7.3 Shadow Priest PvE Guide for Beginners in Raid

[@Hazelnuttygames]

As an extra note: whenever I have a spell priority shown and I'm talking about a rotation, the PRIORITY takes precedence. Your actual rotation/ability order may shake up depending on which legendaries you have equipped, your haste, trinket procs, Bloodlust/heroism, etc. In order of availability you always want Void Torrent - Void Bolt - Mind Blast - Shadow Word: Death - Apply/refresh DoTs (hopefully you applied them while ramping up into Voidform) - Mind Flay. If you have a Void Torrent, Void Bolt, Mind Blast, Shadow Word Death available or you need to reapply a DoT, you should NOT be Mind Flaying. This is a skill I still need to work on myself!

[@balthier1412]

Hi Hazel. Nice guide What about the antorus trinkets? What's the best atm for Shadow Priest?

[@Hazelnuttygames]

The short answer is Aman'thuls Vision and the Acrid Catalyst Injector, with Norgannon's Prowess being way up there. I'm planning a Shadow Priest Gearing Guide for next week with some more details!

[@balthier1412]

Oh! Thanks n.n

[@manuellabor2759]

Shadow Priests are fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun. :-)

[@AdventureTimeProdogy]

“If I wanted to help people I’d be healing.” Story of my life gurl.

[@JenniferLeeTacy]

totally agree! i hate healing and love to damage and kill!

[@anirudhsingh3711]

I love how fast she speaks and you still understand 100% of it

[@TheCharacter011]

ty for this Hazel, as a priest healer for so many years now trying to get into shadow dps, this helped a ton.

[@YksiSuomalainen]

You speak fast and clear. I listened to this in 1.25 speed and I still understood every word.

[@TxRxAxP]

I seriously love you hazel I swear. From your raid guides to your class guides you are literally the best wow channel.

[@BigZumago]

Girl , you are amazing :) I did not saw in a long time an guide that easy to understand and not making a 50 minute video , that explains , why i have to push mind blast with 50 km/h cuz will not work otherwhise . Best guide ever ! :) Easy to understand , and you explained everything .

[@furkosy2941]

That's actually a pretty decent Shadow Guide :) very well-made! The only thing I would add is the importance of Crit! As you said we want big chunks of Haste, but as soon as we reach our caps (12k with t204p + Manganaz)(16k with t214p + Manganaz) we prioritize Crit above all else. Haste(Until Cap) > Crit >>> Mastery > Versa > Int (Ilvl)

[@FlareSaber]

Just started a little shadow priestess. It seems fun and this guide is great. Still not familiar with all the spells so I’ll have to go through my spell book and match icon with name :) thank you.

[@UnstableGhost]

thanks for all the videos lately hazel, they've all been really good!

[@somewhatmissing]

OMG Thank you for this. My priest is still sitting at 100 because I just haven't gotten that burst of energy to read the changes they made as I was specced CoP in WoD. tyty!

[@Mattikus517]

Recently capped my Voidy, this is invaluable. Thank you!

[@inswarlock09]

THANK YOU!@ all the other guides are talking about 2-4 piece bonus and Leggo, Its like I've been 110 for 30mins

[@JLovsChrist]

Hello Hazel, hope all is well. I was wondering if you could post a “how-to” video or a text description on Gnosis. I’ve noticed you have a bar for the mind flay ticks in this video, that’s why I ask. Or if you can’t for whatever reason, direct us on any possible links. Thanks in advance!

[@QuestText]

I used my free 110 boost to make a Priest, very handy guide and easy to follow! :D

[@tomitodorov4937]

Started playing sp last month . this heled alot ,nice vid as always.

[@TimmyTechTV]

Step 1 - create a cute gnome with pink hair

[@Usmvalor3]

Step 2, profit from it's madness xD

[@Ghilannugs]

Don't TALK ABOUT CUTE GNOMES WITH PINK HAIR YOU MIGHT UPSET JAINA

[@franklintackettjr3592]

I might actually give shadow another try now! Thank you for this

[@TsukyTheDark]

thanks a lot, I am thinking about getting a shadow priest when Void Elves come and I have some problems when I tried shadow and didn't do any good in my opinion, but this video helps much :) also, I really like your voice, thanks for the great videos.

