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Shadow Priest

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

See what 50 high-rated 3v3 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

Envyion

Envyion

<dgb>Sargeras (us)

Talents (Class)

Petrifying Scream
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (Specialization)

Invoked Nightmare
Mental Fortitude
Ancient Madness
Mind's Eye

Talents (Hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Embrace the Shadow

Talents (PvP)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Phase Shift
Froffzy

Froffzy

<yuh>Tarren Mill (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
Cascading Horrors
Phase Shift
Stunsilence

Stunsilence

<dgb>Sargeras (us)

Talents (Class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (Specialization)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Ancient Madness
Mind's Eye

Talents (Hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Void Leech

Talents (PvP)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
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 Highmountain Tauren

Most Used Items

Trinket Combinations

50% 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)

22% 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.

14% 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 Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity

Venomous Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 270 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 Versatile Peridot
Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

40%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

20%

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

Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

20%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

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 Feet item
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

84%

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 67 and your ally's Primary Stat by 17.

  • Feet28%
  • Back23%
  • Wrist19%
  • Waist19%
  • Legs5%
  • Head5%
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 2,799 Cosmic damage. This bolt devours their strength, seizing 91 of your highest secondary stat for you for 10 sec.

  • Feet33%
  • Wrist33%
  • Back22%
  • Main Hand11%
Blessed Pango Charm

Blessed Pango Charm

8%

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

  • Ring 1100%

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.
Back icon

Back

Goblin Glider

2%
Chest icon

Chest

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

82%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

18%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

64%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

14%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

68%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

28%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

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

20%

Rite of the Hash'ey

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

70%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

54%

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
8%
Angelic Feather
100%
Mind Blast
100%
Holy Nova
4%
Dispel Magic
100%
Spiritual Guidance
100%
Psychic Scream
100%
Lightburst
0%
Leap of Faith
100%
Purify Disease
6%
Power Infusion
100%
Painful Invocation
100%
Sheer Terror
98%
Surge of Light
2%
Body and Soul
100%
Mass Dispel
100%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
100%
Strength of Resolve
100%
Mind Control
96%
Psychic Voice
98%
Everlasting Light
0%
Move with Grace
82%
Mental Agility
60%
Twin Disciplines
100%
Dark Enlightenment
100%
False Autonomy
0%
Shackle Horror
0%
Inspiration
36%
Binding Heals
64%
Shadow Word: Death
100%
Sanguine Teachings
42%
Desperate Prayer
100%
Twist of Fate
100%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
4%
Fade
100%
Angel's Mercy
100%
Protective Light
100%
Mindpierce
12%
Spectral Illusion
0%
Improved Fade
100%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
94%
Unwavering Will
2%
2 / 2
Spell Warding
98%
2 / 2
Phantasm
98%
Angelic Bulwark
92%
Focused Power
100%
Phantom Reach
6%
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
0%
Tentacle Slam
100%
Shadowy Apparitions
100%
Tormenting Whispers
100%
Descending Darkness
66%
Surge of Insanity
100%
Shadowy Insight
96%
Voidtouched
92%
Voidform
100%
Haunting Shadows
100%
Mental Decay
54%
Shadowfiend
82%
Dark Thoughts
0%
Maddening Touch
100%
Improved Voidform
100%
Shadeburst
98%
Dark Evangelism
54%
Shattered Psyche
4%
Subservient Shadows
82%
Mastermind
4%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
98%
Spectral Horrors
8%
Instilled Doubt
96%
2 / 2
Mindbender
78%
Deathspeaker
0%
Mind Devourer
0%
Auspicious Spirits
100%
Maddening Tentacles
100%
Inescapable Torment
78%
Madness Weaving
0%
1 / 2
Death's Torment
0%
Screams of the Void
100%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
100%
Insidious Ire
18%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
64%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
78%
Idol of N'Zoth
12%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
24%
Idol of C'Thun
0%
Void Apparitions
100%
4 / 4

Most Used PvP Talents

Driven to Madness

Driven to Madness

96%

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

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

82%

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

20%

Voidform 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.

Mindgames

Mindgames

6%

Assault an enemy's mind, dealing 2,866 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.

Improved Mass Dispel

Improved Mass Dispel

4%

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.