Shadow Priest DPS Mythic+ Tips — Dragonflight 10.2

Shadow's playstyle in AoE is very similar to single target, relying on interactions from those single target abilities for cleave damage through Psychic Link. The trick will be managing DoTs with Shadow Crash or supplementing that with your manual casts of Vampiric Touch. Without this, you deal substantially less Aoe damage.

The video version of this guide is also available if you would like to watch along as I talk about Shadow Priest.

The dungeon pool for Dragonflight Season 3 includes the following dungeons:

• Atal'Dazar
• Black Rook Hold
• Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond's Fall
• Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond's Rise
• Darkheart Thicket
• Everbloom
• Throne of the Tides
• Waycrest Manor

To learn more about what talents to pick to counter specific parts of the dungeon, check out the sections below.

To help out in gearing this season, be sure to check out the gear guide.

Below are the suggested talents for Mythic+. We recommend importing these strings directly into your in-game talent tree for easy swapping! These builds will be the baseline for every scenario in Season 3. Check out the section below to go into detail on which builds make the most sense for you.

These builds can generally pick between Mind's Eye or Distorted Reality depending on what you want to build for. Check out the dedicated section below to learn more.

There are a few options with these builds that I go over in detail in the sections below to further optimize your build.

Below is rough guidance; use the details below to see the full picture.

• Still using the Season 2 4-piece bonus? Use the Shadowy Apparitions build Season 2 Version
• Big/Chain Pulls or High Keys: Triple Idol with Void Eruption or Shadowy Apparitions build
• Standard/Smaller Pulls with more Single Target: Triple Idol with Dark Ascension
• Tyrannical/Boss Damage focused: Single Target + Shadow Crash build

On Tyrannical weeks, I would suggest starting out with either of the Triple Idol builds.

If you find that you want to index more into a single target, then utilize the Single Target + Shadow Crash build. This setup will give you about 3% extra damage in single target (see the chart below) at the cost of AoE damage by dropping Idol of N'Zoth, depending on the key.

On Fortified weeks, I would strongly suggest using either of the Triple Idol builds, depending on the dungeon. This will give you the great overall damage for almost every key.

With our dungeon builds, you have a few filler points you can shift around in either of the base builds to tweak your build for what you are looking to specialize in. With any build, spend four of your talent points in any combination of the below options. Use this as a rough guide. Options at the top of the list will generally net you more DPS.

• Dark Evangelism - Overall
• Maddening Touch - AoE
• Mind Devourer - Overall
• Phantasmal Pathogen - Single Target
• Mental Decay - Single Target
• Mental Fortitude - Defensive
• Silence - Utility (only in coordinated groups should you consider dropping this)

If you start pushing high-level keystones, I would highly suggest using Mental Fortitude for enhanced survivability. The damage loss to run this talent is typically worth the extra defensive power gain if you also need Silence.

If you need more utility or defensive talent points, I would suggest dropping the flex points in this rough order: Phantasmal Pathogen > Mental Decay > Mind Devourer > Maddening Touch > Dark Evangelism.

Most builds listed on this page can be run with either Mind Flay or Mind Spike. The difference in almost every scenario is quite marginal, so feel free to pick the one that suits your playstyle better.

Starting in Patch 10.2, you are only getting procs of Surge of Insanity for every other cast of Devouring Plague so you are much less pressured to fit in casts of Mind Flay: Insanity or Mind Spike: Insanity into the rotation without fear of overcapping. On top of this, change they also gave more compensating buffs to Mind Flay: Insanity, making it very competitive even with Dark Ascension.

Another note to keep in mind is that Void Eruption builds usually prefer to play with Mind Flay.

Distorted Reality and Mind's Eye are both competitive options inside of Mythic+. Distorted Reality makes it worth to spread Devouring Plague in AoE for more spread out damage, while Mind's Eye gives you more single-target priority damage during AoE encounters. Distorted Reality also has slightly more single-target damage compared to Mind's Eye, depending on the build.

This means that both choices are viable for any Mythic+ key, regardless of affixes. You have to make the choice about where you want to optimize your damage and how you want to play. These options are close enough together to be considered a purely preference choice, although Distorted Reality will likely be the easier option to execute for most players.

