Shadow Priest – The War Within Season 1

Our Shadow Priest – The War Within Season 1 Guide prepares you for all the adventures in World of Warcraft’s first Season of The War Within! Check out our War Within S1 Shadow Priest Guide here on Your-MMO.com

Shadow Priest – The War Within Season 1

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Best Embellishments for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1

Players can wear two Items with the “Embellishment” tag. These Items grant additional power which should be used in all scenarios. These items are crafted by players with the respective crafting profession. The current most popular Embellishments are:

Stat Priority for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1 (Mythic Dungeons)

Intellect
Haste
Mastery
Critical Strike
Versatility

Stat Priority for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1 (Raid Content)

Intellect
Haste
Mastery
Critical Strike
Versatility

Most used Trinkets for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1

Both lists show the currently best Trinkets in either a Single Target situation or Multi Target combat. This list might not reflect the perfect choice for your unique situation. Trinkets can differ at any boss or in different dungeons. The see a full overview of Trinkets – visit Bloodmallet.

Beware that Healer trinkets are not included in this list.

Changes to Shadow Priest in The War Within

In The War Within, many classes have received significant changes to their talent trees and tuning. One of the new features in The War Within are the Hero Talents, unlocked at Level 71 and allowing players to choose between two spec-altering Hero Classes.

All Changes in Patch 11.0.0

PRIEST

Flash Heal healing increased by 20%.
Power Word: Shield absorb amount increased by 20%.
Power Word: Life healing increased by 20%.
Cauterizing Shadows healing increased by 60%.
Healing done from Void Shift to the Priest’s ally is now capped at twice the Priest’s Health.
From Darkness Comes Light now increases the healing of Flash Heal by 3% (was 1%), and stacks up to 20 times (was 50).
Prayer of Mending is now removed from all allies except for the last ally that received one from the Priest when a raid encounter begins.
Fixed an issue causing Holy Nova to not benefit from Phantom Reach.
Fixed an issue causing Halo to damage enemies out of combat.
Updated the visuals and animations for Void Shift.
Fixed an issue causing Divine Image’s teleport to fail on transports.
Added a counter to the Heal spell for tracking the status of Lightweaver.
The following talents are now 1 point:
- Manipulation
- Surge of Light
Shadow
- All damage increased by 3%.
- Dark Ascension now increases non-periodic damage dealt by 20% (was 25%).
- Mind Flay damage increased by 50%.
- Mind Flay: Insanity now channels the same amount of damage over 1.5 seconds (was 2 seconds).
- Mind Flay: Insanity and Mind Spike: Insanity can now accumulate up to 4 charges (was 2).
- The overrides for Mind Flay: Insanity and Mind Spike: Insanity now last 30 seconds (was 15 seconds).
- Mind Spike damage increased by 50%.
- Mind Spike: Insanity damage increased by 15%.
- Mind Spike: Insanity now generates 12 Insanity (was 8).
- Mind Blast damage increased by 30%. Void Blast damage is unaffected by this change.
- Mind Melt now stacks up to 3 times (was 4).
- Mind Melt now increases the critical strike chance of Mind Blast by 30% (was 20%).
- Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C’Thun now deal damage 10 times over their channel’s duration (was 15).
- Mind Flay and Mind Sear damage from Idol of C’Thun increased by 50%.
- Fixed an issue causing Psychic Link to not always hit when near the max range of its effect.
- Fixed an issue causing the targeted version of Shadow Crash to not follow a moving target.
- Fixed an issue causing Void Lashers and Void Tendrils from Idol of C’Thun to fail to attack sometimes.
- Fixed an issue causing Void Lashers and Void Tendrils from Idol of C’Thun to attack enemies the Priest is not in combat with.
- Divine Star no longer generates Insanity when cast out of combat.
- Shadow Crash now refunds its Insanity gain if it doesn’t deal damage to any targets when cast out of combat.

Gems, Enchants and Consumables

Best Gems in Season 1

Regarding the Stat Priority listed below, we currently suggest using the following Sockets in your Gear. Some classes want to maximize the gain received from their Blasphemite Gems by socketing all possible different colors of Gems.

xxxxx (Maximum 1)

xxxxx (Green)
xxxxx (Purple)
xxxxx (Red)
xxxxx (Blue)
xxxxx (Orange)

Best Enchants in Season 1

Enchants with Tertiary Stats (Avoidance, Speed or Leech) can vary by player preference.

