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Shadow Priest

  • Rated Battlegrounds
  • 60 players
  • Last Updated: 2 days ago

This page is automatically generated by looking up the top 50 Shadow Priest on the Rated Battlegrounds 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

Greenbeanfan

Greenbeanfan

<Beach Justice>Emerald Dream (us)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Cascading Horrors
Blitzerino

Blitzerino

<Daddys Angels>Kazzak (eu)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Void Tendrils
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Misery
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Psyfiend
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift
Deeaann

Deeaann

<MAKE DUROTAR GREAT AGAIN>Tichondrius (us)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Void Empowerment
Embrace the Shadow

Talents (pvp)

Psyfiend
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

53% 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)

3% 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 Badge of Ferocity

Galactic Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity

Use: Increases primary stat by 159 for 15 sec. (1 Min Cooldown)

3% of the best players use this combination
Galactic Gladiator's Medallion

Galactic Gladiator's Medallion

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

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.

Best Sockets

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

Flawless Versatile Peridot

23%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

16%

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

Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

11%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

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 Prismatic Focusing Iris on a Ring 2 item
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

45%

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 252%
  • Ring 144%
  • Neck4%
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

28%

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.

  • Wrist53%
  • Back24%
  • Waist12%
  • Feet12%
Blessed Pango Charm

Blessed Pango Charm

18%

Equip: Kulzi favors you, granting your healing spells and abilities a chance to grant your target 101 Versatility.

  • Ring 127%
  • Ring 227%
  • Neck27%
  • Wrist9%
  • Waist9%

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

2%
Chest icon

Chest

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

32%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

20%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

25%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

8%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Hands icon

Hands

Heavy Knothide Armor Kit

2%

+3 Stamina

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

42%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

17%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

35%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

20%

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

38%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

Enchant Ring - Thalassian Haste

30%

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
25%
Angelic Feather
98.3%
Mind Blast
98.3%
Holy Nova
5%
Dispel Magic
98.3%
Spiritual Guidance
98.3%
Psychic Scream
98.3%
Lightburst
1.7%
Leap of Faith
95%
Purify Disease
33.3%
Power Infusion
98.3%
Painful Invocation
98.3%
Sheer Terror
98.3%
Surge of Light
5%
Body and Soul
91.7%
Mass Dispel
96.7%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
96.7%
Strength of Resolve
98.3%
Mind Control
65%
Psychic Voice
96.7%
Everlasting Light
3.3%
Move with Grace
46.7%
Mental Agility
16.7%
Twin Disciplines
98.3%
Dark Enlightenment
98.3%
False Autonomy
1.7%
Shackle Horror
0%
Inspiration
5%
Binding Heals
93.3%
Shadow Word: Death
96.7%
Sanguine Teachings
86.7%
Desperate Prayer
98.3%
Twist of Fate
98.3%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
43.3%
Fade
98.3%
Angel's Mercy
91.7%
Protective Light
83.3%
Mindpierce
66.7%
Spectral Illusion
5%
Improved Fade
98.3%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
61.7%
Unwavering Will
3.3%
2 / 2
Spell Warding
93.3%
2 / 2
Phantasm
80%
Angelic Bulwark
30%
Focused Power
95%
Phantom Reach
68.3%
Translucent Image
90%

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
95%
Misery
98.3%
Intangibility
98.3%
Thought Harvester
15%
Tentacle Slam
98.3%
Shadowy Apparitions
98.3%
Tormenting Whispers
96.7%
Descending Darkness
28.3%
Surge of Insanity
98.3%
Shadowy Insight
88.3%
Voidtouched
66.7%
Voidform
98.3%
Haunting Shadows
96.7%
Mental Decay
95%
Shadowfiend
65%
Dark Thoughts
6.7%
Maddening Touch
76.7%
Improved Voidform
98.3%
Phantom Menace
53.3%
Dark Evangelism
68.3%
Shattered Psyche
35%
Subservient Shadows
65%
Mastermind
16.7%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
95%
Spectral Horrors
76.7%
Instilled Doubt
65%
2 / 2
Mindbender
28.3%
Deathspeaker
6.7%
Mind Devourer
8.3%
Auspicious Spirits
96.7%
Maddening Tentacles
96.7%
Inescapable Torment
25%
Madness Weaving
0%
1 / 2
Death's Torment
3.3%
Screams of the Void
96.7%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
95%
Insidious Ire
51.7%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
36.7%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
25%
Idol of N'Zoth
56.7%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
58.3%
Idol of C'Thun
61.7%
Void Apparitions
288.3%

Best PvP Talents

Psyfiend

Psyfiend

90%

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%.

Phase Shift

Phase Shift

63%

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

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

58%

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.

Driven to Madness

Driven to Madness

38%

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

Mind Trauma

Mind Trauma

18%

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.

Psychic Shroud

Psychic Shroud

13%

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

Mindgames

Mindgames

8%

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.

Absolute Faith

Absolute Faith

2%

Leap of Faith also pulls the spirit of the 3 furthest allies within 40 yards and shields you and the affected allies for 2,851.

Improved Mass Dispel

Improved Mass Dispel

2%

Reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 sec.