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Shadow Priest

  • 3v3
  • 59 players
  • Last Updated: 2 days ago

This page is automatically generated by looking up the top 50 Shadow Priest on the 3v3 leaderboard. The data on this page is updated every 24 hours in order for the data to be as relevant as possible.

This page only shows what the best players in the world are using. This might not apply to every skill bracket in Mythic+. Use this page as the starting point of your journey, and don’t be afraid to stray away from what is presented on this page!

Players

Fléy

Fléy

<Gays>Proudmoore (us)

Talents (class)

Petrifying Scream
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Incessant Screams
Word of Supremacy
Energy Compression
Spiritwell

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Cascading Horrors
Envyion

Envyion

<dgb>Sargeras (us)

Talents (class)

Petrifying Scream
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Misery
Mental Fortitude
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Incessant Screams
Word of Supremacy
Sustained Potency
Spiritwell

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift
Rentxfreex

Rentxfreex

<Mental Decay>Stormrage (us)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform

Talents (hero)

Incessant Screams
Heightened Alteration
Energy Compression
Spiritwell

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift

Stat Priority

Values are relative to the highest stat. The stat priority for a Shadow Priest is
Haste > Versatility > Mastery > Critical Strike

Best Races

The best race for a Shadow Priest for the Alliance is Night Elf and for the Horde is Undead

Best Items

Trinket Combinations

68% of the best players use this combination
Galactic Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Galactic Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 134 primary stat for 20 sec.

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Use: Removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (2 Min Cooldown)

8% of the best players use this combination
Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity

Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 176 primary stat for 20 sec.

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Use: Removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (2 Min Cooldown)

5% of the best players use this combination
Vaelgor's Final Stare

Vaelgor's Final Stare

Use: Seize the eye's draconic power, granting you 1,267 Mastery diminishing over 15 sec and allowing you to see hidden enemies. (1 Min 30 Sec Cooldown)

Gaze of the Alnseer

Gaze of the Alnseer

Equip: Your damage and healing has a chance to grant you Alnsight for 12 sec. While active, casting spells and abilities manifests unstable Alnscorned and consumes their essence to grant you 30 Intellect for 12 sec. Multiple applications may overlap.

Best Sockets

Values are based on the total amount of sockets of all players. The most popular socket for a Shadow Priest is Flawless Quick Lapis
Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

24%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

20%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

18%

+23 Primary Stat and opponent's failed interrupt attempts grant Precognition

Best Embellishments

Embellishments are specific abilities that can be added onto a piece of gear or weapons to add an equip bonus. The most popular embellishment for a Shadow Priest is Devouring Banding on a Wrist item
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

95%

Equip: Your damaging spells and abilities can cause you to heed the whispers and fire a Devouring Bolt at your target, dealing 1,450 Cosmic damage. This bolt devours their strength, seizing 91 of your highest secondary stat for you for 10 sec.

  • Wrist32%
  • Back27%
  • Feet25%
  • Waist9%
  • Shoulders7%
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

34%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to draw in a mana wyrm that will empower you and an ally with Arcanoweave Insight, increasing your Intellect by 28 and your ally's Primary Stat by 7.

  • Back40%
  • Wrist25%
  • Waist15%
  • Feet10%
  • Head5%
  • Shoulders5%
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

27%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate the Iris, firing a focused beam of light at your target and dealing 1,152 Arcane damage every second for 4 sec. Each unique gem color you have socketed empowers the Iris, causing it to deal 1% additional damage per.

  • Ring 150%
  • Ring 244%
  • Neck6%

Best Enchants

Percentages are calculated in relation to 50 players. If an enchant has a value of more than 100%, it means the enchant is found more than 50 times. This usually happens when the same enchant is applied to both rings.
Back icon

Back

Goblin Glider

3%
Chest icon

Chest

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

68%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

19%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

36%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

17%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

51%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

31%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

46%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

42%

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Thalassian Versatility

44%

Enchant Ring - Thalassian Versatility

Enchant Ring - Thalassian Haste

42%

Enchant Ring - Thalassian Haste

Talents

The new talent system is not as straight-forward as the talent systems from previous expansions. Many talents are situational, and choosing your talents should be done based on the content you are doing. This heat map will show what talents are must-picks, which ones are situational, and which ones are rarely chosen.

Colors

The colors indicate the popularity of the talent. The numbers below indicate the percentage of the top 50 players that have chosen this talent.

