Spiritual Guidance: Shadow as a secondary spec in 3.1

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Filed under: Priest , Analysis / Opinion , (Priest) Spiritual Guidance Every week, Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host today is Alex Ziebart who doesn’t have as many cool links to plug up here as Matticus does but will try anyway . This week we get our Shadowform on.. Dual specs are coming, probably only a week away, and I suspect that many Holy and/or Discipline Priests out there will be picking up a Shadow build as their second spec. Priests , like most classes, can have many little build variations to fit your playstyle: Raiding, soloing, doing Battlegrounds, doing arenas, all of that. I’m going to look at a couple of good PvE specs to use in patch 3.1 , but unfortunately avoiding the PvP specs for you arena junkies in our audience. Trust me, you don’t want to take my advice there. Discipline PvP maybe , but not Shadow. PvE Shadow – Raiding MMO-Champion has a great tool for setting up talent specs, because you can include your glyphs as well, so we’re going to be using that. This spec (14/0/57) will be a fairly cookie-cutter raiding build in patch 3.1, with only very minor variations from person to person. The Shadow tree isn’t a very complicated one. Either a talent boosts your DPS, or it does something else. For a raiding spec, you want all of the DPS talents and you can skip all of the ‘something else’ talents unless they’re mandatory for a DPS talent. It’s pretty straightforward. Even in the Discipline tree the ultimate goal is to pick up the DPS talents, Twin Disciplines and Improved Inner Fire . Meditation isn’t a direct DPS talent, but having no mana is certainly a DPS hit. Continue reading Spiritual Guidance: Shadow as a secondary spec in 3.1 Spiritual Guidance: Shadow as a secondary spec in 3.1 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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