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Shadow Priest

  • 3v3
  • 50 players
  • Last Updated: 12 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

Fléy

Fléy

<Gays>Proudmoore (us)

Talents (class)

Petrifying Scream
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Incessant Screams
Word of Supremacy
Energy Compression
Spiritwell

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Cascading Horrors
Envyion

Envyion

<dgb>Sargeras (us)

Talents (class)

Petrifying Scream
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Misery
Mental Fortitude
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Embrace the Shadow

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Phase Shift
Rentxfreex

Rentxfreex

<Mental Decay>Stormrage (us)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform

Talents (hero)

Incessant Screams
Heightened Alteration
Energy Compression
Spiritwell

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
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

40% of the best players use this combination
Galactic Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

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

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

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

27% of the best players use this combination
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.

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

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

13% 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.

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

33%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

19%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

17%

+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

88%

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.

  • Feet28%
  • Wrist28%
  • Back23%
  • Waist11%
  • Shoulders9%
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

48%

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 28 and your ally's Primary Stat by 7.

  • Back38%
  • Wrist31%
  • Waist14%
  • Feet10%
  • Head3%
  • Shoulders3%
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

22%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate the Iris, firing a focused beam of light at your target and dealing 1,152 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 154%
  • Ring 246%

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.
Back icon

Back

Goblin Glider

3%
Chest icon

Chest

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

73%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

20%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

33%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

18%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

48%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

38%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

45%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

42%

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

58%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

43%

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
6.7%
Angelic Feather
95%
Mind Blast
95%
Holy Nova
0%
Dispel Magic
95%
Spiritual Guidance
95%
Psychic Scream
95%
Lightburst
0%
Leap of Faith
95%
Purify Disease
10%
Power Infusion
95%
Painful Invocation
95%
Sheer Terror
95%
Surge of Light
5%
Body and Soul
95%
Mass Dispel
95%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
95%
Strength of Resolve
95%
Mind Control
73.3%
Psychic Voice
95%
Everlasting Light
0%
Move with Grace
73.3%
Mental Agility
25%
Twin Disciplines
95%
Dark Enlightenment
95%
False Autonomy
0%
Shackle Horror
0%
Inspiration
5%
Binding Heals
90%
Shadow Word: Death
95%
Sanguine Teachings
75%
Desperate Prayer
95%
Twist of Fate
95%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
16.7%
Fade
95%
Angel's Mercy
93.3%
Protective Light
90%
Mindpierce
35%
Spectral Illusion
0%
Improved Fade
95%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
78.3%
Unwavering Will
1.7%
1 / 2
Spell Warding
95%
2 / 2
Phantasm
88.3%
Angelic Bulwark
50%
Focused Power
90%
Phantom Reach
43.3%
Translucent Image
95%

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
95%
Psychic Link
88.3%
Invoked Nightmare
95%
Intangibility
95%
Thought Harvester
1.7%
Tentacle Slam
95%
Shadowy Apparitions
95%
Tormenting Whispers
95%
Descending Darkness
23.3%
Surge of Insanity
95%
Shadowy Insight
95%
Voidtouched
68.3%
Voidform
95%
Haunting Shadows
95%
Mental Decay
86.7%
Shadowfiend
90%
Dark Thoughts
1.7%
Maddening Touch
83.3%
Improved Voidform
95%
Phantom Menace
35%
Dark Evangelism
76.7%
Shattered Psyche
13.3%
Subservient Shadows
90%
Mastermind
10%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
93.3%
Spectral Horrors
63.3%
Instilled Doubt
81.7%
2 / 2
Mindbender
56.7%
Deathspeaker
0%
Mind Devourer
0%
Auspicious Spirits
95%
Maddening Tentacles
95%
Inescapable Torment
56.7%
Madness Weaving
0%
1 / 2
Death's Torment
0%
Screams of the Void
95%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
95%
Insidious Ire
30%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
15%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
56.7%
Idol of N'Zoth
53.3%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
20%
Idol of C'Thun
16.7%
Void Apparitions
285%

Best PvP Talents

Phase Shift

Phase Shift

87%

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

77%

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

40%

Void Eruption sends out slow-moving bolts of Shadow energy at random locations every 0.5 sec for 3 sec, dealing 293 Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yds, and causing them to flee in Horror for 2 sec.

Psychic Shroud

Psychic Shroud

3%

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

3%

Reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 sec.

Mindgames

Mindgames

2%

Assault an enemy's mind, dealing 1,152 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.

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.