My apologies first off for my messed up UI. I started recording just after 3.3 came out and I hadn't updated several addons so some stuff doesn't look exactly right (i.e. my minimap being behind my EBB instead of in the center square like it should be).
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It's been a while since I made a video and every time I make one, I strive to make it better than the previous. This video is longer than any of the previous ones I've made, mostly due to the fact that matches just last longer with a healer than without. All matches have been played since patch 3.3 and are at 2400 or higher MMR.
Fauxy4 - 2400+ Shadow Priest PvP
Season 7 - BG1 - Reckoning
Spirestone - US PvP
2v2 - Shadow Priest / Resto Shaman
3v3 - Shadowplay - Shadow Priest / Resto Shaman / UA Warlock
Runtime: 12:59
Players
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Fauxy - (recently xferred) - http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Are
a+52&cn=Fauxyz
Arahonos - http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Spi
restone&n=Arahonos
Dotpheme - http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Spi
restone&n=Dotpheme
Matches
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Shadow Priest / Resto Shaman vs:
-- Disc Priest / Rogue
-- Holy Pally / Warrior
-- Resto Shaman / Rogue
-- Resto Shaman / Rogue
-- Disc Priest / Hunter
Shadowplay vs:
-- RMP
-- Survival Hunter / Ele Shaman / Resto Druid (not a common comp, but they were at 2500 MMR so I went ahead an included it)
-- Double Healer
-- Wizard Cleave
Music
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Mike Koglin vs. Seventh Heaven feat. Anita Kelsey - Calling You
Vengeance - Dawn Of The Uprising (Denga vs Manus Mix)
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For anyone interested in running shadow priest / resto shaman, here are a few guidelines to remember since I don't think anyone else runs this comp and afaik there are no guides or anything otu there:
- Gear for haste. You will almost always be the focus target of any melee. The faster you can get your casts off, the less chance of them being interrupted.
- Always try to get at least one tick of Hymn of Hope off before using any mana regeneration ability. It increases your maximum mana, therefore regenerating more mana. Hymn of Hope + Dispersion + Mana Tide is almost a full mana bar.
- Always pop Shadowfiend before your shaman uses Heroism. If your Shadowfiend has Heroism, he attacks faster, which results in both a) more damage and b) more mana for you.
- Almost always use Heroism very early on. The more pressure you put early on, the more defensive cooldowns your opponents will have to use to stay alive. This will make scoring a kill much easier later on with a well timed CC train.
- On the same note, you won't always want to use Silence to score kills. It is often better to use Silence early to get healers behind on healing to force them to use cooldowns. The more cooldowns they use early, the easier it is to score kills later.
- Against rogues, blow lots of offensive cooldowns early to force a cloak. Then, once the rogue pops out again, simply keep him dotted and his offensive capabilities are drastically reduced as long as you don't let him out of LoS for too long.
- Against mages, use Shadow Word: Death to break Polymorph, especially in 2s since you don't have a warlock to devour Polymorph in the event you miss it. In the clip vs. RMP, I did a very, very poor job SW:Ding Polymorphs, most of them caught me in a GCD, and some I just wasn't paying attention to the mage and I should have been. If I had landed SW:Ds, the game would have much been easier than it was.
- Against shamans, knock down Cleansing Totems as often as possible. If you don't spec into Silent Resolve (I don't have it as my Shadow PvP spec is primarily for 5s), you have no dispel protection on Devouring Plague, and cleansing it drastically reduces your damage output.
- Against DKs, keep Abolish Disease and Cleansing Totem up as often as possible. Between the two, you should rarely have more than 1-2 diseases on you.
- Against warriors, DO NOT use Dispersion when he uses Bladestorm unless your shaman has to eat a full CC or you are already very low. Bladestorm is a perfect time to burst warriors without any interruption, and is often when we land kills on them.
