1. Jul 11, 2021 Shadowlands Legendary powers grant impactful gameplay effects for your Shadow Priest through the new Runecarving system. As your crafted Shadowlands legendary will be the most important piece of gear in the expansion, providing large performance benefits, it is crucial to pick the right legendary to craft and effectively spend your Soul Ash and Soul Cinders.
2. Aug 09, 2021 Notable Tazavesh Gear for Holy Priest. With Patch 9.1 comes the release of Tazavesh, the Veiled Market, a Mythic-only megadungeon for Shadowlands. Because this dungeon only has one difficulty option, all loot will drop at 226 item level on the normal Mythic but the hardmode will drop 233 pieces.

1. Holy Priest Best In Slot Gear
2. Best Shadow Priest Trinkets

May 24, 2021 List of Best in Slot (BiS) gear from Karazhan, Gruul's Lair and Magtheridon's Lair for Shadow Priest DPS in Burning Crusade Classic, including optimal armor, trinkets, weapon, and gems. Contains gear sourced from raid, dungeons, early PvP grinding, professions, BoE World Drops, and reputations.

Covenants

Best covenant/soulbind for Single target:

Best covenant/soulbind for Dungeons/Raids overall:

(Dreamweaver overall, or if you need more ST focus. Korayn specifically for AoE Burst or slight funnel)

Necrolord: Marileth or Bonesmith (Marileth for full ST focus, and Bonesmith for any dungeon or big cleave scenario)

Conduits Overview

Single Target:Dissonant Echoes /Haunting Apparitions / Rabid Shadows

If you use theTalbadar's Stratagem legendary:Dissonant Echoes / Haunting Apparitions /Mind Devourer

If you play as Kyrian: Dissonant Echoes / Haunting Apparitions / Courageous Ascension

Legendaries

Night Fae:

Currently the best legendary is Shadowflame Prism. In combination with the Night Fae covenant and the Mindbender talent this legendary becomes very strong on single target and stacked AoE.

Optimal slot: Hands

The 2nd best legendary is Talbadar's Stratagem: This legendary is slightly weaker than Shadowflame Prism. However, if you use this legendary make sure to use Void Torrent instead of Mindbender.

Optimal slot: Legs

Necrolord:

Currently the best legendary is Pallid Command for single target, and Shadowflame Prism for dungeons/cleave.

Raid is almost exclusively Pallid Command at the moment, while Shadowflame Prism is being used during niche cases where burst cleave is needed.

Optimal slots: Pallid Command: Feet / Shadowflame Prism: Hands

Bis Trinkets 9.1:

1. Soulletting Ruby / Forbidden Necromantic Tome
2. Shadowed Orb of Torment / Forbidden Necromantic Tome

These 2 combos can swap in value depending on your covenant, soulbind and gear (stats)

Soulletting Ruby is still considered better overall since the sniping of low health adds to funnel the bigger amount of crit rating into your CDs on a boss is not something that is reflected in your typical 5 minute Patchwerk sim (It does scale with health in sims, but not in the sense that you can snipe a 10% add while boss is 80% health etc.)

Bis Domination Set Bonus:

• Unholy
• Blood
• Frost

Unholy, even after the buffs to Blood and Frost remain the king for us. It is ahead of Blood for single target while also scaling with additional targets a lot better.

If you do not have Unholy Set Bonus, Blood is a decent option however.

This is the Shadow Priest guide for Shadowlands written by Jaerv#3537 and Viklund#2904.

Shadow Priests have historically been the kings/queens of spread out multi-target cleave. Sadly though, this has been significantly nerfed in Shadowlands. Making us primarily good at pure single target DPS with some value at stacked cleave from the Shadowflame Prism legendary.

All the things mentioned in this guide are subject to change. We will update it during the expansion as Blizzard changes class tuning and our knowledge of the fights, gear and simulations increases.

What has changed

Recent 9.1 Changes

Patch 9.1 came with changes for 4 legendaries (1 for each covenant), Sphere’s Harmony, Pallid Command, Bwonsamdi’s Pact and Shadow Word: Manipulation

• Sphere’s Harmony: Boon of the Ascended’s cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds, up to 60 sec, for each stack of Boon of the Ascended consumed by Ascended Eruption.
• Pallid Command: Casting Unholy Nova summons a Rattling Mage that gains 2% additional damage and healing each time an enemy affected by Unholy Transfusion is damage by and ally, up to 100%
• Bwonsamdi’s Pact: Enter a pact with the Death Loa, calling forth a haunted mask that lingers on a target until Fae Guardians ends. Haunted Mask copies the benefit of the current faerie on its target.
• Shadow Word: Manipulation: Mindgames lasts an additional 3 sec and reverses and additional 10% damage or healing. When Mindgames can no longer reverse healing or damage, gain 3% Critical Strike for each second remaining for 10 sec.

Conduits:

• Dissonant Echoes: Now grants 20% increased Void Bolt damage (Was 35%).

Holy Priest Best In Slot Gear

Spells:

• Devouring Plague: Damage reduced by 18%
• Shadow Word: Pain: Damage increased by 25%
• Vampiric Touch: Damage increased by 25%

Legendary Changes:

Best Shadow Priest Trinkets

• Shadowflame Prism: Damage reduced by ~15%
• Talbadar’s Stratagem: Nerfed by ~8%