Vampiric Touch > Devouring Plague > Shadow Word: Pain > Mind Flay > (Mind Blast after every VT)

If you're in a situation where Mind Blast/Vampiric Touch/DP should be cast after 1.5s, just cast another Mind Flay, even though the target would be without Vampiric Touch for a second. If there's nothing else to do, just Mind Flay, but be sure not to cut off any Mind Flay ticks. In other words, make sure to always have Vampiric Touch, Devouring Plague and Shadow Word: Pain up and ticking, while burning Mind Blast on every cooldown. Vampiric Touch > Devouring Plague > Mind Blast > Shadow Word: Pain > Mind Flay Vampiric Touch > Devouring Plague > Mind Blast > Mind Flay > Shadow Word: Pain There are many variations on openers to use, but I recommend this one, which is used for both spell priority sequences: With 4-set T10 and meeting certain gear-requirements, our spell priorities will change slightly, but I'll go over the basic spell priority list first. Shadow priests don't have a set rotation, and instead make use of spell priorities, reading the situation, and planning ahead. There's also several profession-specific enchants, such as ring-enchants, cloak enchants, shoulder enchants and various other enhancements. Weapon: +63 Spell Power or (250 haste rating proc) (1-handers), +81 Spell Power (Staves) Shoulders: 24 Spell Power, 15 Critical Strike Rating (Sons of Hodir reputation)īoots: (moving around faster will help you to survive, and in some fights increase your dps substantially or. Head: 30 Spell Power 20 Critical Strike Rating (Kirin Tor reputation) Dispersing at the right times is one of them. I'll be doing a separate article on some tips & tricks to use in ToGC and ICC heroic, which you can use to your advantage to maximise your performance. If you're not doing hard modes, it's not really necessary, but even so, there's some encounters where the dispersion glyph can really come to good use. Generally, if you're not using Mind Sear in an encounter, you should be using the Dispersion glyph.

When it comes to major glyphs, we have 4 and we switch between Dispersion and Mind Sear glyph depending on the encounter. The meta gem requires you to use two blue gems, so make sure to fill that requirement.Īs for glyphs, there are a lot of options for the minor ones, and which ones you use doesn't really matter. As for your choice of a meta gem, there's only one real option, and that's the which gives +21 Critical Strike Rating & +3% Increased Critical Damage. In general, it's not advisable to gem for hit, so as soon as you've gotten some better equipment, you should try to get the hit from items, rather than gems. Put in yellow slots and in blue slots if the socket bonus is worth it (use the formula above if unsure). Other than that, try to fill your red slots with or cheaper versions if you can't afford it. If you can't reach the hit cap through your normal gear, it might be a good idea to gem for hit rating. Our good boy Eoy has also written a nice little tool for you to calculate the value of any item not currently present on the list. As a side note, the current hit cap is 289, which is a number you should be aiming to reach. When comparing the quality of two different items, you would use the formula: spell power + crit*0.76 + int*0.22 + spirit*0.59 + haste*0.98 + hit*1.88 + sockets = ? It would be tedious to do this for every item, so just hop on over to this thread on the forums where they've been so kind to already calculate the values for you. Hit rating = 1.88 spell power (when not hit capped) 1 point of each stat has the theoretical value of:Ĭritical strike rating = 0.76 spell power Here's a breakdown of the current theoretical value of all stats, normalized to spell power (as of 3.3). Spirit and Intellect also affect our DPS, just to a lesser extent. As with all casters, our 3 major stats are spell power, haste rating and critical strike rating.

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