Shadow Priest Grinding

I had leveled up a level 70 priest back in the Burning Crusade but I didn't play him much when the Wrath of the Lich King came out. This all changed when patch 4.0 went live. I am absolutely loving the new Shadow talents for my priest.

The talent that really makes it great for grinding is called Shadowy Apparition. Every time your shadow word pain deals damage there is a twelve percent chance a shadowy apparition will spawn and walk slowly to your enemy dealing a high amount of shadow damage. Now when your character is moving the chance for one of these to spawn is increased by sixty percent so if you are moving you have roughly a seventy-two percent chance of spawning a shadowy apparition.

Getting to the grinding part, after the 4.0 patch a shadow priest can easily dot up a bunch of melee mobs run around and if they surround you just use psychic scream and wait for your army of shadowy apparitions to appear and dominate them all. It is really easy and a great way to kill a bunch of enemies at once.

I am thinking that shadow priests might be one of the top grinders now in efficiency and speed. It really doesn't take that much mana to do this and if the feared mobs bring additional monsters you can just dot them up too with shadow word pain.