In most heroic 70 instances the trash is a lot more dangerous than the bosses. They actually expected you to CC things back then, so if you aren't then their damage output is very high, and they strip off Inner Fire much faster. Three tips for shadow priests on trash:

1. Don't be afraid to Mind Control to pull a pack, many heroic mobs are immune but if you learn which ones aren't then on a hard pack you get a free kill off the bat, and often get some decent damage in on the others.

2. Run away! This is often key when one of the mobs has a regularly used interrupt or stun. Cast VT on that mob to pull at max range then run away as you put up pain and plague on the same mob. As you keep running put pain on the other mobs in the pull. Soon enough the interrupt/stun mob will be dead and the others will already have a DoT on them. If there is a second interrupt/stun mob then start out the same way by putting all your DoTs on the first mob, then put Pain on the second one and Shadow Word: Death it right away to lower it's health. When the first mob is almost death move plague over.

3. If you run into a true AoE pull (large number of mobs with low hit points) use Holy Nova.

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