Welcome to our Shadow Priest DPS guide for World of Warcraft MoP 5.3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Shadow Priest in a raid environment, though most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Artzie (@Artzieh), a Shadow Priest who raids in Method, and by Twintop, one of the main Shadow Priest theorycrafters, who runs Shadow Orbs and Mind Spikes and works on How To Priest.

The Shadow specialisation is currently performing moderately well in single target and multiple target (including mass AoE) PvE encounters. It presents players with a rotation that is both easy to understand and easy to master.

Furthermore, Shadow Priests bring a variety of useful buffs and cooldowns to raid groups.

To make it easy to bookmark the specific sections you are interested in, we have split the guide into 7 pages:

• Builds, Talents, and Glyphs: learn what the best talent trees are and how to customise them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: understand how to play your class in an optimal way;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Professions: choose the best gems, enchantments, and consumables;
• Macros and Addons: benefit from useful macros and addons to step up your game;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.