This post was originally intended to be about how the latest priest changes had thrown me into a state of indecision since they were encouraging, especially regarding Shadowpriests. But Blizzard has kindly removed that problem by swinging the nerf bat once again. The blog "A Dwarf Priest" said it best, I think: "I almost feel that there are two competing teams of devs: one that wants to oppress shadow priests, and the other that wants them to function as well as other DPS classes. "Who will win? I can't say, but I'm guessing that at the end of the day, the more traditional DPS casters (i.e., mages), will remain top of the heap due to the fact that DPS is all they bring to the table, while the priest can always switch specs and heal (whether they want to or not).
FWIW, the latest calculations at EJ show Shadowpriests dropping from 3rd place in raid DPS (behind arcane spam mages and fire mages but ahead of all Shamans, even enhancement) to a dismal 9th (behind all mages, balance druids and most shamans).
If this holds up (and with the announcement regarding the impending patch, it may), this helps me to eliminate Shadow as my spec of choice for LK (hmmm... maybe I should rename my blog? But mages can melt things, right?). But despite a few nerfs, I'm still holding out hope that discipline will be viable for PVE healing, which I would love to see.
Update 9/12: It's been less than 24 hours since this post, and in that time Blizz has provided a significant set of major buffs for all priest specs, and then turned around and re-nerfed them all. Things are in flux so much right now that it's hard to make any real choices until the next patch.
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