Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Best Talents for Shadow Priest in PvP in Dragonflight 10.2.6
To make it easier to navigate, we’ve divided the guide into the corresponding sections, covering everything from race and talents to gear and macros. These will give you a good idea about what to expect from Shadow Priest in PvP in Dragonflight, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to get your character ready to conquer the arena. In this section, we will cover the most important change that came with Dragonflight – talents. We will go over the class and spec trees, as well as the best PvP talents for Shadow Priest in Dragonflight.
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Shadow Priest Talents Overview
Since the talent system received a huge revamp going into Dragonflight, we will cover both the class and the spec tree. They both have some mandatory and some optional talents. Those will depend on the situation and the comp you are playing. The Core talents will be the ones you pick almost all the time either because they are that good on their own, or simply better than all other options.
Priest Class Talents
While there are a lot of strong options, there are a couple core talents that are worth talking about. One of those is Phantasm, which now gives us access to a snare removal with Fade. This is definitely a welcome addition for both kiting and chasing enemies.
Mass Dispel and Improved Mass Dispel that reduces the cooldown and cast speed of the ability give us access to much needed utility. That is something the spec is known for, so we wouldn’t have a core build without it. You can technically play without Improved Mass Dispel, but it is not recommended.
Leap of Faith gives us the ability to keep our teammates out of CC or help them survive or even connect to their target. This spell has a lot of interactions that could be very situational, but is definitely worth having in your arsenal.
Void Shift is a very powerful defensive that can be used to save both yourself and your teammates. It’s very versatile and strong when used well.
We then have the hard-hitter and the best part of Shadowlands – Mindgames.
You can pick up Manipulation and Shattered Perceptions if you prefer a more offensive build, typically when playing a caster cleave where you expect your teammate to be trained and don’t need the extra survivability. Move with Grace, Light’s Inspiration, and Angelic Bulwark are great picks when you expect to be the kill target.
You can also swap between Sheer Terror and Void Tendrils, depending on your preference and the matchup.
Shadow Spec Talents
In the Shadow tree, we have some obvious picks that are all but mandatory. Dispersion coupled with Intangibility give us additional survivability with a reduced cooldown.
Silence and Psychic Horror make up the core of our instant crowd control, so we definitely need to have these.
Shadow Crash gives us instant damage and DoT application.
Of course, we also want to get Shadowy Insight for some instant Mind Blast procs from Shadow Word: Pain damage.
As a result, we end up with a good all-around build that allows you to deal significant AoE damage while also holding onto the 1-minute setup playstyle.
Shadow Priest PvP Talents
Out of all the PvP talents available, you will pretty much always play with Driven to Madness and should be your primary PvP talent. This talent is strong when you know you’ll be the focus as it reduces the cooldown of your Void Eruption when hit.
Another talent you will pretty much always use is Catharsis. It stores a portion of the damage you take, and then adds that into your next Shadow Word: Pain cast. It is a must-have in any situation where you expect to be trained.
If you don’t expect to be targeted and therefore won’t get value out of Driven to Madness you should instead pick up Psyfiend. Applying a strong healing reduction to your target as longs as it’s alive is strong enough, but with increased health pools, this only gotten stronger and can help you secure kills.
If you do expect to get targeted then your best option is Phase Shift. This is a new addition to 10.1 and provides immunity to damage and CC for the duration. This is on a relatively short CD and can be used to stop major goes.
Void Volley is a solid into double melee as another form of CC.
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