I saw your videos on Spriest a few days ago and it insipired me to level one, and then I got treated to the cool Dracthyr wings shown off the other day! Lovely Videos.
I've played Shadow for over 10 years now, and coming back from a long break from Retail, i must say your videos were very helpful. Haven't played since Legion, i was really in for a very rude awakening :D
1:38 The 3rd line of your macro is not needed. The empty [ ] on line 2 will make the macro work on you target if there is no focus, or player if there is no target if you add the exists condition. /cast [@focus,exists,help,nodead] [] Power Infusion
Isn’t a mouseover macro more flexible in this case? #showtooltip /cast [@mouseover, help, exists][] Power Infusion That way you don’t have to focus and just aim on a party member instead.
Just focus on the basics, it's almost always where people lose DPS. Lots of downtime while moving, not keeping mastery uptime high by spamming devouring plague, not using cooldowns at good times or leaving them for too long waiting for the "perfect moment", things like that! Just keep at it ✌️
you def wanna spam DP, 4set gives u dmg increase for every dp you use stacking, but it doesnt refresh the uptime so you def wanna spam DP everytime u get enough insanity, stacking dmg increase 2% per application for 9 seconds i believe, on top of that, when DP is reapplied any remaining damage is added to the new one, plus it increases the duration by 2 seconds i believe so thats an extra 2 bonus of damage
I can see the logic but that's not the case. The fact that it doesn't refresh the duration/maintain the stacks means that it has no effect on our gameplay, you use DP as normal and focus uptime for mastery, you don't lose any of the tier set bonus overall
@@BiteSizeWoW sim your toon and you’ll see how the sim spams DP, there are many reasons to, everytime you use dp you send out a ghost, also the initial hit of dp also gets boosted by previous applications, I’ve hit DP for 1 mil Crit, if you use 3-4 dp in a row that’s 6-8% damage increase for 9 seconds, specially if you are running voidweaver, you save up for 3-4 void torrent that gives you a free one spam dp, then hit double void blast each one hitting for 5m and if you get a reset it hits for even more I had one hit for 5.6m
@@iimecho if you can link me some of your personal logs with a high % when you just save up insanity and spam a bunch of DP's please link! But if you check out the top parses, go to casts and look at devouring plague, you will see that they are indeed spaced out to maximise mastery uptime - admittedly i play archon but the logic around the tier set doesn't change, over the course of a fight you don't lose or gain any dps by proccing it at different times.. you do however lose dps wasting mastery uptime
I think its the Shackled Shadow from Hallowfall renown 23. Also I think he has Glyph of Shadowy Friends on which which extends your shadow form to mounts and pets.
@@Naughty-Carlos so sorry I thought I replied to this. It's beledars spawn, from a rare of the same name in hallowfall. It's around a 5% drop chance and only spawns when the hallowfall crystal goes purple! There's often groups for it in custom group finder www.wowhead.com/item=223315/beledars-spawn
It's the mount Beledar's Spawn which drops from the mob in Hallowfall with the same name as the mount, spawns every 3 hours and you have a daily chance at the mount.
Thankyou 🤝 I used to raid at a high level but unfortunately my job is on random days and day and night shifts so I can't commit to a raid guild schedule
In the majority of cases just focus one and don't worry about having it on multiple targets. However, this changes if you choose the talent distorted reality
It tracks targets yes! So it'll follow the mob you cast it on. This can be amazing in some cases as it makes it far less likely to ''miss'', however be careful you don't use it on small, jumping mobs like the necrotic wake mobs I mentioned, as it could take it away from other mobs
I'm really trying to enjoy my priest. Currently at iLVL 601 and cleared 4/8 in HC, but my DPS is soooo bad, I actually feel bad for my guildies. Looked up some DPS logs for different classes and specs online and it seems like priests DPS is really bad right now. The coming 6% increase don't seem enough.