Something to note when using Distorted Reality is that you will also get increased value when running Mind Devourer, which can allow you to spread out more Devouring Plague based on procs. This is not a required pairing, but something to note when deciding where to put your flex point talents. Typically, those points spent on Mind Devourer are moved to Maddening Touch with Mind's Eye builds.

Use the following chart to understand the difference when taking Distorted Reality over Mind's Eye. These numbers are taken from the average of Dark Ascension Triple Idol setups.

• Single Target: ~0.3% decrease over Mind's Eye
• Two Target: ~2.8% increase over Mind's Eye
• Three Target Council: ~1.3% increase over Mind's Eye
• DungeonRoute Overall Average: ~1.7% increase over Mind's Eye

The following lists a rough breakdown of single target damage with our various builds. I have included this to help you make your decisions on what build to play, specifically on Tyrannical, where you want single-target damage.

Cooldown	Type	Difference
Dark Ascension	Full Single Target	0.00%
Dark Ascension	Single Target with Shadow Crash	-1.8%
Dark Ascension	Triple Idol with Mind's Eye and Mind Flay	-7.6%
Dark Ascension	Triple Idol with Distorted Reality and Mind Flay	-7.9%
Dark Ascension	Triple Idol with Mind's Eye and Mind Spike	-8.8%
Dark Ascension	Triple Idol with Distorted Reality and Mind Spike	-8.8%
Void Eruption	Triple Idol with Distorted Reality and Mind Flay	-9.5%
Void Eruption	Triple Idol with Mind's Eye and Mind Flay	-9.8%
Void Eruption	Shadowy Apparitions Build with Mind's Eye and Mind Spike	-12.3%
Void Eruption	Shadowy Apparitions Build with Mind's Eye and Mind Flay	-12.9%

You should make many choices in our tree depending on your group's needs, the type of damage that works best for that key, and the actual key level and affixes.

Note that the talents recommended above are specifically for Mythic+. Check our main page below for a general overview of Shadow talents.

Dungeons	Affixes
Atal'Dazar	Afflicted
Black Rook Hold	Incorporeal
Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond's Fall	Entangling
Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond's Rise	Sanguine
Darkheart Thicket	Bursting
Everbloom	Spiteful
Throne of the Tides
Waycrest Manor

Based on the selections above, you should run the following class talents:

• Purify Disease
• Mass Dispel
• Dominate Mind
• Shackle Undead
• Phantasm
• Psychic Voice
• Void Tendrils

Check out the full list below to see more specific suggestions.

Our utility talents do not always need to be taken but have certain spots in dungeons where you will want them. The below should act as a list of utilities you should have for each dungeon.

• Atal'Dazar
  • Can take Shackle Undead to help control the patting undead mobs on the right side of the instance.
  • Purify Disease can be useful for getting rid of Lingering Nausea on Vol'kaal.
• Black Rook Hold
  • Consider taking Shackle Undead to help as an extra stop or to control certain packs. Most mobs in this instance are undead.
  • Mass Dispel
    • Soul Venom off the tank cast by pulling the spider stairway.
    • Soul Blade cast by Ghostly Retainers if pulling more than one at a time.
• Darkheart Thicket
  • Purify Disease can remove Darksoul Drain cast by the Tainted Bloodseekers.
  • Mass Dispel
    • Despair cast on the tank by Dreadsoul Ruiners.
    • Festering Rip cast by the Shade of Xavius.
• Everbloom
  • Dominate Mind has several good use cases here (see below).
  • Mass Dispel can get allies out of Glacial Fusion but this should not be needed for groups familiar with the dungeon.
• Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond's Fall
  • Mass Dispel
    • Bloom cast by Timestream Anomaly.
    • Sheared Lifespan cast by Chronikar.
• Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond's Rise
  • Mass Dispel
    • Corroding Volley cast by Infinite Twilight Magus.
    • Can also be helpful to dispel off the second Spark of Tyr cast without waiting for the healer to get both. Just make sure the group is topped first
    • Infinite Burn cast by Infinite Riftmages.
    • Bloom cast by Timestream Anomaly.
    • Chronal Burn cast by Infinite Keepers.
• Throne of the Tides
  • Mass Dispel can be used to dispel Lightning Surge cast from the Naz'jar Tempest Witches. You can also use this to dispel Flame Shock cast by Erunak Stonespeaker. Generally, both of these can be handled by the healer so not a required talent choice.
  • Purify Disease can be used to dispel all stacks of Wave of Corruption off of a single player.
• Waycrest Manor
  • Dominate Mind has several good use cases here (see below).
  • Purify Disease can be used to dispel Infected Thorn cast by the Thistle Acolytes. In addition, you can use this to help dispel Virulent Pathogen during the Lady Waycrest encounter.
  • Mass Dispel can be used to easily clear off a set of Spirited Defense buffs on enemies should you miss a kick.

