WoW newbie looking for advice

[Lissa]

Inefficient.

Max range: Mind Blast >strafe > SW:P while strafing> Mind Flay>Mind Flay> Wand.

There's no need to waste mana on vampiric embrace as they're not going to damage you overmuch anyway providing you're grinding on the proper mobs and quests. As for PW:S, since there's little reason to cast with a mob in melee given the -hp% that the alpha strike provides and the dps of SW:P on the mob means that the mob isn't going to be in your face that long, so uninterruptability isn't of great value. Past 50 substitute the opening MB for VT. Now, if you're working on +1-+4 quests/mobs, instead of efficiently grinding out green, then heavier mana usage rotations per mob might be called for. Either way, if you have room to strafe, use that to gain range instead of backing up, will typically allow for a half to most of a full Mind Flay with just that change.

Cheers,
~Frag

It may be inefficient, but the importance of starting this way is to get you into the good habit of following this method for when you get higher and you are assured to see fights that last the majority of a SW:P. If you get into the mind set of dropping the DoTs first along with VE, you are getting into best practices for things like instance fights where dropping a Mind Blast or SW:Death right off will pull aggro and get the mob on you instead of the tank.

Also, if he has 5/5 Shadow Focus, he should be taking on mobs that are 2 or 3 levels up as he has built in 10% spell hit (16% spell hit being maximum for hittings mob +3 levels).