I rather find this video very funny than sad. Didnt even know that icy veins has a bible post about SP rotation. Still dont see a problem with this.
Ah yes, i also started playing with Psychic Link but it turned out to be a lot worse than Dark Evangelism. I like the idea of this talent because in AOE scenarios, we have to press quite a lot ST skills, but other talents are more impactful.
After playing some tyrannical keys this week which is always NOT so fun as fortified affix, i can say that SP still pumps quite good. Im not quite sure, but i think SP ST sims are very low compared to others, but with the season affix it feels good.
The ST gameplay feels like utter garbage in raids because of how much is going on. Having to play mind spike surge, mind devourer, and mind flay insanity all at once is a mess.
shadow priest went from kind of ok searing night mare ok aoe nice four set towards something called abomination In matter of pre patch. But we shall see what blizzard will do in season 1 to fix this garbage play style of not having damage on demand and to much single target ability’s with garbage Pi another player.
shadow Feels more clunkier now and that’s not me trying to be rude it’s just the dev teams stressing stuff what they need to do is fix the problems instead of making clunky fiestas
If you though evoker demands typing Advance to play. Then shadow should have the word Clunky as typing before playing it.
I think we have to much bottoms and cooldowns already.
## Single-Target Rotation for Shadow Priest
The single-target rotation relies on the following priority system of abilities, depending on which phase you are in.
1. Keep  [Vampiric Touch](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/34914) and  [Shadow Word: Pain](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/589) active.
2. Cast  [Mindbender](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/200174) on cooldown.
3. Cast  [Dark Ascension](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391109)
4. Cast  [Power Infusion](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/10060) with  [Void Eruption](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/228260) or  [Dark Ascension](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391109) active.
5. Sync any trinkets you have with your cooldowns.
6. Cast  [Mind Blast](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/8092) if you are at full charges or will cap charges within the next GCD.
7. Cast  [Shadow Word: Death](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/32379) with  [Mindbender](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/200174) active with  [Inescapable Torment](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/373427).
8. Cast  [Mind Blast](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/8092) if  [Mindbender](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/200174) is active and you are capped on charges or will cap charges within the next GCD. Cast at high priority if Mindbender will expire otherwise.
9. Cast  [Devouring Plague](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/335467) to maintain maximum uptime while making sure to not cap on Insanity.
10. Cast  [Vampiric Touch](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/34914) to refresh Vampiric Touch or  [Shadow Word: Pain](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/589) during the pandemic window and  [Shadow Crash](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/205385) will not be off cooldown in time.
11. Cast  [Shadow Word: Death](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/32379) if the target is below 20% HP.
12. Cast  [Mind Blast](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/8092).
13. Cast  [Mindgames](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/375901) if all three DoTs are active. Can delay for a few seconds to line up with  [Dark Ascension](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391109).
14. Cast  [Shadow Crash](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/205385).
15. Cast  [Mind Spike](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/73510) with  [Surge of Darkness](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/162448) procs while moving.
16. Cast  [Mind Flay: Insanity](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391399) with  [Screams of the Void](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/375767). This can be full channeled.
17. Cast  [Halo](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/120644) if all 3 dots are active. This is roughly DPS neutral so it can also be skipped or saved for when the raid needs healing.
18. Cast  [Mind Spike](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/73510) with  [Surge of Darkness](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/162448) procs.
19. Cast  [Mind Flay: Insanity](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391399) when available. This can be full channeled.
20. Cast  [Mind Spike](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/73510) as your main filler.
21. Use the following spells in order should you need to move and do not have procs to consume:  [Shadow Crash](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/205385),  [Shadow Word: Death](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/32379),  [Divine Star](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/122121),  [Shadow Word: Pain](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/589)
For detailed usage of the filler spells see the section at the bottom of this page.
Note: the pandemic window for our DoTs is 30% of the total duration. This means to get optimal value out of refreshing DoTs you want to wait until they are at or below the following thresholds:
*  [Vampiric Touch](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/34914) - 6.3 seconds;
*  [Shadow Word: Pain](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/589) (w/ [Misery](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/238558)) - 6.3 seconds;
*  [Devouring Plague](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/335467) does not pandemic its duration, but it will add the old DoT damage to the new DoT damage;
 [Devouring Plague](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/335467) does not follow the same refresh rules as these two DoTs, instead it rolls its damage over and adds duration based on ticks remaining. The way you typically want to play around this is to maximize uptime of the DoT as much as possible, without capping on Insanity. You want to do this for optimal uptime on our Mastery bonus.
