Shadow Priest Mythic+ Guide

Whenever you use your Void Torrent you summon an Entropic Rift that does damage around your target, this rift explodes at the end of its duration doing damage to enemies in it and it has further synergies with some of the hero talents.

• Your Entropic Rift transforms your Mind Blast into Void Blast, making it do more damage and generate more insanity.
• Each Devouring Plague you cast empowers your rift's size and damage by 20%.
• You have a choice between Void Empowerment and Darkening Horizon.
  • Darkening Horizon is currently undertuned and isn't picked in any scenario.
  • Void Empowerment is the better option in every situation currently.
• Passive shadow damage increase with Voidheart.

Dark Energy is really useful for movement.Devour Matter is really strong against shielded mobs.

When to use this Spec

Use this spec in the low to mid-range of Mythic+ keys. Dark Ascension is a shorter cooldown, increasing your damage for more packs throughout the dungeon and doesn't rely on being extended like Void Eruption, making it more valuable when enemies die fast. Additionally you have a very powerful 30 second window with your void torrent.

Talent Adjustments

Listing all the changes within the Class and Spec tree compared to the default build.

Spec Tree

• Added
  • Dark Ascension
    • 1 minute cooldown that increases your non-DoT damage.
  • Deathspeaker
    • A proc that resets the cooldown of shadow word: death and makes it do full damage even when the target is below 20%.
  • Insidious Ire
    • Passive damage increase to mind blast and void torrent when you have all 3 dots up on your target.
  • Mastermind
    • Passive damage increase.

• Removed
  • Auspicious Spirits
  • Tormented Spirits
  • Idol of Yogg-Saron

Hero Talents

Changed Archon to Voidweaver for more info visit the Hero Talent section above.

• Dark Energy
  • Your default pick because you don't have to stop channeling your Void Torrent if you have to move out of mechanics.
• Voidwraith
  • Currently outperforms Depth of Shadows.

• Embrace the Shadow
  • Good passive shield, Void Leech can be used when there's a lot of physical damage in the fight.

Opener

• Your goal of your opener is to spend all charges and use all of your relevant abilities as efficiently as possible. Below you can find an example of how your opener should look like:

• Always cast Vampiric Touch unless it was already applied by Shadow Crash.
• Use your active trinkets, Tempered Potion, Power Infusion and racials like Blood Fury or Berserking after using Void Eruption.
• With this build you always want to have 1 charge of Mind Blast ready and the 2nd one on 4-6 seconds remaining before you use your Void Torrent so you can get the most amount of Void Blasts possible.
• Deathspeaker gives you a lot of Shadow Word: Death procs, make sure to always use it and not waste a proc.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

1. Keep up Vampiric Touch on your target.
   • You can keep it through Mental Decay and Shadow Crash.
2. Keep up Devouring Plague on the target.
3. Cast Voidwraith
4. Dark Ascension
5. Power Infusion
6. Cast Void Blast.
7. Cast Shadow Word: Death if you get a proc from Deathspeaker.
8. Cast Mind Flay: Insanity if you are about to overcap on stacks.
9. Cast Void Torrent.
10. Cast Mind Blast. (if overcapping on charges)
11. Cast Shadow Word: Death if the target is below 20%.
12. Cast Mind Blast
13. Cast Mind Flay: Insanity.
14. Cast Mind Flay.
15. Cast Divine Star. (Only used during movement and you have no other instant cast)

Opener

• Your goal of your opener is to spend all charges and use all of your relevant abilities as efficiently as possible. Below you can find an example of how your opener should look like:

• Always cast Vampiric Touch unless it was already applied by Shadow Crash.
• Use your active trinkets, Tempered Potion, Power Infusion and racials like Blood Fury or Berserking after using Void Eruption.
• With this build you always want to have 1 charge of Mind Blast ready and the 2nd one on 4-6 seconds remaining before you use your Void Torrent so you can get the most amount of Void Blasts possible.
• Deathspeaker gives you a lot of Shadow Word: Death procs, make sure to always use them and not waste a proc.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

