Shadow Priest Build
Shadow priests in the world of Warcraft are loved and hated at the same time. They can’t heal that well at all, but they can blast out the damage quite fast. They can be very deadly when you spec your talent points well. In the end, what you have a character that can heal or damage massively… if you get your talents correct. The one thing with priests is that they can do one or the other, but not really do both at the same time. If you spec into the holy tree, the shadow skills will be poor at best, and if you spec into your shadow tree, the healing will be poor, but in saying that, it’ll still be better than other classes. This is a continue on article from the holy priest build post, and also the priest talent build articles.
Shadow Priest Build
Ok the first thing we should cover, is how we should spend the points, generally we suggest a 14/0/57 point spend (Discipline,Holy,Shadow).
We don’t spend many points in the Discipline tree, but they are well worth spending, as it’ll help alot. The Skills we want to spend out points are:-
Twin Disciplines, 5/5 – increases the damage and healing of your spells by 5%
Improved Inner fire, 3/3 – Increases your inner fire spells, and gives 12 more charges
Improved Power Word: Fortitude, 2/2 – increases the effect of your power word: Fortitude spell
Inner Focus, 1/1 – Instant Cast, next spell has no mana cost
Improved Power Word: Shield, 3/3 – increases the damage absorbed by your shield spell by 15%
That’s all the points we want to spend in the Discipline tree, they are a couple of minor talents that help boost your overall protection so you can dish out that damage fast!
Next we move onto the shadow tree, this is where we spend the lion’s share of our talent points, you’ll see by the time your level 80, and you’ll be a powerful force to be reckoned with. So lets get started with our shadow talent build
Spirit Tap, 3/3 – Gives you 100% to gain 100% to your spirit
Improved Spirit Tap 2/2 – Your mind blast and Shadow word: death critical increase your spirit by 10%
Improved Shadow Word: Pain, 2/2 – Increases the damage by 6%
Shadow Focus, 3/3 – Increases your chance to hit with shadow spells by 3% and reduces the mana cost by 6%
Improved Mind Blast, 5/5 – reduces the cool down by 2.5 seconds
Mind Flay, 1/1 – Direct Damage spells that causes 500+ damage over 3 seconds
Veiled Shadows, 2/2 – Decreases the cool down of your fade spell by 6seconds
Shadow Reach, 2/2 – Increases the range of your Offensive shadow spells by 20%
Shadow Weaving, 3/3 – Your shadow spells increase your shadow damage delt by 2% for 15 seconds, stacks up to 5 times
Vampiric Embrace, 1/1 – A Dot that heals you for 15% of the damage, and your party members for 3% of any shadow damage you cause for 5 minutes.
Improved vampiric Embrace, 2/2 – Increases the healing from vampiric Embrace by 67%.
Focused Mind, 3/3, Reduces the mana cost of mind blast, mind control, mind flay and mind sear by 15%
Mind Melt, 2/2 – Increases the Critical Changes of several of your spells by 4%
Improved Devouring Plague, 3/3 – Increases the periodic damage done by your Devouring Plague spells by 15%
ShadowForm, 1/1 – You assume shadow form, Shadow damage is increased by 15%, damage to you is reduced by 15%, you can’t cast holy spells in shadow form.
Shadow Power, 5/5 – Increases the Critical Strike Damage bonus of your mind blast, shadow word:death and mind flay by 100%
Improved Shadowform, 2/2 – Fade now has a 1005 changes to remove all movement slowing effects, and reduces channel time lose when hit
Misery, 3/3 – Several spells increase your chance to hit by 35 for 24 seconds, and increases spell power for several spells as well
Vampirit Touch, 1/1 – Causes 850 Shadow damage over 15 seconds, and causes upto 10 party or raid members to regenerate 0.25% of their maximum manage.
Pain and Suffering, 3/3 – Your mind flay spell will refresh the duration of your shadow word: pain spells, and redureces the amount of damage you take from shadow word:death by 30%
Twisted Faith, 5/5 – Increases your spell power by 10% of your spirit, and your damage caused by mind blast and mind flay by 10% if your target has the shadow word:pain spell.
Dispersion, 1/1 – Your Disperse into power shadow energy, reducing all damage taken by 90%.
As you can see this is an extremely powerful damage build of a priest, it is well worth doing, and is a great excuse to get the dual talent spec skill!
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Hiya Justin
Just came across your page i decided to go back and have another go at my priest.
I am going to give your build a go:) i hardly go in groups mainly a solo so i hope this build is right for me
Any more tips will be gratefull:)
Jenny