Shadow Priest Guide
Damage over time, channels and control, in Shadowform: Vampiric Touch and Shadow Word: Pain wear the target down while Mind Flay keeps it close, and Silence locks the healer out.
- Role Ranged DPS
- Health 3,950
- Resource Mana
Plan your Shadow Priest build → Discipline Priest
Toolkit at a glance
Counted from the spell data (every Priest spell, the Shadow spells, and the row-5 talent spells).
| Stuns, fears, incapacitates | Psychic Scream, Psychic Horror |
|---|---|
| Roots and silences | Silence |
| Interrupts | — |
| Defensives | Power Word: Shield, Dispersion |
| Heals | Flash Heal, Heal |
| Mobility | — |
Shadow Priest talents
Five rows of three. Pick one per row; rows 1 to 4 are passive and row 5 teaches a spell.
Your damage, damage over time included, deals 15% more for each of your damage over time effects on the target.
Whoever dispels your Vampiric Touch is silenced for 3 sec.
Casting Shadow Word: Pain makes your next Mind Blast instant.
Power Word: Shield also makes its target run 40% faster for 3 sec.
Renew also makes its target run 40% faster for 4 sec.
Psychic Scream also frees you from roots and slows, and you run 40% faster for 3 sec after it.
Dispersion also heals you for 100 every sec for 6 sec.
Your Shadow damage heals you for 15% of it, damage over time included.
Falling below 30% health shields you for 900. Once a minute.
Shadow Word: Pain also slows its target by 30%.
Mind Blast also leaves its target healed 25% less for 8 sec.
Shadow Word: Death silences its target for 3 sec.
Learn Shadow Crash: a slow bolt of shadow that deals 250 to the target and every enemy within 8 m, and leaves Vampiric Touch on each.
Learn Mindgames: 300 Shadow damage, and for 5 sec the target's damage heals whoever it strikes, and its healing hurts whoever it heals.
Learn Psychic Horror: stun the target for 3 sec.
Shadow spells
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mind Flay | Shadow | 250 | Instant | — | 30 m |
| Vampiric Touch | Shadow | 250 | 1.5 s | — | 30 m |
| Silence | Shadow | 150 | Instant | 45 s | 30 m |
| Dispersion | Shadow | — | Instant | 120 s | Self |
| Shadowform | Shadow | — | Instant | — | Self |
Spells taught by talents (row 5)
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Crash | Shadow | 250 | Instant | 20 s | 30 m |
| Mindgames | Shadow | 300 | 1.5 s | 45 s | 30 m |
| Psychic Horror | Shadow | 200 | Instant | 45 s | 30 m |
Spells every Priest knows
The first eight are the action bar a new character starts with; swap spells on your bar in Spells & Talents (N). ★ = starting bar.
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Heal ★ | Holy | 440 | 1.5 s | — | 30 m |
| Heal ★ | Holy | 300 | 3 s | — | 30 m |
| Renew ★ | Holy | 250 | Instant | — | 30 m |
| Power Word: Shield ★ | Holy | 350 | Instant | — | 30 m |
| Dispel Magic ★ | Holy | 200 | Instant | 8 s | 30 m |
| Psychic Scream ★ | Shadow | 300 | Instant | 30 s | Self |
| Smite ★ | Holy | 250 | 2 s | — | 30 m |
| Shadow Word: Pain ★ | Shadow | 200 | Instant | — | 30 m |
| Fear Ward | Holy | 150 | Instant | 60 s | 30 m |
| Mana Burn | Shadow | 250 | 2.5 s | — | 30 m |
| Mind Blast | Shadow | 350 | 1.5 s | 8 s | 30 m |
| Shadow Word: Death | Shadow | 250 | Instant | 12 s | 30 m |
Recommended Shadow Priest build
Recommended builds for this spec are still being tested. To be added.
Spell names, costs, cooldowns and talent text are read from the game client (v0.21, checked 2026-10-30). The developer calls the numbers “first-pass tuning”, so expect them to change.