Shadow Priest 6.2

[Orthios 271]

Having a rotation issue. The guide advises maintaining the dots on targets (boss). I have tried this and have found dps lacking. I have watched other SP in raid and some don't bother with pain and vampiric touch at all. Essentially they use Blast, Mind Spike, Mind Flay and Devouring Plague. They use Mind Spike as a filler.

 

This is just basic rotation, not counting special abilities.

 

I have compared the two on the target dummy in garrison and in raid and not using dots actually does significantly more damage.  Why would that be?

Clarity of Power is a level 100 talent that increases the damage dealt by a number of your abilities IF you don't have SWLPain or Vampiric Touch on that target.  It's possible that you were using this talent when maintaining your DoTs which would cause you to not benefit from the increased damage.

[Guest omg1987]

"The Shadow specialisation is currently able to deal medium to medium-high single target damage and high AoE damage, in PvE encounters. It presents players with a rotation that is both easy to understand and easy to master.

 

The Shadow Priest playstyle is very reliant on DoTs, and this means that they also do very well in situations where they can multi-DoT several targets."

 

Um no? I have been playing this class for many years. It is neither easy to learn nor easy to master particularly when you compare this class to hunters and mages. I know this because I Raid with both of those classes as well.  These alts are a thousand times easier to play and effortlessly generate copious amount of dps in comparison. Nice to check a guide and the first claim you see is totally bogus. Twintops approved this??? Either this "guide" is out-dated or Twintops has lost touch with reality.

 

Only AS is reliant on massive DOTs, but CoP which is the "spec" almost all top Spriests are using these days only uses one dot (devouring plague) and that is just to weave in insanity between MBs and MSs. VT and SW:P never get touched unless you want to throw out an instant SW:P when you're about to be on the move for an extended period of time. 

 

Furthermore, Spriest AOE can be described as mediocre since the DP nerf when compared with the aforementioned classes specially with Mythic on farm. The only time a Shadow Priest can really shine is on Council playing AS or Fel Lord Zakuun and the Iron Reaver play CoP and that's ONLY if you get the CoP rotation utterly perfect.

 

"easy to understand and master" my foot! 

[Guest omg1987]

Having a rotation issue. The guide advises maintaining the dots on targets (boss). I have tried this and have found dps lacking. I have watched other SP in raid and some don't bother with pain and vampiric touch at all. Essentially they use Blast, Mind Spike, Mind Flay and Devouring Plague. They use Mind Spike as a filler.

 

This is just basic rotation, not counting special abilities.

 

I have compared the two on the target dummy in garrison and in raid and not using dots actually does significantly more damage.  Why would that be?

 

Nobody dot weaves anymore. Check all the top Spriests. They only weave in DP for insanity. SW:P only gets used if you're going to be on the move for an extended period of time like Mannoroth when you get feared.This is what your rotation should look like when you have the 4 set and RoW.

 

MB and MS as filler until 3 orbs (never EVER miss an MB and do your best to keep the trinket up at all times)

 

MS

DP

Insanity (2 ticks)

MB

Insanity (4 ticks)

MS

MB

 

Don't miss an MB or Insanity weave for SW:D unless you're desperate for orbs.