[@davidmarks509]

picking a race is simple GNOME job done :)

[@randyscott8332]

Great beginners guide, thanks bunches!

[@jamesb.3341]

Excellent explanation and fun to watch

[@ConnorColaj]

Im a new player and idk if its just because i just started leveling but most of this was pretty hard to understand

[@XalTheMagkas]

Thanks a lot for the guide! What you didn't tell us though, and I think most people would agree is the most important part of playing Shadow Priest, is where the f you found those AWESOME SHOULDERS (or whatever else might be procing the red visual at 0:05)

[@Hazelnuttygames]

That's the MoP Season 14 Priest PvP gear, available for Marks of Honor at the Alliance PvP vendors in Pandaria. I love this set

[@CaLuMaCCa]

Fantastic Video. Very well crafted.

[@IanVickrey]

Wish this was out sooner. I only played my priest long enough to finish "Legendary Campaign". Priest was definitely my least favorite of the 12 campaigns...

[@MrTaojin]

Have link to your Legendary farm guide? looked on channel but couldn't find it.

[@mossydemon1984]

Could you share your SUF configuration?

[@micheledvorak6565]

I am. looking forward to trying this i have up on my SP as I couldn't get her dps above 3 k I have a tailoring one I need to get patterns for but I love my little gnome as Bellingham u So much

[@mc15cp]

Least i know i'm doing it right on mythics, I just have the wrong talents during raid time. My problem is keeping my void form for higher stacks. Abit of practice i suppose

[@JanKGames]

Whats the point of Void Torrenting at the start of a void form? I usually save it for just before I leave. That alongside with disperse and mind bender gives me quite a few stacks 60+ some pulls. I always save it so my spirits and pet can give me a full bar of insanity during its cast even when I’m at 50 stack.

[@Hazelnuttygames]

That does sound smarter, I'll have to try it. My concern as it applies to my gameplay is in some fights, high movement (or responsibilities such as being in the pod on High Command) can prevent me from going high stacks with every single cycle. Shifting VT to the end of my cycle might result in me missing a VT or having the cooldown oddly placed on fights where I'm getting incosistent Voidforms. That might just be a me problem, though!

[@dudewhateverish]

JanKGames holding void torrent for the end of your void form is a DPS loss

[@JanKGames]

dudewhateverish Wouldn’t more time in Voidform and higher lingering stacks be better for DPS?

[@gellington88]

No. During Void Torrent, your stacks increase, but your drain rate does not, so you get the benefit of the extra stacks for the full duration of Voidform. If you hold until the end, you only benefit from those extra stacks for a few seconds before it ends.

[@weeabooshunter4759]

For Gnomeragan! Btw are you going to create a gnome warrior with the Mekkatorque transmog?

[@itree4]

It looks like they got rid of Shadowform. This was always my favorite toon, but i quit wow a week before cataclysm came out. What year was that? Hmm mm

[@gentrelane]

til that you can be a tauren priest. ive fully played since vanilla and ive never even seen a single tauren priest... i never even noticed on the character select screen when making characters myself. wow

[@Hazelnuttygames]

The ONLY race which cannot be a priest is Orc. They must feel left out at this point!

[@RyugaHidekiOrRyuzaki]

Tauren Priest was introduced in cataclysm afaik

[@michaelhand5598]

I have a priest at lvl 20 and im just waiting on the new leveling patch so leveling her becomes fun and not a 1shot fest

[@tutosbella1]

so you're sayin that it's better to have an enchance profession?

[@robinandersson99]

when i do single target dps i only get around 600-800k while i see alot of spriests on youtube get around 1.5m on single target, i have no idea what im doing wrong, i am following everything that i have seen in this and other guides. im 925 ilvl

[@TheHollowClown]

This is a great guide. What about single target DPS though? So far I've seen that Shadow Priests are usually in the lower half. That true?

