The Enigma Order

The amount of excitement is too damn high!

"Our ability to maximize DPS gains out of the new wrathion legendary and the crit trinket should lead to a relative boost to shadow which is not as accessible to other specs. Even with the nerf to crit snapshotting, refreshing dots during the crit trinket will lead to 18 seconds of crit Pain ticks, which will extend the duration of Pain by another ~18 or so seconds (but then end, it won't continue indefinitely now) - if that application overlaps with say, Bloodlust, or Wrathion mini-lust, or power infusion - it will retain those haste bonuses for the full ~40 seconds. That synergy is almost unique to shadow in 5.2 - and will provide a relative DPS gain to Shadow by gearing right and being very mindful of these procs and re-applications.

That should make people a little hopeful. If we do all that right, we won't be the worst dps in single target - so that's an improvement. It's still a very long way from being a great single target DPS spec, and we're still going to be behind in multi-dot to the other multi-dotters (but the Shadowform buff will help that a bit), and our AoE still won't be demo lock aoe (but the shadowform buff will help this also). So, overall, our relative position in 5.2 will be better than our position in 5.1 if we make good use of these proc effects and the synergies they provide. ", Yvaelle - mmochamp priest forums

So yeah, I'm wearing my party hat... not

Lamme wrote:

All due respect, now you're just being downright negative. First a quick glance at this, then a flat 5% damage increase across the board, 20% buff to Mind Blast, potential for smart use of game mechanics with trinkets and that's still not the reason for a partey?

Ask me, SPs will rise and shine in 5.2, closely followed by DKs and maybe monks.

Yes, I hope Yvaelle is wrong but usually he isn't - we scale like crap which is why they are flat increasing our dmg via shadowform

Aliothe wrote:

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/254470-ptr-class-and-set-bonus-issues-part-iii/

MB +20 dmg and shadowform 25% instead of 20% - should keep us in the middle on single target fights

MB dmg buff has been reverted due to pvp issues...