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>meme arrows outside of 4chin

Yeah, I just ran around Ironforge and Stormwind zones to get some flight points, then logged off. Every single lowbie zone has 500+ people in it. Gonna wait until later tonight for Europe to log off, hopefully it'll be better then.

That's a lot of people that think they do, but they don't.

And servers already crashed kek

What's with the cries of "entitlement" ? Not sure what you're reading in my post that makes you think I'm seriously complaining.

Site is lagging hardcore and 504'ing every which way.

I hit server list earlier, but now it's just instant "Disconnected".

I'm assuming so, yes.

And you copied the one I made 7 hours before that.

A lot of people may be afraid to level a Priest, thinking that it is weak when soloing. They're not wrong; Priest is rather weak by itself while leveling, but it is still one of the better leveling classes, because it is very efficient. Compared to other casters who have to spend lots of mana then spend time drinking, Priest makes use of Wands, and while the class has slower kill times, it has faster leveling speed overall because you have little downtime. The general strategy to leveling a Priest is to go (mostly) Shadow, and keep your Wand upgraded. You put 5 points in Wand Specialization, then go down the Shadow tree from there. You can search vanilla Wowhead sites for wand upgrades, but for Alliance, I typically take this path: Lesser Magic Wand (5) -> Greater Magic Wand (13) -> Cookie's Stirring Rod (18) -> Gravestone Scepter (20 or so) -> Earthen Rod (35, BoE) -> Wand of Allistarj (45, BoE) -> Whatever you stumble upon after that; once you hit 50 or so, you'll start making use of Mind Blast and Mind Flay instead of wanding, unless you can find a really nice wand. The BoEs never really cost me very much, across all of the private servers I've played. Earthen Rod is usually around 5-10g, and Allistarj is never more than 20-25g. ************ TALENTS ************ Level 20: http://i.imgur.com/iFJPLoB.png -5 points in Wand Spec, 5 points in Spirit Tap. Personally I go for Wand Spec first, since regen around lower levels is already decently high. -Improved SWP is very nice; makes you do more damage for the same mana. Level 30: http://i.imgur.com/Lwi229f.png -Shadow Focus will ensure that you don't get resists....as often. Spell hit cap is 99% in vanilla, so you WILL get a resist every once in a while. Most people don't put 5 points into the talent, but if you do, it'll make your life easier if you find yourself against +3 mobs, or against higher level players in PvP. -Pick up Mind Flay, but DO NOT use it in PvE. Your wand will do just about as much DPS, for no mana. Mind Flay does not get good until later ranks. -Imp. Mind Blast is not very useful, since you really only cast it once per mob. Silence on the other hand is incredibly useful in both PvE and PvP, so we'll put some points into Imp. Psychic Scream. Level 40: http://i.imgur.com/5bNLcCY.png -Respec your talents and go all the way down to get Shadowform. Nice little damage boost and physical damage reduction. However, you'll still mostly be using your Wand, until the late 40s or so. Level 50: http://i.imgur.com/GaXy2xd.png -Add those points back into Wand Spec and continue down the Disc tree. Level 60: http://i.imgur.com/9bnawxt.png -Not much to say. The talent choices are pretty straight-forward. -A tip for Inner Focus is to use it on Shadow Word: Pain, since that is the highest mana cost damage spell we have. ****************************** GENERAL PLAYSTYLE ****************************** Power Word: Shield (pre-pull) -> Mind Blast** -> Shadow Word: Pain -> Wand it to death This is typically what you're going to be doing throughout your days as a Priest. **Use whatever your highest damage spell is, at the time. Sometimes it is Smite, sometimes it is Holy Fire, sometimes it is Mind Blast. But once you get +shadow damage stuff like Darkness and Shadowform, it'll often be Mind Blast as your highest damage spell. Using this rotation, you won't kill as fast as some other classes, but you will kill very efficiently with minimal mana usage. Your mana will start to regen while the mob is dying, and when it does die, you get that sweet Spirit Tap bonus for 15 seconds. Wands do pretty decent damage for no mana, and they cannot be pushed back like spellcasting can. ********************** STATS/GEARING ********************** For the most part, just grab anything with Int, Stam or Spirit on it. Spell damage if you can find it, but don't drop stats for it. Spirit is really awesome because of Spirit Tap, so if you find yourself running low on mana often, stack more Spirit. Int is okay, but the increase to max mana is really only useful for healing dungeons. Stam is also pretty nice. More survivability never hurts. ********************************************** FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ********************************************** Q. Can I heal dungeons as Shadow? A. Sure you can. Every single healer can heal leveling dungeons without a healing spec, you just need int gear. And since Priest is already wearing int gear anyway...yeah. You don't *NEED* to be Holy to heal dungeons until the mid-50s or so. And even then, you could probably get by, with a decent tank. Q. Isn't it better to level as Disc or Holy until you get Shadowform? A. No, not really. Shadow gives you +6 seconds on SWP and +10% hit on Shadow spells, along with other goodies like Silence and Shadow Weaving, while Disc does not offer any damage bonuses until really deep in the tree. Holy is not good either, because while it does grant bonuses to Smite, you do not want to be casting often because then you will have to drink all the time.

I've done a bit of googling on Shaman leveling, but can't really find a conclusive answer. Lots of people saying Ele is better, lots of people saying Enh is better, some people saying "1h + shield + Flametongue", others saying "2h + Windfury", no idea who is right and who is wrong. I'm going to assume Ele is not as good, because of having to sit and drink all the time. I hate sitting and drinking. For Enh then, what exactly is the best strategy? Talents are pretty straightforward, but what weapon setup, weapon enchant, totems etc to use?

42360 seconds.

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...and running the same dungeon 6 times to get 1 level, doesn't get old fast? But eh, if you want to take 3 months to get to 60, more power to you.

I wouldn't think they'd put a time limit on transfers, seeing as it's completely done by the player, no staff assistance required. MAYBE after 6 or 12 months they'll shut it down, or just manually transfer over any accounts that haven't done so already.

Yes, vanilla Moonkin form doesn't do anything except give you some extra armor and 3% crit. And you can only cast Balance spells, you can't even dispel or innervate or brez or anything, without dropping form. Yep, like non-Mage/Warlock caster dps, mana is their biggest problem. Especially when they're pressured into using Innervate on healers instead of themselves.

Seeing as the realms are all on different patches, cross-realm BGs would not be feasible until all 3 realms have Naxx released, which is not going to be for at least 2 years.

Hi Killerduki.

Uh...still no. In certain areas of Searing Gorge there are a few multiple packs, yes, but it is VERY far from "impossible to pull just 1 mob" that you're making it out to be.

There's "having a bad moment" and then there's "arguing for 5+ pages even when people prove you wrong multiple times" "and then continuing to insist that you're right and even update the OP with 'proof' that doesn't prove anything" Not to mention continuous fanatical insistence that Prot Paladins are the best MTs and Ret is good DPS.

Yeah, let's celebrate the troll that repeatedly insists that Int is the best stat for Shadow Priests.

You don't need to be Holy to heal. Holy does not gain any extra healing spells that Shadow does not, outside of Holy Nova and LOLwell. If you level Holy, you're going to have a much harder time, unless you're in a group 100% of the time. There is no "rotation" for healing. You use whichever spell the situation calls for. Which in healing's case, means using different ranks of Heal + Greater Heal, depending on how much health the target is missing.

I remember logging out somewhere in Elwynn and then being dead when I logged back in. Apparently logging out for more than a few minutes in an area with aggressive mobs will kill you.