Shadow Priest EVERYTHING Guide SOD Phase 4 | Rotation, BIS Gear, Talents & More! 

not making a p5 guide. Here's p5 bis though wowsims.github.io/sod/shadow_priest/#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

@@Pants_Gaming Beautiful guide man, thanks! What about the rotation in P5 without the T1 setbonus?

Rotation with T2 6P Bonus Inner focus + Talisman of Ephemeral Power -> VP -> VT -> SWP -> Cassandra’s Tome into MB -> SWD -> Homonculi Then mind spike x 3 -> MB -> SWD repeat

what macros u need a shadow? gameplay cant be more simple then it is. dot and spam 3 spells? we not hunters that we need macros? like for what situation u need macro? canceling disperssion?

@@josipmarasovic2436 I'm actually trying to help him get more views, but tell me more, link your logs?

I appreciate it but SOD is already a pretty niche viewer base especially for shadow priest. A video on Addons and Weakauras would get less views than this guide and this guide is struggling as it is

Glad to hear it!

I think shadowguard is better honestly.. let me know if you have an update on this haha. Not sure if I should swap to DP or not.

Please

It's just for speedrunning things. Target dummies, sappers, etc. There's nothing from a dps perspective

So theres 10% from onyxia buff, theres 5% from songflower, theres 3% from dire maul tribute and another 3% from boomie aura. Thats 21% flat crit from buffs. Your BiS gear has a little under 14% baseline, so thats 35% and with all the % and flat value buffs int it adds up to like 2-3% more. The problem isnt getting close, its the last few %. Then again, thats only as long as you have worldbuffs, so you need to be prepared for both situations. Or at least I have to be. Unfortunately.

@@Rakschas666 ohhh didnt see that comment! thx

Every tick after

literally never said it did

eye of the void is a huge dps loss. 1 warlock should be using mark of chaos as it's a huge grief for shadow to use eye of the void. worst case scenario a healing priest should use eye if necessary

@@Pants_Gaming Yeah that happend to us cause of a bad comp. I was disc priest and was asked to run Eye. Now my questions, when we dont have mark of chaos. Are 99% of the raids not more interested on Curse of Elements ? Are there comfortably makros to put the curse on target. I dont wanna say it, but in my first run I wasnt prepped and "clicked". Felt very unseXy!

You have to check the tooltip for the buff “Melting Faces”. The tier set reads the same as before

@@Pants_Gaming Why would they nerf it :( is there patch notes somewhere for that? Seems like a stealth nerf

@@Pants_Gaming Also sorry for all the questions, what is the reason for not taking the 5th point in improved mind blast?

At 4 points your MB cooldown is 6 seconds. The global cooldown is always 1.5 seconds (minimum amount of time needed for a cast, including instant cast abilities). This means you cast MB then 4 other spells and cast MB again. With a 5th point you do the same thing and your MB is off cd half a second earlier, but this overlaps with your 4th cast. So it's a wasted point. If you skip that 4th cast then you'd have to wait 1 second before you could cast MB and losing 1 second of cast time is even worse for your dps. TLDR the 5th point is worthless

@@Pants_Gaming Thank you for taking the time to reply!

That enchant does absolutely nothing. Mind spike uses the higher of your frost or shadow damage. Frost will never be higher than shadow

So I was palnning to make a guide before MC came out, but because MC is essentially SOM MC with an added Fire Resistance mechanic it didn't seem worth it to make a guide since there weren't new mechanics to the fights. Joardee has an MC guide you can check out. If BWL has mechanics that are different from SOM then I'll make a guide for that, but not if it's just SOM BWL

@@Pants_Gaming ohh I had no idea, I'll go check out yours and the other ones:) thanmyou so much!

watch the snapshotting section

in u gona use inner focus for anything it should be devouring pleague becuase biggest mana and biggest cd

@@josipmarasovic2436 execpt it will run out, where as pain and suffering rune will keep inner focus plague snapshot active during the whole encounter.

Shadow Specialization + Talents get you to 16%. Doesn't need to be mentioned because you'll always be hit capped

@@Pants_Gaming Thanks for the reply !

@@Pants_Gaming but hit we get from talents isnt it just for fear and stuff like that not basic spels i saw hydra explaning that shit?

you're wrong. it's different in SoD

@@Pants_Gaming Interesting. I think this is the first time it's been this way.

Yup. It’s because they created new snapshot spells in sod that have different code from previous snapshot mechanics

@@Pants_Gaming Thank so you much for confirming this. I trust you, but how did you figure this out for sure? Also, nobody seems to be talking about stacking Shadow Weaving stacks before putting up dots. Is this somehow not part of the snapshot?

It was easy to test on PTR with target dummies. And debuffs on the target update dynamically to your dots, buffs on your character do not. Stacking shadow weaving is ONLY a thing in Wrath since it's a buff on your character and not a debuff on the boss

no it isnt. Mind spike uses the higher of your frost or shadow damage. Frost will never be higher than shadow

@@Pants_Gaming oh shit haha ok