[@AngeloWoW]

Great guide for people looking to play Shadow Priest! :)

[@annkettyachuon]

Angelo WoW I also like yours

[@AngeloWoW]

Thanks! :)

[@annkettyachuon]

Angelo WoW i still cant install addons on my mac even with some guide from fellows youtuber

[@AngeloWoW]

Sorry to hear that :/ what's the issue? Is your Mac just not letting you install/blocking AddOns?

[@annkettyachuon]

Angelo WoW i really don know bro :(

[@lejtan5997]

Hey Hazel! Im boosting a Priest for BFA, What proffesions would you recomend boosting to 800?

[@SigFrid1985]

Hi there Hazelnuttygames, awesome guide. By the way, do you have any tips regarding dungeons, specially Mythic-plus?? I am more of a 5-man content player and I don't even raid ;-)

[@Screeblin]

Great now I gotta play a shadow priest.

[@vandred87yt]

And what happens with Surrender to Madness ? :o

[@charlottecosta6175]

What about a new shadow priest guide?

[@dustinnaughton2955]

Great guide thank you

[@cdona20]

And once again, pandas get forgotten on racials. Epicurean grants 1% extra haste when eating Azshari salad, and can flex to extra of any secondary stat if you get to the point where haste reaches diminishing returns.

[@duchess6495]

I was just going to comment the same thing. The x2 from the food buff grants 2% in total. I won't give up my panda priest just because of that. Once diminishing returns hit, its Hungry Magister food instead

[@MGabBell]

Thank you Hazel! That was really interesting and helped me quite a bit! I'm a main Druid but decided to give my shadow priest some love and I've been loving her and wanted to maximize her damage output the best I can, so I still had some doubts as how to do it. I noticed I've been using PowerInfusion instead of Mindbender, so I'll change that and see what changes!

[@XxDarkSimorghxX]

THis is what i neededd!!!

[@ryanfrick2250]

You have a warlock with the name "Iprevail" XD! I approve! Hahaha!

[@En3ka_]

Best race?

[@kemyaali2056]

i know my shadow preist but still i watches the whole video cuz why not

[@concretecountertop]

I'll never not be able to call it void noodles now

[@tommyk1417]

awesome vid! ty so much hazel. epic healer joke! :D

[@wpropst8797]

You have the Legendary belt. gg

[@freedom_323]

WTB mind sear back :(

[@Assabinnas]

Legion-dairies = milk from demon cows?

[@lindseyalbert6536]

I'm a hunter, still watched the whole video, good stuff

[@Solanisx]

Tbf if you're ST you never need to reapply your dots, just saying.

[@jademers88]

Shadow priest concept is so cool but the class is so boring that's why I'll never quit playing my affliction warlock. But man if spriest was fun I would def play it.

[@lordjaraxxus5418]

wow i found the a guy who has a complete opposite view on classes.... (though i would love to play my warlock more just that affliction feels so slow..... and boring to me mainly due to rng soul shard procs)

[@00wkee]

So sad the single target dmg is so freaking bad

[@josemanuelrau8010]

Actually, versa is not that bad, mastery is by far worse, and even more after the dot nerf by 12%

[@sirilandgren]

❤️

[@itsyaboiguzma2325]

Haste

[@theangryaardvark3507]

I give you a thumbs up, cause a you are a super cute gnomie and b shadow noodles, yummm delicious.

[@NoxxicReaper]

I love how perky she is. Even when shes teaching scrubs like us to shadow priest 😂

[@billdavis2590]

"Shadow noodles" lmfao

[@theangryaardvark3507]

You are sooooo cute little Gnomie

[@egotripical]

Consider myself a beginner again cause I haven't played since CATA. I got 3 minutes into this video before I gave up. You talked so fast with lingo unfamiliar to a beginner like myself. I won't thumbs down or up but I'm moving on to another video closer to a pace for a beginner.

[@marvinwhisman3333]

I have to agree. While I like your approach you are speaking way to fast and it is very difficult for a newbie to understand what you saying. Sorry, but I need to find someone with a slower delivery.

[@MyFatezero]

1. Press Play 2. Hear female voice 3. Pause 4. Click another video