What Made Shadow Priest So Good in TBC?

[@Jombozeus]

Gave your party infinite mana. There you go saved you 10 minutes.

[@Spiritki113r]

not all heroes wear capes

[@karter969]

Jombozeus lol he rambles so much incoherent garbage

[@Legitimate123]

@@karter969 What a dick. He gave a lot of useful information.

[@GuyHeadset]

I’m guessing the reason this comment has this many upvotes is because people don’t actually care to hear why a class is good, they just want a yes of no.

[@Legitimate123]

@@GuyHeadset Brainlets maybe

[@DeputyDump]

I've played World of Warcraft since the end of tbc and up until a month ago have never tried shadow priest, I am absolutely in love with it. We may not top charts but knowing I'm doing more than just damage like a mage does makes me feel good.

[@morten8586]

Mages do nothing for their party ? More intellect,massive croud controlls, provide food/water and on top of that the best aoe damage on the game. I dont even wanna talk about some bosses u have to tank or spell steal as mage so that they are even possible. Every single class has it benefits for a party but yea, shadow priests are awesome

[@Electro4ever1000]

I think you got him wrong. He was just saying that he is happy about the benefit that a shadowpriest could bring as a support class to his party members more than just being a pure DPS, such as a mage.

[@funman2100]

@@morten8586 I wouldnt say best aoe in the game there's warlocks

[@Thatdudewiththedogs]

@@funman2100 mages AoE DPS is way better than a locks, imo.

[@Jive33]

The Shadow Weaving tooltip at 4:21 says it stacks up to 15001 times. Haha

[@DaveTheGamer-detailedguides]

Spriest will finally feel welcomed as they deserve!

[@mattie2980]

i just found out about your channel, but i absolutely love it already.. thanks for the content

[@Caboose009]

My favorite was our guilds arcane mage that would only attend raids if I was in his party, miss you ABS.

[@morten8586]

Ye i played arcane mage too. having a Spriest and maybe a druid for innervate also in your party makes your dps skyrock

[@redhammer92]

Arcane mage and spriest are like peanut butter lol. Been playing spriest on endless and it feels so nice to be useful!

[@whosnext921]

We still playing TBC on Lightsvengeance server (stormspire). If you wanna join us w/ anyone from Tips: type /join world (for worldchat) - you can instantly jump to lvl 58, then start in the hellfire peninsula. we provide 16 slot bag and some special cookie for new members also socials are welcome :)

[@austinab3310]

Great video! Been playing SPriest in Classic and on Endless and loving it - super exited for (hopefully) TBC Classic to keep playing my SPriest as a desired contributor in PVE. One super minor thing to note: Abolish Disease is a Holy Spell so you have to leave Shadow Form to cast. Still a nice to have thing, but realistically not something you'll be able to use while doing DPS in PvE. Well, at least not while DPSing on the same fight since Moving in and out of Shadow form will drain your mana too much.

[@Electro4ever1000]

This is not a Spriest's job but a Hpriest's to use abolish disease. The tasks of a Spriest would be to mainly regenerating mana to your party, use Mind Control or Mass Dispel during the raid.

[@Tehflayz]

I think you ended the bit early there at 9:05 when you kept taking about power word shield

[@rahbeat9785]

so why would he cut it short? i don't get it

[@ElevatedLevetator]

subbed! sorry for forgetting all the time bro

[@daniellarsson3699]

0:09 Aaah familiar sound, Harry potter games was awesome ! :)

[@Weavile12]

Ahh I knew I recognised that, the fucking nostaglia hurts man ;(

[@yobachidu6452]

God its been so looooong since i played those games

[@sumbody694]

Night elf priests get starshards which is a instant cast dot that does about as much as your vampiric touch or SW pain, and it has either no or a very minimal cost and is on a fairly short cd meaning NE's get a their own extra dot to add in shadowform.

[@selfbane99]

3:00 there's an angelic song playing in the background. It's barely audible but WHAT IS SONG?

