WoW Cookie Cutter Shadow Priest Raiding Build
You know, there was a time when we Shadow Priests were looked down upon in raids in World of Warcraft. That’s right. If you’ve played a Shadow Priest for a few years now, you probably know what I’m talking about. Those were the days before Vampiric Touch. They were the days before Shadow Word: Death and damnit, those were the days before we got any groups. Now though, it seems like every raid group is just dying for a Shadow Priest in the group because of our ability to regenerate mana and health for the entire group. In the spirit of Shadow Priests becoming more and more popular for raiding, I’ve decided to outline a great Shadow Priest Raiding Build for World of Warcraft! Cheers!We want you in our raid group now build
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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