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Shadow Priest

  • Solo Shuffle
  • 50 players
  • Last Updated: 19 hours ago

This page is automatically generated by looking up the top 50 Shadow Priest on the Solo Shuffle 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

Despression

Despression

<Victim Specs>Grim Batol (eu)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Void Empowerment
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Phase Shift
Buffswdeath

Buffswdeath

<Victim Specs>Grim Batol (eu)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Void Empowerment
Void Leech

Talents (pvp)

Driven to Madness
Psyfiend
Phase Shift
Thulsh

Thulsh

<Victim Specs>Ravencrest (eu)

Talents (class)

Sheer Terror
Mind Control
Psychic Voice

Talents (spec)

Invoked Nightmare
Intangibility
Improved Voidform
Mind's Eye

Talents (hero)

Dark Energy
Void Empowerment
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
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 Orc

Best Items

Trinket Combinations

47% 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)

26% 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)

7% of the best players use this combination
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)

Thalassian Competitor's Insignia of Alacrity

Thalassian Competitor's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 165 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

38%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

29%

+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 Wrist item
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

121%

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.

  • Wrist34%
  • Feet27%
  • Back23%
  • Waist9%
  • Shoulders7%
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

36%

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.

  • Back33%
  • Wrist29%
  • Waist19%
  • Feet10%
  • Head5%
  • Shoulders5%
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

26%

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 153%
  • Ring 240%
  • Neck7%

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

7%
Chest icon

Chest

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

84%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

12%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

40%

Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

40%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Hands icon

Hands

Heavy Knothide Armor Kit

2%

+3 Stamina

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

67%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Arcanoweave Spellthread

31%

+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

36%

Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

67%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

66%

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
10.3%
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
8.6%
Power Infusion
100%
Painful Invocation
100%
Sheer Terror
98.3%
Surge of Light
3.4%
Body and Soul
100%
Mass Dispel
100%
Twins of the Sun Priestess
100%
Strength of Resolve
100%
Mind Control
87.9%
Psychic Voice
98.3%
Everlasting Light
1.7%
Move with Grace
69%
Mental Agility
27.6%
Twin Disciplines
100%
Dark Enlightenment
100%
False Autonomy
0%
Shackle Horror
1.7%
Inspiration
5.2%
Binding Heals
94.8%
Shadow Word: Death
100%
Sanguine Teachings
84.5%
Desperate Prayer
100%
Twist of Fate
100%
2 / 2
Tithe Evasion
10.3%
Fade
100%
Angel's Mercy
100%
Protective Light
96.6%
Mindpierce
15.5%
Spectral Illusion
0%
Improved Fade
100%
2 / 2
Light's Inspiration
93.1%
Unwavering Will
0%
1 / 2
Spell Warding
100%
2 / 2
Phantasm
94.8%
Angelic Bulwark
67.2%
Focused Power
84.5%
Phantom Reach
46.6%
Translucent Image
100%

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%
Void Empowerment
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
100%
Psychic Link
98.3%
Invoked Nightmare
100%
Intangibility
100%
Thought Harvester
0%
Tentacle Slam
100%
Shadowy Apparitions
100%
Tormenting Whispers
100%
Descending Darkness
8.6%
Surge of Insanity
100%
Shadowy Insight
100%
Voidtouched
79.3%
Voidform
100%
Haunting Shadows
100%
Mental Decay
96.6%
Shadowfiend
100%
Dark Thoughts
0%
Maddening Touch
93.1%
Improved Voidform
100%
Phantom Menace
22.4%
Dark Evangelism
87.9%
Shattered Psyche
10.3%
Subservient Shadows
100%
Mastermind
5.2%
2 / 2
Mind's Eye
100%
Spectral Horrors
46.6%
Instilled Doubt
89.7%
2 / 2
Mindbender
81%
Deathspeaker
0%
Mind Devourer
0%
Auspicious Spirits
100%
Maddening Tentacles
100%
Inescapable Torment
79.3%
Madness Weaving
1.7%
2 / 2
Death's Torment
0%
Screams of the Void
100%
2 / 2
Tormented Spirits
100%
Insidious Ire
13.8%
2 / 2
Crushing Void
10.3%
Idol of Y'Shaarj
79.3%
Idol of N'Zoth
63.8%
Idol of Yogg-Saron
12.1%
Idol of C'Thun
12.1%
Void Apparitions
300%

Best PvP Talents

Phase Shift

Phase Shift

97%

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

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%.

Driven to Madness

Driven to Madness

81%

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

Cascading Horrors

Cascading Horrors

28%

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.

Psychic Shroud

Psychic Shroud

9%

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 1,141 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.