Shadow dps benefits very little, if at all, from haste---this is the single biggest issue with shadow dps currently, especially on single target fights.

Additionally, the ramp-up time shadow requires before we reach our maximum dps output makes us the anti-burst class. We are more like a dull throb.

I don't know how much these buffs are going to help. It may be a case of too little, too late. IC will be here before you know it.

Wrath really left the spriests out-in-the-cold. Their class/spec was mishandled and overlooked from the very beginning of Wrath when the new philosophy of class homogenization began. There have been constant minor tweaks along the way but we have never really caught up to where we should be.

It's almost like the dev team are still operating under the old spriest model, where our lower baseline dps was offset by our unique role as mana- and health-battery for the raid. When that was taken away from us, and the remaining effects were nerfed almost to the point of uselessness and given to three or four other classes that brought more utility and higher dps, we cried foul because we knew what it portended.