At the urging of some fellow shadow priests, I decided to make the change to Shadow to see how I liked it. I used a typical cookie-cutter build, except I took Silence because I hate seeing a mob trying to heal and not being able to do anything about it. My gear is subpar, being a mish-mash of my standard healing garb, some off-spec gear from Kara, some cheap badge gear, and some old blue quest rewards that I never picked up. Since this is an experiment, I didn't bother with enchants or any expensive gems. Still, I was able to pretty easily hit the spell hit target, and Wow-heroes shows me as ready for Mags/Gruuls.
With new spec in hand and wondering what to try, I got a tell from a guildie asking if I wanted to try out my new SP on Kara! I eagerly agreed and was summarily summoned to the hallway leading to Prince! Talk about a coming out party. Sadly, I still didn't have my keybinds down and managed to suicide early in the prince fight by casting SW:D while Enfeebled. But the practice on the trash was good -- the challenge was learning whether it was worth it to cast SW:P or not.
Since that run, I've done a couple of heroics and a circuit of all the SSO dailies. I must say, although I enjoy it a lot, it just doesn't have the oomph, that my mage does. Other than finishing off a runner with the occasional SW:D, I feel like I'm helping, but I don't feel like I'm really doing any serious damage.
So, the jury is still out. With a rogue in waiting, and a mage closing in on Outland, I'm fairly well stocked in the DPS department, so I guess I'm going to wait a bit more.
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