[@demonofpixels]

Peace of Akatosh - Elder Scrolls Oblivion

[@CherryflavorINC]

gotta get to the 10 minute mark, even if it justs plain black screen

[@llabronco]

respect the ambition

[@hallo-mt5tx]

holy shit its actually true hahaha

[@MetaGoblin]

Technically 8 minute videos are better for the algorythm and the black screen is there for end screens.

[@grampygamer8584]

Love your content dude! Keep it coming :)

[@marccolantuono2341]

TBC I was almost always raid high dps. Grul, Mag, Kara, SSC, the The troll and Blelf place ones. any fight I didn't have to run around like crazy, raid highest by a large margin and I always got put in the main healer group or the tank group (if we ran pali's). the trick to stacking shadow weaving also was using different rank spells. Stack Hit to raid cap and then just crazy damage I had somewhere north of 1300 spell power.

[@jjjtalon]

never read a more wrong comment in my life. spriest have no chance vs warlock/hunter if you were topping your raid sucked. sorry to say

[@zeast04]

Can you measure the overall healing and dps a group dose with and with out a shadow priest

[@Electro4ever1000]

Best races for a PvE Shadow Priest in TBC in my opinion: Troll for the Horde with Berserking racial. With Shadow Word : Death included in your DPS rotation, it increases your haste by 30% for 10 sec. So the faster your DPS is, the more you will regenerate mana for your party. Draenei for the Alliance with Symbole of Hope, a CD which provide mana certain amount of mana every 5 sec to your party over a duration of 15 sec and Heroic Presence racial. Heroic Presence provides a bonus of 1% of spell (equivalent of 12,6 spell hit rating), which makes you reach your spell hit cap easier and allows you to place an additional point in Mental Agility from Discipline tree. Note that you would already have that 1%, since Heroic Presence benefit also the rest of the party and could come from a shaman.

[@alexandermedina9318]

And professions?

[@bloodlustftw3790]

@@alexandermedina9318 enchantment / tailoring for the frostweaver set. Later, you will forget enchantment for leather working to get the drums once you would have echanted your bis rings.

[@Itakio]

Thoughts on troll vs undead for spriest dps? Trolls get berserking, shadowguard and touch of weakness, while undead get devouring plague. I'm leaning towards undead.

[@kylehaun8192]

If you wanna pvp at all undead for sure

[@darknight602]

Shadow guard + blackout

[@H4licarnassus]

Great video, would love to see one for ele shaman. I've been tossing up between spriest and ele shaman for TBC main.

[@sinki19841984]

Played shaman in classic, TBC and wrath. Played priest in Wrath as well. I'm in between shaman and priest for TBC....

[@Bl4ckP0150n]

Same, I'm between draenei spriest or draenei ele shaman

[@Taunteur]

0:39 : what is this UI?

[@nopejones9542]

what is a good addon for spriest to track dots

[@CelticBloodGaming]

Tellmewhen

[@Wonnnebju]

Nugrunning

[@morten8586]

Does vampiric embrace stack with another shadowpriest ?

[@RoundOrangeball]

Yeah, I remember doing mech normal with pala tank and 4 spriest

[@tiagoferrari2392]

How are Shadow Priests in pvp? Do they have S Tier comps in 3s? How are they in Bgs?

[@kylehaun8192]

Spriest rogue shaman was r1 on rampage back in the day. Milkofamnsia serration (aka woundman) and some shaman

[@ryguy108]

Umm world first guild are going to stack all debuffs > then classes. There will be one shadow priest for sure for shadow weaving and misery.

[@dustinblanchard2124]

My dad had benediction in vanilla wow he mailed shadow in bc and I watched him raid grules lair

[@simmot5213]

Can you do this video for shaman?

[@xeed4545]

Are SP also as benefical in classic as in TBC?

[@sukuidoardo]

Nope but sp is a good pvp spec in classic

[@connor3198]

debuff caps and few mana regen abilities held it back in classic.

