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Shadow Priest

  • 2v2
  • 59 players
  • Last Updated: 1 hour ago

This page is automatically generated by looking up the top 50 Shadow Priest on the 2v2 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

Tóxic

Tóxic

<Gallywix Dive Team>Alexstrasza (us)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Psyfiend
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift
Motívate

Motívate

<bad>Sargeras (us)

Talents (class)

Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Misery
Mental Fortitude
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Incessant Screams
Word of Supremacy
Energy Compression
Spiritwell

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift
Gobbysmalls

Gobbysmalls

<GalIifreyan>Frostmourne (us)

Talents (class)

-

Talents (spec)

-

Talents (hero)

-

Talents (pvp)

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

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)

7% 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. (1 Min 30 Sec 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 Cognitive Heliotrope
Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

18%

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

Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

13%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

6%

+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 Blessed Pango Charm on a Ring 2 item
Blessed Pango Charm

Blessed Pango Charm

51%

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

  • Ring 247%
  • Ring 143%
  • Neck3%
  • Feet3%
  • Wrist3%
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

31%

Equip: Your damaging spells and abilities can cause you to heed the whispers and fire a Devouring Bolt at your target, dealing 1,475 Cosmic damage. This bolt devours their strength, seizing 91 of your highest secondary stat for you for 10 sec.

  • Wrist33%
  • Back28%
  • Feet28%
  • Waist6%
  • Shoulders6%
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

31%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate the Iris, firing a focused beam of light at your target and dealing 1,142 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 156%
  • Ring 239%
  • 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

2%
Chest icon

Chest

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

29%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

27%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

20%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

10%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Hands icon

Hands

Heavy Knothide Armor Kit

2%

+3 Stamina

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

20%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

17%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

34%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

20%

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Thalassian Haste

39%

Enchant Ring - Thalassian Haste

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

37%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

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
16.9%
Angelic Feather
78%
Mind Blast
79.7%
Holy Nova
1.7%
Dispel Magic
79.7%
Spiritual Guidance
78%
Psychic Scream
79.7%
Lightburst
0%
Leap of Faith
79.7%
Purify Disease
22%
Power Infusion
79.7%
Painful Invocation
79.7%
Sheer Terror
78%
Surge of Light
10.2%
Body and Soul
76.3%
Mass Dispel
76.3%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
79.7%
Strength of Soul
78%
Mind Control
47.5%
Psychic Voice
78%
Everlasting Light
5.1%
Move with Grace
40.7%
Mental Agility
5.1%
Twin Disciplines
79.7%
Dark Enlightenment
79.7%
False Autonomy
1.7%
Shackle Horror
0%
Inspiration
5.1%
Binding Heals
76.3%
Shadow Word: Death
79.7%
Sanguine Teachings
74.6%
Desperate Prayer
79.7%
Twist of Fate
79.7%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
32.2%
Fade
79.7%
Angel's Mercy
74.6%
Protective Light
78%
Mindpierce
45.8%
Spectral Illusion
1.7%
Improved Fade
79.7%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
54.2%
Unwavering Will
3.4%
2 / 2
Spell Warding
76.3%
2 / 2
Phantasm
64.4%
Angelic Bulwark
25.4%
Focused Power
78%
Phantom Reach
50.8%
Translucent Image
79.7%

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
79.7%
Psychic Link
72.9%
Invoked Nightmare
79.7%
Intangibility
79.7%
Thought Harvester
10.2%
Tentacle Slam
79.7%
Shadowy Apparitions
79.7%
Tormenting Whispers
79.7%
Descending Darkness
20.3%
Surge of Insanity
79.7%
Shadowy Insight
76.3%
Voidtouched
61%
Voidform
79.7%
Haunting Shadows
78%
Mental Decay
79.7%
Shadowfiend
61%
Dark Thoughts
5.1%
Maddening Touch
55.9%
Improved Voidform
79.7%
Phantom Menace
18.6%
Dark Evangelism
62.7%
Shattered Psyche
33.9%
Subservient Shadows
57.6%
Mastermind
22%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
79.7%
Spectral Horrors
33.9%
Instilled Doubt
54.2%
2 / 2
Mindbender
37.3%
Deathspeaker
6.8%
Mind Devourer
5.1%
Auspicious Spirits
74.6%
Maddening Tentacles
79.7%
Inescapable Torment
37.3%
Madness Weaving
0%
1 / 2
Death's Torment
3.4%
Screams of the Void
74.6%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
72.9%
Insidious Ire
35.6%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
18.6%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
37.3%
Idol of N'Zoth
59.3%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
32.2%
Idol of C'Thun
37.3%
Void Apparitions
232.2%

Best PvP Talents

Phase Shift

Phase Shift

68%

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

64%

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

51%

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

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

36%

Void Eruption sends out slow-moving bolts of Shadow energy at random locations every 0.5 sec for 3 sec, dealing 290 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.

Mind Trauma

Mind Trauma

7%

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.

Improved Mass Dispel

Improved Mass Dispel

3%

Reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 sec.