Continuing my 101 Series, I’m going to spend a bit of time discussing the Shadow Priest Spell “Rotation”.  Those of you with a bit of experience under your belt can probably skip this post, as this first section is going to be pretty basic.

So, I spent a few hours this weekend watching Blizzcon online through the Direct TV feed.  I've got to say, it was a fun event to watch, and I'm really excited about all the news that was revealed.  I'm gonna take a bit of time to share my thoughts about the entire event.

Ok, so we've had a lot of threads, on various forums, from Shadow Priests and Affliction Warlocks about this subject. We've had some other specs / classes which use DoTs comment about how it's bad that DoTs don't scale with Haste. So far I've yet to see a single serious poster actually disagree with or like the fact that DoTs don't scale with Haste. I also haven't seen a solution offered up that hasn't been shot down. So here's a solution I've done a bit of thinking about over the past couple of weeks. It has a few problems, that I'll get into later on, but I really think this concept could go somewhere, and I'd like to get thoughts and opinions from others in the community.

Haste Rating can be a bit of a confusing stat for Shadow Priests.  At first glance, it seems simple enough, if you have enough Haste Rating for 1% Haste, your spells are cast 1% faster.  However, there are a ton of our spells that are instant casts.  We have DoTs, and those don't really benefit from Haste at all. So many people seem to think that Haste is a worthless stat.

Well folks, it's not really all that bad a stat.  It's just an odd stat, and one that requires a bit of careful management to benefit from properly.  Follow on after the break to learn exactly what benefits we gain from stat, and how to take advantage of them.