The following talents are suggested to run for every key that you run with the corresponding affix.

• Afflicted
  • Purify Disease
  • OPTION: Power Word: Life can do a large chunk of healing to help get rid of the mob, but typically not enough to fully break it.
• Incorporeal
  • Shackle Undead
  • Dominate Mind also works, but since it has a cooldown would suggest still taking Shackle Undead
  • OPTION: Psychic Horror
• Entangling
  • Phantasm
  • Improved Fade
• Sanguine
  • Psychic Voice
  • OPTION: Sheer Terror
• Bursting
  • Mass Dispel
  • Improved Mass Dispel
• Spiteful
  • Psychic Voice
  • Void Tendrils
  • Dominate Mind
  • OPTION: Psychic Horror

For Afflicted and Incorporeal, it might be useful to use a mouseover macro to make dealing with these mobs faster.

• #showtooltip
• /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Purify Disease

• #showtooltip
• /cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Shackle Undead

For more information, check out the specific Affix section below.

Both the single-target and multi-target rotations do not change in Mythic+ content. For more information about the Shadow Priest DPS rotation, refer back to the Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities page.

With all the ways our kit has to do damage, you might need clarification on what this looks like in a Mythic+ scenario. This section is not aimed at covering every scenario, but just the common ones with the suggested Mythic+ talents.

Before I show the starter, here is the TLDR/easy version of the AoE priority in Mythic+, see the rotation guide for the full priority, but use this as a starting point if you feel overwhelmed.

1. If the pack is big enough, you should strongly consider using your cooldowns. Getting as many casts of your cooldown without losing uses of it or not having it for a boss is the biggest point of improvement most players can make in dungeons. This includes Void Eruption/ Dark Ascension, Power Infusion, and Shadowfiend/ Mindbender.
2. Use Shadow Crash to get your DoTs rolling. If this is on cooldown as you pull the pack, you need to do your best to DoT as many targets manually as possible while weaving in other spells.
3. At this point, your highest priority is maintaining DoTs. You should pick a main priority target to funnel in your Devouring Plague into. When talented into Distorted Reality, you can instead spread it around to targets that will live long enough as you get Insanity.
4. Use spells to generate Insanity, like Void Bolt, Shadow Word: Death, and Mind Blast. Get these on cooldown quickly so you can blast with your bigger spells.
5. Use spells like Void Torrent and Mindgames to do small burst damage.
6. Before resorting to filler spells like Mind Spike, you should first make sure cooldown spells like Halo or Divine Star are used.
7. Fill with Mind Flay or Mind Spike, depending on your build.

Example starting rotation for a mythic+ pack (anywhere between 3-8 mobs):

1. Cast Vampiric Touch on any targets as the pack is being grouped up with Fade (see below).
2. Cast Shadow Crash to put up DoTs on targets once everything is grouped.
3. Cast Shadowfiend/ Mindbender.
4. Cast Mind Blast to get the cooldown reset before going into Void Eruption. Skip this if the pack will not live long enough to get your full Voidform out or if you are using Dark Ascension.
5. Cast Void Eruption or Dark Ascension and then Power Infusion when the cast finishes. Depending on if you want to save for the boss, you would also use your combat potion here as well.
6. Continue with the rotation as normal.

Note if the pack has more than 8 targets or they are too spread for Shadow Crash You should do your best to pull with the tank by using Fade to not get aggro but still putting your DoTs up as the pack gets pulled.

If you are looking for a mere detailed setup with different talents, please check out the rotation page.

Occasionally, in dungeons, it can be worth breaking from the standard rotation in order to facilitate bursting down a priority target. In this section, I will go over the options you have for these cases as a Shadow Priest.

