Shadow Priest Gearing Guide

Tier Set

• (2) Set Bonus: Shadow Word: Death triggers 2 additional times at 15% effectiveness. Triggers again 1 additional time at 15% effectiveness if Deathspeaker is active or your target is below 20% health
• (4) Set Bonus: Each time you take damage from Shadow Word: Death, gain a stack of Death’s Torment, increasing the initial damage of your next cast of Shadow Word: Pain by 225% or the damage of your next Shadow Crash by 50%, stacking up to 12 times

Shadow Priest Best in Slot Gear

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Shadow Priest, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

The below list is meant to give you a goal, not the end all be all. You can tweak various pieces depending on your exact stats or setup. You should always sim yourself on various settings to determine if something is an upgrade rather than blindly following this list.

Overall Best Gear

For embellishments, we suggest using Allied Wristguards of Time Dilation for any content that matters. It is a slight personal DPS loss, but for the group as a whole it is the best.

Your second embellishment should be a Blue Silken Lining on any piece of gear that is your highest increase. We have it on Cloak in the list, but this can be placed on anything basically (Cloak/Neck/Boots/Rings etc.).

For Mythic+ you should consider using Hood of Surging Time instead of either Allied Wristguards of Time Dilation or Blue Silken Lining. Just make sure you also get a Tier Set chest to keep your 4set active.

For trinkets there are basically 4 trinkets that you can swap between:

• Belorrelos the Suncaller
• Pip’s Emerald Friendship Badge
• Balefire Branch
• Nymue’s Unraveling Spindle

There's not really a set order of which combination is the best since 3 of them have drawbacks that change their value depending on the fight.

Belorrelos the Suncaller loses A LOT of value if you cannot stand close to melee range for the majority of the fight. And Balefire Branch loses value if there is a lot of damage going out in the fight.

Best Gear FROM the Raid

Note: that this is not the best list FOR raiding, but FROM the raid.

Use the Overall BiS list if you want what to use for the raid.

Best Gear from Mythic+

Note: this is not the best gear FOR Mythic+, but FROM Mythic+.

Use this list more to target certain dungeons for items. If you want a list of WHAT to use, follow the Overall List instead.

Trinkets

• Pip’s Emerald Friendship Badge: The new passive stat trinket from the raid. Cycles between Haste/Crit/Vers.
• Belorrelos the Suncaller: On-use damage talent that requires you to be in melee range to hit. Sims very well, but with the requirement of being in melee will make it very hard to gain full value in a lot of fights. Use with caution.
• Nymue’s Unraveling Spindle: Channeling on-use stat trinket from the raid. Looks very strong, especially on targets that count as Immobilzed (Volcoross/Nymue).
• Balefire Branch: On-use Mastery stat trinket from Waycrest Manor.

In General, Caster trinkets are very very undertuned in 10.2. But from the sims that we have had time to do it looks like some combination of these 4 trinkets to be the choice. Suncaller does sim very well, but be cautious since you have to be in melee to actually hit with the trinket. So in fights where you are required to stay in ranged, it has almost no value.

Crafted Gear (Embellishments)

Rather than just giving you the exact Embellishments to go for, i’m going to go over a few valid options. Because as it stands right now, tuning is still on going and with how close all the options are, the “best” changes constantly. But as it stands right now, Allied Wristguards of Time Dilation has been added to both Raid and M+ lists. On their own they only provide about a 0.5% dps increase to you, but if you account for the raid/group value they are roughly equal to 70-80% uptime Blue Silken Lining.

Raid:

• Allied Wristguards of Time Dilation (Raid DPS is roughly equal to 70-80% BSL uptime)
• Blue Silken Lining
• Shadowflame Tempered Armor Patch (roughly equal to 50% BSL uptime)
• Elemental Lariat (roughly equal to 30% BSL uptime)

Dungeons:

• Allied Wristguards of Time Dilation (if not using Engineering Battle-Rez Wrists)
• Hood of Surging Time (a bit experimental still)
• Blue Silken Lining
• Elemental Lariat