  • 90% - 100% (best)
  • 50% - 89% (good)
  • 20% - 49% (situational)
  • 0% - 19% (unpopular)

Talent Tree

Talent Tree Background
Improved Flash Heal
10.2%
Angelic Feather
98.3%
Mind Blast
98.3%
Holy Nova
0%
Dispel Magic
98.3%
Spiritual Guidance
98.3%
Psychic Scream
98.3%
Lightburst
0%
Leap of Faith
98.3%
Purify Disease
18.6%
Power Infusion
98.3%
Painful Invocation
98.3%
Sheer Terror
98.3%
Surge of Light
8.5%
Body and Soul
98.3%
Mass Dispel
98.3%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
98.3%
Strength of Resolve
98.3%
Mind Control
72.9%
Psychic Voice
94.9%
Everlasting Light
0%
Move with Grace
67.8%
Mental Agility
25.4%
Twin Disciplines
98.3%
Dark Enlightenment
98.3%
False Autonomy
0%
Shackle Horror
0%
Inspiration
3.4%
Binding Heals
94.9%
Shadow Word: Death
98.3%
Sanguine Teachings
76.3%
Desperate Prayer
98.3%
Twist of Fate
98.3%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
20.3%
Fade
98.3%
Angel's Mercy
98.3%
Protective Light
89.8%
Mindpierce
39%
Spectral Illusion
0%
Improved Fade
98.3%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
83.1%
Unwavering Will
0%
1 / 2
Spell Warding
98.3%
2 / 2
Phantasm
83.1%
Angelic Bulwark
45.8%
Focused Power
96.6%
Phantom Reach
52.5%
Translucent Image
98.3%

Voidweaver

Hero class image
Devour Matter
100%
Void Infusion
100%
Inner Quietus
100%
Void Torrent
100%
Quickened Pulse
100%
Dark Energy
100%
Collapsing Void
100%
Darkening Horizon
100%
Void Leech
100%
Void Blast
100%
Voidwraith
100%
Overwhelming Shadows
100%
Touch of the Void
100%
Voidheart
100%
Entropic Rift
0%
Shadow Word: Madness
98.3%
Psychic Link
91.5%
Invoked Nightmare
98.3%
Intangibility
98.3%
Thought Harvester
1.7%
Tentacle Slam
98.3%
Shadowy Apparitions
98.3%
Tormenting Whispers
98.3%
Descending Darkness
16.9%
Surge of Insanity
98.3%
Shadowy Insight
98.3%
Voidtouched
71.2%
Voidform
98.3%
Haunting Shadows
98.3%
Mental Decay
94.9%
Shadowfiend
94.9%
Dark Thoughts
0%
Maddening Touch
84.7%
Improved Voidform
98.3%
Phantom Menace
30.5%
Dark Evangelism
79.7%
Shattered Psyche
16.9%
Subservient Shadows
94.9%
Mastermind
10.2%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
96.6%
Spectral Horrors
54.2%
Instilled Doubt
81.4%
2 / 2
Mindbender
64.4%
Deathspeaker
1.7%
Mind Devourer
1.7%
Auspicious Spirits
98.3%
Maddening Tentacles
98.3%
Inescapable Torment
64.4%
Madness Weaving
1.7%
2 / 2
Death's Torment
0%
Screams of the Void
98.3%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
98.3%
Insidious Ire
22%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
16.9%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
66.1%
Idol of N'Zoth
64.4%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
25.4%
Idol of C'Thun
20.3%
Void Apparitions
289.8%

Best PvP Talents

Phase Shift

Phase Shift

90%

Step into the shadows when you cast Fade, avoiding all attacks and spells for 1 sec. Interrupt effects are not affected by Phase Shift.

Psyfiend

Psyfiend

85%

Summons a Psyfiend with 1,222 health for 12 sec beside you to attack the target at range with Psyflay. Psyflay Deals up to 1% of the target's total health in Shadow damage every 0.9 sec. Also slows their movement speed by 50% and reduces healing received by 50%.

Driven to Madness

Driven to Madness

68%

While Voidform is not active, being attacked will reduce the cooldown of Voidform by 3 sec.

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

34%

Void Eruption sends out slow-moving bolts of Shadow energy at random locations every 0.5 sec for 3 sec, dealing 286 Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yds, and causing them to flee in Horror for 2 sec.

Psychic Shroud

Psychic Shroud

8%

When your Psychic Scream affects 1 or more players, the next crowd control effect against you is prevented. Lasts 6 sec.

Improved Mass Dispel

Improved Mass Dispel

5%

Reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 sec.

Mind Trauma

Mind Trauma

3%

Siphon haste from enemies, stealing 2% haste per stack of Mind Trauma, stacking up to 9 times. Fully channeled Mind Flays grant 1 stack of Mind Trauma and fully channeled Void Torrents grant 3 stacks of Mind Trauma. Lasts 15 sec. You can only gain 3 stacks of Mind Trauma from a single enemy.

Mindgames

Mindgames

2%

Assault an enemy's mind, dealing 1,142 Shadow damage and briefly reversing their perception of reality. For 7 sec, the next 3,990 damage they deal will heal their target, and the next 3,990 healing they deal will damage their target.