Priority List DPS

I decided to make a separate post about using Shadowaffinity's Priority List for doing DPS as a Shadow Priest. The following analysis is focused on single target DPS; I found that multiple targets require some different strategy depending on the group's DPS.

The post on Priority DPSing mentions "clipping" a Mind Flay to cast a higher priority spell. During my play time last night, I practiced this by trying to cast Mind Blast when it was available. Of course, if a higher priority spell was in order, I'd cast it first.

What I found out was that I would go through the first four in the priority order and do one Mind Flay. By the time that MF completed, Mind Blast was off cooldown. I then got in one and a half Mind Flays before something of higher priority popped up.

I could not get in two full, consecutive Mind Flays before something came off cooldown or dropped off the mob. So, I ended up "clipping" or interrupting Mind Flay by casting another spell since Mind Flay is the lowest

A big game changer in this entire discussion is the amount of Haste that I have, so other people who have more or less Haste than Daxie may have a different experience, and I fully expect to modify my play as I add more Haste and spells pop at different intervals. Luckily, I have my priority list!

I was going to go further into the analysis, but I realized after writing some stuff out that I really don't have the resources available here at work to figure out the interaction, cost per second, and mana efficiency of the different spells. And I also don't really care to find out; I have a system that works, and that's good enough for me...lol.