Shadow Priests are pretty commonplace in Arena now. That being said, it’s imperative that you have a strategy in place if you want to win. That being said, you need a great rotation to add to your strategy. That being said, you need a proper rotation or your rotation is going to be bad. That being said, let’s look at the proper Shadow Priest Rotation for Arena today, so you’re not left in the dust. That being said. That being said. That being said. That being said……That being said.Without further delay ladies and gentlemen, I give to you the best Arena Shadow Priest Spell Rotation!

• Mind Blast – This starts the burst going. Hit them with this first so you can start the cooldown and have it up faster.
• Shadow Word: Pain – You’ve gotta get the DoT up as fast as possible, so it has the opportunity to do the most damage throughout the fight.
• Mind Flay - This is more of a filler than anything.
• Vampiric Touch – Now we’re getting to about 90-91% left on mana. Vampiric Touch will start the regen so that goes down slower.
• If Shadow Word: Pain is off, renew it. This is your most efficient damage spell. Gotta keep that up at all times.
• Mind Blast – Cooldown should be up. Nuke em with it.
• Shadow Word: Death – As a finisher. If they’re not going to die from it (or very close) maybe save this until you can get them down a bit.

Thanks for viewing the WoW Shadow Priest Arena Spell Rotation! Kearo out!

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Shadow Priest Meta Gem:

Chaotic Skyfire Diamond

Shadow Priest Red Gem:

Runed Scarlet Ruby

Shadow Priest Blue Gem:

Purified Twilight Opal

Shadow Priest Yellow Gem:

Potent Monarch Topaz

There you have it. Obviously there are other choices and better extremely rare gems, but these are the most popular in the current Shadow Priest gearing climate in World of Warcraft. Also, they’re the most available.

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First of all, we take Darkness for the extra 10% damage boost. Even though taking all of the increased damage spells we can is a good thing, we’re going to have to watch it as we get further down the tree. Shadow Priests cause a notorious amount of threat, so we’ll have to remedy that with Shadow Affinity. I mention this because the talent is extremely important. If you’re going to be raiding in World of Warcraft as a Shadow Priest, you’ve gotta get Shadow Affinity. improved Shadow Word Pain is a must because it adds even more efficiency to the already great mana conserving spell. Shadow Focus gives us our hit cap.

Mind Flay is a given, as this is the spam move in our rotation after we’ve set Shadow Word: Pain and Mind Blast. Improved Mind Blast is a great talent because of that drastic shortening of the cooldown. Note: You can get away with only 4 points in Mind Blast and still maintain it in rotation, but you’ve got to be on top of your game.

We’ve taken Shadow Weaving in the same spirit that mages take Improved Scorch. We like that debuff because it ultimately means more damage, more life resotration and mana regeneration for our party. Vampiric Embrace and Improved Vampiric Embrace are both necessary. Basically everything from there on down is pretty self-explanatory due to them being basically all damage improvement talents. Good thing we took Shadow Affinity, because we’re going to be pumping out some damage!

Note: It’s important to keep in mind that the more damage you do, the more mana and health regeneration your party gets.

After Shadow is done, we jump right into the Discipline Tree.

Twin Disciplines gives you that 5% bonus to your instant spell damage, and I would say healing as well, but we don’t heal as Raiding Shadow Priests. Still, it’s an extra bonus. Improved Power Word: Fortitude is going to help you and your party greatly. You can never have too much health. Inner Focus is there if you need it, but I’m guessing most of the time you won’. Better safe than sorry though. Alright guys, that’s it! Have fun raiding with your Shadow Priest in World of Warcraft!

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Priest Leveling Build

Now, granted, you can place your talents however you want to, but this is just what I did. I’ll run over the really important talents in the article, but keep in mind that no build is perfect. How well a build functions is also incredibly reliant on your current gear and spell rotation as well. However, for the most part, when you’re leveling up, you’ll want to stick as closely as possible to the build above.

This build focuses mainly on Shadow and then jumps over into Discipline. It’s highly recommended that you place your Shadow Points first while leveling your Priest in World of Warcraft.

