Johannah casting smite

Last time Johannah had the pleasure of handmade smite theorycrafting done by Elowyn the Master Bear. Now it’s time to see what Trienish the Shadow Priest Friend has done in name of the holy smite priest build!

The Eat a Brick Smite Priest Simulator is jam-packed with the ability to take your theoretical spellpower, crit percentage, and haste percentage, and spit out a DPS and mana expenditure over a 5 minute boss fight!

Here’s some of the numbers it generated:

• The beginning smite priest. Spellpower 2500, Crit 30%, Haste 10%. 2272 DPS, 89484 mana.
• The smite priest WotLK raiding a little. Spellpower 2500, Crit 40%, Haste 20%. 2580 DPS, 94276 mana.
• The smite priest concerned for their mana. Spellpower 2500, Crit 50%, Haste 10%. 2455 DPS, 83610 mana.
• The smite priest that doesn’t believe in mana. Spellpower 2500, Crit 30%, Haste 30%. 2677 DPS, 105555 mana.

It uses 1,000 samples to figure these numbers, so if you plug them in, you might get a slightly variant result.

According to this smite priest simulator, spellpower has an amazing effect on smite priests (as it does most spell pew pewing.) If you manage to crawl your way to 3000 spellpower (let’s say the raid buffs love you and your Spirit is out of control), your numbers jump dramatically:

• The smite priest with lots of spellpower. Spellpower 3000, Crit 30%, Haste 10%. 2584 DPS, 89375 mana.
• The smite priest with lots of spellpower and raiding gear. Spellpower 3000, Crit 40%, Haste 20%. 2937 DPS, 94172 mana.
• The smite priest with spellpower and mana issues. Spellpower 3000, Crit 50%, Haste 10%. 2793 DPS, 83591 mana.
• The smite priest that EXPLODES. Spellpower 3000, Crit 30%, Haste 30%. 3033 DPS, 105611 mana.
• The smite priest we all want to be. Spellpower 3000, Crit 50%, Haste 30%. 3268 DPS, 98796 mana.

The DPS isn’t all that grand–I personally think they’re lower than the results I’ll have as a level 80 smite priest–but it’s still something to think about and get excited over. Crossing fingers that Johannah can deliver this above and beyond!

An additional note: this simulator is designed for a smite priest that is hit capped, so for every 1% you have under 17%, that’s 1% off our DPS. And did I mention smite priests have no hit talents? Read about that next time!

Elowyn says: There’s a few things worth noting.  The above doesn’t take into account haste gained by the elemental shaman through totems (largely because it’s highly variable).  It also doesn’t include haste on gear.  All other stats are based on spot checking of several elemental shamans and holy/discipline priests.  Also worth noting is the critical hit percentages.  Numbers taken were based on similar gear and only differences via talents.  More realistic percentages would put the shaman around 50% crit, increasing the Shaman’s total output by about 15%.

Well, I don’t know what elemental shamans you’ve been hanging out with behind Kourtnie the NINJA’s back Master Elowyn, but I can assure you that—oh wait—nevermind, 50% sounds about right.

Elowyn the Master Bear theorycrafts

So keeping in mind the fundamental flaw of this theorycrafting is that the shaman’s gear and the priest’s gear are going to naturally output different stats, it’s interesting nonetheless to see that smite priest actually beat the elemental shaman by a little under 5% DPS; of course, this is an ideal Elowyn the Master Bear Land where Mana Bars haven’t reared their ugly heads at people and smite priests naturally come upon the same stats that an elemental shaman would.

This is why Johannah needs to hit level 80 and deliver a wonderful Smite Priest WotLK performance to you!

Want to know more about Elowyn the Master Bear? Well, here he is!

Elowyn is the guild master for Momentum, the lolSmite priest loving guild that supported Johannah’s exploits back in the days of Gruul. (I have vague memories of Johannah causing a ruckus in Hyjal as well, but I believe I was playing Kourtnie more than less at that point.) Elowyn is quite possibly the only Jewelcrafter in the universe that can cut a Shining Eye of Zul—that’s how much Elowyn loves the smite priest [player]! Elowyn is either on a raid leading rampage, plundering through a heroic, or standing next to the Dalaran mailbox whispering Kalecgos people that submit to Master Bear. Occasionally—and this is when Master Bear is the happiest—you can find him charging through battlegrounds and arenas. If you have a feral druid question or want someone to theory craft and talk about World of Warcraft for the puck (yeah, I said PUCK) of it, he’s your man!

Elowyn has his own blog that he writes for, Spank This Tank, which focuses mainly on feral druid bear-and-cat-glory-ness. Elowyn has experience as a PvE druid tank and feral DPS, as well as experience as a PvP feral druid, so if you have feral druid questions, I’d recommend him as a good resource.