In the standard talent build, your best spell for burst damage is Void Torrent. If there is ever a high-priority target, you want to make sure you have Void Torrent for every one. Typically, you will combo this together with something like this:

1. Pool up max Insanity before the target spawns you need to burst.
2. Cast Vampiric Touch as it spawns, or time Shadow Crash to land as it spawns, if possible.
3. Dump all Insanity into Devouring Plague.
4. Cast Void Torrent.
5. Cast Mindgames.

Your burst will be even better if you are just performing your normal rotation inside of cooldowns (especially at the start of them with Ancient Madness), but the above sequence can be done outside of cooldowns if you prepare enough.

Additionally, you can consider selecting the Voidtouched talent in place of a Flex Point (see below). This allows you to bank up an extra 50 Insanity for more Devouring Plague casts. While this is usually not the talent to take if you want overall max damage, it can provide more burst if that is more important to you.

Finally, you can consider using on-use damage trinkets to get even more burst. Since Shadow Priest scales so well with secondaries, we typically do not like on-use damage trinkets, but there are a few to consider that might be worth it if you are looking for burst, specifically at the cost of overall damage.

1. Belor'relos, the Suncaller (AoE)
2. Nymue's Unraveling Spindle (Single Target)

Shadow Priest supports the party by providing extra healing, an AoE fear, offensive and defensive dispels, and a potential single-target stun if you pick it as a talent. Additionally, Shadow has a unique form of crowd control in the form of Mind Control. We also have access to Mind Soothe and the only stamina group buff in the game with Power Word: Fortitude.

Due to the sheer amount of options the spec has in terms of utility, it is critical that you adjust class talents before every key you start to make sure you are optimizing utility when needed or taking more defensive options if you do not need the utility.

• Power Word: Fortitude gives everyone in your party an extra 5% Stamina, which provides a unique boost to help survive some of those hard-hitting abilities.
• Mind Soothe provides an interesting alternative to Shroud of Concealment that might help your group skip past a more deadly Mythic+ pack, depending on the available space. This is changed to be an AoE cast ability that works on all mobs within the 10-yard radius on a short cooldown. Creative uses of this can make routing a key much easier.
• Fade has a few good pieces of utility to call out, the most important being the aggro drop mechanic. If you find yourself getting aggro over the tank on the pull, you can use Fade to bypass this drop easily and continue with the key. With the Translucent Image class talent, this also turns Fade into a small defensive. With Phantasm this becomes an easy tool to break Entangling.
• Psychic Scream fears all enemies close to you for 8 seconds, but damage can break this early. Psychic Scream is primarily used as an AoE interrupt in dungeons.

• Twins of the Sun Priestess is by far the biggest piece of utility in the class tree, effectively giving your group an extra Power Infusion when used on an ally. While there is contentious debate on who the best specs are for this, I would generally prefer giving this out to Unholy Death Knights, Mages, Warlocks, Devastation Evoker, Enhancement Shamans or anyone else that is on a 2-minute cooldown timer.
• Dispel Magic allows you to dispel beneficial buffs from enemies. This is extremely useful in dungeons, as many mob packs in many of the dungeons tend to have some buff that they cast on themselves. While this is more important in some dungeons than others, it is still precious to be able to do it.
• Purify Disease dispels all Disease effects from friendly targets. This is fairly niche but still situationally extremely useful.
• Mass Dispel remains a beneficial ability to have in our arsenal. Dispelling is very important, and Mass Dispel allows for both offensive and defensive dispels. The fact that you can dispel multiple enemies or friendly targets with just one global is situationally powerful. However, Mass Dispel does have a fairly lengthy 2-minute cooldown. You can also Mass Dispel Bursting as well.
• Vampiric Embrace heals allies based on the single-target damage you do on a 2-minute cooldown (reduced by San'layn). It can be potent depending on the situation, especially when combined with San'layn. Note that the damage of our DoTs also gets converted to healing. Similarly, we also have access to Essence Devourer, which can be nice for any builds that use Mindbender for similar style healing.
• Leap of Faith pulls a friendly party member towards you. It could be more useful generally, but it can sometimes save someone.
• Mind Control is good to deal with Bolstering if you want to avoid a mob in the pack getting Bolstering stacks. While mobs are Mind Controlled, they can not get affected by Bolstering. You can also pick up Dominate Mind if you want passive damage or to take the pet with you throughout the dungeon. See the section below for specific examples.
• Shackle Undead allows you to crowd-control undead enemies in a dungeon. This has rare use cases, notably, the Incorporeal mobs.
• The class tree also offers several healing spells that you can combine to give off healing capability for the priest. The main ones are Renew, Prayer of Mending, and Power Word: Life.
• Flash Heal becomes a small defensive with Protective Light.
• Void Tendrils offers an aoe root if you can afford to jump into melee to cast this.
• Void Shift can be used to save your life or an ally's life if used at a good time. Generally speaking, this is not very useful.
• If you are in a dungeon where you do not need much utility else where I would strongly suggest taking Holy Nova to path into Spell Warding for the reduced magic damage taken.