1. Keep up Vampiric Touch all targets.
   • You can keep it through Void Bolt and Shadow Crash. If you miss any targets with your Shadow Crash, manually apply Vampiric Touch
2. Keep up Devouring Plague on the target.
3. Cast Void Blast.
4. Cast Mind Flay: Insanity if you are about to overcap on stacks.
5. Cast Void Torrent.
6. Cast Mind Flay: Insanity.
7. Cast Mind Blast.
8. Cast Shadow Word: Death if the target is below 20%.
9. Cast Voidwraith
10. Cast Mind Flay.
11. Cast Divine Star. (Only used during movement and you have no other insstant cast)

Boss Tips

Orator Krix'vizk

• You can Mass Dispel the Shadows of Doubt, but be careful because it can be very deadly.
• Use your defensives during Vociferous Indoctrination.
• Angelic Feather helps you dodge and move with the tank easier.
  • Make sure you also save some Insanity and have some instant casts so you can do full damage on the move.

Fangs of the Queen

• Watch out for Knife Throw. Use defensives if you're targeted by this ability.
• You can either dispel Ice Sickles with Mass Dispel or use Fade to remove it.
• Use your defensives on Rime Dagger and Duskbringer.

The Coaglamation

• Use your defensives for Dark Pulse. This happens at 100 boss energy.

Izo, the Grand Splicer

• Use your defensives for Splice since it's the highest damage event during this fight.
• Use your Shadow Crash to quickly dot all the Scarabs.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Web Bolt from Sureki Silkbinder.
  • Grimweave Blast from Covert Webmancer.
  • Mending Web from Covert Webmancer.
  • Twist Thoughts from Herald of Anurek.
  • Void Wave from Sureki Unnaturaler.

Boss Tips

E.D.N.A.

• Always stack up to spawn Volatile Spikes close together to ensure you can detonate them all with 1 Refracting Beam.
  • Use Desperate Prayer whenever it's ready for this ability.
• Use Dispersion for Earth Shatterer.
• Utilize your Mass Dispel to dispel Seismic Reverberation off of your tank.
  • Dispel it right before Seismic Smash to give your tank the 50% damage reduction from Stone Shield.

Skarmorak

• Dot only the Crystal Shard that you are currently attacking otherwise you will get a lot of stacks of Crystalline Eruption.
• Use your defensive before Unstable Crash happens or while you have multiple stacks of Unstable Energy.

Master Machinists Brokk and Dorlita

• Interrupt Molten Metal with Silence whenever he jumps away.
• Use your defensive during Exhaust Vents and Blazing Crescendo.

Void Speaker Eirich

• Pre position yourself to a portal so you can quickly get rid of Entropy from Entropic Reckoning.
• Use your defensive on Entropic Reckoning.

Trash Tips

• Focus down Earth Burst Totem from Cursedforge Stoneshaper. They have a low amount of health but are not affected by AoE abilities.
• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Howling Fear from Ghastly Voidsoul.
  • Censoring Gear from Turned Speaker.
  • Piercing Wail from Void Bound Howler.
  • Restoring Metals from Forgebound Mender and Cursedforge Mender.
  • Arcing Void from Cursedheart Invader.

Boss Tips

Speaker Shadowcrown

• Consider using a defensive if you're affected by Collapsing Night. Getting out of this quickly is important since it deals a lot of damage every 0.5 seconds.
• You can use Mass Dispel to dispel Burning Shadows.
• Interrupt Shadow Bolt.

Anub'ikkaj

• Stun Animate Shadows with Shadowfury.
• Use defensives for the Dark Orb and Shadowy Decay.
• Save your Shadow Crash for Animate Shadows.

Rasha'nan

• Be aware of Erosive Spray. It applies Lingering Erosion which is dangerous when combined with other damage events.
• Consider using a defensive when you get Expel Webs as your mobility is quite bad and you can't deal with them as well as some other classes can.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Night Bolt from Nightfall Shadowmage.
  • Ensnaring Shadows from Nightfall Shadowmage.
  • Tormenting Beam from Nightfall Darkcaster.
  • Umbral Barrier from Nightfall Darkcaster.

Boss Tips

Ingra Maloch

• Interrupt Spirit Bolt every time a non-tank player is targeted.
• Try to line up your cooldowns with Droman Oulfarran's Droman's Wrath to gain a huge DPS boost. This happens when Droman Oulfarran reaches 20% health.
• Interrupt Spirit Bolt.

Mistcaller

• Use your Shadow Crash to quickly apply your dots to the Illusionary Clones and the Illusionary Vulpin.
• Use your defensives during the Guessing Game.

