BEFORE YOU BEGIN
DM East farming on a Priest is simple. It only requires that you be specced into Holy Nova, and have at least 6k max mana. You don't need any +damage gear, so don't worry about that. But having some wouldn't hurt, obviously. I only had 50 bonus damage from Briarwood Reed + a couple other pieces, and did fine.
Why 6k mana? Well, Holy Nova is fucking expensive (675 mana!), and if you don't have enough max mana, you'll OOM before the lashers are dead. I found that 6k was just about the bare minimum necessary to kill all the lashers without OOMing, given that you don't get insane bad luck with resists. To help out with your max mana, you can use either Arcane Intellect from a mage, or Greater Intellect elixirs, which are fairly cheap to make. (only 70 silver in mats, give or take.) You can also look for "of intellect" greens on the AH.
THE GUIDE ITSELF
Enter DM East from the side entrance. (doesn't require a key) You'll see the first pack of lashers right out in front, but there are two patrols that go right through it: one big treant, and another pack of three smaller ones. They both have roughly the same patrol path, so just watch them for a bit to learn their patrol route. When they're out of the way, pull the lashers back into the little tunnel and Holy Nova them down.
Now comes the trickiest part: jumping down to the lower level without aggroing the huge treants. These guys seem to have massive aggro ranges, and if you aggro them mid-jump, you'll be stuck in combat and forced to die to reset them.
Here's where I always walked to avoid aggro:
http://i.imgur.com/gtQkEoH.jpg ---> http://i.imgur.com/uMcWtoj.jpg
>obligatory "nice binds" comment
Now, the strategy here is to PWS yourself beforehand, drop down onto the pack of lashers below, and immediately start Holy Nova'ing them. So hit yourself up with a bubble and walk up to the spot like in the screenshot, and then drop down. You'll be at like 20% health, but the shield will protect you for a couple seconds, just enough time to recover and survive with the healing from Holy Nova. You don't have to worry about aggroing anything while you're on top of this pack, because the Death Lash is too far away, and the 2nd patrol does not come anywhere near this pack.
From here, it's just a game of watching the patrols and Holy Nova'ing the other 3 packs of lashers. Once you've cleared all lashers, reset the instance and /camp to exit. You can do both with this one macro:
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/script ResetInstances();
/camp
You'll likely die a few times as you get used to the patrol routes, but after 5-10 runs, it should be easy.
Video of this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8e50WXo0ko
actually you can get away with 5,5k mana if you have Focus on CD for each pack
