My loyal shadow priests wow power leveling

Marzo 11, 2010 | Por editdimo | # Enlace permanente | Tweet

Every Wednesday (you know, ideally Wednesday, when he’s not slacking off), Fox Van Allen grabs hold of Spiritual Guidance from her holiness Dawn Moore and makes everything just a little darker than usual. Don’t worry, he usually remembers to unlock the closet and let her out when he’s done. Usually. I wanted to take a brief break from the Spiritual Guidance series on raiding Icecrown Citadel (part 1; part 2) to answer an e-mail I got in response to it, because there’s a really important lesson to be learned. Or a chance to complain about stuff. I’m pretty good at that. Why is “Stay Alive” in the strats? Are there strats where I should die? It’s actually a good question. (The first part, not the second part — we already know smjkhgfs that only gnomes should be sacrificed on Saurfang post fix, and only then for the good luck the act brings.) Why go out of my way to state the obvious — that your key mission is to stay alive? Simply put: Because staying alive is just not a priority for way too many DPS players. (I’d go as far as to say that way too many of you stink at it.) And the way some raid leaders treat their DPS, it’s not even surprising that this is the case.
This is a comparatively bad idea wow gold until you get to level 64 and finally obtain your wow power leveling spec’s primary spell, Arcane Blast. When I die, I will ask Jesus why Blizzard refuses to make this spell available earlier to the spec that relies upon it. Then the good lord will look down upon me and say, “LTP nub.” But barring divine wisdom (or a blue post) bestowing upon me the answer, I suppose I will have to settle for my current state of perpetual bafflement.
It’s not that arcane mage leveling is terrible, just that wow power leveling you’ll have an infinitely easier time of it if you spec frost or fire instead. Arcane’s best spells don’t come until much later in the game. Does 60+ levels of using untalented Fireball/Frostbolt as your primary DPS spell sound good to you? No? That’s cool, you can always spam Arcane Missiles I guess. Because until you hit level 60 and can finally take Arcane Barrage, that’s your sole tree-specific damage spell. Have fun with that.
Arcane leveling can be done, but it’s simply not a lot of fun for the majority of the game. Switch to it at level 64, though, and you’ll have a great time from Outland through Northrend. If you insist upon doing it, then talent your way down the arcane tree first, because you’ll want Arcane Barrage as soon as possible, and make certain you fully talent into Arcane Stability right away. You’ll want to make sure your Arcane Missiles are uninterruptible ASAP. Prismatic Cloak is another must-have leveling talent. Nothing saves a mage’s life like instant Invisibility.
I’ve recently written an entire series wow power leveling on mage leveling, so visit that if you want a more comprehensive guide.
Arcane’s max DPS rotation is actually pretty simple: spam Arcane Blast forever. This will kill everything. Unfortunately, it will also kill your mana pool. It’s an unsustainable rotation.
Your actual rotation should look wow power leveling like this: Arcane Blast x 4–>Missile Barrage+Arcane Missiles–>repeat. Missile Barrage is the key here. If it doesn’t proc after 4 Arcane Blasts, you have a choice. You can either get rid of the stack with an Arcane Barrage (also the best choice if you need to move), or cast another Arcane Blast in the hopes of finally proccing Missile Barrage. This can be rough on your mana pool, so you have to choose judiciously based on the current state of your mana and the time left in the encounter.
Use Arcane Power, Icy Veins, and Presence of Mind pretty much every time they’re up, and when you run out of wow power leveling mana (which shouldn’t be happening very often, if you’re being conservative about your Arcane Blast spam and Missile Barrage is proccing at a reasonable rate) Evocate. In fact, if you can, it can pay to time an Evocation along with Icy Veins or a Bloodlust pop by the Shaman.
For AoE: Arcane AoE sucks. I’m not saying, I’m just saying. Your best AoE spell is Arcane Explosion, which requires you to A.) be in the middle of lots of things wow power leveling that like to eat mages, and B.) burn through mana like nobody’s business. You’re better off standing at range and spamming Blizzard, to be honest. Your AoE DPS is going to suck, but nobody much cares about that. Or at least, nobody who isn’t a douche cares about that.
The goal of the Spiritual Guidance column — at least, my wonderful shadowy side of it — is to help make you better players. Half of you are probably rolling your eyes at the concept here. We all know that we need to stay alive, and we all make at least a C-minus effort to play that way. That’s good enough, right? I have a little bit of homework for all my loyal shadow priests out there. Today, instead of doing your daily heroic in shadow spec, go in and try your hand at healing. We’re paying that hybrid tax, so we may as well get some benefit out of it. If you’re not dual specced, go pay the trainer the few gold to reset your tree and give yourself a healing build. If you’ve got at least a little bit of raid experience, you can easily heal a heroic even in shadow gear. If you’re not quite at raid level, queue up for a non-heroic instance to make things easier on yourself. The point of this exercise is simple: To gain the perspective of the raid healer. When running through the heroic, you should ideally only have to be healing one person, the tank. Sure, there are some fights where other players will suffer unavoidable environmental damage (the Brann event in Halls of Stone comes immediately to mind), but this exercise in healing should otherwise be mindlessly simple. Right?