[@rexiklexi169]

Is there any reason to pick Troll over Undead for PvE? Or is this haste buff a waste over devouring plague

[@darknight602]

Shadow guard is pretty damn good with blackout

[@Userbaer]

Does the Vampiric Touch give yourself also Mana ? Or is it just for others ?

[@Electro4ever1000]

Vampiric Touch 425 Mana 30 yd range 1.5sec cast Causes 650 Shadow damage over 15sec to your target and causes all party members to gain mana equal to 5% of any Shadow spell damage you deal.

[@Userbaer]

@@Electro4ever1000 not a answer to my question and i read that myself. Is the all party members yourself included ?

[@Electro4ever1000]

@@Userbaer It says "all party members". Therefore, it's obviously including yourself as you are a part of that party. :) I am a spriest veteran from TBC, so I can confirm you that. If it wasn't the case, you would be oom within 1 min.

[@chigchug283]

are u stupid? 😂

I cleared SWP on excalibur-wow playing a SP and then played it on Wotlk servers as well. Ofc I main SP on retail :D Love them, SP is the only interesting caster in raids imho, but we used to bring only 1, maaaaaybe 2 per raid, never more :)

[@Electro4ever1000]

And why only 1 and not 2 spriests in your raid? Did you run 2 parties of melees and only 1of casters in TBC? Every casters' party should at least have one spriest when it comes to raiding in TBC.

@@Electro4ever1000 I am looking at some old videos now. 1 SP always goes go mage group: 2xmage, resto sham, SP and a paladin (holy or prot in this group) and if we had second SP it would go to healer group. Lock group (3xlock, ele sham and boomkin) doesn't need SP since they can just life tap I guess.

[@Electro4ever1000]

@ yes, you are right about life tap or innervate on boomkin. However, I believe that you would avoid to use those abilities if it's really not necessary and just only focus on your DPS buttons to take the boss down asap before he goes Zerk. This is why I prefer the meta with one Spriest in each casters' party so you could keep your manapool up as long as possible and DPS continuesly, without having to life tap or innervate.

[@supra4lif3]

Mana battery

[@67jaguarpaw]

Gonna reroll shadow priest for bc classic

[@markotunjic5384]

I disagree with your statement that spriest wont have place in world first runs. Everyone will stack warlocks and hunters just like they do with warrs now. And if you stack locks then spriest is must.

[@chrisark5294]

Hunters were not that good in pvp after the nerfs and guarantee we start at a later patch after they got brought into line. This time around everyone knows how to play vs a TBC huntards burst. Survive the burst and its gg. Nobody really wants to play a 45 min mana drain game as well. I think people are overestimating how many hunters there will be in tbc ESPECIALLY after the ass raping they got in classic with the spell batching and god awful leeway mechanic.

[@fuengo5607]

Anyone knows how to make wow looks so smooth like in the video?

[@SirWtfcharles]

shadow priest caps out at ~1400 dps with best possible gear though so if you plan to chase meters this isnt the spec for you.

[@robthomas793]

I hit 1400 in Gruul the other night and I don’t have any t5 gear yet.

[@SirWtfcharles]

@@robthomas793 back in BC I raided up to m'uru before nerf, my gf was playing shadow priest at the time. All the math and posts from that time figured that spriest capped out about that dps. The values must be different on your server.

[@connor3198]

The point of Spriest is not to get high dps though, and anyone doing that is playing the class wrong.

[@SirWtfcharles]

@@connor3198 maxing out your dps is the best way to max out your party's mana regen which is the true purpose of spriest in bc.

[@nicolethomas9]

I made my shadow priest just for TBC 😀😀

[@patrickpatenaude7719]

I just left WoW 2 weeks ago, and I had to let go of my spriest spot in the guild. I’ve been anticipating TBC for a while now... You’re making me regret my choices !!

