Shadow Priest DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Season 1

This section covers your character's optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Shadow Priest, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

You will have 2 categories of gems to choose from: Rare or Epic. The Rare gems are either just a single stat or a combination of 2 secondary stats on one gem. The Epic gems are significantly stronger, but you can only use one at a time for your entire character.

Gems can be applied to a Helm, Bracer, or Belt via the Radiant Jewelbinder item from the Great Vault.

As a Shadow Priest you should utilize the Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your Epic gem of choice.

In total, there are five distinct colors for Rare gems: Peridot (Haste), Garnet (Critical Strike), Amethyst (Mastery), and Lapis (Versatility). To best optimize your gems you should use gems with Haste and Mastery on them. Certain crafted items get more benefit from having gems of all colors, use the list below to maximize your colors.

• Peridot: Flawless Masterful Peridot
• Garnet: Flawless Masterful Garnet or Flawless Quick Garnet
• Amethyst: Flawless Quick Amethyst
• Lapis: Flawless Masterful Lapis or Flawless Quick Lapis

If you are not using those crafted items, you should stack either Flawless Masterful Peridot or Flawless Quick Amethyst alongside Indecipherable Eversong Diamond. Usually, early on in the gearing process, you will lean towards Haste, and towards the end, you will stack more Mastery. On single target, you will typically notice Mastery being more valuable; on AoE, Haste is more valuable.

Rare gems are roughly worth 0.4% DPS. If you are considering replacing an item with a socket, keep this in mind. As you get more gear, this could be even higher, but this is a rough number you can use. Simming different gem choices is extremely difficult because of how low of an increase this is, you should take gem sims with a large amount of caution as, typically, gains that are that small when comparing gems are within the margin of error.

Slot	Best	Alternative
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Arcane Mastery Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage	Enchant Weapon - Arcane Mastery Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage
Helm (non-throughput)	Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed	Enchant Helm - Blessing of Speed
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister
Shoulders (non-throughput)	Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness	Enchant Shoulders - Flight of the Eagle
Legs	Sunfire Silk Spellthread	Bright Linen Spellthread
Ring	Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity (see note below) Enchant Ring - Zul'jin's Mastery (see note below)	Enchant Ring - Thalassian Haste (see note below) Enchant Ring - Amani Mastery (see note below)
Feet (non-throughput)	Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt	Enchant Boots - Lynx's Dexterity

When deciding on your weapon enchant I would generally suggest simming yourself to see which one is best. For most people you will find the Haste proc, Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage, will be good early on. Once you get a solid footing of Haste (at least 20-25%) you will likely find the swap to Enchant Weapon - Arcane Mastery will perform better.

For Ring enchants, you want to use Haste or Mastery, depending on the content you are trying to optimize for and your current gear set. Early on, you might lean towards Haste and then as you gear up move towards Mastery, similar to weapon enchants.

When picking tertiary enchants, I would suggest defaulting to Speed as a Shadow Priest due to our lack of mobility. Avoidance or Leech can provide more defensive benefit but in my experience being able to dodge things easier is more valuable.

For Season 1, you should use one of the following depending on which stat you need more of.

• Flask of the Magisters - Mastery
• Flask of the Blood Knights - Haste
• Flask of Thalassian Resistance - Versatility (Defensive Option)

• Progression: Light's Potential
• Ultimate Min/Max High Risk: Draught of Rampant Abandon

Our best combat potion in all content is Draught of Rampant Abandon. Unfortunately this potion has a heavy downside where it will spawn a pool of void magic directly beneath your feet that silences you while you stand in it. For this reason this potion is not suggested for progression content, for those situations you should default to Light's Potential.

Light's Potential is roughly 10% worse than Draught of Rampant Abandon but without any downside. This is not taking into account the damage you lose by getting at least one cast interrupted by the potion.

Silvermoon Health Potion is our healing potion of choice.

As a Shadow Priest our preferred food in all content is the Silvermoon Parade or Harandar Celebration feasts. If you do not have access to feasts we prefer using Royal Roast as our personal food of choice, as it has the same stats as those feasts.

If you want cheaper personal food you can also use Warped Wise Wings or Fel-Kissed Filet.

Depending on the level of progression content, you can also choose to craft Hearty versions of most food, which gives the exact same effect (despite a few wrong tooltips), but the buff now persists through death. This costs 5 normal food to produce 1 hearty version.

For your temporary weapon oil, you should use Thalassian Phoenix Oil.

You should aim to use an Augment Rune to get a boost of Intellect during any progression content. This is a gain of about 1% DPS.

For Season 1 the following Augment Runes are available:

• Void-Touched Augment Rune (Consumable version)

In addition to the above items you should also always make sure you have the following in your bags for Raiding and Mythic+ environments as a Shadow Priest.

• Gateway Control Shard - Reusable item that will auto-click a nearby Warlock Gateway.
• Void-Touched Drums - Provides a weaker Bloodlust effect for the group that can be useful in Mythic+ dungeons without a class to provide it naturally.
• Emergency Soul Link - Castable Battle Resurrection item that can be used in combat, even as a non-engineer.
• Void-Shrouded Tincture - Invisibility potion that can be used instead of a Light's Potential to skip trash in certain Mythic+ dungeon routes.