I really only Shadow, but wanna try to do a Horrific Vision clear as Disc. What do you guys think the best spec is to maximize dps?
I’m confused on the question. Are you asking which spec does more dps, or which spec is better for Horrific Visions, or how to maximize dps as Disc?
Best spec to clear a vision.
I would say shadow as our has the highest damage potential by far. Eat the goulash healing food and go to town.
I’ve heard the mobs hp is 44% lower if you’re a healing spec so I wanted to try one out as Disc to see what it was like.
This is true however I can manage more than 44% extra damage as shadow.
You would want all the damage talents, 3x death throes talents and dps trinkets
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Aight, was just looking to do something different with the runs is all. Gets pretty repetitive just being Shadow every run haha
That’s fair, I thought you were asking the best way to do it.
I run visions as Disc. Since the nerf they’re pretty easy. Definitely run Schism, Purge the Wicked, and Shadowfiend (with Visions of Perfection minor for reduced CD). I run with Concentrated Flame (Rank 4) as my major essence because it can hit for ridiculous numbers, even though it’s no longer buffed by Schism. I have the H Maut trinket which applies a DoT that also regens your mana, and that DoT can chew something down real fast. I flask up, as well.
Didn’t realize they were nerfed as I didn’t touch SW last week so I am excited to see what I can do now. Before I could pretty easily do both corrupted zones and Thrall.
I enjoy using the cyclotronic blast card. It’s really nice for basically destroying an elite and taking it out of the battle quickly even after it was nerfed. I also don’t have many better trinkets so maybe higher ilvl trinkets would wreck it, but the concentrated damage especially with Crucible is nice
Disc still has no interrupt and no access to good dps essences for visions like essence of the focusing iris. Even if you can only run 445 shadow azerite its still going to be better for visions than disc.
Agreed, the lack of interrupt is a downside. I mainly use Psychic Scream and Shining Force +/- strategic LoS as pseudo interrupts. But disc damage paired with the reduction paired with our survivability means I have an easier time in visions as solo disc than I did as solo shadow. But to each their own, that’s why Blizzard made these changes so healers didn’t HAVE to swap to a dps spec to be remotely viable.
I did a full clear solo after the nerfs. It was close at the end but I also made some mistakes so it should be easy next time. Concentrated Flame x 2 and cyclotronic blast pretty much blow up rexxar and the end guy in the other lost area instantly.
Also Concentrated Flame the dominators and you don’t need to interrupt much
I’m curious how you did this. I’m an average shadow priest so a disc clear might be easier for me.
Did you full clear SW yet?
How big are you pulling to full clear?
How upgraded is your Titan thing?
I assume you’re running 3x death throes and purge the wicked?
You can look for Automatikjak’s solo clear on youtube. He cleared all the zones of Stormwind as Disc.
I haven’t done SW but I would guess it’s a bit harder… but I am also not as familiar so maybe it just takes a few tries to figure out the mobs. I did do two more full clears of Org after and both I finished with plenty of Sanity.
You want to pull a lot in the corrupted zones and you want Purge the Wicked to be doing most of the damage as the mobs follow you behind. Dot everything. I had two Death Throes and two of the Heart of Darkness. Also I have a low ilvl(420) Infinite Stars. Always be casting something, even if it’s just spamming holy nova/purge as you are running. In the Lost Areas I do not pull multiple packs but I do continue to move as far up as I can while killing. Skip as much as you can by hugging the wall to the right after Miisha and dodging corpses.
Elite Extermination is pretty much required and totally changed the vision. Try to maximize it by not using an orb right before a named mob(except Rexxar). Also I have the self-rez trait and you can plan when to use it so you can save an Orb. It is extremely useful
The most dangerous mob in Org is Rexxar- Drop an orb before pulling and stand in it while you fight him against the wall. DPS him to 80% normally and then unload cyclotronic blast and concentrated flame x 2 and he should be pretty much dead. You want to wait to unload until he starts spawning adds or he will kill you as you run out of burst DPS. I managed to kill him while only losing 50 sanity this way and then went into Thrall with 900+ Sanity.
The dominators are annoying, but they have VERY low HP. If they do happen to get a cast off try to psychic scream right as it finishes and it will cancel it. Be aware of them but they really are negligible
Potions are super helpful too so grab all that you see and be mindful which color drains sanity, aside from that one color all of the others will provide some benefit