• Psychic Horror stuns a single target for 4 seconds at a 45-second cooldown. It is handy for some dungeons to lock down dangerous targets.
• Silence serves as both a silence effect as well as an interrupt. Though its baseline cooldown is longer than most interrupts in the game at 45 seconds, we do get the ability to reduce that cooldown by 15 seconds if we take Last Word as a talent.
• Mental Fortitude is an extra absorb shield that can be invaluable when pushing up in higher keys. This also has an extra benefit of giving more uptime of things like the Blue Silken Lining embellished effect if you are using that.

The below list is not an extensive list but contains any notable mobs you could consider controlling.

• Spiteful Shades - You can control these to not deal with them as they naturally expire.
• Bolstering Mobs - You can control a mob before it gets bolstered if you are worried about it dying too fast or getting stacks.

• Shadowblade Stalker - Venomfang Strike (Increases Nature Damage Taken)
• Zanchuli Witch Doctor - Unstable Hex (5-second polymorph)
• Dazar'ai Confessor - Bwonsamdi's Mantle (Group CC Immunity)

• Alliance Knight - Rallying Shout (+Damage Done and Health) and Sundering Slam (Sunder Armor effect)
• Paladin of the Silver Hand - Holy Light
• Horde Farseer - Healing Wave
• Horde Raider - Rallying Shout (+Damage Done and Health) and Sundering Slam (Sunder Armor effect)

• Consider taking over Frenzied Nightclaw to not face more than one at a time.
• Note that you can Mind Control the Bloodtainted Fury small small clones after the big ones die. If you do so, they will auto-cast transform and constantly spawn big versions that are hostile. The big versions they spawn are then controllable, but the spells are not particularly useful - Blood Assault and Blood Bomb.

Note for the below mobs, you NEED to kill the packs around the first boss before he will spawn.

• Everbloom Naturalist - Choking Vines (ST Stun)
• Everbloom Cultivator - Enraged Growth (Gives the targeted ally 15% increased damage and 50% attack speed)
• Everbloom Mender - Healing Waters (ST Heal)

• Naz'jar Oracle - Hex (5 second polymorph) and Healing Wave
• Minion of Ghur'sha - DO NOT MIND CONTROL THIS MOB. It auto-casts an AoE that will hit everything within 60 yards even if you are not in combat with them.

• Runic Disciple - Spellbind (ST Silence)
• Dreadwing Raven - Pallid Glare (ST Disorient)
• Maddened Survivalist - Note: While Mind Controlled the mob will still cast their traps, but they only affect PLAYERS. So this will completely troll your group if you MC them.

As you get into higher keys or particularly challenging bosses, it can be hard to survive through mechanics if you are not properly prepared or if you do not react appropriately. In this section, I will list out all the tools we have in our kit to survive keys as a Shadow Priest.

Before starting a key, you should evaluate your talent choices to prepare for how intense that key will be. For any incoming mechanic, you should know if you need to use a Defensive to mitigate the hit to survive using the lists below.

Before you start a key, you should evaluate how difficult the dungeon is for your group. If you are in a push key where it is relatively high for your group, you should strongly consider adding more defensive talents, even if they cost you some damage. This will need to be on a key-by-key basis, but here are your options.

If you find yourself wanting more defensive points but have run out of points, you can choose to sacrifice as many as 3 of the last few points in the Mindgames talents. Shattered Perceptions and Manipulation make up less than 1% of your overall damage even when factoring in the Psychic Link value. If having more defensive options is more valuable than that 1% damage, consider dropping those points but still leave the base Mindgames point.

