Shadow Priest Mists of Pandaria: Remix Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7
On this page, you will learn the best Gems to use for your Shadow Priest in Mists of Pandaria: Remix, as well as the best leveling talents and rotation, whether you are leveling in the open world, or through raids and dungeons.
If you were looking for our normal Dragonflight Leveling Guide for Shadow Priest, please check out our Leveling page.
Remix: Mists of Pandaria Guide for Shadow Priest
Welcome to our MoP Remix Guide for Shadow Priest! This page contains everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Shadow Priest in the Patch 10.2.7 special feature, Mists of Pandaria: Remix.
This page is focused only on Shadow Priest in MoP Remix. If you want to know more about MoP Remix in general, such as its rewards, check out our dedicated page below.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Talents for Shadow Priest
Below, you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Shadow Priest in MoP Remix. There are various ways of leveling in MoP Remix, and we offer some builds for the most relevant ways.
Note that this Leveling section is specific to MoP Remix. For our Dragonflight Leveling Guide for Shadow Priest, please check our dedicated Leveling page.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Build for Shadow Priest
Open-World Leveling Build
This build is intended for speed-leveling and sacrifices single-target damage to maximize your ability to make huge pulls and AoE damage.
Dungeon and Raid Leveling Build
This build assumes you are spending a lot of time in Raids and Dungeons
End-Game Raid Build
This build is intended for pushing single target damage in raid-focused
content in end-game. Void Eruption builds can really pop off in raid
environments with multiple people using
Brilliance and
Tireless Spirit. You become a
Devouring Plague machine with these,
especially at high haste levels and can get 100% uptime on
Voidform.
Use this build for fights with adds to add Shadow Crash:
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Note: If you want more defensive value with Mental Fortitude drop either
Silence or 1 point in
Phantasmal Pathogen.
Best Gems for Shadow Priest in MoP Remix
Gems are one of the unique ways to augment your character in MoP Remix, offering offensive, defensive, and utility benefits. On this page, we list the best gems for each type. To learn more about Gems in MoP Remix in general, check out our dedicated page below.
Meta Gem
Your Meta gem is your most powerful gem that scale with the item level of the item they are socketed on. You can have 1 Meta gem equipped on your Helm only. The following gems are all great choices as a Shadow Priest, pick the one that sounds the most fun to you!
Tireless Spirit
Lifestorm
Oblivion Sphere
Locus of Power (Early Gearing)
Funeral Pyre
Note that Locus of Power can be particularly strong at lower gear levels,
but once you start acquiring more Prismatic gems, the value will fall off.
Currently there is a bug with Tireless Spirit that makes
Devouring Plague still cost 5 Insanity when talented into
Distorted Reality. This is certainly still strong in groups but does
diminish the value for you when using that talent.
Cogwheel Gem
The Cogwheel gem grants you a familiar movement ability to augment your character. You can have 1 Cogwheel gem equipped on your Boots only. This choice is very much preference; I have listed the ones I think are most valuable as a Shadow Priest.
Blink
Spiritwalker's Grace
Soulshape
Stampeding Roar
Door of Shadows
Tinker Gems
The Tinker gems will give you a range of powerful effects that will end up giving the most choice when it comes to playstyle and damage output. You can have a total of 12 Tinker gems on your gear:
- Shoulder: 3
- Wrists: 3
- Gloves: 3
- Waist: 3
To indicate strength of these gems I have put them into a tier list indicating strength. Gems in the higher tiers will generally be more powerful. Not every gem is listed, only the top gems for Shadow Priests.
Tier | Tinker Gems |
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S-Tier |
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A-Tier |
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B-Tier |
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C-Tier |
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D-Tier |
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F-Tier |
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Note that Brilliance gets significantly better when running with other
Shadow Priests or specs like Balance Druid that also gain a lot of value from the
effect. This effect also STACKS, meaning the more people that run this in
the raid the more you get to spam
Devouring Plague.
Prismatic Gems
Your Prismatic Gems will be used to give your character more secondary or tertiary stats to a piece of gear. These gems have 4 different qualities like normal items will (Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary) and you can combine them together to get a higher tier gem.
In total you can have 21 Prismatic gems on your gear:
- Chest: 3
- Legs: 3
- Neck: 3
- Rings: 3 each
- Trinkets: 3 each
As you progress, you will start accumulating quite a lot of secondary stats. Shadow prefers running as much Haste and Mastery as possible, but Critical Strike and Versatility are also quite nice for scaling certain gems damage as well. Get a solid baseline of Haste and Mastery, and then balance out everything else.
