| shadow priest spell rotation/keymapping/screen setup |
[May. 12th, 2008|02:41 pm] |
Since I know there are at least a few raiding shadow priests on here, I'm hoping to find some help/advice.
Last week, I joined a real raiding guild. Now that I've been in with them for a week or so, I'm realizing what a joke the last one I was in was (not Daughters of the Horde, they're awesome but not a raiding guild, but the one on my old server).
Anyhow, because I just joined, I am of course on a probationary status. The guild is firmly into T5 content - they got their guild first kill of Kael'thas in TK on Friday night, and are starting SSC tonight (will be doing a 1x TK, 2x SSC/week schedule now). I wasn't there on Friday (for SSC anyways, I came in afterwards to help on Mag & Gruuls), as I don't have any experience with KT yet. I will be going to SSC tonight, where we're going to be starting with Hydross and possibly trying Lurker as well. I know those 2 fights already, as my old guild had done them while I was still there. Some of my guildies have done SSC before as they had left another bigger raiding guild on the server to reform a smaller, more tight-knit one with a different perspective.
Anyways, I was talking to one of the officers on the weekend about raiding and my gear & DPS etc. I fit in really really well with the guild personality wise, that's already very obvious. I've done a bunch of instances and quests with them over the past week... in addition to the two raiding nights, we did a 2 1/4 hour Kara clear on Thursday, took down the first 2 bosses of ZA on Saturday and then did the first 3 bosses in Kara on alts after ZA on Saturday, plus a bunch of 5 mans etc. I've never been more happy about my decision to transfer my toons from Nathrezim to Bronzebeard.
But I need to get my DPS up a bit more. Depending on the fight, of course, since shadow priest damage is heavily dependent on whether it's a short fight or a sustained one, I seem to come out at about 700DPS. On the Al'ar fight, where my DPS was pretty continuous, it was at 749. Our other shadow priest (#1SP) was at 816. Our gear is pretty comparable, I think he's got maybe 20 +shadow damage more than me (and I'm at 1220). On VR, I came out at 693, #1SP came out at 747, we both spent the fight running around a lot though. For comparison, on the Kael'thas kill, #1SP was at 880DPS, and on Rage Winterchill, he was at 657.
Apparently I'm going to need to get up to about 1000DPS for when we get into Hyjal full time, but I'm not likely to see a whole lot of gear upgrades between now and then, simply because there isn't much out there for me, not necessarily because of DKP or anything. Now, my guild *is* willing to help with this, they're all very awesome about this, but I'm wondering if you guys have any suggestions for me as well.
I know part of my problem is that I'm a clicker *gasp* yes... I know, I know, I'm trying to break myself of the habit, but having a hard time.
Anyways, any help you can give me would be great. I'd love to see screenshots of your UI, hear how you've set up your keybindings, or anything else you think might help me. I'm going to try binding some of my Gkeys (I have an old-style G15 keyboard) for the raid tonight, as well as shutting off some of my addons during the raid to help with lag, for tonight. And I'm going to respec so my spec is identical to #1SP.
My armory is here: Inaara of Bronzebeard
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