Shadow - Tier 3 talents and leveling

[Ceraius 34]

Herro!

 

So I'm finding myself in the situation of leveling myself a shadow priest, and I'm contemplating between FDCL and SaI talents on the third tier.

 

Solace and Insanity to my understanding is more damage, and I intend to use this at 90, but in the leveling process (especially the early levels) things tend to die fast. Too fast for Insanity to be of much use. 

 

So I'm thinking if FDCL and the added bursty damage could be more beneficial for leveling. 

 

Mindbender wouln't be a bad choice either I reckon, but buffing a temporary minion doesn't really add to the fun factor.

 

Thoughts or ideas?

[kitsu 55]

If insanity kills things too fast, they won't live long enough for FDCL to proc. with FDCL you need to have at least 3 things dotted for it to be all taht great.

 

insanity will be there if you need it to really slam some damage into something. if you are below level 80 you may want to go disc. its hilarious if you have heirlooms and windsong. your shields are OP, you heal by killing things and you will do more damage than a shadow until 80. i would q as dps and healer and healers would complain that they wouldnt get to do anything if i didnt go shadow. dont trust them, just kill everything as an invincible disc.

 

if you go disc, FDCL is pretty awesome.

[Ceraius 34]

Yeah, I'm mostly considering FDCL from a mass dotting standpoint. 

 

And I'm probably sticking to shadow to get aquainted with the spec and its mechanics while leveling so I don't feel lost at higher levels if i switch from another spec. Disc is too faceroll anyways :D

[kitsu 55]

shadow priest dot timers is very nice, and so is gnosis. gnosis guestimates when your channeled spells tick so you can clip flay with optimal timing. this is really nice for insanity.

[Ceraius 34]

I have that feature baseline in ElvUI, and I intend to try and compare the dot timers addon and the priest plugin for affdots and see which suits me better and go with that.