Spiritual Guidance: On the subject of Shadow Word: Death

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6-01-2011 @ 4:09PM

Fox Van Allen said...

"It is exactly this mechanic that I wish the article went into more detail about. This is the tricky part of SW:D to me."

I think Xaklo pretty much covered it in full.

1) When is it useful? Like Xaklo said, it's quite situational. It's only worth utilizing the mechanic at the very end of a boss fight, provided you have a finely tuned sense of how many casts you can get off before a boss dies. (This sense is rarer than you think.)

2) Is it dangerous? Hell yes. It represents a possible 60% chunk of your health eaten away in 6 seconds.

3) Is it useful? Yes, but only to those who take min-maxing to the extreme. At the end of the day, this is going to provide you with a near-negligible amount of extra DPS.

The risk is way higher than the reward, IMO. But I know you're all going to try it anyway now, cause that's just how shadow priests are. ;D

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