I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this...

Is a priest that specializes in the shadow archetype any good?

You can check out the Priest forum on WoW community site. Most of the feedback I've seen is that it's great if you solo. However, undead no longer flagged undead so you can't control them as you used to in PvP situation.

One big down side I've seen in the posts is that if a priest is shadow priest, his/her mana pool will be smaller due to lack of the bonus from holy tree. They said it'll work out fine at lower levels, but if you want to do high lvl instance (50+), it's best to go as a holy priest.

I really think it all depends on players' skills though. There's many way to play a game, holy priest is just a more common way and easier way to do it.

Soloing is definately harder for a priest than a mage. I miss my gnome mage already.

Shadow Priest discussion

Keep in mind too, even people who have played this game a long time don't really understand everything about talent. Talents were in the Alpha, but they were totally different. When it went Beta, none of the talents were available. It's only been a couple months now that they've had talents in the game in their current flavor. Even then, every patch seems to make some pretty hefty changes to some of the talents. If Shadow Priest interests you, I say go for it.

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WoW: Dmi of Alleria
FFXI: 75 PLD - 38 WAR - 35 BLM - 26 RDM - 18 SMN

Didn't they tone down the Shadow line last patch?

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Mythrandir - Bard *gone*

my priest is lvl 4 so i cant help you :p

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Kasdaye Regnar

So far, my favorite spell is under shadow - FADE!!! This spell rules when soloing if I have to run.