Theorycrafting / Theoryist - go F yourselves.

I'm all for 'discussing' things. I'm all for saying what if. I'm all for talking/discussing on what if's, about my class. What I don't fucking like, is for anyone to base opinion on no real world testing, and claim the 'theory' to be truth. I'll give you an example here:

In the incoming patch of 3.2.2 - Shadow Priests are getting a so called buff to Spirit by 20% - Patch Notes Here

Basically it's:
Shadow

* Improved Spirit Tap: Mind Flay periodic critical strikes now have a 50% chance to trigger this talent.
* Twisted Faith now grants spell power equal to 4/8/12/16/20% of spirit, up from 2/4/6/8/10%.

Now if you're a shadow priest like myself, you think to yourself! Yes, we finally got some love here. But sadly it's nothing more than a 80-100dps upgrade. This is including the Shadow Glyph. There's alot of Shadow Priest's rejoicing over this, stating this is going to catch us up some what, but sadly it's not. There's currently insane talk going on the EJ forums/Shadowpriest.com forums about getting gear with more spirit to further buff our DMG/DPS. Please for the love of god, don't do this. I'll explain why, as you're probably thinking. 'you're shitting on this, but where is your proof'. Well here it is:

On the latest PTR Build me and another Shadow Priest from another guild tested this suppose 'buff'. We're the type of players, that basically think outside of what EJ/Shadowpriest.com states. Don't get me wrong, those sites are great, but they don't use real world, real in game testing. They mainly use a program called Sim-craft and Rawr. These 2 programs, take in all the data from your character, and basically tells you what gear/rotation you should be using/what gems to use/what potions etc.. Mind you, those numbers come from you having to have perfect latency, and you having BiS gear in every slot, which isn't always good to have.

So mind you on the ptr, i went there to see our new buffs. For 2 hours straight on the target dummy inside Undercity, i saw nothing more than 80-100dps increase. I stacked more spirit, still nada bada. The other SP used 4 piece t9 248 item level gear, he got an amazing 105dps upgrade. What we did notice, is our mana regen is insane now, due to the Spirit Tap buff. Basically we can use Shadow Fiend more offensively some what, instead of using it just for a mana regen scenario.

The only stat as of right now outside of Spell Power to further increase our damage is crit. This is where blizzard needs to look at our classes, and further buff us with our abilities. Mind Flay is just a filler, and no matter how much people think its our 'Main Nuke' our most 'Casted SPell' it scales monkey dick, and basically its fucking retarded to try and get more than 2 Mind Flay casts per Mind Blast.

As it stands right now to further bring this point home - Test the shit out first, before you go by some shitty opinion program and think it's fact. Real world testing will always trump what if fuck tards.