Entomological Study
January 22, 2009
If you prefer not to keep up with official forum QQing, just know that there WAS a bug with Misery that significantly increased shadow priest DPS after patch 3.0.8 which has now since been hotfixed. The bug was substantial enough that when I tested it on Tuesday with ~1750 base spell power on my shadow set, I was doing around 3k dps for most 25 man Naxx bosses.
Theoretically, they’ve corrected the Mindflay mechanic at least to properly space out all three ticks, so Shadow Priests should see a slight boost, as long as they don’t continue to clip spells. I haven’t seen substantial reports on whether or not the “random resists,” even when hit capped, are still occurring.
I’m strongly considering staying shadow with Regard for the time being and grinding out the remaining 8 levels on my Resto Shaman. It is still my firm belief that Resto Shaman bring more to the table in a raid environment than other “raid healing” specs, both in terms of healing output and versatility via totems (unless they get nerfed). This isn’t to say that they’re required to make a raid composition good, just that they’re more appealing choices when faced with filling healer slots.
