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Shadow Priest

  • Battleground Blitz
  • 50 players
  • Last Updated: 20 hours ago

See what 50 high-rated Battleground Blitz 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

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<внутри твоей головы>Twisting Nether (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
Peterlongrod

Peterlongrod

<most invasive species>Mal'Ganis (us)

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
Phase Shift
Mindgames
Lockfromwish

Lockfromwish

Ravencrest (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

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 Void Elf and for the Horde is Undead

Most Used Items

Trinket Combinations

60% of the best players use this combination
Venomous Gladiator's Medallion

Venomous Gladiator'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.

10% 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.

6% 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)

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

35%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

25%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

15%

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

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

56%

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.

  • Feet33%
  • Back27%
  • Waist18%
  • Wrist14%
  • Legs6%
  • Head2%
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

18%

Equip: Your damaging spells and abilities can cause you to heed the whispers and fire a Devouring Bolt at your target, dealing 2,674 Cosmic damage. This bolt devours their strength, seizing 91 of your highest secondary stat for you for 10 sec.

  • Back39%
  • Wrist28%
  • Feet22%
  • Waist11%
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

18%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate the Iris, firing a focused beam of light at your target and dealing 2,088 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 150%
  • Ring 238%
  • Neck13%

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

4%
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

76%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

12%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Hands icon

Hands

Falco Strikes

6%

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Heat Wave

4%

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Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

80%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

18%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

70%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Rite of the Hash'ey

24%

Rite of the Hash'ey

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

80%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

60%

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
8%
Power Infusion
100%
Painful Invocation
98%
Sheer Terror
100%
Surge of Light
10%
Body and Soul
100%
Mass Dispel
98%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
100%
Strength of Resolve
100%
Mind Control
88%
Psychic Voice
100%
Everlasting Light
4%
Move with Grace
66%
Mental Agility
38%
Twin Disciplines
100%
Dark Enlightenment
100%
False Autonomy
4%
Shackle Horror
0%
Inspiration
16%
Binding Heals
84%
Shadow Word: Death
100%
Sanguine Teachings
54%
Desperate Prayer
100%
Twist of Fate
100%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
18%
Fade
100%
Angel's Mercy
94%
Protective Light
82%
Mindpierce
28%
Spectral Illusion
10%
Improved Fade
94%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
86%
Unwavering Will
12%
2 / 2
Spell Warding
88%
2 / 2
Phantasm
86%
Angelic Bulwark
80%
Focused Power
100%
Phantom Reach
46%
Translucent Image
94%

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
94%
Invoked Nightmare
100%
Intangibility
100%
Thought Harvester
4%
Tentacle Slam
100%
Shadowy Apparitions
100%
Tormenting Whispers
100%
Descending Darkness
66%
Surge of Insanity
100%
Shadowy Insight
84%
Voidtouched
72%
Voidform
100%
Haunting Shadows
100%
Mental Decay
56%
Shadowfiend
62%
Dark Thoughts
0%
Maddening Touch
100%
Improved Voidform
98%
Shadeburst
94%
Dark Evangelism
52%
Shattered Psyche
6%
Subservient Shadows
62%
Mastermind
10%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
100%
Spectral Horrors
36%
Instilled Doubt
94%
2 / 2
Mindbender
60%
Deathspeaker
18%
Mind Devourer
2%
Auspicious Spirits
100%
Maddening Tentacles
100%
Inescapable Torment
56%
Madness Weaving
6%
2 / 2
Death's Torment
2%
Screams of the Void
98%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
98%
Insidious Ire
26%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
68%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
58%
Idol of N'Zoth
36%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
24%
Idol of C'Thun
24%
Void Apparitions
100%
4 / 4

Most Used PvP Talents

Psyfiend

Psyfiend

84%

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%.

Phase Shift

Phase Shift

78%

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

58%

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

Mindgames

Mindgames

42%

Assault an enemy's mind, dealing 4,274 Shadow damage and briefly reversing their perception of reality. For 7 sec, the next 14,934 damage they deal will heal their target, and the next 14,934 healing they deal will damage their target.

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

30%

Voidform sends out slow-moving bolts of Shadow energy at random locations every 0.5 sec for 3 sec, dealing 290 Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yds, and causing them to flee in Horror for 2 sec.

Psychic Shroud

Psychic Shroud

4%

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

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.