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Shadow Priest

  • 2v2
  • 50 players
  • Last Updated: 20 hours 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

Darthlie

Darthlie

<SHUFFLE POLICE>Draenor (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
Darkening Horizon
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift
Darktimes

Darktimes

<FataIity>Bloodhoof (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)

Driven to Madness
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift
Franchise

Franchise

<XP>Moon Guard (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

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 Void Elf and for the Horde is Undead

Best Items

Trinket Combinations

77% 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.

7% of the best players use this combination
Vaelgor's Final Stare

Vaelgor's Final Stare

Use: Seize the eye's draconic power, granting you 1,327 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 37 Intellect for 12 sec. Multiple applications may overlap.

5% of the best players use this combination
Soulcatcher's Charm

Soulcatcher's Charm

Equip: Your damaging spells have a chance to haunt the target, dealing 38,151 Shadow damage over 12 sec. If the target dies while haunted, the effect transfers to a nearby enemy, inflicting 150% of the Shadow damage over the remaining duration.

Emberwing Feather

Emberwing Feather

Use: Unleash an Emberwing Heatwave, increasing your Haste by 835 for 15 sec. You have a low chance to suffer an Emberwing Burn, reducing one of your other secondary stats by 259 for 10 sec. (2 Min Cooldown)

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

28%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

24%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

14%

+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 Feet item
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

60%

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.

  • Feet42%
  • Wrist22%
  • Back19%
  • Waist14%
  • Shoulders3%
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

45%

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.

  • Feet30%
  • Wrist30%
  • Back19%
  • Waist15%
  • Legs4%
  • Shoulders4%
Blessed Pango Charm

Blessed Pango Charm

32%

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

  • Ring 253%
  • Ring 137%
  • Neck11%

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.
Chest icon

Chest

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

48%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

43%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

48%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

22%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Hands icon

Hands

Heavy Knothide Armor Kit

7%

+3 Stamina

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

52%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

45%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

68%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

17%

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

52%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

48%

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
16.7%
Angelic Feather
86.7%
Mind Blast
86.7%
Holy Nova
0%
Dispel Magic
86.7%
Spiritual Guidance
85%
Psychic Scream
86.7%
Lightburst
0%
Leap of Faith
86.7%
Purify Disease
10%
Power Infusion
86.7%
Painful Invocation
86.7%
Sheer Terror
85%
Surge of Light
13.3%
Body and Soul
85%
Mass Dispel
85%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
86.7%
Strength of Resolve
85%
Mind Control
73.3%
Psychic Voice
83.3%
Everlasting Light
6.7%
Move with Grace
48.3%
Mental Agility
25%
Twin Disciplines
86.7%
Dark Enlightenment
86.7%
False Autonomy
0%
Shackle Horror
1.7%
Inspiration
23.3%
Binding Heals
65%
Shadow Word: Death
86.7%
Sanguine Teachings
55%
Desperate Prayer
86.7%
Twist of Fate
86.7%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
21.7%
Fade
86.7%
Angel's Mercy
85%
Protective Light
80%
Mindpierce
26.7%
Spectral Illusion
0%
Improved Fade
86.7%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
76.7%
Unwavering Will
3.3%
2 / 2
Spell Warding
83.3%
2 / 2
Phantasm
76.7%
Angelic Bulwark
63.3%
Focused Power
85%
Phantom Reach
28.3%
Translucent Image
85%

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
86.7%
Psychic Link
81.7%
Invoked Nightmare
86.7%
Intangibility
86.7%
Thought Harvester
3.3%
Tentacle Slam
86.7%
Shadowy Apparitions
86.7%
Tormenting Whispers
86.7%
Descending Darkness
10%
Surge of Insanity
86.7%
Shadowy Insight
85%
Voidtouched
66.7%
Voidform
86.7%
Haunting Shadows
83.3%
Mental Decay
56.7%
Shadowfiend
83.3%
Dark Thoughts
3.3%
Maddening Touch
76.7%
Improved Voidform
86.7%
Phantom Menace
43.3%
Dark Evangelism
50%
Shattered Psyche
13.3%
Subservient Shadows
83.3%
Mastermind
8.3%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
80%
Spectral Horrors
58.3%
Instilled Doubt
76.7%
2 / 2
Mindbender
66.7%
Deathspeaker
5%
Mind Devourer
3.3%
Auspicious Spirits
83.3%
Maddening Tentacles
85%
Inescapable Torment
66.7%
Madness Weaving
0%
1 / 2
Death's Torment
0%
Screams of the Void
83.3%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
81.7%
Insidious Ire
18.3%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
15%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
66.7%
Idol of N'Zoth
65%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
26.7%
Idol of C'Thun
16.7%
Void Apparitions
250%

Best PvP Talents

Phase Shift

Phase Shift

75%

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

65%

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

62%

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

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

50%

Void Eruption sends out slow-moving bolts of Shadow energy at random locations every 0.5 sec for 3 sec, dealing 291 Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yds, and causing them to flee in Horror for 2 sec.

Psychic Shroud

Psychic Shroud

5%

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.

Mind Trauma

Mind Trauma

2%

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.