Well, technically I was "the Hallowed" last year.  I did get a nice prize last night though!  That's me hovering at the King of the Mountain peak on my new Headless Horseman's Mount.  I've wanted this mount for awhile now (after having lost rolls twice last year) since it looks so cool when you're in Shadow Form.  Hopefully some of you readers pick up the mount this year.

We've got some pretty huge changes in the latest PTR Build, with even more having been data mined.  It looks like Blizzard has opted to give all of our DoTs haste scaling, and they're making some PVP tweaks to us as well.  Things are looking up, but be mindful of the fact that the PTR is for testing purposes.  It's not unknown for a PTR "buff" to be significantly weaker when it goes live, or not to go live at all.  With that said, here's what we're looking at right now: 1) Shadow Form has been updated, in addition to everything else, the talent now lets Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch and Devouring Plague benefit from haste. This is perfect. 2) Glyph of Shadow has been buffed.  It now gives us a Spell Power bonus equal to 30% of our total Spirit (up f...

Well folks, a Blizz rep has finally admitted that our single target DPS is low.  In response to a post in the General Forums of the Blizzard message board, we got the following post from Community Manager Ancilorn: We do recognise that Shadow priest single-target damage is on the low side. In 3.3 we plan to have some changes coming to bring them up a bit. Most of the changes will likely be made on the glyph side of things, something along the lines of trying a glyph to let SW:P scale with haste or similar. So that's somewhat interesting right there, as the Shadow Priest posting community has spent a large portion of this expansion trying to get Blizzard to make such a direct statement.  It's also very interesting, in light of comments made by Ghostcrawler not to long ago that w...

Patch 3.3 has been up on the Player Test Realm for several days now, and over the past couple of days quite a bit of information has come out.  Some of it has been faultly, but now that some of the numbers have been corrected I think it's time to share with ya'll what's going on.  Good news is, Blizzard is considering some significant buffs to PVE Shadow Priests.  Bad news, these buffs are only being considered, they're not definate. The biggest proposed change is to finally allow some DoTs and HoTs to scale with Haste.  The Blizzard programmers have been busy coding the functionality for this change to the game mechanics, and have done so in a manner where they can apply Haste functionality to individual spells.  The current plan is to test this concept out on a ...