mind control raid leader to give you all gear. Just like true shadow priest
3 Likes
The ranked system is a little disappointing in that regard. Then again in vanilla if you had full blues you were pretty good still.
Best way is to stack healing gear and switch specs because Shadow sucks!!!
Thatâs racist. Shadow Priests can do good too if it wasnât for the âmanâ keeping them down. But uhhh yeah you definitely want at least one shadowpriest per raid for âshadow weavingâ. That boosts your warlock damage.
Oh yeah, Iâm not doubting their effectiveness. I just never enjoyed it. Then again most casters suck in WoW, I suppose.
1 Like
Casters are amazing. They just donât get a lot of decent gear early game. Once you reach BWL era and warlocks start to get hit capped⌠they can dish out some pain. Especially when fire mages start stacking crit rating with ignite.
Again, just never really enjoyed it, personally. I guess itâs the fact that youâre generally standing there immobile, watching 3 second cast bars, and then going OOM.
I donât think Iâll ever get there, because when I think âcasterâ I want Diablo II Sorceress. Instant cast epic spells and be limited only by the number of frames in your cast animation⌠which you can reduce with gear. 
Mage is pretty much broken OP from Now until i dunno BFA?
And they donât oom all that easy in classic.
Spriests will oom in most pve encounters but nobody fks with a spriest in wpvp unless they got buddies with them.+
You will need to raid. Be prepared to be ignored by all warlocks. Try hard is try hard. Best of luck. Be ready to play 8 days a week and 28 hours a day.
cloth works
Honestly friend he might have the best luck gearing up as a healer, or at least power infusion/shadow weaving spec.
The community perception on hybrid classes dpsing isnât that great and some people will simply not take them because they heard somewhere on the internet that âhybrids canât dps in classicâ
Hoewever if you have a friendly casual guild, or are able to find one they might be a lot more accommodating.
Pre-raid BiS should be more than good enough for him to start out with an go for the blue pvp set when itâs released. As far as Iâm aware that set shouldnât be too unattainable for someone who is focused mostly on PvP.
Just be aware there isnât much to spriest in raiding in classic. The debuff limit really hurts them, generally speaking you will only be wanding and casting mind blast (often low ranks because of the threat modifier) as both SW:P and Mind Flay both require a debuff slot on the boss.
That being said, itâs not all doom and gloom, spriests are possibly one of the most fun PvP specs in classic to play, so whilst your friend might have a bit of difficulty initially, long term they will be rewarded greatly from the experience.
I play a Spriest, I joined an excellent guild that doesnt mknd what people want to play. We care about people showing up and being kind/helpful. Life really isnt so hard as a Spriest. Just play what you enjoy and find people you enjoy playing with and the rest will fall into place.
Get rank 10 pvp, itâs very good for shadow priest. You wonât get any shadow gear from Raids until AQ. All priest gear in T1, T2, and T3 is purely healing gear.
Your only shadow gear is AQ and PvP. Lucky for you rank 10 priest pvp gear is godly.
Plus the bg rep items once the bgs are out. Some great epics for you there as well.