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Shadow Priest

  • 2v2
  • 50 players
  • Last Updated: 3 hours ago

See what 50 high-rated 2v2 characters are using, based on PvPLeaderboard’s EU and US rankings.

Where these stats come from

Starting at the top of the rankings, we work down until we have everything we need for 50 characters.

A character is ignored if their Battle.net profile is missing or incomplete, if they aren’t max level, or if their talents don’t fit the current talent tree.

Use this as a starting point, then adjust your setup for your bracket, comp, rating, and matchup.

Sources: PvPLeaderboard; Battle.net

Players

Goblita

Goblita

<Victim Specs>Argent Dawn (eu)

Talents (Class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (Specialization)

Misery
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (Hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Void Leech

Talents (PvP)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Phase Shift
Darthlie

Darthlie

<Dynamics Evolution>Draenor (eu)

Talents (Class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (Specialization)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (Hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Void Leech

Talents (PvP)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Phase Shift
Эльнураела

Эльнураела

<КВАДРОБЕРЫ>Fordragon (eu)

Talents (Class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (Specialization)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (Hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Void Leech

Talents (PvP)

Psyfiend
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift

Stat Priority

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

Most Used Races

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

Most Used Items

Trinket Combinations

56% of the best players use this combination
Venomous Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Venomous Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 206 primary stat for 20 sec.

Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

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

6% of the best players use this combination
Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

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

Venomous Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity

Venomous Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity

Use: Increases primary stat by 244 for 15 sec. (1 Min Cooldown)

6% of the best players use this combination
Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

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

Venomous Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Venomous Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 198 primary stat for 20 sec.

Most Used 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

21%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

17%

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

Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

15%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Most Used 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 Arcanoweave Lining on a Wrist item
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

62%

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 47 and your ally's Primary Stat by 12.

  • Wrist28%
  • Back28%
  • Waist22%
  • Feet13%
  • Legs6%
  • Chest2%
  • Head2%
Blessed Pango Charm

Blessed Pango Charm

12%

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

  • Ring 140%
  • Ring 240%
  • Feet10%
  • Waist10%
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

10%

Equip: Your damaging spells and abilities can cause you to heed the whispers and fire a Devouring Bolt at your target, dealing 1,890 Cosmic damage. This bolt devours their strength, seizing 91 of your highest secondary stat for you for 10 sec.

  • Feet50%
  • Wrist20%
  • Back20%
  • Head10%

Most Used Enchants

Percentages use the 50 characters in this dataset. A value above 100% means the enchant appears more than 50 times, usually because the same enchant is applied to both rings.
Chest icon

Chest

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

44%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

40%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

50%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

8%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Legs icon

Legs

Arcanoweave Spellthread

56%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

36%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

62%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Rite of the Hash'ey

12%

Rite of the Hash'ey

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

70%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

40%

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 talent popularity. The percentages show how many of the 50 characters in this dataset selected each talent.

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

Talent Tree

Talent Tree Background
Improved Flash Heal
20%
Angelic Feather
100%
Mind Blast
100%
Holy Nova
0%
Dispel Magic
100%
Spiritual Guidance
100%
Psychic Scream
100%
Lightburst
0%
Leap of Faith
100%
Purify Disease
26%
Power Infusion
100%
Painful Invocation
100%
Sheer Terror
100%
Surge of Light
14%
Body and Soul
100%
Mass Dispel
94%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
100%
Strength of Resolve
100%
Mind Control
76%
Psychic Voice
88%
Everlasting Light
2%
Move with Grace
52%
Mental Agility
30%
Twin Disciplines
100%
Dark Enlightenment
100%
False Autonomy
2%
Shackle Horror
4%
Inspiration
20%
Binding Heals
80%
Shadow Word: Death
100%
Sanguine Teachings
70%
Desperate Prayer
100%
Twist of Fate
100%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
30%
Fade
100%
Angel's Mercy
98%
Protective Light
92%
Mindpierce
46%
Spectral Illusion
2%
Improved Fade
98%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
86%
Unwavering Will
2%
2 / 2
Spell Warding
98%
2 / 2
Phantasm
74%
Angelic Bulwark
62%
Focused Power
100%
Phantom Reach
38%
Translucent Image
98%

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
100%
Shadow Word: Madness
100%
Psychic Link
96%
Invoked Nightmare
100%
Intangibility
100%
Thought Harvester
8%
Tentacle Slam
100%
Shadowy Apparitions
100%
Tormenting Whispers
100%
Descending Darkness
62%
Surge of Insanity
100%
Shadowy Insight
84%
Voidtouched
56%
Voidform
100%
Haunting Shadows
98%
Mental Decay
64%
Shadowfiend
70%
Dark Thoughts
8%
Maddening Touch
94%
Improved Voidform
98%
Shadeburst
78%
Dark Evangelism
62%
Shattered Psyche
32%
Subservient Shadows
62%
Mastermind
32%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
98%
Spectral Horrors
22%
Instilled Doubt
78%
2 / 2
Mindbender
56%
Deathspeaker
8%
Mind Devourer
8%
Auspicious Spirits
92%
Maddening Tentacles
100%
Inescapable Torment
56%
Madness Weaving
0%
1 / 2
Death's Torment
0%
Screams of the Void
92%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
90%
Insidious Ire
48%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
68%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
50%
Idol of N'Zoth
48%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
42%
Idol of C'Thun
16%
Void Apparitions
98%
4 / 4

Most Used 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

76%

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

70%

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

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

36%

Voidform sends out slow-moving bolts of Shadow energy at random locations every 0.5 sec for 3 sec, dealing 292 Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yds, and causing them to flee in Horror for 2 sec.

Mindgames

Mindgames

12%

Assault an enemy's mind, dealing 2,794 Shadow damage and briefly reversing their perception of reality. For 7 sec, the next 9,975 damage they deal will heal their target, and the next 9,975 healing they deal will damage their target.

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

6%

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

2%

Reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 sec.