Priest isn't up there with fury and arcane. But you definitely shouldn't be so low to feel bad for your guildies. First I would look at the basics, are you maintaining your dots, having high devouring plague uptime and able to carry on using some kind of abilities while moving to ABC (always be casting) If not, they're what to work on. If so, head over to warcraftlogs again and filter for shadow priest.. go on some of the top shadow parses and click on spells, see when they're using cooldowns, what trinkets they have equipped etc. And most of all just keep practicing!
@catclaws1847 or your guild isn't that good? I've been playing shadow priest since 2005. I deal absolutely abysmal damage. Less than tanks. It's terrible.
This is my first time playing a Shadow Priest since 2006, and your guides so far have been very helpful. Now that we have Season 1, would you be able to do an updated "Beginner" guide? 1) What Talents/Builds are best for Solo players who are using raid/dungeon finder? 2) What Rotations do you recommend? 3) HOW THE "F" DO I USE WEAKAURAS AND WHAT DO ALL THESE BUTTONS MEAN!? (I'm old, and there is so much shit on my screen) 4) Any other general advice for a VERY new player?
Hey! Thanks for the kind words I might look into something like that, but I think I can help with some things here 1. In my shadow guide video, I go over some of the talent builds. Typically, you will hear about voidweaver Single target/AoE, and Archon ST/AoE. If you are new, I would recommend picking one of either Archon or Voidweaver, and playing that all the time (less to learn if you are already learning lots of other things). Just save the ST and AoE builds for either hero spec, and use the ST in Raid finder, and the AoE for dungeon finder. Once you find your feet and/or start exploring more content, take a look at the other hero talents and more builds, but for now, keep it simple! I made this Pastebin with talent builds, if you go with Voidweaver, just copy Voidweaver ST and Voidweaver M+, open your talent page in game, in the bottom left where the drop down arrow is, click it and press import, then simply paste (one at a time) the strings and it'll import those talent builds for you. If you choose Archon, I'd recommend Archon ST and Archon M+ (lower keys). By all means import all the builds if you prefer. pastebin.com/jpLC5aLF 2. Rotations is difficult to simplify into recommending rotations, as they change depending on the situation/movement etc. My shadow guide video has general rotations and rotation rules for voidweaver and archon which I hope can be helpful 3. With weakauras... Don't over complicate it. Don't try to make them yourself or learn every single function, it's incredibly deep and can be a headache. Instead, simply see it as a way to import other peoples weakauras. Just type /wa in game, at the top there will be ''import'', click it and copy/paste weakaura strings into it. To find weakauras you want, you can almost always find them on wago.io. A good way to do this, for example, if you google ''wago weakaura shadow priest tww'', the first result takes you to a page full of weakauras for shadow priests. All you have to do is choose one, (I use Publiks Shadow Priest Weakauras), then click copy import string, go in game where you import weakauras, paste it in, and you're done. 4. General advice for a new player, most importantly is just take your time. Even if someone is being rude or expects you to know something, we were all new once and all had to learn. Take things at your own pace. If you do want to be more prepared for when you venture into new content, search for it on youtube before hand and familiarise yourself with the raid/dungeon. And most importantly, have fun. Take your time, don't stress, keep practicing and learning and enjoy it!
@@BiteSizeWoW Really appreciate all the info, and I will be following 1,2, & 4. For 3) Is there a video explaining what all the things on screen mean for a SP? If I get publiks import, I still have no idea what all the new buttons/indicators mean.
You must klick on "talent build strings" then it opens up some codes. copy one code u wanna use and paste it into your talent addon in WoW. But first you need to Download a talenttree addon.@@ligab8889 hope u can understand my english, is not so good haha (im from germany)
They need to improve shadow's solo survival. Getting 2 tapped by a tier 8 delve with 593 ilvl. The sustain cant keep up with damage. Meanwhile you got enh, ret and ww healing for 1.7m instantly.
