Need help with PvE Shadow spec

[Crone]

Recently hit 60 on my Priest, planning on playing Shadow while I gear up in dungeons, was wondering if someone could help me out with a spec to use specifically for 5-man PvE.

The DPS-oriented talents are pretty obvious, but I'm not sure what threat reduction/utility talents are necessary.

If any experienced Priests could build me a spec I would really appreciate it

[Walthern]

For running dungeons I would get something like this.
http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bVt0sVZZxGxzcxot

As shadow priest you first worry will be running out of mana especially while gearing up.

[Ana]

As shadow priest you first worry will be running out of mana especially while gearing up.

Tbh your first worry is telling all those warriors and hunters to stop removing 1/3 of your dps that comes from SWP with their rend and serpent sting.
They never listen, too.

[Walthern]

As shadow priest you first worry will be running out of mana especially while gearing up.

Tbh your first worry is telling all those warriors and hunters to stop removing 1/3 of your dps that comes from SWP with their rend and serpent sting.
They never listen, too.

is that blizzlike? cant remember, i thought 16 dots or something was the limit

[Ana]

It's any kind of debuffs, not only dots (which means it includes sunder, demo shout, mage's winters chill AND frostbolt slow etc etc etc), and it's 8 right now. Raised to 16 with the 1.7 patch iirc (which is still a while from now).

[Syphonize]

As shadow priest you first worry will be running out of mana especially while gearing up.

Tbh your first worry is telling all those warriors and hunters to stop removing 1/3 of your dps that comes from SWP with their rend and serpent sting.
They never listen, too.

Oh god this annoys the crap out of me so much.

For what it's worth, it's not too much of an issue in 5-mans because you usually never hit the debuff limit. If you go to UBRS or something that's a different matter.

[AgentMulder]

For running dungeons I would get something like this.
http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bVt0sVZZxGxzcxot

As shadow priest you first worry will be running out of mana especially while gearing up.

Is there a reason why Spirit Tap is taken at level 60? Granted...I'm not level 60 myself so I haven't tested this...but I'm under the impression that you stop gaining experience at level 60...making Spirit Tap completely useless, yes?

Also...there's absolutely no need for the 3 points in Shadow Affinity, as Silent Resolve affects spells from every school of magic, and you have Fade. You don't need a 45% reduction in your Shadow threat, that's absurd.

[gotmilk0112]

Is there a reason why Spirit Tap is taken at level 60? Granted...I'm not level 60 myself so I haven't tested this...but I'm under the impression that you stop gaining experience at level 60...making Spirit Tap completely useless, yes?

It procs from kills that are capable of granting exp, not kills that *do* give you exp.

IE it procs on (just about) getting the killing blow on any mob that isn't grey-level to you. I find that it also procs from killing players, even though the tooltip doesn't have the "or honor" addition on it from later patches.