Shadow priest tailoring/equipment advise.
I'd like to mention that I'm a pretty casual player and not hardcore at all but I would like to try and get the best equipment for my shadow priest to try and do some end game content if I can.
I decided to take up tailoring which I have at about 352 right now.
So far my idea on equipment I'm thinking about going with is
Frozen Shadoweave Set
Spellstrike Set
Belt of Ruination
So that will have 5 blue sockets, 5 yellow sockets and 2 red. So I figure for the red sockets I'll use Runed Living Rudy and a Glowing Nighteye for the blue.
Does that sound good? and what should I use for the 5 left over yellow sockets? Potent Noble Topaz?
Then probably Runic Spellthread for pants.
Should I spend the gold and have spell damage enchants put on these? Seems its the best I will have until T5 or whatever I'll never see anyway.
I have tried researching this as much as I can before asking so hopefully someone can give me some advise.
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Enchants and gems can be an expensive thing to put on gear if you are too casual and unwiling to farm. I consider myself inbetween a casual and hardcore, as I don't raid, but have 1120 spelldmg in dps gear, 10k hp 266 resil 870 spelldmg in pvp gear. I just farm a lot and enjoy pvp. If you arent going to see T5 soon, the gems and enchants are worth it IMO. Gems are even cheaper now, ~40 gold for most. Spellstrike and Frozen Shadoweave are nice to have dps wise, but please don't BG in Spellstrike, as it has next to no stam. Feel free to arena in it if you are in my Battlegrp though =p.
For my dps gear I just put in 9 spelldmg gems. (Mage)
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gball
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I should have mentioned I only PVE and never ever PVP..
I don't mind farming some but I would rather just farm for gold and just buy most of the stuff in trade channel or AH..
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Those sets sound great, but get ready for some intensive farming. The mats aren't pretty.
As far as the gems go, I never pay attention to the sockets, since the bonuses blow most of the time.
If you can afford it, drop +9 spell dmg gems in all of those puppies and gg.
If you're not going to raid, then yes, go ahead and put the spl dmg enchants on there too. If you do it right, you could be sitting at 1000 dmg and ~1100 - 1200 shadow dmg when you're finished.
Good luck and God speed.
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In my opinion, you could stick with the +spell damage gems and be fine raiding; as a shadow priest, your stuff is mack daddy with high spell damage as possible. You could use all flavors (spell crit, mana regen, intellect, whatever) but those are probably not the best choices.
If you were a pure Holy Priest, then the gems choices would be different, but as a melt-yo-face priest, my suggestion is spell dmg gems.
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gball
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clubs: [Seti@Home] [Folding@Home] [Team Discovery] Thats what I was thinking also and I don't want to reply on crits for damage.
I figure this is my best option to get some good gear without living in the game. This should be good enough for me to run most heroics etc.
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Resident shadowpriest here.
Here's my armory:
»armory.worldofwarcraft.com/chara···ightnova
1153 shadow damage.
The important thing to realize is that your spell hit is what you need to work on first. I believe as a shadowpriest with the proper talents, you need 6% to cap out. I've been fiddling with this statistic and as you'll see, I'm a bit lower. When I go with lower damage and higher +hit I end up with more overall damage, so make sure you've got your hit capped.
All of my gear is either crafted or from Karazhan. I have no drops from anywhere else. The FSW, Spellstrike, Belt of Ruination are great ways to get yourself where you need to be, but require an immense amount of materials. Another great thing to keep in mind is that you can get the Bracers of Havok for DIRT CHEAP. Get those crafted as soon as possible. The materials are a joke.
Use +9 gems in everything. Your are a shadowpriest. The bulk of your sustained PVE damage is non-crits. If you're critting, it's situational. Long boss fights will have you running out of mana on Mind Blast, but it has its uses. Just don't wrap your gear around it. Don't worry about socket bonuses. I've yet to find gear that makes it worthwhile to use the socket bonus, forfeiting +damage from a gem. (Runed Living Ruby)
I'm almost always the number one damage and absolutely the number one damage on almost every boss encounter. I've been raiding shadow since BWL. It was there that I coined the term, "Tanking Priest", which my raid takes advantage of requently.
I could solo tank the shadow vulnerable mobs in BWL with a power infusion and devouring plague. I tank the priest add on Maulgar and very frequently do I tank the ranged/casters in the various instances, including Karazhan.
www.shadowpriest.com is also a great reference, but use it as a guide, not your bible. There is much theorycrafting, but there is much greater knowledge from experience. There are folks who see themselves as highly experienced because of the content they downed, but they develop bad habits along the way. They continually state that they are #3-7 on damage when they're quite capable of being #1.
If you've got any other questions, or want any other tips, I can show you some of the things that I picked up, learned from others, or invented myself along the way that really help me out.
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Mashiki
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»www.wowhead.com/?item=31867 - Veiled Noble Topaz is the hot new caster gem right now, it's +hit/spell(4/5) works good to bring up if you're lacking.
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I pick shadoweave tailoring and if I hit 375, I can make 3 epic gears. With that 3 piece gears, it is a good idea to get the rest from the PvP set?
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The expansion has changed many things, including gear.
PVE gear is for PVE
PVP gear is for PVP
Only a small percentage of that is an exception.
Get the Shadoweave Tailoring 3-piece, the spellstrike 2-piece, the Girdle of Ruination and Bracers of Havoc.
PVP gear is much higher in the stam/resilience (aka survival) department whereas PVE is much more towards hit, damage, PVE damage. The weapons for S2 look to be decent enough for PVE and there are resilience rings that drop out of SSC that do well for PVP, but aside from that, the majority of the gear is separate.
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said by Archivis See Profile :
Get the Shadoweave Tailoring 3-piece, the spellstrike 2-piece, the Girdle of Ruination and Bracers of Havoc.
Can I buy the the spellstrike 2-piece, the Girdle of Ruination and Bracers of Havoc from AH? I wonder how much they usually go.
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They are BOE so yes you could buy them at the AH but I don't think you'll see them very often and if you do probably a nice chunk of change..
On my server just to get the mats to make spellfire its around 2000g and that doesn't include the primal nether you would have to farm or buy from the person making it.
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said by gball See Profile :
On my server just to get the mats to make spellfire its around 2000g and that doesn't include the primal nether you would have to farm or buy from the person making it.
If someone else is making it for you, then you will have to buy theirs. The nethers are BoP and useless unless you are crafting something with them.
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said by Garbs See Profile :
If you can afford it, drop +9 spell dmg gems in all of those puppies and gg.
Can you please tell me the name of these +9 spell damage gems?
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Archivis
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Gball, one thing you should note is that the socket bonuses you get with socketed items are pretty much worthless. From what I've read, and what I plan to do with my shadow priest (level 63 and I have already made Battlecast + Frozen Shadoweave) is just put +9 spell damage in every socket.
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Archivis
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Screw socket bonuses.
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Spend whatever it takes to properly socket and enchant the Frozen Shadoweave set -- you will likely be keeping it until you hit Tier 6 stuff.
Archivis knows what he is talking about. You need to work on getting your to hit rating up to the cap of 76 (actually it woudl be between 75 & 76, but thats just being technical). Anything abouve 76 is wasted anyway. Then go for +damage.
I'm in the process of finishing my switch from holy to shadow (still have a couple of items that I simply don't have any +damage, only +healing on, but I'm getting there).
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