This is the weird singel target rotation after pre patch 10.0 hit that seams bit junked/ bad screwed up by blizzard.
### Target Priority
1. Keep  [Vampiric Touch](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/34914) and  [Shadow Word: Pain](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/589) active on all targets. Stop manually applying DoTs when inside of  [Voidform](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/228264) at 6+ targets.
2. Cast  [Mindbender](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/200174) on cooldown.
3. Cast  [Dark Ascension](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391109)
4. Cast  [Power Infusion](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/10060) with  [Void Eruption](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/228260) or  [Dark Ascension](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391109) active.
5. Sync any trinkets you have with your cooldowns.
6. Cast  [Mind Blast](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/8092) if you are at full charges or will cap charges within the next GCD.
7. Cast  [Shadow Word: Death](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/32379) with  [Mindbender](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/200174) active with  [Inescapable Torment](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/373427).
8. Cast  [Mind Blast](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/8092) if  [Mindbender](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/200174) is active and you are capped on charges or will cap charges within the next GCD. Cast at high priority if Mindbender will expire otherwise.
9. Cast  [Vampiric Touch](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/34914) to refresh Vampiric Touch or  [Shadow Word: Pain](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/589) during the pandemic window and  [Shadow Crash](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/205385) will not be off cooldown in time. Stop manually applying DoTs when inside of  [Voidform](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/228264) at 6+ targets.
10. Cast  [Shadow Word: Death](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/32379) if the target is below 20% HP. Drop this at 4+ targets.
11. Cast  [Mind Blast](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/8092). Make sure your  [Vampiric Touch](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/34914) is spread first.
12. Cast  [Mindgames](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/375901) if all three DoTs are all active. Can save for a few seconds to line up with  [Dark Ascension](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391109). Drop this at 5+ targets.
13. Cast  [Shadow Crash](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/205385) unless adds are coming up within ~10 seconds.
14. Dump remaining charges of  [Mind Blast](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/8092).
15. Cast  [Mind Spike](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/73510) with  [Surge of Darkness](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/162448) procs while moving.
16. Cast  [Mind Flay: Insanity](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391399) with  [Screams of the Void](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/375767). This can be full channeled.
17. Cast  [Halo](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/120644) unless adds are coming within ~20 seconds.
18. Cast  [Mind Spike](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/73510) with  [Surge of Darkness](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/162448) procs.
19. Cast  [Mind Flay: Insanity](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/391399) when available. This can be full channeled.
20. Cast  [Mind Spike](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/73510) as your main filler.
21. Use the following spells in order should you need to move and do not have procs to consume:  [Shadow Crash](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/205385),  [Shadow Word: Death](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/32379),  [Divine Star](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/122121),  [Shadow Word: Pain](https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/589)
Is our aoe that seams like straight out from a dumspter.
Not even monk has this many bottoms to push in a single target and manage to deal less dps.
meanwhile affliction warlock popping off shadow is in trash bin forgotten for next expack again but now in a less developed state more pre alpha’s state
Not gonna lie its to fun to even care now when they have destroyed the core of the class the devs only care for dead stuff like PI and giving it to a ego trip mage/monk. Like can they address this class already.
It’s the worst feeling DPS spec I’ve played. The rotation is so clunky it gives me PTSD. You are cancelling channels left and right, your spenders feel like nothing. It has legit no stuns or slows or any kind of useful utility other than PI. It’s very slow compared to most other dps specs.
If they changed mind sear and mind flay into casts instead of channels, the spec would feel way better, you could just spend your insanity and DoT enemies in between casts instead of cancelling the channel. They also need more of an AoE rotation. Also right now having to spend Insanity on your ONLY AoE ability is ridiculous. The expect you to ramp up your insanity on single target and then dump it into your AoE channel. This is beyond stupid.
for anyone not wanting to read the US forum.
Think It’s more or less blizzard not having time to bring out their classes fully fleshed out and exciting. The Graphics is beautiful but the gameplay is very bad.
They should sit down for the 10.1 and think hard about what they can do to fix it for the next ex pack launching after Dragon Flight now It’s sadly too late.
Hope they could make It better than this unfinished business.
