Shadow Priest: WoW Dragonflight Patch 10.0 Guide

Shadow Priest: WoW Dragonflight Patch 10.0 Guide

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For World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Patch 10.0, we invite you to discover the complete Shadow Priest guide. Talents, stats, consumables, BiS equipment and rotations are explained to you.

THE Shadow Priest draws its power from the dark magic of The shadow And Empty to exterminate the enemy. He’s one of the 38 World of Warcraft specializations and here’s his guide for the Patch 10.0 from Dragon Flight.

Current state of specialization

Stats to prioritize for your Shadow Priest

• Intelligence > Haste > Mastery > Critical Strike > Versatility

Regularly simulate your character using Raidbots to know the weight of each statistical. The order of priority may vary from player to player.

Shadow Priest Talents and Rotation

• Single goal build:
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• Building with multiple goals:
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Single-target priority order (single-target AND multi-target build)

1. Retain Shadow word: pain And Vampire touch permanently active on the target. Use Shadow crash as soon as possible to reset the duration of these DoTs
2. Brainteaser as soon as possible
3. dark climb as soon as possible
4. Powerful infusion on an ally as soon as possible, ideally when under the influence of dark climb
5. mental attack once you have two charges of this ability. A charge of this technique should always be on cooldown!
6. Shadow word: death as soon as possible Brainteaser is active
7. Devouring plague as soon as you are about to reach your maximum insanity, or if the effect on the target is about to wear off
8. Vampire touch if there are less than 10 seconds left before the effect on the target expires
9. Shadow word: death as soon as possible if the target has less than 20% health
10. mind games as soon as possible
11. mental attack as soon as possible
12. Shadow crash as soon as possible, no matter how long you are still working on your DoTs
13. Voids Torrent as soon as possible
14. mental peak as soon as it bothers you wave of darkness
15. Mind Flay: madness if nothing else is available
16. mental peak regardless of your procedures wave of darkness if no other priority is available

Single-Target Priority Order (Multi-Target Build)

1. Retain Shadow word: pain And Vampire touch permanently active on up to 4 targets. Use Shadow crash as soon as possible to apply or reset the duration of these DoTs to as many targets as possible at once
2. Brainteaser as soon as possible
3. dark climb as soon as possible
4. Powerful infusion on an ally as soon as possible, ideally when under the influence of dark climb
5. mental attack once you have two charges of this ability. A charge of this technique should always be on cooldown!
6. Shadow word: death as soon as possible Brainteaser is active
7. mental glow once you are about to reach your maximum insanity and you are faced with at least 3 targets. Against 2 or less targets, favor Devouring plague according to the single-target priority order
8. Vampire touch if there are less than 10 seconds left before the effect on one of the targets expires
9. Shadow word: death as soon as possible if a target has less than 20% health
10. mind games as soon as possible
11. mental attack as soon as possible
12. Shadow crash as soon as possible, no matter how much time is left on your DoTs. Make sure you have it available on every creature group’s jersey, or almost
13. Voids Torrent as soon as possible
14. Halo as soon as possible
15. mental peak as soon as it bothers you wave of darkness
16. Mind Flay: madness if nothing else is available
17. spirit whip if nothing else is available
18. Shadow word: pain on targets unaffected by this spell if you need to move

Best Equipment (“BiS”)

The gear from raids is generally more interesting than that from Mythic Mode+. However, if you manage to get a higher level part in your Weekly Chest, seriously consider equipping it if it is a better level part than the one you already have.

armed Right hand		Raszageth Vault of the Incarnations
armed Left hand		Shadow moon sacred grounds
Head		Raszageth Vault of the Incarnations (or weekly box)
Neck		Jewellery (requires an order)
Shoulders		Diurna Broodwacht Vault of the Incarnations (or weekly box)
Back		Polish from Ruby Essence
Torso		Kurog Grimtotem Vault of the Incarnations (or weekly box)
Cuffs		Court of stars
Hands		Diurna Broodwacht Vault of the Incarnations
Mate		Kurog Grimtotem Vault of the Incarnations
Legs		Sennarth Vault of the Incarnations (or weekly box)
Feet		Raszageth Vault of the Incarnations
finger 1		Diurna Broodwacht Vault of the Incarnations
finger 2		Temple of the Jade Serpent
jewel 1		The First Council Vault of the Incarnations
jewel 2		The Nokhud Offensive

Enchantments, gems and consumables

Enchantments

*You can add up to three yachts to your chain. To do this, add up to three copies Laminated medallion attachment. You can add a quality copy 1, 2 And 3or two of quality 2 and one of 3or three of quality 3. Please also note that if your necklace already has a standard gemstone lock, this will replace the quality lock. 1 of the Laminated medallion attachment.

Gems

Consumables

vials
Rune Whetstone
Foods
battle potions
utility potions

Macros

Weak auras