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Shadow Priest

  • Rated Battlegrounds
  • 50 players
  • Last Updated: 19 hours ago

This page is automatically generated by looking up the top 50 Shadow Priest on the Rated Battlegrounds 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

Illümïñätï

Illümïñätï

<The Forgotten Shadows>Emerald Dream (us)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Void Tendrils
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Shock Pulse
Word of Supremacy
Energy Compression
Spiritwell

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Cascading Horrors
Greenbeanfan

Greenbeanfan

<Beach Justice>Emerald Dream (us)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Misery
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Darkening Horizon
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Cascading Horrors
Fadinglol

Fadinglol

<Astral Atonement>Exodar (us)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice
Focused Power

Talents (spec)

Misery
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Distorted Reality

Talents (hero)

Incessant Screams
Word of Supremacy
Energy Compression
Spiritwell

Talents (pvp)

Mind Trauma
Psyfiend
Cascading Horrors

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 Night Elf and for the Horde is Undead

Best Items

Trinket Combinations

47% 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.

20% 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)

13% 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 198 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. (1 Min 30 Sec 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

24%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

20%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

15%

+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

52%

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.

  • Wrist39%
  • Feet29%
  • Waist19%
  • Back13%
Blessed Pango Charm

Blessed Pango Charm

37%

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

  • Ring 245%
  • Ring 141%
  • Neck5%
  • Waist5%
  • Head5%
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

28%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate the Iris, firing a focused beam of light at your target and dealing 1,165 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 253%
  • Ring 147%

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

47%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

23%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

42%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

12%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Hands icon

Hands

Heavy Knothide Armor Kit

2%

+3 Stamina

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

50%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

20%

+41 Intellect & +4% Mana

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

53%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

22%

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

43%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

Enchant Ring - Thalassian Haste

32%

Enchant Ring - Thalassian Haste

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
23.3%
Angelic Feather
91.7%
Mind Blast
91.7%
Holy Nova
1.7%
Dispel Magic
91.7%
Spiritual Guidance
91.7%
Psychic Scream
91.7%
Lightburst
1.7%
Leap of Faith
90%
Purify Disease
20%
Power Infusion
91.7%
Painful Invocation
91.7%
Sheer Terror
91.7%
Surge of Light
5%
Body and Soul
90%
Mass Dispel
91.7%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
90%
Strength of Resolve
91.7%
Mind Control
66.7%
Psychic Voice
90%
Everlasting Light
1.7%
Move with Grace
55%
Mental Agility
28.3%
Twin Disciplines
91.7%
Dark Enlightenment
91.7%
False Autonomy
1.7%
Shackle Horror
0%
Inspiration
3.3%
Binding Heals
86.7%
Shadow Word: Death
90%
Sanguine Teachings
68.3%
Desperate Prayer
90%
Twist of Fate
91.7%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
30%
Fade
91.7%
Angel's Mercy
83.3%
Protective Light
78.3%
Mindpierce
55%
Spectral Illusion
5%
Improved Fade
90%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
66.7%
Unwavering Will
3.3%
2 / 2
Spell Warding
86.7%
2 / 2
Phantasm
75%
Angelic Bulwark
40%
Focused Power
83.3%
Phantom Reach
60%
Translucent Image
88.3%

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
91.7%
Psychic Link
91.7%
Misery
91.7%
Intangibility
91.7%
Thought Harvester
10%
Tentacle Slam
91.7%
Shadowy Apparitions
91.7%
Tormenting Whispers
90%
Descending Darkness
18.3%
Surge of Insanity
91.7%
Shadowy Insight
78.3%
Voidtouched
66.7%
Voidform
91.7%
Haunting Shadows
91.7%
Mental Decay
81.7%
Shadowfiend
61.7%
Dark Thoughts
1.7%
Maddening Touch
83.3%
Improved Voidform
91.7%
Phantom Menace
43.3%
Dark Evangelism
70%
Shattered Psyche
18.3%
Subservient Shadows
60%
Mastermind
11.7%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
91.7%
Spectral Horrors
60%
Instilled Doubt
78.3%
2 / 2
Mindbender
43.3%
Deathspeaker
1.7%
Mind Devourer
5%
Auspicious Spirits
91.7%
Maddening Tentacles
90%
Inescapable Torment
40%
Madness Weaving
0%
1 / 2
Death's Torment
0%
Screams of the Void
91.7%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
91.7%
Insidious Ire
36.7%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
28.3%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
40%
Idol of N'Zoth
56.7%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
43.3%
Idol of C'Thun
45%
Void Apparitions
268.3%

Best PvP Talents

Psyfiend

Psyfiend

78%

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

57%

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

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

55%

Void Eruption sends out slow-moving bolts of Shadow energy at random locations every 0.5 sec for 3 sec, dealing 292 Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yds, and causing them to flee in Horror for 2 sec.

Driven to Madness

Driven to Madness

47%

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

Mind Trauma

Mind Trauma

18%

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.

Psychic Shroud

Psychic Shroud

8%

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

3%

Assault an enemy's mind, dealing 1,142 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.