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 […]
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 […]
[size=20][b]For the 5.2 Best In Slot List please click here[/b][/size] 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 […]
[size=20][b]For the 5.2 Changelog please click here[/b][/size] 2013/01/27 Fixed upgrade value (and base value) of [b][url=http://mop.wowhead.com/item=87573]Thousand-Year Pickled Egg[/url][/b] Added upgrades for Operation: Shieldwall / Dominance Offensive items. 2013/01/17 Added [b][url=http://mop.wowhead.com/item=93403][color=#FF8000]Eye of the Black Prince[/color][/url][/b] / [b][url=http://mop.wowhead.com/item=76694][color=#FF0000]Brilliant Primordial Ruby[/color][/url][/b] and removed [b][url=http://mop.wowhead.com/item=93366][color=#FF8000]Refined Crystallized Horror[/color][/url][/b] (replaced back with [b][url=http://mop.wowhead.com/item=89882][color=#FF8000]Crystallized Horror[/color][/url][/b]) on Sha weapons. 2012/12/17 Added [url=http://mop.wowhead.com/item=89949]Robes of […]
[size=20][b]For the 5.1 Best In Slot List please click here[/b][/size] 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 […]
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: […]
With the release patch 5.0.4 less than 100 hours away, there are still a lot of playstyle and mechanics questions relating to Shadow that are unanswered (and in some cases, unasked). One of the more common questions that has been floating around on several discussion forums is what to do about the loss of our […]
Usual disclaimer: the following information is as of the Mist of Pandaria Beta build 16004, released on August 17, 2012, and may not be accurate once future patches are released. For a primer on this post, please see the original post from July 30, 2012. Wait? What’s this? Didn’t I just post about the MoP […]
Usual disclaimer: the following information is as of the Mist of Pandaria Beta build 16004, released on August 17, 2012, and may not be accurate once future patches are released. For a primer on this post, please see the original post from July 30, 2012. To see the previous set of changes, please see this […]