Shadow Priest
- Rated Battlegrounds
- 60 players
- Last Updated: 2 hours 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!
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Players
Stat Priority
Best Races
Best Items
Trinket Combinations
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
Use: Removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (2 Min Cooldown)
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
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 26 Intellect for 12 sec. Multiple applications may overlap.
Crucible of Erratic Energies
Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to induce Voidlust. Voidlust increases your Critical Strike by 135, Leech by 1%, and Movement Speed by 10%. Protocol of Violence: The Voidlust consumes you more often. Protocol of Sustenance: Voidlust episodes last longer. Protocol of Predation: Voidlust episodes are more intense.
Vaelgor's Final Stare
Use: Seize the eye's draconic power, granting you 1,180 Mastery diminishing over 15 sec and allowing you to see hidden enemies. (1 Min 30 Sec Cooldown)
Best Sockets
Flawless Versatile Peridot
+16 Haste & +7 Versatility
Cognitive Heliotrope
+23 Primary Stat and opponent's failed interrupt attempts grant Precognition
Flawless Quick Lapis
+16 Versatility & +7 Haste
Best Embellishments
Prismatic Focusing Iris
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 248%
- Ring 144%
- Neck7%
Devouring Banding
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.
- Wrist40%
- Back28%
- Feet20%
- Waist12%
Hunt
Equip: Your spells and abilities have the chance to grant 85 secondary stats for 15 sec based on the target creature's type.
- Main Hand100%
Best Enchants
Back
Goblin Glider
Chest
Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister
Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister
Feet
Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
Enchant Boots - Lynx's Dexterity
Enchant Boots - Lynx's Dexterity
Legs
Sunfire Silk Spellthread
+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina
Arcanoweave Spellthread
+41 Intellect & +4% Mana
Main Hand
Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei
Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei
Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage
Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage
Ring
Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity
Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity
Enchant Ring - Thalassian Haste
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
Voidweaver
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Best PvP Talents
Psyfiend
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
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
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.
Driven to Madness
While Voidform is not active, being attacked will reduce the cooldown of Voidform by 3 sec.
Psychic Shroud
When your Psychic Scream affects 1 or more players, the next crowd control effect against you is prevented. Lasts 6 sec.
Mind Trauma
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
Assault an enemy's mind, dealing 1,127 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.
Improved Mass Dispel
Reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 sec.