Shadow priest posts made by the Warcraft Priests community for World of Warcraft Priest content. These posts will contain news, opinion pieces, theorycrafting, and more about shadow priests in Battle for Azeroth.
Introduction In the last few weeks prior to the expansion launched Shadow Priest received a rework to our Mastery ability, Shadow Weaving. This change was quite significant and affected how much we prioritize stacking DoTs on a primary target. These calculations needed to be set manually due to bad Spell Read more…
Introduction Hello everyone and welcome to 8.3 crazy sim time. With the recent blue post we will soon be able to purchase corruption and effectively tailor-make a best in slot gear set (with enough corruption resistance). This won’t happen instantly, as it looks like you will need to farm a Read more…
Introduction Shadow Priest in Patch 8.2 plays just as you have come to expect in Battle For Azeroth, but with a couple of new tricks up its sleeve in the form of the new essence system. You’ll find below a growing collection of miscellaneous tips and discussion points based on Read more…
Below you will find a curated list of FAQs and answers provided by @Deflow from the Discord. All answers are checked and verified by the staff at Warcraft Priests. PublikTheorycrafter, Read more…
Introduction Hello folks, and happy (almost) patch day! Today I’m going to briefly go over changes for Shadow Priests in 8.2 and then run through the various updates to our trinkets, azerite traits, essences, etc based off of recent sims. Please note that all the data I am going through Read more…
Introduction Hello everyone! In this guide, I’m going to go over everything you need to know to play your Shadow Priest in Mythic+ dungeons for Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.2.0. All of these recommendations are being cross-checked by plenty of high key runners with Shadow Priests in Mythic+; to check Read more…
This page is now outdated. All sims are published to WarcraftPriests.Github.io. Hello everyone and welcome to the Trinket Analysis for 8.1.0. For the sims posted here, everything is simmed at ilvls relevant to those trinkets. Generally speaking, this means that we sim at the base for what that trinket drops, Read more…
This page is now outdated. All sims are published to WarcraftPriests.Github.io. Hello everyone and welcome to the Azerite Trait Analysis for 8.1.0. For the sims posted in this post, everything is simmed at a Mythic ilvl for Uldir. To see the full list of sim requirements as a baseline check Read more…
Introduction Hello everyone! Publik here bringing you another round of discussion on how we sim shadow priests for all of our theorycrafting content. In this post I’m going to go over our broad methodology for how we run our sims, and why we believe this is a better way of Read more…