With Patch 5.2 and Throne of Thunder somewhere between 9 and 23 days away from release, now is as good of a time as any to take a closer look at what Haste Breakpoints Shadow Priests should be aiming for with their shiny new Tier 15 levels of gear. Some of you may remember seeing […]
Starting in Cataclysm, Blizzard began introducing auras to show when certain procs or abilities are available for your character to use. These are just one addition in a line of default/standard UI enhancements Blizzard has made but suffer from the same problem the rest of the default UI does: you cannot move or change where […]
Blizzard released their second build of 5.2 to the PTR tonight. No ability changes for Shadow have been released; however, T15 set bonuses have been revealed! They are: Priest T15 Shadow 2P Bonus – When your Shadowy Apparitions damage their target, they have a 65% chance to extend the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain […]
Below is the latest listing of the best raid gear available for patch 5.1.0. Items in the following lists are ranked according to the normalized values of their stats. Stats are represented via PP (Pseudo Points) — how valuable a given stat is — normalized to where Intellect = 1PP. The values of hit and […]
2013/01/27 Fixed upgrade value (and base value) of Added upgrades for Operation: Shieldwall / Dominance Offensive items. 2013/01/17 Added / and removed (replaced back with ) on Sha weapons. 2012/12/17 Added (all variants) to the list. (Spinalcrack @ HowToPriest) 2012/12/10 Corrected the value of Zen Alchemist Stone. 2012/12/09 Added Valor/Conquest/Justice/Honor point upgrades. HowToPriest user Ebmor […]
With the release of Heart of Fear tomorrow, the second of three raids will be available for T14 content, more gear will be available for the shadowy masses to use.. Because of this, the main Best in Slot list (or the pre-raid list I’ve posted on HowToPriest) is not a very handy guide in the […]
As some of you probably already know, I recently got married (September 22, to be exact). We’ve had our wedding date and honeymoon planned longer than Mists of Pandaria’s release date, so imagine my surprise when the release date coincided with the day my wife and I are leaving for ~3 weeks was the exact […]
With the release of Mists of Pandaria, Blizzard is staggering the unlocking of different raids. Normal mode Mogu’shan Vaults will open on October 2nd (with LFR and Heroic unlocking on October 9th), while there will be no access to the Normal modes of Terrace of Endless Spring and Heart of Fear until October 30th (with […]
For a primer on this post, please see the original post from July 30, 2012. For the post dealing with 2 DoT encounters in Best in Slot gear, as well as a description of what constitutes a 2-target fight, please see: Multi-Target Boss Fight DPS in Mists of Pandaria – Part 1 (2 DoT Encounters […]
For a primer on this post, please see the original post from July 30, 2012. As any seasoned WoW player will tell you, when you introduce variables to a boss fight it changes how you need to approach the encounter. So far I’ve tried to cover a variety of single-target fight types in my sims: […]