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Shadow Priest

  • Solo Shuffle
  • 58 players
  • Last Updated: 2 days ago

This page is automatically generated by looking up the top 50 Shadow Priest on the Solo Shuffle 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

Buffmblast

Buffmblast

<Victim Specs>Ravencrest (eu)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Void Empowerment
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Phase Shift
Voidlink

Voidlink

<K L I K A>Kazzak (eu)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Void Empowerment
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift
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Instantvfplz

<Victim Specs>Grim Batol (eu)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Void Empowerment
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
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 Orc

Best Items

Trinket Combinations

59% 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)

19% 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
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)

Thalassian Competitor's Insignia of Alacrity

Thalassian Competitor's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 160 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 Quick Lapis
Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

31%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

26%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

16%

+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

121%

Equip: Your damaging spells and abilities can cause you to heed the whispers and fire a Devouring Bolt at your target, dealing 1,463 Cosmic damage. This bolt devours their strength, seizing 91 of your highest secondary stat for you for 10 sec.

  • Wrist31%
  • Feet27%
  • Back23%
  • Waist13%
  • Shoulders6%
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

28%

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 44 and your ally's Primary Stat by 11.

  • Wrist31%
  • Back25%
  • Waist25%
  • Feet13%
  • Head6%
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

19%

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 145%
  • Ring 245%
  • Neck9%

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

78%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

16%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

41%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

28%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Hands icon

Hands

Heavy Knothide Armor Kit

2%

+3 Stamina

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

62%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

36%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

41%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

40%

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

64%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

59%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

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
8.6%
Angelic Feather
96.6%
Mind Blast
96.6%
Holy Nova
0%
Dispel Magic
96.6%
Spiritual Guidance
96.6%
Psychic Scream
96.6%
Lightburst
0%
Leap of Faith
96.6%
Purify Disease
10.3%
Power Infusion
96.6%
Painful Invocation
96.6%
Sheer Terror
96.6%
Surge of Light
5.2%
Body and Soul
96.6%
Mass Dispel
96.6%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
96.6%
Strength of Resolve
96.6%
Mind Control
86.2%
Psychic Voice
93.1%
Everlasting Light
1.7%
Move with Grace
74.1%
Mental Agility
17.2%
Twin Disciplines
96.6%
Dark Enlightenment
96.6%
False Autonomy
0%
Shackle Horror
0%
Inspiration
6.9%
Binding Heals
89.7%
Shadow Word: Death
96.6%
Sanguine Teachings
81%
Desperate Prayer
96.6%
Twist of Fate
96.6%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
12.1%
Fade
96.6%
Angel's Mercy
96.6%
Protective Light
91.4%
Mindpierce
24.1%
Spectral Illusion
0%
Improved Fade
96.6%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
79.3%
Unwavering Will
0%
1 / 2
Spell Warding
96.6%
2 / 2
Phantasm
89.7%
Angelic Bulwark
53.4%
Focused Power
84.5%
Phantom Reach
56.9%
Translucent Image
96.6%

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%
Void Empowerment
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
96.6%
Psychic Link
91.4%
Invoked Nightmare
96.6%
Intangibility
96.6%
Thought Harvester
0%
Tentacle Slam
96.6%
Shadowy Apparitions
96.6%
Tormenting Whispers
96.6%
Descending Darkness
13.8%
Surge of Insanity
96.6%
Shadowy Insight
96.6%
Voidtouched
75.9%
Voidform
96.6%
Haunting Shadows
96.6%
Mental Decay
94.8%
Shadowfiend
94.8%
Dark Thoughts
0%
Maddening Touch
93.1%
Improved Voidform
96.6%
Phantom Menace
24.1%
Dark Evangelism
86.2%
Shattered Psyche
10.3%
Subservient Shadows
94.8%
Mastermind
5.2%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
96.6%
Spectral Horrors
51.7%
Instilled Doubt
87.9%
2 / 2
Mindbender
75.9%
Deathspeaker
3.4%
Mind Devourer
0%
Auspicious Spirits
96.6%
Maddening Tentacles
93.1%
Inescapable Torment
75.9%
Madness Weaving
0%
1 / 2
Death's Torment
3.4%
Screams of the Void
96.6%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
94.8%
Insidious Ire
15.5%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
10.3%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
75.9%
Idol of N'Zoth
48.3%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
17.2%
Idol of C'Thun
10.3%
Void Apparitions
284.5%

Best PvP Talents

Phase Shift

Phase Shift

88%

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

88%

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

86%

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

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

22%

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

3%

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

2%

Reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 sec.