Shadow Priest PvP guide

Shadow Priest PvP talents

How often each PvP talent is taken. Click one for what it does.

Phase Shift

87%

Each stack of Voidfall grants 2% reduced damage taken.

Psyfiend

74%

Summons a Psyfiend with 1,222 health for 12 sec beside you to attack the target at range with Psyflay. Psyflay Deals up to 1% of the target's total health in Shadow damage every 0.9 sec. Also slows their movement speed by 50% and reduces healing received by 50%.

Driven to Madness

72%

While Voidform is not active, being attacked will reduce the cooldown of Voidform by 3 sec.

Mindgames

31%

45s cooldown · lasts 7s

Cascading Horrors

30%

Voidform sends out slow-moving bolts of Shadow energy at random locations every 0.5 sec for 3 sec, dealing 289 Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yds, and causing them to flee in Horror for 2 sec.

Class and spec tree talents, with the build most players run and every cooldown adjusted for it: Shadow Priest talents and kit.

What Shadow Priests press when they go

The offensive cooldowns in their goes, and how often each one is in it.

Voidform

85%

Power Infusion

68%

Mindgames

17%

Halo

17%

Crowd control on the enemy healer during a go

• Silence 48%
• Psychic Scream 24%
• Silence › Psychic Scream 15%
• Psychic Scream › Silence 11%

How Shadow Priests survive a go

When a go lands on a Shadow Priest, the defensives pressed and how often:

What to kick on a Shadow Priest

The casts worth an interrupt, ranked the way top players rank them, and how often each one is stopped this season.

• High Mind Control stopped 8% of the time
• High Mind Blast stopped 3% of the time
• High Halo stopped 6% of the time
• High Void Blast stopped 1% of the time
• High Void Torrent stopped 14% of the time
• High Mind Flay: Insanity stopped 2% of the time
• High Vampiric Touch stopped 10% of the time
• Low Flash Heal stopped 11% of the time

Not on the list, but kicked often: Voidform (11%), Mind Flay (5%), Mindgames (9%), Mass Dispel (11%).

Priorities from Skill Capped's Shadow Priest guide for 12.1 (Midnight Season 2).

Shadow Priests as kickers

Shadow Priests stop 9% of the high-priority enemy casts they meet with their interrupt ready. Across every spec with an interrupt it is 12%.

A chance is a cast from a kick list, begun while the player was alive, free to act, had their kick off cooldown and stood within its range. The combat log has no line of sight, so a pillar may have been in the way.

Shadow Priest 3v3 arena comps

The teams Shadow Priests play in most.

Restoration Druid, Marksmanship Hunter, Shadow Priest

Holy Paladin, Shadow Priest, Affliction Warlock

Discipline Priest, Shadow Priest, Assassination Rogue

Retribution Paladin, Holy Priest, Shadow Priest

Shadow Priest, Restoration Shaman, Windwalker Monk

Arcane Mage, Shadow Priest, Restoration Shaman