Your order of spells (PVE)Follow

I was just curious as to how other priests start off each fight when soloing or grinding or anything in pve. I noticed all of my friends do everything differently from each other and from me, so I wanted to see what was common among us.

Level doesn't really matter either, 20's 30's 40's 50's and so on, if anything this could turn out to be useful info for future priests as well :D

I know things like this have been posted before, in fact i've seen it before, but after sifting up to page 4 i thought maybe just give it a good bump anyway.

When I used to be shadow it went:

VT, SWP, VE, MB, MF, MF, Wand

I really rarely used PWS unless my hp dropped down to like 20%. Most mobs 1v1 you'll get as much if not more HP through VE than they will do in damage so PWS is a waste of mana.

off topic

Hahaha :)
nice one EuanB!
When in the low levels playing solo melee damage is fine,
it does not use the universal coll down un-like the wanding.
As you level up that melee damage becomes less and less, as it is if I go and try to melee a mob at my level I score 1 damage per hit. I would Strongly recommend trying out the wand, if you don't have a wand you can make one with enchanting, Lesser Mystic Wand level 26.

Melee hits are good but they are best used between other actions. In PvP I'll run at a mage while casting an instant spell with the hot keys (Dispel/Pain) and then useing the other hand do one melee hit before useing fear or whatever.
It's free damage! uses no time at all... and slows down the other casters casting time!

good one! grumble grumble wish I had an enchanter...grumble grumble or a wife for that matter :)
Waiting on the universal cool down for Power Word: Shield can be the difference between living and dying, I'm with you on this one.
Elixir of Lion's Strength


Edited, Apr 5th 2007 2:19am by Maxzzzz

My wand and daggers are maxed out for my level. With range attack mobs I wand them :-)

Staves......er......1?

Holy Fire, run, SWpain, PWshield, stop running and turn. Smite till shield wares off and mindblast, then wand if needed

Are you sure it works? You have 2 "cast" and i know that doesn't work.

Normally you can not have 2 consecutive casts as the macro script does not pause or wait for a speel to me cast before continuing to the next line of the script. For example you can't do;

/cast [harm] Mind Blast  
/cast [harm] Mind Flay

and if you put in the /stopcasting command like this;

/cast [harm] Mind Blast  
/stopcasting  
/cast [harm] Mind Flay

It will just cancel casting MB and begin casting MF.

Here the catch though. Inner Focus is an instant cast spell so as soon as you cast it the spell has already been cast and can't be canceled, so the script just continues on. It then trys to use the trinket Vengeance of the Illidari and then Glowing Crystal Insignia. If any of these 3 are still in CD then that one won't proc and you will get the message that spell/item not ready. The script then begins to cast Mind Blast the only real casting spell in the macro.

The only real "issue" with the script is that you may get the spell/item not ready warnings fairly often, I would disable the sound effect in the Audio options. You will still get the message on the screen which doesn't really bother me. Also because those 2 trinkets are +spell damage you will never be able to use them both at the same time. But with fairly short cool downs you will have a nice damage bonus rather often. The /stopcasting between each line is required as I was not able to get the script to work correctly without them.

On a side note, if any priests have points in Power Infusion this should work.

/cast [harm] Inner Focus  
/stopcasting  
/cast [harm] Power Infusion 
/stopcasting  
/use [harm] Vengeance of the Illidari  
/stopcasting  
/use [harm] Glowing Crystal Insignia  
/stopcasting  
/cast [harm] Mind Blast 

Another script I may have to try tonight just for the heck of it is;

/cast [harm] Shadow Word: Pain  
/stopcasting  
/cast [harm] Mind Flay 

- Azoth

Azzwurms - As I understand the talent, Shadow Weaving will not proc or renew from using a shadow wand, only from landing a shadow spell. But once it has proc'ed and stacked lets say 3 times from MB, SW:P, MF then a shadow damage wand would cause an additional 9% damage to the target as it is causing shadow damage.

This is one of the reasons that Shadow Wands are so difficult to find on AH and sell so damn quickly. That extra damage makes taking down a mob a little easier.

- Azoth

PW:S, Mind Blast, SW:P, Mind Flay, Mind Flay, Mind Blast, Wand til dead.

When farming in less populated areas
VT
SWP (while running away)
VE (only if hp is below 75%)
MF
MF (if the mob is too close MB instead)
They are usually dead by then - if not use either wand or SWD to finish.

When farming in crowded areas - stealing your mob is a preffered tactics of some kids - horde seem a bit more polite on my server (I'm alliance)

MB
VT
MF
wand

Don't get into pvp fights - its cuts into the farming time, but if some1 ganks you go at him like a pitbull until a) you corsecamped him 2,3 times b) he runs away :)

I would change Inner Focus to come right before Mind Blast otherwise it would have been wasted on Power of Infustion (a spell that doesn't crit nor consume much mana).

/use [harm] Vengeance of the Illidari
/stopcasting
/use [harm] Glowing Crystal Insignia
/stopcasting
/cast [harm] Power Infusion
/stopcasting
/cast [harm] Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/cast [harm] Mind Blast

This would be preferable. Power of Infusion will last long enough to crank out a Mind Blast and a SW: Death. If it were me, I'd use Inner Focus on Smite or Holy Fire since I can have a better chance at proccing Surge of Light and get a free Smite in.

at lvl 46 ,I do;

pw:s ->mindblast ->sw:p->mindflay *2 then either wand if mob is low,or one more mindblast to finish off

This kills off 95 % of my targets,upto and including 3 levels above me,usually before my shield is out,ao no need to heal...ever :D