Tred'ova

• Use your Shadow Crash to quickly apply dots to the Glooming Larvas.
• Make sure you position yourself far from the tank so you don't get Mind Link.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Spirit Bolt from Drust Harvester.
  • Harvest Essence from Drust Harvester.
  • Nourish the Forest from Mistveil Tender.
    • You can use your Mass Dispel to remove the buffs from the enemies.
  • Bramblethorn Coat from Mistveil Shaper.
    • You can use Dispel Magic and Mass Dispel to purge it if it goes through.
  • Stimulate Regeneration from Spinemaw Staghorn.
  • Stimulate Resistance from Spinemaw Staghorn.

Boss Tips

Blightbone

• Use your Desperate Prayer or Dispersion if you're targeted by Heaving Retch.
  • Make sure to always dispel the disease that it leaves behind with Purify Disease.
• Always use Shadow Crash on Carrion Worms.

Amarth, The Harvester

• Shackle Undead either the Reanimated Crossbowman or Reanimated Mage if you're not planning on killing them quickly.
• Interrupt the Necrotic Bolt or the Frostbolt Volley from the Reanimated Mage.

Surgeon Stitchflesh

• Make sure you have your Shadow Crash whenever a new Creation is coming or when the boss is being hooked.
• Use defensives on Stitchneedle.

Nalthor the Rimebinder

• You can use your Leap of Faith on a the target of Dark Exile to let the player stay up and not have to go down.
  • Do note that you still die after 50 seconds after doing this. It's a gain if the boss has low health or the targeted player could struggle in the extra phase.
  • Don't do it if you have 0 combat resurrections ready!
• Consider pooling some insanity for the Icebound Aegis as it can be very dangerous in higher keys!

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Drain Fluids from Corpse Harvester and Corpse Collector.
  • Necrotic Bolt from Zolramus Sorceror & Zolarmus Necromancer.
  • Rasping Scream from Skeletal Marauder.
  • Frostbolt Volley from Reanimted Mage.
    • You can use your mass dispel to dispel it if it goes through.
  • Goresplatter from Corpse Collector.
    • You can use your Purify Disease to dispel it if it goes through.
  • Repair Flesh from Flesh Crafter.

Boss Tips

Chopper Redhook

• Line up your cooldowns with the boss walking over Bombs which afflict him with Heavy Ordnance.
• Make sure you have your Shadow Crash for when the adds spawn.

Dread Captain Lockwood

• Focus down the Ashvane Cannoneer during the phase change to quickly use Unstable Ordnance to get the boss down from the ship.
• Make sure you have your Shadow Crash for when the adds spawn. (at 66% and 33% of boss hp).

Hadal Darkfathom

• Consider pressing a defensive on the Break Water.
• Make sure to have some instant cast spells for when you are about to move for Crashing Tide.

Viq'Goth

• Use your Mass Dispel to help your healer dispel Putrid Waters during the fight.
• Make sure to have both of the tentacles dotted with Vampiric Touch.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Brackish Bolt from Irontide Waveshaper.
  • Watertight Shell from Irontide Waveshaper.
  • Water Bolt from Bilge Rat Tempest.
  • Choking Waters from Bilge Rat Tempest.
  • Bolstering Shout from Ashvane Commander.

Boss Tips

General Umbriss

• Use your Desperate Prayer or Dispersion before Commanding Roar.

Forgemaster Throngus

• Use your Desperate Prayer during Blistering Heat.
• Use your Dispersion when you are targetted by Molten Spark
  • and Blistering Heat is also happening.

Drahga Shadowburner

• Use Desperate Prayer or Dispersion during Twilight Buffet.
• Make sure to have your Shadow Crash ready for when the Invocation of Shadowflame spawn.

Erudax, the Duke of Below

• Use defensives during Abyssal Corruption and Void Surge.
• Make sure to always have your Shadow Crash for the Mutated Hatchlings.
  • Be careful of killing them too quickly as when they die they leave a debuff that increases your shadow damage taken and the Void Surge might be deadly then.

Defensive Usage can be found in this timeline:

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Earth Bolt from Twilight Earthcaller.
  • Mass Tremor from Twilight Earthcaller.
    • You can use your mass dispel to remove it.
  • Shadowflame Bolt from Twilight Beguiler.
  • Sear Mind from Twilight Beguiler.

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