Shadow Priest Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Shadowlands 9.0.2

After completing enough Torghast runs you will be able to craft Legendary-level gear via through the new Runecarving system. Each power is unique, although several of them harken back to previous Legendary or tier set effects from past World of Warcraft expansions. In this guide we will go over each Legendary for Shadow Priest with full explanations and a final ranking.

For a video walkthrough of our options, check out my overview video where I go over each Legendary.

Any slots that are bolded are generally speaking the better version of the item you should craft. Depending on the slot the amount of primary and secondary stats can shift. This typically is not a large difference, but makes sense to min max around based on the gear drops that come from the raid since we can control the stats on these items.

Focus	Legendary	Slots	Source
Raiding	Talbadar's Stratagem	Legs or Waist	Torghast (The Upper Reaches, Layer 3+)
Mythic+	Call to the Void	Hands or Wrists	Castle Nathria (Blood Council)
Torghast and Open World	Talbadar's Stratagem	Legs or Waist	Torghast (The Upper Reaches, Layer 3+)

For Call to the Void, the Wrists can also be smart to craft if you get lucky with a good pair of Gloves early. Unfortunately, there are no Haste/Crit or Haste/Mastery Wrists in dungeons or raiding, so you are relying on getting a high level pair with not the most ideal stats. Crafting either will be pretty equal, but I would lean towards the Wrists as a better short-term upgrade that also is cheaper to craft.

Between Talbadar's Stratagem and Call to the Void, you will be setup to handle most situations from raid well, the question will be what kind of damage pattern you are looking for. Talbadar's is inherently more consistent, since it does not rely on proc gameplay. However, as Eternal Call to the Void does have RPPM procs, it can be a blessing in disguise for progression encounters if you get targeted with lots of mechanics where you are unable to DPS effectively. Eternal Call to the Void also has much better stacked AoE ability, whereas Talbadars is purely there for Single Target or Priority damage (unless you are taking Psychic Link).

We do want to give an honorable mention to the Twins of the Sun Priestess Legendary, as it can provide a good amount of benefit for a fellow party member that could end up surpassing the value of Call to the Void for yourself, but that will depend on your confidence with them. This will of course not be a DPS increase for you, and if you end up shifting your timings of using Power Infusion to suit the person you are giving it to, it could very well end up being a DPS loss, so be careful.

There is a possibility that you would gain a significant increase if you join up with a second Priest and chain Power Infusion casts together to line up with every Voidform, but this is highly prone to errors and should not be attempted if you are not confident in everyone's timings.

Due to current tuning and overall usefulness of Legendaries, you should craft Call to the Void first for the best overall performance in raids and mythic+. If you want to optimize purely for raiding, crafting Talbadar's Stratagem is the best play.

If you care about Raiding and Mythic+ you should try and keep Talbadar's Stratagem and Call to the Void within similar ranks of each other, with maybe a slight lean towards Talbadar's Stratagem. Your third Legendary should be Twins of the Sun Priestess in case you ever find a good use for this power with your raid team.

Raiding content as a DPS will constantly throw different situations at you, so when picking an overall raiding Legendary you want something that will be able to handle as many scenarios well as possible.

1. Talbadar's Stratagem gives you a boost to your Mind Blasts on any target that currently has Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, and Devouring Plague ticking on them at the same time. In addition to the cool visual, this Legendary is very strong in single-target, but, as you add targets, your uptime on Devouring Plague naturally falls off making this harder to gain maximum benefit. Still, the large increase to your single-target and priority damage is great for most raid encounters, especially for progression.
2. Call to the Void provides you with passive Insanity generation that procs based on your current channeled Mind Flay or Mind Sear. So, if you are channeling Mind Flay and get a proc, you will spawn a Void Tendril that will cast Mind Flay on your current target for passive damage and 3 Insanity gain per tick. Alternatively, getting a proc while channeling Mind Sear will cause a Void Lasher to channel Mind Sear at your current target that will do passive damage and generate 1 Insanity per tick per target. Since this proc reacts based on your spell, it becomes extremely versatile in almost every raid fight, assuming you are casting your channeled spells. It is not anything super impressive, but it will provide nice passive gains.
3. Twins of the Sun Priestess is a bit of a wild-card pickup, but if you find yourself not getting great benefit from the previous Legendaries, you could use this to augment another player's cooldowns. This really is not a DPS increase to you, but could be a net gain for the party. With a Power Unto Others Conduit, you do get a bit of a cooldown reduction, but that is only a gain if the person you are casting it on does not mind getting the cast de-synced after subsequent uses.
4. Lastly, as a purely last resort option, you can use Norgannon's Sagacity to help with heavy movement points in the fight. Technically, if you play perfectly, you should never need this, and use your instant cast spells to move to where you need to be ahead of time, but this could be good if you are learning a fight for the first time and want to keep casting.

Mythic+ typically leans towards wanting more AoE damage, but since you will still spend about half of your time on bosses and Prideful mobs, having single-target is still quite valuable in terms of overall dungeon damage.

1. Call to the Void is equally suited for Mythic+ as it is for raids, being a fine passive addition for trash packs as well as still being good on bosses. All around it will at least do something in terms of the overall dungeon worth nothing.
2. Norgannon's Sagacity can be another okay option if you are struggling with damaging packs and moving at the same time. There are not a lot of great options for pure AoE.
3. Shadowflame Prism is a 5-target cleave Legendary that can do okay damage on 2 or 3 targets, but even then to get full value out of this Legendary you are missing out on Mind Sear and Searing Nightmare casts. Unfortunately, this opportunity cost makes this Legendary hardly worth crafting in the first place, at current tuning levels.

If you plan on running Torghast with a group of people, consider referring to the Mythic+ recommendations if your group is large enough that you have to heal for most of the time.

Torghast Legendaries are in a similar boat as Mythic+ for us; depending on how you pull, the value will swing quite widely and there really is not a "best" Legendary for this reason.

1. Stable Phantasma Lure is a unique Legendary that augments your Torghast run by increasing the Torghast-only currency you get inside each run. The amount will vary, but could potentially add up to be enough to let you buy an additional Anima Power, making it extremely powerful compared to our other options for Legendaries.
2. Call to the Void is a decent enough Legendary to run in Torghast, although if you are doing lower sets of floors that you outgear, you are probably not casting much Mind Flay and therefore not getting quite maximum value out of this Legendary than you would otherwise.
3. Norgannon's Sagacity can be a useful choice here if you are on higher level floors and find yourself kiting mobs to prevent taking damage often.