Cloak: Avoidance/Leech/Speed	XXX
Chest: Primary Stats	XXX
Bracers: Avoidance/Leech/Speed	XXX
Boots: Stamina	XXX
Pants: Primary Stat / Stamina	XXX
Rings: Secondary Stat before Diminishing Returns (30%)	XXX
Weapon: Primary Stats	XXX

Best Consumables in Season 1

This following list is an overview of all items that players should have in their inventory at all times. These consumables are often a necessity for Mythic dungeons or Raid content and provide a large boost in players performance.

Flask	xxxxx
Potion	xxxxx or xxxxx
Food	xxxxx
Oil	xxxxx
Healing Potion	xxxxx
Invisibility Potion	xxxxx
Drums	xxxxx
Repair Hammer	xxxxx
Combat Rezz	xxxxx

Builds and Talents

Our Talent Trees are updated every day, reflecting all current Mythic+ Affixes, aswell as the most popular Talent Builds for Raid. We gathered all information about our Talent Builds from publicly available data of the best players worldwide.

Last Update: 14.12.2024 2:00pm PDT

Mythic Dungeons

Raid Single Target

Raid Multi Target

Mythic Dungeons

Raid Single Target

Raid Multi Target

Gear and Trinkets in The War Within Season 1

Best Embellishments for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1

Most used Trinkets for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1

Beware that Healer trinkets are not included in this list.

Best in Slot Gear for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1

The following list contains various items from either Dungeons or Raid which benefit a generic Shadow Priest the most. You should always make sure to follow your stat priority and equip gear that has either higher itemlevel, or ensure that it is an upgrade by checking Raidbots.

Dungeon Gear in The War Within Season 1

Helmet	XX
Necklace	XX
Shoulders	XX
Cloak	XX
Chest	XX
Wrists	XX
Gloves	XX
Belt	XX
Pants	XX
Boots	XX
Rings	XX XX
Weapons	XX

Raid Gear in The War Within Season 1

Helmet	XX
Necklace	XX
Shoulders	XX
Cloak	XX
Chest	XX
Wrists	XX
Gloves	XX
Belt	XX
Pants	XX
Boots	XX
Rings	XX XX
Weapons	XX

Stat Priority for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1

The further we will get into the current expansion, the effects of diminishing returns start to limit the effectiveness of your secondary stats. After reaching 30% through secondary stats (eg. ~19800 Haste) on your gear, you will start receiving a penalty for each further point on your gear. This penalty reduces the gain from more of the same stat over this threshold.

Stat Priority can differ on every player due to the different gear being used. Make sure to check your own character on Raidbots to get the perfect results for you! A general overview for secondary stats is as follows.

Stat Priority for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1 (Mythic Dungeons)

Intellect
Haste
Mastery
Critical Strike
Versatility

Stat Priority for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1 (Raid Content)

Intellect
Haste
Mastery
Critical Strike
Versatility

General Rotation for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1

For both Hero Classes we offer a general rotation overview. Beware that this is not an in-depth guide how to play your favorite class in each situation, but instead grant newer players insight about how to play and master the basics of their class.

Rotation Example for Shadow Priest

Pre-cast Vampiric Touch before the pull.
Cast Shadowfiend.
Cast Mind Blast twice.
Cast Dark Ascension.
Cast Void Eruption
Use Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power .
Cast Power Infusion.
Cast Void Bolt.
Cast Devouring Plague.
Cast Mind Blast.
Cast Mind Blast twice.
Cast Void Bolt.
Cast Void Torrent.
Cast Void Bolt.
Cast Mind Blast.
Cast Devouring Plague.
Cast Mind Flay: Insanity.

Best Race for Shadow Priest in The War Within Season 1

Each race in World of Warcraft offers their unique combat benefits which provide different powers to a specific class. We would suggest that players choose the race of their choice, regardless of the power gained. Anyways, here is a list of the different Races and their performance.