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We had one who recently left the guild, unfortunately. Good priest but he never talked on vent and didn't coordinate with our other priests very well, which is bad if you're a class leader, incidentally.
Anyway, I've seen a fully geared shadow priest and fully geared balance druid go full DPS and they both have two big problems, at least in boss encounters. The first is aggro control, which they don't have much of. You can't really ask them to go all out because they're almost definitely going to pull aggro. The second problem is mana. They can both do very good high burst damage-comparable to mages and warlocks, but they run out of mana very quickly. Priests have good regen abilities on critter death and druids can innervate, but their spell selection sucks for mana efficiency.
Short answer: on shorter fights and trash they can put out pretty solid-not mage level, but solid-damage. On longer fights or aggro sensitive fights, it's a bit of a wild card.
Shadow is awesome for leveling, though. I leveled a mage at the same time my friend was doing his priest and he just blew through stuff because his downtime was so low. Even after I got good at AE grinding he leveled much faster than me. I don't know enough about druids to tell you how good feral/balance are for leveling.
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