One of my guild’s resident shadow priests recently asked me about Pestilence. He had been reading on ShadowPriest.com about our Pestilence spreading his Devouring Plague. As it turns out, and I hadn’t thought of it before (though it is right there on the tooltip), Pestilence spreads any and all diseases. After going over my rotation on an AoE trash pull (Icy Touch, Plague Strike, then Pestilence) with him he and the other shadow priest made sure to cast Devouring Plague on my target in the first 5 seconds. Their reaction to Devouring Plague damage on large trash pulls was great.
With our regular tanks back from the holidays I was able to respec and re-glyph for pure DPS this week (not to mention much better DPS gear than when I last got to kick butt and take ghouls). Staying unholy helped with the Devouring Plague trick. Not only did I spreading their disease in mass, but along with it I’m giving it a 13% damage boost on all the affected mobs. We only cleared one wing of Naxx trash doing this (we cleared the other three wings the night before, go guild!) so I don’t have a good, previous WoW Web Stats report to compare our run too, but we’ll keep the trick up next week and see how notable of a difference there is, assuming WWS can deal with who’s disease is who’s.
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