Mists of Pandaria Classic Shadow Priest Guide

Shadow focuses on dealing damage with numerous Shadow damage spells. Your main priority when playing Shadow is to maintain your several damage-over-time (DoT) debuffs on your target, wearing down their health gradually. This spec excels above most others when facing multiple, high health targets at once. Here you can apply these DoTS to multiple enemies at once, ramping your damage beyond what most other classes are capable of.

Shadow Priest is a very strong DPS class throughout the entirely of Mists of Pandaria, with increasing performance as each new raid tier releases. In addition to great damage, Shadow has a wide variety of utility spells and buffs, making them a great addition to any raid, and you will often see multiple Shadow Priests in a single raid.

Strengths

• Excels when facing multiple targets.
• Strong off-healing and utility.
• Consistently a high-performer DPS with solid sustained damage.

Weaknesses

• Weak burst damage, needs to ramp up damage-over-time.
• Highly gear dependant to hit Haste Rating breakpoints.

Below are our recommended races for both the Alliance and Horde Shadow Priests.

Worgen remains the strongest Alliance race for DPS, as Viciousness grants a full 1% crit chance.

1. Worgen
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   • Flayer
   • Viciousness

Goblin will be the go-to pick on the Horde side, giving you Rocket Barrage, a much needed mobility skill, as well as Time is Money, a 1% spell haste increase. Haste is extremely important for Shadow, making this by far the best racial.

1. Goblin
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   • Rocket Barrage
   • Rocket Jump
   • Time is Money

Mists of Pandaria balances most professions to be an equal amount of bonus stats, with most professions giving an average of 320 stats increase. That being said, there are always certain advantages and disadvantages to each profession, making certain professions slightly stronger than others.

1. Engineering — Engineering remains the best in slot profession thanks to the new tinker Synapse Springs. Grounded Plasma Shield, another new tinker, is a decent on use defensive shield that can save your life. Nitro Boosts remain a solid option for movement speed bursts during fights.
2. Tailoring — is a great choice for the Lightweave Embroidery unique cloak enchant.
3. Blacksmithing — Allows you to add an additional socket to your gloves and bracers with Socket Gloves and Socket Bracer. While this is about the same stats gain as most other professions early on, once epic gems are introduced this profession becomes much stronger.

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