• Spell Warding (path through Holy Nova to get this)
• Protective Light
• Translucent Image
• Angel's Mercy
• Light's Inspiration
• Angelic Bulwark
• Power Word: Life
• Essence Devourer/ Void Shift

• Dispersion
• Mental Fortitude

Shadow Priest has several defensives that you should plan to use and rotate throughout mechanics. You should opt to use the smaller cooldown spells often as needed with incoming mechanics and save bigger cooldowns like Dispersion for large incoming damage.

• Flash Heal with Protective Light talented.
• Power Word: Shield for a small absorb.
• Fade with Translucent Image talented.
• Desperate Prayer
• Dispersion
• Void Shift

To properly use this, I suggest getting a set of WeakAuras or Addons to help you know when an incoming mechanic is coming so that you can use the proper defensive to handle that incoming damage. Below is a short list of a few I would suggest.

• Causese's Dungeon Pack
• Affix Tracking
• Interrupt Tracker
• Spell Cooldowns on Nameplates

• Deadly Boss Mods - Dungeons or LittleWigs

• Fortified increases the Health pool of all non-boss enemies by 20% and damage dealt by 30%.
• Tyrannical increases the Health pool of boss enemies by 40% and their damage dealt by 15%.

Fortified and Tyrannical are the two affixes every player will see. Depending on the week, these affixes shift the focus of dungeons from boss to trash. Shadow Priests will excel during Fortified weeks as our multi-target damage has a short ramp-up time. Then, they will sustain at decent numbers without the use of cooldowns. During Tyrannical weeks, Shadow has plenty of talent options to shake up its damage allocation depending on where your group needs damage.

• Volcanic spawns volcanic plumes underneath and around players when in combat with any enemy. When damaged by Volcanic, players suffer 50% of their maximum Health pool in damage and are knocked into the air. The more enemies you encounter, the more Volcanic that will spawn.
• Storming essentially is the tornado version of Volcanic. While in combat, you will see grey swirls on the ground, indicating a tornado is about to spawn in that location. Do your best to dodge these, as they are active for 10 seconds after spawning and will knock you back if you get hit.
• Afflicted will periodically spawn enemies that must be healed to full or dispelled. Purify Disease will be a precious resource when this is active.
• Incorporeal spawns an enemy that needs to be single target CC'd for 20 seconds. As a Shadow Priest, we can use Shackle Undead, Dominate Mind, or Psychic Horror.
• Entangling will occasionally spawn roots under your character. You can either break this by running out or by pressing Fade if talented into Phantasm.

• Raging makes enemies immune to crowd control except for interrupts for 20 seconds after reaching 30% health.
• Sanguine places a pool of blood on the ground when a mob is slain. This pool will heal remaining enemies who stay inside the zone and damage players. You can use Psychic Scream or Mind Control or Dominate Mind (and dismiss right after) to try and get mobs out of the Sanguine faster if something goes wrong.
• Bolstering buffs remaining enemies' Health pools and damage dealt by 20% when an enemy dies nearby. To counter this affix, DPS all mobs down evenly and focus your casts into high-health mobs if there are any. As Shadow, you can also Mind Control mobs that you do not want to get any Bolstering stacks on at all costs. Note that once a mob gets a stack of Bolstering it CANNOT be Mind Controlled.
• Bursting forces enemy mobs to detonate when slain, afflicting the group with a stacking debuff that causes players to suffer damage every four seconds. When handling the Bursting affix, ask how many stacks your healer can handle. Try to avoid mindlessly DPS'ing and exceeding your healer's stack limit. Mass Dispel can easily get rid of your group's stacks and allow you to plan to kill many mobs at the same time.
• Spiteful brings back another effect from Battle for Azeroth, this time in the form of a Corruption effect where a mob would target and chase you down. These mobs spawn whenever any mob dies. You can either CC this mob and wait for the Health to tick passively or try to kill it. This mob is not affected by Shackle Undead, so you will have to run away; otherwise, you get hit by very hard-hitting melee swings. I would also suggest using this WeakAura to clearly see if the mobs are targeting you. Talenting into Void Tendrils can be a great tool for controlling these mobs easier during this affix.

With the number of trinkets to choose from in the game, you should try simming your character on Raidbots using Patchwerk and Light Movement to optimize for raids and single-target encounters and DungeonSlice for Mythic+ fight styles.

Check out the BiS and Gear page to learn more about good trinkets to use on your Shadow Priest.