Delves are either bugged, or its intended .. but they're FAR easier in a group. I tried one solo and struggled through it, did one duo a tier up and it was insanely easy. The scaling is completely off as soon as you do them with other players
@@Vandiekins even more tuning has gone out again for delves. Very volatile situation for all specs.. game was released a good month or two too early I think for the final bits of polish. Hopefully last night's hotfixes have sorted things
/run local n=UnitName("target") or "player" if not InCombatLockdown() then EditMacro(GetMacroIndexByName("PI"),nil,nil,"#showtooltip /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][@"..n..",exists,nodead][] Power Infusion /use 13") print("PI Updated to "..n) end This pi macro is far better, just make a second macro named "PI", click macro one on a target, then just Pi with the PI macro.
I saw your videos on Spriest a few days ago and it insipired me to level one, and then I got treated to the cool Dracthyr wings shown off the other day! Lovely Videos.
I'm very likely going to change to Dracthyr, just for the movement speed you gain by double jumping! Those badass animations sure do help, too
I've played Shadow for over 10 years now, and coming back from a long break from Retail, i must say your videos were very helpful. Haven't played since Legion, i was really in for a very rude awakening :D
Ohhhhhh gosh you last played in the golden era.. definitely a rude awakening! Really glad you found some of this helpful though! Makes it worth while
Thanks for these. I havent done SP for a while and this helps so much
Amazing man, thanks for that. Really helped.
1:38 The 3rd line of your macro is not needed. The empty [ ] on line 2 will make the macro work on you target if there is no focus, or player if there is no target if you add the exists condition. /cast [@focus,exists,help,nodead] [] Power Infusion
Isn’t a mouseover macro more flexible in this case?
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, help, exists][] Power Infusion
That way you don’t have to focus and just aim on a party member instead.
I thought I was playing it correctly until I got the DPS meter add-on and saw that I was performing waaay below my ilvl. Thanks for the guide
Just focus on the basics, it's almost always where people lose DPS. Lots of downtime while moving, not keeping mastery uptime high by spamming devouring plague, not using cooldowns at good times or leaving them for too long waiting for the "perfect moment", things like that! Just keep at it ✌️
3:19 this 😍
you def wanna spam DP, 4set gives u dmg increase for every dp you use stacking, but it doesnt refresh the uptime so you def wanna spam DP everytime u get enough insanity, stacking dmg increase 2% per application for 9 seconds i believe, on top of that, when DP is reapplied any remaining damage is added to the new one, plus it increases the duration by 2 seconds i believe so thats an extra 2 bonus of damage
I can see the logic but that's not the case. The fact that it doesn't refresh the duration/maintain the stacks means that it has no effect on our gameplay, you use DP as normal and focus uptime for mastery, you don't lose any of the tier set bonus overall
@@BiteSizeWoW sim your toon and you’ll see how the sim spams DP, there are many reasons to, everytime you use dp you send out a ghost, also the initial hit of dp also gets boosted by previous applications, I’ve hit DP for 1 mil Crit, if you use 3-4 dp in a row that’s 6-8% damage increase for 9 seconds, specially if you are running voidweaver, you save up for 3-4 void torrent that gives you a free one spam dp, then hit double void blast each one hitting for 5m and if you get a reset it hits for even more I had one hit for 5.6m
@@BiteSizeWoW I did have one void last hit for 10m but that was a full 40 stack of spymaster as well
@@iimecho if you can link me some of your personal logs with a high % when you just save up insanity and spam a bunch of DP's please link! But if you check out the top parses, go to casts and look at devouring plague, you will see that they are indeed spaced out to maximise mastery uptime - admittedly i play archon but the logic around the tier set doesn't change, over the course of a fight you don't lose or gain any dps by proccing it at different times.. you do however lose dps wasting mastery uptime
Love spamming DP in bgs
What mount is that at the start? Looks glorious!
