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Shadow Priest rotation guide & helper

Play Shadow Priest like a skilled player: the current priority, cooldowns that line up, AoE when it pays and kicks on the casts that matter.

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Guide

How Shadow plays.

Put your spells on the mob - Mind Blast, Shadow Word: Pain and Devouring Plague - then finish with the wand below 25% health to save mana. Once you have Shadowform it is kept up, and Mind Flay fills the gaps between Mind Blasts.

One target

  1. A shield before the pull and when a mob reaches you.
  2. Shadowform kept up.
  3. Inner Focus right before Mind Blast on mobs that live 10 seconds or more.
  4. Mind Blast at 20% mana or more.
  5. Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague on mobs living 12 seconds or more, Vampiric Embrace on mobs living 10 seconds or more.
  6. Penance, then Mind Flay (60% mana, 30% in Shadowform).
  7. Below 25% mob health: one more Mind Blast when you're at 90% mana, then the wand.

Packs

  • Shadow Word: Pain goes on the mob under your mouse when it fights you and isn't your target (30% mana or more). The "DoTs on other mobs" switch turns it off.
  • With Devouring Contagion: Devouring Plague when 2 or more enemies fight you - it spreads when the mob dies.

Raids

  • No wand phase at the end of a boss: every spell to the end.
  • Shadow Word: Pain and Devouring Plague come before Mind Blast.
  • Shadow Word: Death on cooldown in Shadowform, while you have 60% health or more. With Early Demise it also goes out below 20% mob health.

Good to know

  • You heal yourself with Flash Heal below 40% health and Renew below 65% - not in Shadowform.
  • Power Word: Fortitude and Inner Fire are kept up for you. Psychic Scream and Fade stay yours.
  • The helper doesn't start a cast that a mob running at you would push back.
What it does for you

Built for Shadow.

01

Cooldowns that line up

Your Shadow cooldowns go when the priority says so, not when a timer runs out.

02

AoE when it pays

Area spells only once enough enemies are around you. You pick the number.

03

Kicks and stuns

Interrupts on the casts that matter, and no wasted casts on mobs that are immune.

04

DoTs on every mob

Rest your mouse on another enemy and your missing DoT goes there. Your target never changes.

05

The right spell rank

Highest, smart or a fixed rank for every spell, so you never waste mana.

06

Immunity learning

It learns which mobs shrug off your spells and stops casting them there.

In the rotation

Shadow spells it uses.

Lines for spells you don't have are skipped, so it follows your talents.

Flash HealHealLesser HealPower Word: ShieldRenewHoly FireShadowformInner FocusShadow Word: PainDevouring PlagueShadow Word: DeathMind BlastVampiric EmbracePenanceMind FlaySmite
Tuning

Tune Shadow your way.

A few of the settings you can change in game, shown with their default.

  • Heal yourself below 40% health
  • Wand only when the mob is below 25% health (no more spells)
  • Wand only when your mana is below 0% (heals still go; 0 = off)
  • Always put Shadow Word: Pain on a fresh mob (above 90% health)
  • At 60% mana or more
  • DoTs on the mob under your mouse (spread): only at 30% mana or more
  • Keep Shadowform up - on by default
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