Concept - DoTs that Scale With Haste

Entry posted by Javaed on August 20, 2009

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.

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The Basics of Haste Rating

Entry posted by Javaed on August 17, 2009

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.

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Bug Report - Glyph of Shadow, Glyph of Mind Flay

Entry posted by Javaed on August 13, 2009

Tonight I've got some updates on a couple of our glyphs.  We were expecting some changes with 3.2, but it looks like things got messed up.

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Heroic ToC - 4 Shadow Priests LF 1 Tank

Entry posted by Javaed on August 12, 2009

So, last night I logged on to WoW and some of my guildmates were preparing a Heroic ToC run.  I was interested in going myself, but there was a problem.  None of our tanks were online.  Luckily, my GM SamuelTempus (Hey look, he blogs as well) has a well geared Prot Paladin, so he volunteered to switch characters and I got an invite.

Well, I walked in, we got buffed up, and when I looked around I realized we had four priests in the group and we were all in Shadow Form.  We started trying to figure out who was going to heal, when a suggested was floated.  "What about Vampiric Emprace?" Well, VE does stack, and we were all in a group... the priests would get 40% of our combined DPS as heals, the Tank would get 20%, he could use Judgement of Light and we could keep PW:S up on everybody.  So we gave it a shot...

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