First off, Spirit Tap is a must. This allows you to regenerate mana at a much greater speed than if you were to just fight untalented. This means two things. First of all, you regenerate mana while fighting, allowing you to kill one mob, gain the effect, and more efficiently take down the second mob due to your mana regen. Secondly, you won’t spend near as much time sitting and drinking after a fight. Spread out this 10 second savings over every single fight in the game from level 10 to level 80 and you’ve got yourself more than a few hours saved from this talent. Improved Spirit Tap just adds to this effect, get that bad boy too.

Shadow Word: Pain is your most efficient damage spell in your arsenal (it does more damage per point of mana). Taking Improved Shadow Word: Pain would be wise. Improved Psychic Scream is always nice because it’s really your only crowd control spell as a priest leveling up. Use it and love it. Vampiric Embrace and Improved Vampiric Embrace will allow you to siphon health from your opponent, making you less likely to need heals during or after a fight. Again, more efficiency.

Shadowform, Twisted Faith, Misery and Shadow Power are all essential here because they give you an incredible boost to your overall damage. Mind Melt is great for this too. Done with Shadow, and moving on into Discipline.

Ok, right off the bat, we’ve taken Twin Disciplines. This isn’t only important for your spell damage, but let’s face it – there’s going to be a time when you need to heal yourself to get out of a sticky situation. I don’t care what any Shadow Priest tells you, even they heal when needed while leveling up in World of Warcraft. Since you’re going to be soloing and taking damage, Improved Inner Fire is an essential boost to your armor class and make you less likely to be obligated to use your heals (we never want to use our heals if we don’t have to. They take mana, thus taking away from our speed and damage).

Improved Power Word: Fortitude gives us a little bit more Stamina. This talent really isn’t that essential, but it is nice to have. We just took it here because frankly, it’s the best talent in the tear for priest leveling in wow. Inner Focus comes in handy in two ways. Primarily, it can be used as an “Oh, Shit” button when you’re out of mana and you need a heal or just one last damage spell. Secondly, if you use it BEFORE you’re out of mana, it just saves on downtime.

The rest of the talents can be shifted around a bit, so tweak it and have fun with it. See you Priests in World of Warcraft! World of Warcraft PvP

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First:  Shadow Word: Pain,

Second: Vampiric Touch

Third: Devouring Plague

Fourth: Vampiric Embrace

Fifth: Mind Blast

Sixth: Mind Flay (Spam this to fill in extra time while waiting on cooldowns)

If you’ve got Shadow Weaving stacked up to 5, you’ll need to refresh Shadow Word: Pain to get optimal DPS out of that. That’s about all there is to it ladies and gents. That’s the best Shadow Priest Spell Rotation!

P.S. – Some priests in World of Warcraft like to use Shadow Word: Death when it’s up, but since this hasn’t been confirmed as a safe strategy, I didn’t include it in the rotation. For you, however, it might suit you perfectly!

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Helm: Hood of Rationality

Neck: Cosmic Lights

Shoulders: Mantle of Dissemination

Back: Pennant Cloak

Chest: The Sanctums Flowing Vestements

Wrist: Unsullied Cuffs

Gloves: Valorous Handwraps of Faith

Belt: Leash of Heedless Magic

Leggings: Leggings of Mortal Arrogance

Boots: Arcanic Tramplers

Rings: Signet of Manifested Pain, Lost Jewel

Weapon: Torch of Holy Fire, Accursed Spine

Wand: Plague Igniter

Trinket: Illustration of the Dragon Soul, Sundial of the Exiled

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Shadow Priest Raiding Builds

This cookie cutter build is the basis of all Shadow Priest Raiding Builds. Every popular build you’ll ever see is going to be loosely based upon this one build. It’s got Shadow Focus for that all important hit rating, Veiled Shadows so you can Fade more often, and Focused Mind to increase your mana efficiency and longevity during long fights.

Shadow Priest PvP Builds

Here’s your cookie cutter Shadow Priest PvP Build. We didn’t take Mind Melt because we don’t need that periodic damage for the quick fights in PvP and we’re not taking Focused Mind this time because that mana reduction isn’t going to help you when you’re looking for burst DPS. When raiding, we are trying to sustain damage, while in PvP we wanna nuke our target’s face off all in a matter of a few seconds.

There’s also this build for Shadow Priest PvP….but it doesn’t make much sense to me. I included it for you because it’s popular though.

There you have it. Shadow Priest Builds in World of Warcraft. Complete with ramblings by yours truly.

P.S. – Extract looks like a bad ass movie.

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