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This is the Shadow Priest guide for Shadowlands written by Jaerv#3537 and Viklund#2904.

1. Best Shadow Priest Trinkets
2. Disc Priest Best In Slot

Shadow Priests have historically been the kings/queens of spread out multi-target cleave. Sadly though, this has been significantly nerfed in Shadowlands. Making us primarily good at pure single target DPS with some value at stacked cleave from the Shadowflame Prism legendary.

1. Searing NightmareInstant. Twist of Fate - The best talent for pure single target DPS. Misery - The best talent in multi-dotting situations. Searing Nightmare - The best talent for 3+ target AoE. Is picked for most dungeons. If it can hit 3 or more targets you completely stop casting Devouring Plague.
2. The current best in slot gear for Shadow Priests optimizing PvE DPS in WoW Shadowlands 9.1.
3. May 24, 2021 List of Best in Slot (BiS) gear from Karazhan, Gruul's Lair and Magtheridon's Lair for Shadow Priest DPS in Burning Crusade Classic, including optimal armor, trinkets, weapon, and gems. Contains gear sourced from raid, dungeons, early PvP grinding, professions, BoE World Drops, and reputations.
4. On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Shadow Priest in World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.1. We also have default talent lists for various types of content, such as raiding or Mythic+. If you play with Warmode on, we have your PvP talents covered as well.

Holy Priest Covenant and Soulbind Guides. Now that we have highlighted each Covenant's strengths and abilities for you to decide which is best, you can read our in-depth Covenant guides below. These pages detail the best soulbind paths for Shadowlands PvE as well as optimal covenant ability usage for each covenant.

All the things mentioned in this guide are subject to change. We will update it during the expansion as Blizzard changes class tuning and our knowledge of the fights, gear and simulations increases.

What has changed

Recent 9.1 Changes

Patch 9.1 came with changes for 4 legendaries (1 for each covenant), Sphere’s Harmony, Pallid Command, Bwonsamdi’s Pact and Shadow Word: Manipulation

• Sphere’s Harmony: Boon of the Ascended’s cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds, up to 60 sec, for each stack of Boon of the Ascended consumed by Ascended Eruption.
• Pallid Command: Casting Unholy Nova summons a Rattling Mage that gains 2% additional damage and healing each time an enemy affected by Unholy Transfusion is damage by and ally, up to 100%
• Bwonsamdi’s Pact: Enter a pact with the Death Loa, calling forth a haunted mask that lingers on a target until Fae Guardians ends. Haunted Mask copies the benefit of the current faerie on its target.
• Shadow Word: Manipulation: Mindgames lasts an additional 3 sec and reverses and additional 10% damage or healing. When Mindgames can no longer reverse healing or damage, gain 3% Critical Strike for each second remaining for 10 sec.

Best Shadow Priest Trinkets

Conduits:

• Dissonant Echoes: Now grants 20% increased Void Bolt damage (Was 35%).

Spells:

• Devouring Plague: Damage reduced by 18%
• Shadow Word: Pain: Damage increased by 25%
• Vampiric Touch: Damage increased by 25%

Legendary Changes:

• Shadowflame Prism: Damage reduced by ~15%
• Talbadar’s Stratagem: Nerfed by ~8%

Recommended Raiding Build

Single Target

• Last Word / Psychic Horror
• Mindbender / Void Torrent

Multi Target

• Misery / Twist of Fate
• Last Word / Psychic Horror
• Auspicious Spirits / Shadow Crash

Recommended Mythic+ Build

Disc Priest Best In Slot

• Searing Nightmare / Misery
• Last Word / Psychic Horror
• Shadow Crash / Auspicious Spirits
• Ancient Madness / Hungering Void

Fortress of the Mind - The best for single target fights. More insanity generation, and more damage from Mind Blast and Mind Flay. Also synergizes well with the talent Psychic Link and the Talbadar's Stratagem Legendary.

Death and Madness - Can be good in Mythic plus when mobs in a pull dies at different times, and to load up on insanity before the next pack. The biggest downside is that it does substantial reflect damage, which can be dangerous. If your group is doing big pulls this can be a good pick because you basically want to Mind Sear -> Searing Nightmare and not cast Mind Blast or Vampiric Touch, making the other talents considerably less valuable. Death and Madness helps you finish off the remaining mobs after you’re done aoe’ing and will give you a full battery of Insanity for the next pull. Also has incredible synergy with Shadowflame Prism, since chain resetting Shadow Word: Death just gives you more Rifts from the Legendary.

Unfurling Darkness - While not having much value in PvE is the clear winner for PvP - after casting Vampiric Touch your next Vampiric Touch is instant and deals initial damage. Synergises well with both Misery and also Damnation.

Body and Soul - The best talent in this row. Giving us some much-needed mobility.

San’layn - Would be a great survivability talent if it wasn’t in the same row as our only reliable mobility spell.

Intangibility - Would be a great survivability talent if it wasn’t in the same row as our only reliable mobility spell.

Twist of Fate - The best talent for pure single target DPS.

Misery - The best talent in multi-dotting situations.

Searing Nightmare - The best talent for 3+ target AoE. Is picked for most dungeons. If it can hit 3 or more targets you completely stop casting Devouring Plague.

Last Word - You pick this if your group needs more interrupts.

Mind Bomb - Weak pick because it replaces Psychic Scream.

Psychic Horror - Instant single target stun. Very strong pick in both raids (if there are adds to use it on) and M+.

Auspicious Spirits - Best single target and low target cleave pick. Increases your Insanity generation and the damage from your spirits.

Psychic Link - Strong for spread cleave. Does nothing on single-target.

Shadow Crash - Strong stacked cleave pick. Not far behind Auspicious Spirits on single target due to the high insanity generation and high damage.

Damnation - Can be nice for world content to quickly kill a target however, it has no real value in PvE content. It synergises well with Misery and Unfurling Darkness, since the application of Vampiric Touch through Damnation deals the initial damage.

Mindbender - In combination with the Shadowflame Prism legendary this is the strongest pick on single target and cleave.

Void Torrent - Strong single target pick if you do not have the Shadowflame Prism legendary.

Ancient Madness - Can be useful in situations of big AoE where you want to remove void bolt from your rotation while in Void Form. Synergizes well with Searing Nightmare to burst down those big AoE packs in M+.

Hungering Void - The baseline choice for single target and multitarget cleave. You can extend your Void Form by a significant amount depending on your haste and crit. It also makes your void bolt increase your damage done to target for 6 seconds.

Surrender to Madness - This talent gives you a 25 second STM buff, increasing your insanity generation by 100%. It also activates your Void Form for 15 seconds. When the target you cast STM on dies you lose the STM buff but you don’t lose the Void Form buff.

If you can utilizeSurrender to Madness perfectly, it can be strong in low dungeons, where the time between pulls are shorter than the cooldown of Voidform (less than a minute). Currently does not see play in most situations.