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Shadow Priest Common Questions - Dragonflight 10.2.6
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This guide will walk you through common problems, pitfalls, and places to improve your gameplay as a Shadow Priest in order to maintain a competitive edge in . Many of the topics covered are based on the Shadow Priest
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In addition, many topics covered on this page are based on log analysis, using
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I am often active on the WarCraftPriests discord server and free to answer any questions or queries related to Shadow Priest or any content in any of my guides. I raid in The Misty Moon on EU Tarren-Mill (Formerly The Misty Moon Massive) and have raided between top 50 and 300 since Legion but I've been playing Shadow Priest in some capacity for going on 14 years. Outside of WoW, I spend most of my time listening to music, especially seeking out interesting new things I haven't heard before!
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Common Questions
Gameplay and Rotation
When Should I DoT?
In Raids
Outside of Keeping both
暗言术:痛
and
吸血鬼之触
on your main target, you should be looking to apply dots to relevant off targets that are going to be alive for roughly 8 seconds. Apply DoTs during globals where you would otherwise cast
精神鞭笞
, and try to have all your necessary dots pre applied before casting
虚空爆发
to enter
虚空形态
.
If you are swapping to a priority target, apply both
暗言术:痛
and
吸血鬼之触
first to increase the value of
精通:暗影交织
.
In Dungeons
Working out how and when to apply DoTs in dungeons is much harder than it is in Raids, and as such is one of the most important skills to master.
暗言术:痛
is easy, as it is either applied by
吸血鬼之触
when using
哀难
.
吸血鬼之触
is more complicated though, and your thought process will usually consist of the following questions.
How long will the trash pack live?
Do I have more powerful / immediately impactful spells I could be casting?
Is there a priority target that should be taking more damage than the other targets?
Ideally, Shadow Priests would want to manually maintain
吸血鬼之触
on roughly 6-7 targets in dungeons. However in short pulls where the aim is to burst as hard as possible, it can be best to give up on the long term efficiency of applying DoT's and instead spend the first 5-6 globals of the pull firing off your most immediately impactful spells. You can often fit in some
吸血鬼之触
casts while your tank runs in or is grouping up mobs, before you're ready to burst. Just remember to make liberal use of
渐隐术
to avoid pulling aggro.
Is it OK to Refresh Devouring Plague?
In a word, Yes. While you do lose a small amount of uptime on the DoT overall, which is relevant for
精通:暗影交织
and
黑暗思维
, you do not lose any
噬灵疫病
damage by re-applying it early, unlike other Damage over Time effects.
When do I Hold Offensive Cooldowns?
In Raids
Choosing to use or hold offensive cooldowns is one of the most important decisions you can make during a raid encounter. Shadow has numerous abilities that can be held on to, with varying durations and cooldowns themselves. The questions you should ask yourself when deciding if you should hold cooldowns are:
How long will I be holding them?
What am I holding them for?
What benefit does holding them have for the raid?
As a Shadow Priest the most common reason to consider holding a cooldown is to wait for another cooldown to be up alongside it, such as waiting with
摧心魔
until
虚空形态
is available. In these situations, consider if delaying any of these cooldowns reduces the number of uses you are likely to get over the course of the fight. If the answer is no, then there's no harm in holding to pair them later. As a Shadow Priest you should be aiming to always use your cooldowns in at least pairs, as long as you are not going to lose uses later in the fight.
Beyond just optimizing your usage for your own personal dps, you can sometimes have to hold cooldowns for specific times in a fight. It doesn't matter if you're doing slightly less overall damage if a key target in the encounter is otherwise not dying fast enough, leading to wipes or problems further down the line. Holding your cooldowns to play around the mechanics of the encounter can often even be advantageous to you, as the target might take additional damage, or there may be more than one target available to hit.
As Shadow's optimal cooldown timings rely on delaying and overlapping cooldowns, it is often wise to look at logs of top players to see how best to align your cooldowns for fights of a similar duration to your own. If you know the rough length of the fight ahead of time, you can plan your cooldowns out in the most optimal way possible.
In Dungeons
Planning and timing your cooldowns is much harder in Dungeons than it is in raids. There is much more going on, and far more competing reasons to use or hold things, especially in uncoordinated groups where you aren't 100% sure what's going to happen next. As you gain more experience, or play with more coordinated individuals, you will be able to apply much of the same thought process as you do for raiding. However, it is better otherwise to use things close to on cooldown, as long as you will get full use from them, than it is to sit on your cooldowns for too long waiting for the perfect opportunity.
Performance and Optimization
Is there a Haste Cap?
In a word, no. Shadow does not have any specific 'caps' for any of its stats beyond the 100% crit cap. Even the stat DR's, introduced in Shadowlands, are not necessarily going to stop you wanting one stat over another. Haste will not always be best for you, and you should always sim your own character to see what stats are best for your situation, however, haste does make the gameplay of Shadow smoother and more forgiving, so it's worth taking that into consideration if you are a newer player.
How do I Evaluate my Performance?
You can drop by the
Warcraft Priests Discord
and ask in the
#shadow
channel for some help. The folks there are pretty helpful in that regard.
If you want to look at your own logs to evaluate your performance, this is the process you should go through.
Check your parse percentage. Obviously the very highest logs are skewed by gear, external cooldowns, and unusual strategies, but if you're showing as Epic overall or for your item level, you're likely on the right track.
Check your DoT uptimes. You're aiming for 98-100% uptime on both
暗言术:痛
and
吸血鬼之触
, and 80%+ uptime on
噬灵疫病
. Obviously account for any intermissions or mechanics that might reduce these.
Check your opener by switching to timelines and looking at casts. Compare it against the ones listed in the openers guide, or against top players if there's a significant difference caused by the fight.
Check your
噬灵疫病
casts against compared to other players over similar lengths of time. Lower numbers of Plagues can indicate less
狂乱值
generation and lower casting uptime.
Check your buffs and cooldowns, check you used all your cooldowns as many times as possible, and compare when and how you overlapped them with other players on similar length encounters.
Check your damage to relevant targets, compared to other Shadow Priests or other members of your raid. Not all good performance is just doing the most damage possible, and sometimes being high on a specific target or in a specific phase matters more than your damage overall.
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Hmmm, using Dark Ascension on pull in a raid - I hadn't thought of that, thanks!
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