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Shadow Priest

  • 3v3
  • 50 players
  • Last Updated: 20 hours ago

This page is automatically generated by looking up the top 50 Shadow Priest on the 3v3 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

Envyion

Envyion

<dgb>Sargeras (us)

Talents (class)

Petrifying Scream
Dominate Mind
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Mental Fortitude
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Embrace the Shadow

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Phase Shift
Miamivice

Miamivice

<plagueheart>Illidan (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
Psyfiend
Phase Shift
Jejedontplay

Jejedontplay

<MAKE DUROTAR GREAT AGAIN>Stormrage (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
Void Empowerment
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

82% 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.

6% 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.

4% of the best players use this combination
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)

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.

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

43%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

19%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

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 Wrist item
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

92%

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.

  • Wrist35%
  • Feet28%
  • Back26%
  • Shoulders7%
  • Waist4%
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

54%

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.

  • Wrist37%
  • Back33%
  • Feet19%
  • Shoulders7%
  • Waist4%
Blessed Pango Charm

Blessed Pango Charm

18%

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

  • Ring 233%
  • Neck22%
  • Ring 122%
  • Head11%
  • Waist11%

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

84%

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

50%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

30%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Hands icon

Hands

Heavy Knothide Armor Kit

2%

+3 Stamina

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

68%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

30%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

58%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

30%

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

94%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

48%

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
8%
Angelic Feather
98%
Mind Blast
98%
Holy Nova
2%
Dispel Magic
98%
Spiritual Guidance
98%
Psychic Scream
98%
Lightburst
0%
Leap of Faith
98%
Purify Disease
12%
Power Infusion
98%
Painful Invocation
96%
Sheer Terror
96%
Surge of Light
0%
Body and Soul
96%
Mass Dispel
98%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
98%
Strength of Resolve
98%
Mind Control
84%
Psychic Voice
94%
Everlasting Light
0%
Move with Grace
86%
Mental Agility
44%
Twin Disciplines
98%
Dark Enlightenment
98%
False Autonomy
0%
Shackle Horror
4%
Inspiration
30%
Binding Heals
68%
Shadow Word: Death
98%
Sanguine Teachings
50%
Desperate Prayer
98%
Twist of Fate
98%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
16%
Fade
98%
Angel's Mercy
98%
Protective Light
94%
Mindpierce
20%
Spectral Illusion
0%
Improved Fade
98%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
96%
Unwavering Will
0%
1 / 2
Spell Warding
98%
2 / 2
Phantasm
84%
Angelic Bulwark
80%
Focused Power
96%
Phantom Reach
20%
Translucent Image
96%

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
98%
Psychic Link
96%
Invoked Nightmare
98%
Intangibility
98%
Thought Harvester
2%
Tentacle Slam
98%
Shadowy Apparitions
98%
Tormenting Whispers
98%
Descending Darkness
2%
Surge of Insanity
98%
Shadowy Insight
96%
Voidtouched
80%
Voidform
98%
Haunting Shadows
98%
Mental Decay
58%
Shadowfiend
92%
Dark Thoughts
0%
Maddening Touch
92%
Improved Voidform
98%
Phantom Menace
50%
Dark Evangelism
52%
Shattered Psyche
6%
Subservient Shadows
92%
Mastermind
6%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
94%
Spectral Horrors
68%
Instilled Doubt
94%
2 / 2
Mindbender
82%
Deathspeaker
0%
Mind Devourer
4%
Auspicious Spirits
98%
Maddening Tentacles
98%
Inescapable Torment
78%
Madness Weaving
4%
2 / 2
Death's Torment
0%
Screams of the Void
98%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
98%
Insidious Ire
10%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
12%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
82%
Idol of N'Zoth
66%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
24%
Idol of C'Thun
14%
Void Apparitions
294%

Best PvP Talents

Phase Shift

Phase Shift

86%

Step into the shadows when you cast Fade, avoiding all attacks and spells for 1 sec. Interrupt effects are not affected by Phase Shift.

Driven to Madness

Driven to Madness

82%

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

Psyfiend

Psyfiend

72%

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%.

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

42%

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.

Mind Trauma

Mind Trauma

4%

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

4%

Reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 sec.

Psychic Shroud

Psychic Shroud

2%

When your Psychic Scream affects 1 or more players, the next crowd control effect against you is prevented. Lasts 6 sec.

Mindgames

Mindgames

2%

Assault an enemy's mind, dealing 1,153 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.