Thankyou! That would be this mount from a rare in Hallowfall!
www.wowhead.com/item=223315/beledars-spawn
I think its the Shackled Shadow from Hallowfall renown 23. Also I think he has Glyph of Shadowy Friends on which which extends your shadow form to mounts and pets.
@@Naughty-Carlos so sorry I thought I replied to this.
It's beledars spawn, from a rare of the same name in hallowfall. It's around a 5% drop chance and only spawns when the hallowfall crystal goes purple! There's often groups for it in custom group finder
www.wowhead.com/item=223315/beledars-spawn
It's the mount Beledar's Spawn which drops from the mob in Hallowfall with the same name as the mount, spawns every 3 hours and you have a daily chance at the mount.
Hi love your videos dude ty, btw u do raids or just rush mythic?
Thankyou 🤝 I used to raid at a high level but unfortunately my job is on random days and day and night shifts so I can't commit to a raid guild schedule
You are a super star!
Short question..make it Sense to fill my Insanity to spread DP to many targets as possible for Psychic Link ? Or just Focus one add?
In the majority of cases just focus one and don't worry about having it on multiple targets. However, this changes if you choose the talent distorted reality
Good Video man. Quick question. Does the targeted shadow crash track a moving target or where the target was when you casted the spell?
It tracks targets yes! So it'll follow the mob you cast it on. This can be amazing in some cases as it makes it far less likely to ''miss'', however be careful you don't use it on small, jumping mobs like the necrotic wake mobs I mentioned, as it could take it away from other mobs
This is amazing exactly what I needed! I have been looking everywhere for Spriest videos and they are scarce!
Publik is another great one
Have you felt a big difference in damage between archon and voidweaver for M+ keys 8-10?
I much prefer archon personally, the huge aoe with all cooldowns available just feels too good
I'm really trying to enjoy my priest. Currently at iLVL 601 and cleared 4/8 in HC, but my DPS is soooo bad, I actually feel bad for my guildies.
Looked up some DPS logs for different classes and specs online and it seems like priests DPS is really bad right now. The coming 6% increase don't seem enough.
Skill issue I’m doing top 3 dps in our guild
Priest isn't up there with fury and arcane. But you definitely shouldn't be so low to feel bad for your guildies. First I would look at the basics, are you maintaining your dots, having high devouring plague uptime and able to carry on using some kind of abilities while moving to ABC (always be casting)
If not, they're what to work on. If so, head over to warcraftlogs again and filter for shadow priest.. go on some of the top shadow parses and click on spells, see when they're using cooldowns, what trinkets they have equipped etc. And most of all just keep practicing!
@catclaws1847 or your guild isn't that good? I've been playing shadow priest since 2005. I deal absolutely abysmal damage. Less than tanks. It's terrible.
This is my first time playing a Shadow Priest since 2006, and your guides so far have been very helpful. Now that we have Season 1, would you be able to do an updated "Beginner" guide?
1) What Talents/Builds are best for Solo players who are using raid/dungeon finder?
2) What Rotations do you recommend?
3) HOW THE "F" DO I USE WEAKAURAS AND WHAT DO ALL THESE BUTTONS MEAN!? (I'm old, and there is so much shit on my screen)
4) Any other general advice for a VERY new player?
Hey! Thanks for the kind words
I might look into something like that, but I think I can help with some things here
1. In my shadow guide video, I go over some of the talent builds. Typically, you will hear about voidweaver Single target/AoE, and Archon ST/AoE. If you are new, I would recommend picking one of either Archon or Voidweaver, and playing that all the time (less to learn if you are already learning lots of other things). Just save the ST and AoE builds for either hero spec, and use the ST in Raid finder, and the AoE for dungeon finder. Once you find your feet and/or start exploring more content, take a look at the other hero talents and more builds, but for now, keep it simple! I made this Pastebin with talent builds, if you go with Voidweaver, just copy Voidweaver ST and Voidweaver M+, open your talent page in game, in the bottom left where the drop down arrow is, click it and press import, then simply paste (one at a time) the strings and it'll import those talent builds for you. If you choose Archon, I'd recommend Archon ST and Archon M+ (lower keys). By all means import all the builds if you prefer.