[@rahbeat9785]

why? just wait for TBC like i do

[@patrickobrienstr]

Time to level up my priest 😈

[@rahbeat9785]

spriest/rogue 2's should be a reason on it's own

[@chrisark5294]

Spriest rogue was a thing because arena was brand new and 85% of arena players were legit garbage. With the way classic meta is going and 15 years of experience Spriest will get shut down in TBC arena unfortunately. People just stood around letting spriest cast at will in arena. Go watch any of the tbc spriest videos they have crazy up time casting. You guys thought Resto druids were OP back then? LoL its gunna be an amazing thing to see just how OP a second time around. Feral is going to actually be really really good in arena this time around.

[@frankstaffa419]

@@chrisark5294 Spriest/Rogue still has success on private servers in the hands of modern players.

[@kylehaun8192]

Not against the endless double undead mage rogues that they will be playing

[@definitelynotblitzcrank5566]

@@kylehaun8192 Requim and Azie are both mentioning Spriest/Rogue on Endless and Henhouse. It's one of the better 2v2s.

[@chrisark5294]

@Me Th Yea but here we are doing arena and Spriest/rogue is ez claps bud. Rogue/mage dominating

[@onechillpanda581]

Your content is severely underrated MetaGoblin, I hope people find the power to hit that sub button, toss a like and write a lovely comment. Keep your content going, you are being very appreciated. Peace

[@Lakutus88]

if they boosted SP dmg with 40% they would still be behind top dps. Blizzard balance always makes me wonder if they knew what the hell they where doing! They should have chnaged the SP dmg for classic there is no fking reasone they should be so far behind others!

[@Lakutus88]

@Me Th I am not dissagreeing my point is Lock is stronger in everyway basicly over a SP. My other point is why the F is SP not scaling better.

[@Vektordeformacio]

U cut the video weirdly

[@Permuh]

All these "expert" content creators saying different things make me think they have no idea what theyre talking about. Edit: With their predictions of i.e. raid comp that is

[@liamglasel]

From someone who raided semi hardcore back in tnc (6/9 BT, Got my amani bear), I remember hating having to bring a shadow priest. We only ever took one for mana and because we liked that person 😆 Prot pally too.

[@RothurThePaladin]

level 44 spriest on your server now.

[@helloyou807]

Hows the server now

[@billyumbraskey8135]

warlocks

[@dayrenist]

Lol warlocks best dps in the game

[@connor3198]

they are in tbc

[@lastsilhouette85]

lol they weren't. Not in Original BC

[@TeamThorntonGames]

i was gonna subscribe, then you asked, so now im not.

[@MetaGoblin]

that's soooooooo edgy you're super cool

[@darknight602]

I do the same shit lol

[@TheBLahhQ]

I played one in tbc 10 years ago it's a 2 button rotation full s2 strong but boring asf

[@cerrus7146]

2 of your 4 statements are wrong. SP in pve is not a 2 button rotation and will least involve 5 and on the other hand its not strong at all in terms of dps compared to the top dps. I assume the first statement u did is wrong aswell and the fourth is well ... your opinion.

[@chrisark5294]

@@cerrus7146 They're also not going to be anywhere near as strong in pvp with all the knowledge people have. Not to mention a giant chunk of wow players back then didn't even fully keybind.

[@idiosyncrasy3315]

So you admit you were a trash shadow priest 10 years ago.

[@blazepascal9285]

A shadow priest will not use vampiric embrace in a raid since it will pull too much aggro. You only know that if you actually go out and raid :)

[@zankom417]

That sucks

[@blazepascal9285]

@@zankom417 Yes and no. It means your healers have to be good.

[@MetaGoblin]

Never had that issue when i was raiding.

[@blazepascal9285]

@@MetaGoblin Dungeons are not raids.

[@mariajrgensen2355]

@@blazepascal9285 I've been raiding quite a lot on Endless. It's never been an issue, if you know how to manage threat - just like every other class...

[@NY-qb5bq]

LoL Spriest was good for pve..but pvp they were garbage and have no mobility or defense but 1 fear lol.