friendly a one buff from an enemy within a 15 yard radius but is really good against certain raid mechanics and obviously very good in PvP and we also have abolished disease which keeps removing diseases every 5 seconds obviously they have the iconic typical priests boxer stamina buff and the shadow protection buff they can use the ability mind sieve to skip certain dungeon and rate rush that's quite useful if you're trying to do raid a little bit faster you can use mind control in a number of gimmicky strange ways to fall like potential of mind control really hasn't fully been realized in my opinion yeah I've used mind control in shattered holes to mine control certain mob which I can then use a certain ability of up mob hard to provide really good shadow resistance buffs and stamina buffs for the rest of the party and then I was like mind controlling some of the of a melee mob set up did like 2k DPS which is pretty ridiculous so mind control is a very interesting ability because of stuff like shackle and dead which are very useful when you're doing trash balls in Cara's on and also under Monroe's fight you also have fee award which is obviously very useful especially against night vain because you need to ward against certain fear mechanic on the tanks last thing to know is about drone I have an extra mana regeneration spell for the party called symbol of hope and it's basically very similar to a mini mana hi totem will actually provide 333 MP fire for the entire party so let's start talking about the actual DPS and the overall playstyle so in my opinion Shadow Priests has been most interesting rotation out of any Casa DPS if not any DPS in the game during a Burning Crusade he got 3d buffs to manage you've got a main DPS ability he got a filler ability and you've got an execute ability and you've also got to DPS cooldowns and then on top of this you're obviously thinking about all the support that you provided for the entire race there's a lot to think about a lot to keep you engrossed and interested and thinking about the spec so a lot of people dis shud a priest for being a really bad at DPS the main reason people do that is because shadow priest don't scale very well with that gear simple reason for that is shadow word pain and vampiric touch don't crit so that's kind of like a bit of an issues if they can't massively fully benefit from a secondary start so that's what kind of why they fall off a little bit but in all honesty I would ignore over I wouldn't let that to tell you from playing in class because you actually do really really good DPS a compete with other DPS if you know how to snapshot your dots on trinket procs and on use trinkets the very simple tactic that people have been using in World of Warcraft for years mainly in Cataclysm raffle which Kings haven't we got rid of it in walls of Donal there's some heavy mists of pandaria as well anyway what you do is you wait for a trinket to proc they could be a trinket or it could be some other item like a set bonus or something like that when you use an unused trinket to basically stack a massive spell damage bonus so when you refresh all your dots somebody adopts benefit for that increased spell damage and then your refresh them again when a spell damage buff is about two or three seconds about the fall-off about the same cast time as vampiric touch and the global cooldown of applying shadow word def after vampiric touch so then you use die before a fall off of then it'll continue to benefit from that spell damage buff until the dot basically falls off if you snapshot your damage life up which again is not a really cool interesting place now to add to your rotation then you will do some pretty good DPS in my opinion you will compete with your DPS or they they like less well-informed and more casual screw up a DPS the US have really good Manticore down called shadowfiend which also skills if you spell damage and heroism books and stuff like that so it is good to you shadowfiend to optimize your damage beyond you use it through heroism and use it but a similar time but your trinkets proc - yeah fret drop tool called fade mainly useful for 5 months because fred is a man isn't a massive issue in raids but obviously very very useful for and the tank gets crowd controlled can also use it in a focus in any way I think I've covered everything that I want to talk about my name is meant a goblin to the next video ciao powered shield to protect yourself so very good actually countering damage because you want you can protect yourself a power word shield event you can break out I should have Foreman actually do some healing if it's really needed in fact a lot of time when I was a raiding a shadow priest sometimes too many healers would die and then I would basically become a healer like I break out a shadow form and I'll just start healing that's what the raid leader would actually telling me to do and some a lot of a time that has saved us in a you know from game wipe time particular raid so that's another cool thing to bear in mind anyway I think I've covered everything that I want to talk about my name is minto goblin to the next video ciao you

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020