A WoW Weekend as Boring as UFC 97’s Main Event.

I didn’t attend heroic Naxx this weekend as planned due to spending time with the family watching UFC 97 (for you MMA fans, this was the worst UFC PPV I’ve ever seen) and cooking out. I did PuG Naxx-10, VoA-10 and a few heroics for loose ends but came up short.
On every raiding character I’ve [...]

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Shadow Priest A-Z

With Warlock A-Z out of the way, it was only a matter of time until I whipped up the Shadow Priest version. Again, full credit goes out to Steady Shot for giving me the idea and curing my partial writers block.
A is for Anathema, the be-all-end-all staff from vanilla-WoW for Shadow Priests. The staff was [...]

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T8 Shadow Priest Set Bonuses Released!

..and they’re a tad dissapointing, to say the least.
2 Piece Bonus
Increases the damage done by Devouring Plague by 15%.
4 Piece Bonus
Your Mind Blast spell increases your haste rating by 15 (0.46%).
There was a disclaimer at the begining of the post on MMO-Champion saying that some of the numbers may not have been correct, so I’m [...]

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MOAR 3.1 changes to Shadowpriests!

..sadly, they’re all PVP changes T_T.

Psychic Horror (New Skill) – You terrify the target, causing them to tremble in horror for 3 sec and drop all weapons for 10 sec. (16% of base mana, 30 yd range, Instant cast, 1 min cooldown)
Vampiric Touch now cause 680 damage (at Rank 5) if the effect is dispelled. [...]

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Achievements, Dual Speccing & Ghetto Hearths.

You guessed it.. MOAR 3.1 CHANGES!
Glyphs

Glyph of Dispersion – Reduces the cooldown of Dispersion by 45 seconds.

Dual Speccing

Now available at level 40.
No longer requires Lexicon of Power.
5 second cast time and must be out of combat.
Still not useable in Battlegrounds or Arena.
Still costs 1000g with Blizzard not even wanting to budge on the price.

I’m torn [...]

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GC Confirming 200% DoT crits?

Yes, lots of topics ending with “?” now because it’s not 100% or it’s PTR related. Anyway..
Shadowpriest.com has some quotes up from Ghostcrawler today commenting on the DoT crit damage being 200% like everything else.
“GC : You do realize I said earlier in the thread that we would likely have to give the 200% crit [...]

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Glyph Changes Already? Mhm!

MMO-Champion reported today that some of the glyphs have changed on the PTR. Nothing groundbreaking or even interesting for us Shadowpriests but I suppose it’s my job to post the changes here.

Glyph of Fade – Reduces the cooldown of Fade by 9 seconds, down from 15 seconds.
Glyph of Mass Dispel – Reduces the mana cost [...]

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The Future of Shadowpriest DPS?

I think I speak for a majority of Shadowpriests when I say that I’m worried about the most recent change to Shadowform but honestly, without seeing how it plays out in-game, I don’t want to jump the gun and assume it’s a nerf.
For those not in the know (and if you’re a Shadowpriest, shame on [...]

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More 3.1 Info!

MMO-Champion has been flooding us with tons of 3.1 info, from glyphs, talents, spells, a new legendary mace, Ulduar and more dual speccing info!
Dual Speccing

Requires level 80 to learn from your class trainer.
Costs 1000g to learn the skill.
Specs can be swapped at a Lexicon of Power in major cities.
Inscribers can make an item, useable by [...]

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Shadowpriest Raiding Guide.

Back in December, I started collecting a bunch of different information from raiding Shadowpriests, Elitist Jerks, Shadowpriest.com, and my own personal experiences to write “Crit is the New Black? A Shadowpriest Raiding Compendium“.
I’ve taken some new information and redid the guide a little bit so I just wanted to plug it for you guys since [...]

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