Shadow Priest WotLK openers - which ones are the best?
I figure there are two best kinds of openers, depending on if lust goes out in the first 2-3 seconds or not.
If no bloodlust on pull:
1) Pre-Inner Focus + Vamp Touch
2) Devouring Plague
3) 3x ticks of Mind Flay
4) SW:P
If bloodlust happens very shortly into the pull:
1) Shadowfiend*
2) 3x ticks of Mind Flay
3) Inner Focus + Vamp Touch
4) Devouring Plague
*The exception is if my Shadowfiend is going to die very quickly.
The opener without lust is pretty standard and the one widely thought of as the best general opener. The one with Bloodlust, however, includes the use of a Shadowfiend + Mind flay before your first round of dots go out, as this ensures that your DP and VT go off only when they're buffed with the 30% haste from bloodlust. This causes a pretty notable increase in burst. Otherwise, you end up having to wait 10 seconds to refresh a non-buffed VT, and 16 seconds to refresh a non-buffed DP.