pastebin.com/jpLC5aLF
2. Rotations is difficult to simplify into recommending rotations, as they change depending on the situation/movement etc. My shadow guide video has general rotations and rotation rules for voidweaver and archon which I hope can be helpful
3. With weakauras... Don't over complicate it. Don't try to make them yourself or learn every single function, it's incredibly deep and can be a headache. Instead, simply see it as a way to import other peoples weakauras. Just type /wa in game, at the top there will be ''import'', click it and copy/paste weakaura strings into it. To find weakauras you want, you can almost always find them on wago.io. A good way to do this, for example, if you google ''wago weakaura shadow priest tww'', the first result takes you to a page full of weakauras for shadow priests. All you have to do is choose one, (I use Publiks Shadow Priest Weakauras), then click copy import string, go in game where you import weakauras, paste it in, and you're done.
4. General advice for a new player, most importantly is just take your time. Even if someone is being rude or expects you to know something, we were all new once and all had to learn. Take things at your own pace. If you do want to be more prepared for when you venture into new content, search for it on youtube before hand and familiarise yourself with the raid/dungeon. And most importantly, have fun. Take your time, don't stress, keep practicing and learning and enjoy it!
@@BiteSizeWoW ...aaaaaand subscribed.
@@BiteSizeWoW Really appreciate all the info, and I will be following 1,2, & 4.
For 3) Is there a video explaining what all the things on screen mean for a SP? If I get publiks import, I still have no idea what all the new buttons/indicators mean.
Hey can u maybe link ur Interfaces? With wa and other stuff?
I'll make a video for all my UI and add-ons and weakauras soon :) I have my main shadow weakauras and plater profile I use in the description though!
i'm so far behind on xpacs, half of these mechanics for spriest are foreign to me :(
Are you back to the game now? Just level slowly and take your time! Enjoy the ride and learn everything at your own pace
Hey, may I please get a link to your plater profile?
In description (Quazii video), I always put his video to not take away from his hard work making them
Hi!
Do you have ja talent build for this?
Whould be very nice😊
nevermind, i just take a look in the description 😄 thanks!🙋🏼♂️
Mhm nothing in description😢
You must klick on "talent build strings" then it opens up some codes.
copy one code u wanna use and paste it into your talent addon in WoW.
But first you need to Download a talenttree addon.@@ligab8889
hope u can understand my english, is not so good haha (im from germany)
🔥👏
They need to improve shadow's solo survival. Getting 2 tapped by a tier 8 delve with 593 ilvl. The sustain cant keep up with damage. Meanwhile you got enh, ret and ww healing for 1.7m instantly.
Delves are either bugged, or its intended .. but they're FAR easier in a group. I tried one solo and struggled through it, did one duo a tier up and it was insanely easy. The scaling is completely off as soon as you do them with other players
Not anymore! @@BiteSizeWoW
Vekzir or whatever it's name is was also hard as hell. 598 ilvl, no tier bonuses
Yeah shadow is getting a 6% dmg buff but we still don't have sustain lol
@@Vandiekins even more tuning has gone out again for delves. Very volatile situation for all specs.. game was released a good month or two too early I think for the final bits of polish. Hopefully last night's hotfixes have sorted things
Pro tip. Don't play voidreaver.
sadly true ;[
Thank you@@BiteSizeWoW
/run local n=UnitName("target") or "player" if not InCombatLockdown() then EditMacro(GetMacroIndexByName("PI"),nil,nil,"#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][@"..n..",exists,nodead][] Power Infusion
/use 13") print("PI Updated to "..n) end
This pi macro is far better, just make a second macro named "PI", click macro one on a target, then just Pi with the PI macro.