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TheRealAzoth
1) Shadow Focus is not that important while leveling up your priest. You could put 1 or 2 points in to reduce your chances to miss but IMO it's not required unless you are planning on fighting much higher level mobs/bosses. You will almost always be healing in instances for the forseeable future as your DPS just won't be there until you get Shadowform. Even though Pallys, Druids and Shammys can heal Priests seem to be singled out to heal lower level 5-mans.
2/3) +Hit will be nessacary in later levels once you get Shadowform and are more of a viable DPS for instances. Bosses have 17% resist. Shadow Focus will take care of 10% of that but you will need to have +76 Spell Hit (at level 70) to make up an additional 6%. There is always a 1% chance to miss. Spell Hit gear is available but not a lot of it until the Outlands where it's plentiful. There are a bunch of quest rewards and rep rewards from Outland factions that have +spell hit. Once you get to ~35 there is +Spell Hit enchant to level 35+ gloves that can be done to help get to the cap. While it's an expensive enchant, @ level 40 +15 spell hit = more that 3% to hit.
The amount of Spell hit required scales with your level. At lower levels spell hit equals much more % to hit as it does at higher levels.
Level - Spell Hit required per %
70 - 12.62
65 - 9.79
60 - 8.00
55 - 7.23
50 - 6.46
45 - 5.69
40 - 4.92
35 - 4.15
30 - 3.38
25 - 2.62
20 - 1.85
15 - 1.08
10 - 0.31
Here's a reference chart for the % of resist based on level difference. Should give you an idea of what to expect when fighting different level mobs.
WoWWiki - Spell Hit
- Azoth
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kinoki
Go for Spirit Tap, Blackout, Mind Flay and then Shadow Focus. It saves a ton of mana and ups the dps. Trust me. Go for it as early as possible.
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