Cataclysm Priest 85 Shadow Spec Gear Options

I never know what gear to get first when starting to PVP on a fresh noobed level 85 Priest, so i thought i would list some of my findings here.

usually i just find a shadow priest that is doing massive damage in battle grounds and just check there gear/spec, but i have found a couple of useful posts on this one. I think we can forget about spirit for the moment, for shadow as the mana usage pretty much just sux anyway no matter how much spirit you have, however you can get the spirit geat and reforge it to Haste for a better option. Plus get the +spel pen cloak as well and that will be mostly enough for most players apart from mages where you need around 225 or so spell pen.

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Theed 3 Shadowpriest Arena PVP Pwnage!

Shadowpriest PVP in Arena, not much more to be said. Some srs skill goin on there.



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Shadow Spec for Leveling the Priest

So i was going along with my previous post about leveling as holy, which seemed fine.

Then i got into a group for Nexxus and it just sucked, wiped about 6 times on the last boss before we called it. So two hours later, i was only 200k exp better off.

As i really want to start gearing up the priest for PVP and Arena's, i just want to get to 80 as fast as possible really, so i decided to spec Shadow. I know its probably the obvious leveling spec, but dam, it has some crazy dps and i dont seem to go OOM that quick either really.

I was just farming lower level animals for some quests in Dragonblight so i guess that may have had something to do with it, but mindflay was ticking for about 800-1200 and it can crit now! I wasnt even bothering to shadow word pain the mobs. Cant wait until 75 when i get the AOE skill, although that does seem to burn through a bit of mana at around 800 per cast or something.

Maybe that still has something to do with the DPS Bug?

Anyway back to grinding ;)

Here is the spec im using at the moment. 13/0/52.