Hello to everyone!After my first priest guide i've received so many whispers ingame and in forum ones for more tips,other just to thank me that i helped people and now i decided to make a shadow priest guide,some people really asked me (not as much as they requested the disc one cuz im actually playing shadow rarely but anyways i decided to make this one for you also) !
This guide includes:
- Gear.
- Enchants.
- Gems.
- Reforge.
- Stats.
- Viable specs.
- Glyphs.
- Macros.
Gear
1.Enchants.
- Head - 60 Intelect + 35 Resilience
- Shoulders - 50 Intelect + 25 Resilience / 25 haste(resillience is recommended)
- Chest - 40 Resilience
- Bracer - 50 Intelect
- Weapon - Power Torrent
- Held in Off-hand - 40 intelect
- Rings - 40 intelect (If you're enchanter)
- Feet - 50 Haste rating / 35 mastery + Minor movement speed.
- Legs - 95 Intelect + 55 Spirit(for hit rating)
- Waist - Ebonsteel Belt Buckle
- Gloves - 50 Haste
2.Gems
Warming!
It really depends what gear you're using.Full pvp or full pvp with PvE trinket or just with some PvE ring or off part (most likely with 1x pve trinket or full pvp)
|1.0|If you're running with PvE trinket such as :
Foul Gift of the demon lord
Cunning (OP)
Insignia
- Red - 25 Intelect + 25 Resilience
- Yellow - 50 resilience
- Blue - 25 spirit + 25 resilience
If you're wondering why spirit i'll explain that below.
|1.1| If you're running full pvp these are the gems you need:
- Meta Gem : 54 intelect + 3% crit damage.
- Red - 50 Intelect
- Yellow - 25 intelect + 25 resilience OR 25 haste
- Blue - 25 Intelect + Spirit
3. Reforge.
- Head : Mastery > Haste.
- Head : Haste = Haste.
- Neck : Haste = Haste.
- Shoulders : Spirit > Haste.
- Shoulders : Haste > Haste.
- Chest : Spirit > Haste.
- Bracer : Mastery > Haste.
- Weapon 1h: Crit > Haste.
- Off-hand: Crit > Haste.
- Wand : Crit > Haste.
- Ring : Hit = Hit.
- Ring : Crit > Haste.
- Boots : Haste = Haste.
- Legs : Crit > Haste.
- Legs : Mastery > Haste.
- Waist : Crit > Haste.
- Gloves : Haste = Haste.
|1.1| Gear.
A normal shadow priest gear looks like:
- 4/5 Discipline gear.
- 1/5 Shadow gear(Shoulders).
- Haste neck.
- Spell pen cloak.
- Mastery bracer.
- Crit + hit rings.
- Haste boots.
- Crit Waist.
2nd option.
Improve mastery a bit
- 4/5 Discipline gear.
- 1/5 Shadow gear(Shadow legs replace the haste shoulders)
- Haste neck.
- Spell pen cloak.
- Mastery bracer.
- Hit + Spirit ring.
- Haste boots.
- Crit Waist.(Recommended to play with PvE mastery waist from Dragon soul's trash with mastery + haste if you're using double pvp trinks)
- Trinkets: Recommended to play with cunning than Insignia or just s11 Badge.
2.Stats.
- Spell power: ~10100 w/o inner fire,with : ~10600
- Haste : 25.86%
- Hit : 5.65%
- Spell penetration : 287
- Crit : 15.57% (Crit gear)
- Mastery : 400 (Crit gear) , should be around 800 with mastery.
- Resilience : 4600/4800+/5100/5400.
3. Viable Specs.
1.When you're using the standart shadow gear(Crit one)
Currently one
2.When you're using the mastery buff shadow gear.
Old one
4.Glyphs.
Prime:
- 1.Glyph of Dispersion.
- 2.Glyph of Shadow word:Death.
- 3.Glyph of power word:shield
Major:
- 1.Glyph of Inner fire/fade.
- 2.Glyph of Mass Dispel.
- 3.Glyph of Psychic Horror.
Minor:
- 1.Glyph of Fortitude.
- 2.Glyph of Shadow.
- 3.Glyph of Shadowfiend / Levitate / Fading.
5. Macros.
|1.0|Burst Macro.
#showtooltip Archangel
/use Cataclysmic Gladiator's Badge of Dominance
/cast Archangel
/use Cataclysmic Gladiator's Mooncloth Gloves
|1.1| Focus Disarm.
/cast [@focus] Psychic Horror
|1.2| Focus Silence.
/cast [@focus] Silence
|1.3| Shadowfiend + Shadowcrawl macro.
#showtooltip Shadowfiend
/cast Shadowfiend
/cast Shadowcrawl
/petattack
|1.4| Focus Shadow word:Death.
/stopcasting
/cancelaura Power Word: Shield
/cancelaura Divine Aegis
/cast [@focus] Shadow Word: Death
|1.5| Self Dispel.
/cast [target=player] Dispel Magic
|1.6| Focus Dispel.
/cast [target=focus] Dispel Magic.
|1.7| Vampiric Touch (boosts the damage for first dots).*Engineers only*
/cast Vampiric Touch
/use Cataclysmic Gladiator's Mooncloth Gloves
|1.8| Fear ward Ally.
/cast [target=party1] Fear Ward
|1.9| Fear ward healer in 3v3 (I don't really think you'll ever fear ward the dps in your 3v3 team).
/cast [target=name] Fear ward
|2.0| Self Fear warding.
/cast [target=player] Fear Ward.
|2.1| Grip macros.
/cast [target=party1] Leap of Faith
/cast [target=party2] Leap of Faith
|2.2| Shield your mates.
/cast [target=name] Power Word: Shield
|2.3| Mind Control.
/cast Mind Control
/stopcasting
6.Questions and Answers.
Q: Why spirit + resilience gems on shadow ?
A: You need these spirit gems to cap your hit rating if you're playing with the first shown build.
Q: Which gear of these is better ?
A: I've been playing for so long with the mastery one and i kinda liked it,then i tried the second one and i can say that i feel the damage improvement.So, in my opinion the crit gear/build is way better.
Q: Can i replace Glyph of Inner fire with something else?
A: Yes you can use Glyph of Fade,it drastically reduces the cooldown of your fade.
Q: In your previous guide you explained strategies and showed positioning,why there aren't these features shown in this one?
A: I'll maybe do it soon.For sure! But it takes kinda alot of time to share the best way to win and of course the easiest way to win a game by using this strategy and improve your positioning.
Q: Is any of your arena mates going to show some tricks and tips to us?
A: I gave that idea to my main 2v2 mate few weeks ago and now he's considering it.He's a rogue and there are definitely way more stuff to write.
If you're interested in anything else you can send pm in forum or simply whisper me ingame.I really hope that this guide also helped with something to all of you like the previous one! Happy Holidays!
P.S. There might be some mistakes and undone stuff in this guide but i'll correct them in the future if i see any!
-Soze.
New profile: Hawtydaboss
Bulgaria
Norway
World of Warcraft
