Shadow Priest Legion: Remix Guide — The War Within (11.2.5)

Welcome to our Legion Remix Guide for Shadow Priest! on this page we will cover everything you need to know for getting the most out of your character in the Patch 11.2.5 special feature, Legion: Remix.

This page is entirely dedicated to playing Shadow Priest in the new event. If you want to know more about Legion Remix in general, for example how it works and what rewards you can earn, you can check out our dedicated Legion Remix page!

During this event you will have five paths to spend your Infinite Power on to empower your Artifact Weapon. These five trees each have their own unique active ability as well as multiple passives that increase your damage, healing, or survivability. Below are a few recommendations depending on your playstyle, but keep in mind that experimentation and playing around with the different themes and passive is half the fun of this temporary game-mode. Picking your favorite choice based on theme and visuals is perfectly valid!

For Solo Players: When starting out, playing with Arcane or Nature trees will give the best mix of survivability and damage output. Once you team up with others in group content consider swapping to Storm or Fel for more raw throughput. Once you get enough gear and you can survive in the open world you can use these all the time.

For Duo-ing: When teaming up with one other player, having a combination of Fel and either Storm or Arcane works best. The player talenting into the Fel tree will apply Fel Touched to enemies, while the Arcane and Storm damage deals increased damage against Fel Touched enemies, something you cannot benefit from by yourself.

For Group Play: When doing 5-man dungeons, Storm is our preferred choice that gives us move while casting effects stacking Haste and Movement speed. This is the ideal speed run setup that offers great damage potential.

Here's a quick overview of each of the trees:

• Nature: This tree offers strong damage procs, while the active ability Call of the Forest shields you as well as giving you a bonus to casting speed. The passives in the tree provide enhance your survivability and also grant you more cooldown reduction and extra resource generation, ideal for early leveling and gearing.
• Fel: This is a purely damage-focused tree, allowing you to summon a Dreadlord with Twisted Crusade that will summon a Rain of Fire to deal damage in an area. With the capstone you can re-use this ability for a massive amount of AoE burst around the Dreadlords location.
• Arcane: This tree mixes survivability and DPS, but only if you can stand still in combat. It's active ability, Naran's Everdisc, deals massive AoE damage to targets in front of you, and you can benefit from this up to 3 times if you catch the orb as it returns to you.
• Storm: This is the go-to choice for Shadow Priests due to the passive ability of being able to cast while moving. The active ability Tempest Wrath deals damage in a circle around you, and each target hit will increase the damage further. As you add more points into the tree you also gain stacking Haste bonuses.
• Holy: While this tree is more focused around healing procs, this can be useful in earlier content or progression if you are lacking self-healing and survivability. This is the most hybrid choice to pick if you are looking to ride the line between healing and DPS throughput.

Below you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Shadow Priest in Legion Remix. Depending on how you choose to level up you will want to make some changes, i.e. if you decide to just do a variety of quests, or want to mostly level in dungeons, so we have listed builds for all activities.

Please keep in mind that this Leveling section is specific to Legion Remix. For our The War Within Leveling Guide for Shadow Priest, you can head to the page below.

Since Legion Remix is the perfect opportunity to level classes you haven't played before, we wanted to keep things as simple as possible for those learning the spec. Simply use the slider to select your level to learn a little bit more about how and when to use the abilities you just unlocked.

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is due to the differences in the recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.

Starting at Level 1, you only have Smite, so just spam this for now.

Before combat, make sure you have the following buffs active:

• Power Word: Fortitude
• Shadowform

1. Keep up Shadow Word: Pain on as many targets as possible.
2. Keep up Vampiric Touch on as many targets as possible.
3. Use Shadow Crash to quickly apply DoTs to targets.
4. With Misery talented, use Vampiric Touch to refresh and apply both DoTs on as many targets as possible.
5. Use Shadowfiend as a cooldown when fighting harder enemies.
6. Use Dark Ascension as your main cooldown when fighting harder enemies.
7. Use Power Infusion as a cooldown when fighting harder enemies.
8. Use Shadow Word: Death if the target has an absorb shield active.
9. Use Void Blast during Entropic Rift.
10. Use Devouring Plague to spend Insanity for damaging a single target.
11. Use Void Torrent on cooldown.
12. Use Mind Blast on cooldown.
13. Cast Mind Flay: Insanity to spend all charges of Surge of Insanity.
14. Use Shadow Word: Death on any target below 20% health.
15. Use Shadow Word: Death on any target below 35% health.
16. Use Halo as a sort of AoE filler spell when facing multiple enemies. Generally not used in pure single target.
17. Use Mind Flay as your filler spell.
18. Use Smite as a filler spell.