As a Shadow Priest the spec wants a comfortable level of Haste (~30%) and then your goal should be to stack Mastery up until 19%. After that you want to get a solid footing of Critical Strike (20-25%) and Versatility (~10-15%). After this, you can then invest more into Haste and Mastery and begin capping Critical Strike.
The following is a list of the available Legendary Prismatic gems. Each has equivalents with similar names at lower ranks.
Perfect Quick Topaz - Haste
Perfect Masterful Amethyst - Mastery
Perfect Deadly Sapphire - Critical Strike
Perfect Versatile Diamond - Versatility
Perfect Sustaining Emerald - Health
Perfect Swift Opal - Speed
Perfect Hungering Ruby - Leech
Perfect Stalwart Pearl - Armor
While leveling up, you can also leverage the Gear Upgrade system to easily upgrade pieces of gear that you currently have. Normally this is quite expensive to do so, but when you get drops at a higher item level than what you have equipped you get a steep discount applied. This can be particularly useful to upgrade any Rare or Epic item drops you get from various pieces of content.
End-Game Stats
As you continue to progress through the end-game, here are your rough goals for secondary stats. You do not need to strictly cap Critical Strike and Haste due to gems increasing how much of these stats you gain naturally.
- 60-70% Haste
- 60-67% Mastery
- 70% Critical Strike at Most
- Dump everything else into Versatility
Level by Level Rotation
To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
Leveling Rotation for Shadow Priest
When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is because we have two recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.
Before combat, make sure you have the following buffs active:
Power Word: Fortitude
Shadowform
- Keep up
Shadow Word: Pain on as many targets as possible.
- Keep up
Vampiric Touch on as many targets as possible.
- Use
Shadow Crash to do some AoE damage.
- Use
Shadow Crash to quickly apply DoTs to targets and do some AoE damage.
- With
Misery talented use
Vampiric Touch to refresh and apply both DoTs on as many targets as possible.
- Use
Shadowfiend as a cooldown when fighting harder enemies.
- Use
Mindbender as a cooldown when fighting harder enemies.
- Use
Dark Ascension as your main cooldown when fighting harder enemies.
- Use
Power Infusion as a cooldown when fighting harder enemies. Use this after casting
Dark Ascension.
- Use
Power Infusion as a cooldown when fighting harder enemies. Use this after casting
Dark Ascension. When in a group cast this on someone else so you both get the benefit with
Twins of the Sun Priestess
- Use
Devouring Plague to spend Insanity.
- Cast
Shadow Word: Death when
Mindbender is active.
- Use
Mind Blast on cooldown.
- Use
Void Torrent on cooldown.
- Cast
Mind Spike: Insanity if
Surge of Insanity buff is active.
- Cast
Mind Flay: Insanity if
Surge of Insanity buff is active.
- Use
Shadow Word: Death on any target below 20% health.
- Use
Mindgames on cooldown.
- Use
Halo on cooldown when facing more than 1 target.
- Use
Mind Spike as your filler spell.
- Use
Mind Flay as your filler spell.
You also have the following spells you can use:
Power Word: Shield for an extra defensive shield.
Psychic Scream as an AoE Crowd Control ability.
Desperate Prayer as a defensive ability.
Mind Soothe to help skip past enemies.
Void Tendrils as an AoE Crowd Control ability.
Dispel Magic to remove buffs off enemies.
Fade to help skip past mobs with the reduced aggro radius.
Fade to help skip past mobs with the reduced aggro radius or as a defensive.
Silence to interrupt enemies casting.
Dispersion as your most powerful defensive ability.
Flash Heal if you are running low on health.
Flash Heal if you are running low on health or for the defensive buff of
Protective Light.
Angelic Feather for movement.
Vampiric Embrace for powerful healing during large damage windows.
Angelic Feather or
Power Word: Shield for movement.
Dominate Mind can control certain enemies to get a temporary pet to help you level.
After you hit max level you can use the mainline rotation guide with the appropriate talents checked for your optimal rotation.
Changelog
- 17 Jun. 2024: Correct end-game Mastery value to respect cap of 67%.
- 27 May 2024: Update Tinker gem rankings and add goals for secondary stats. Change default build for Shadow Crash in raid.
- 20 May 2024: Update Tinker gem rankings after recent hotfixes.
- 18 May 2024: Update Tinker gem rankings with more options and rank the various Meta gems.
- 17 May 2024: Update initial Tinker Gem rankings and adjust build path for Dungeon Build to prioritize Shadow Crash.
- 15 May 2024: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Publik, Shadow Priest theorycrafter and SimC dev at Warcraft Priests. He currently raids in The Exiled on Arthas-US.
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