Shadow Priest DPS Sanctum of Domination Raid Guide — Shadowlands 9.1

On this page, you will find Shadow Priest specific information to deal with each boss in the Sanctum of Domination raid. These are not complete encounter guides, but rather provide specific tips for doing the bosses as a Shadow Priest.

This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Shadow Priest and what you can do to deal with each fight as best as possible.

All recommendations are progression based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.

Similarly to Castle Nathria, I expect Shadow Priests to perform exceptionally well in terms of progression DPS, providing some of the best single target-damage in the game. In addition to this, we have access to Power Infusion and Fae Guardians as Night Fae, bringing utility and throughput for ourselves or even other raid members.

The Legendary Power recommendations below are going to suggest using Shadowflame Prism for almost every encounter. As an optional replacement, you can use Twins of the Sun Priestess and cast Power Infusion on a top-performing DPS to squeeze out maximum raid performance. Just know that this is inherently more risky as you are relying on that person to perform as well as yourself to get full value, which could be tricky if that person gets targeted by a mechanic or two. Also keep in mind some classes scale better than others with Power Infusion and Haste. If you can pull this off effectively, Twins could be used on several fights for the biggest raid DPS increase. This is less useful than it was in Castle Nathria, as we have gotten Legendaries that significantly boost our damage and as we get more gear the value of haste also increases meaning that the opportunity cost for losing Power Infusion or a Legendary is probably too large to consider using Twins.

While Shadowflame Prism will be used for most fights, keep in mind that if you are Kyrian you will want to use Talbadar's Stratagem for single-target, and as a Necrolord you should use Pallid Command instead. With either of these choices, you would also swap out of Mindbender in favor of Void Torrent.

Generally speaking we will show Twist of Fate for most encounters, especially the single-target heavy ones. If you are struggling to re-dot effectively, Misery could make sense as you learn the fight, but generally will perform worse (1-3% overall).

We advise you to use the following talents against The Tarragrue.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Twist of Fate
• Level 35: No specific recommendation
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against The Tarragrue: Shadowflame Prism.

This boss is quite unique, as it gives you several Anima Powers throughout the encounter from Torghast. These do not include powers that are class-specific. Check out the below list of powers expected to be strong for this encounter as a Shadow Priest. As more people do the fight on live servers this list will be updated.

Consider using Intangibility to help you soak mechanics more often. Keep in mind by taking this you lose Body and Soul which might be helpful for the bosses Hungering Mist mechanic if you do not have Soulshape or Door of Shadows.

Anima Powers to look for from a DPS perspective:

• Elethium Weights
• Lumbering Form
• Obleron Talisman
• Obleron Winds
• Potent Acid Gland
• Soulward Clasp
• Tremorbeast Heart
• V'lara's Cape of Subterfuge
• Huddled Carvings
• Stand next to a player with Twisted Samophlange

For more information, please refer to our The Tarragrue guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against The Eye of the Jailer.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Twist of Fate
• Level 35: No specific recommendation
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against The Eye of the Jailer: Shadowflame Prism.

While this boss does have some adds, they are somewhat few and far between, making Twist of Fate the clear winner on this encounter. The steady add coming in during Phase 1 gives you more boss damage and typically only needs dots cast on it a few times. Make sure that, during the Phase 2 intermission, you ask your tanks to group the adds just close enough so you can keep DoTs on both for the extra damage. Careful about bringing them too close, otherwise you will wipe the raid.

Note: you can use Soulshape to get through the beam, but this can be tricky to time and could mean certain death should you fail.

You can use Dispersion to quickly move out and mitigate damage from Spreading Misery, also allowing you to stack this pool on top of an existing one without losing much health.

For more information, please refer to our The Eye of the Jailer guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against The Nine.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Twist of Fate
• Level 35: Last Word (situational options: Mind Bomb or Psychic Horror)
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against The Nine: Shadowflame Prism.

Even though the start of the encounter does have two targets, they should be relatively easy to keep up full DoTs on with Twist of Fate. Misery would certainly make this easier but at the cost of boss damage. In addition, there are lots of interrupts needed on this fight, consider taking Last Word to get more kicks.

For more information, please refer to our The Nine guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Remnant of Ner'zhul.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Twist of Fate
• Level 35: No specific recommendation
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Remnant of Ner'zhul: Shadowflame Prism.

Similar to previous bosses, this fight is very good with Twist of Fate. The orbs come out at a relatively steady pace, giving you extra "execute" damage throughout the fight and usually only need dots cast on them once. As soon as the orbs go vulnerable, you should DoT them straight away to get these Twist of Fate procs.

With good timing, you can mitigate the knockback effects on this fight with good uses of Soulshape or Fleshcraft with Ultimate Form.

For more information, please refer to our Remnant of Ner'zhul guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Soulrender Dormazain.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Twist of Fate or Misery
• Level 35: Psychic Horror (situational options: Last Word or Mind Bomb)
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Soulrender Dormazain: Shadowflame Prism.

Similar to the previous bosses you will likely want to run Twist of Fate for the increased boss damage, but could run Misery for more add damage. Lots of top parses will run Misery to get this extra damage, but this should only be done if your group is struggling with add damage or you have a hard time grouping the adds up for other classes stacked AoE. Misery can make quick work of the adds almost regardless if they are stacked or not. Along the same lines, you can also choose to save Mindbender for the big Shadowflame Prism cleave if they are stacked, but this will typically result in less boss damage. Psychic Horror will be a good pickup to have a stun and Silence for the add waves.

Save your Soulshape for moments when you might be caught out of position for Torment mechanics, rely on group movement CDs as much as possible to save this for when you really need it.

For more information, please refer to our Soulrender Dormazain guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Painsmith Raznal.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Twist of Fate
• Level 35: No specific recommendation
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Painsmith Raznal: Shadowflame Prism.

For the most part this is a pure single target fight, and you should optimize around that. Based on your group's damage, you will likely use all your CDs together for the first Phase 1 on opener and the next Phase 1 after the first intermission. You likely will not be able to fit more than one use of these cooldowns inside these Phase 1s, but pending fight time and Night Fae should squeeze in an extra one right at the end of the fight.

Your cooldowns will look something like this:

• 0:00 - Use all CDs for first Phase 1
• 1:00 - Use 2nd Mindbender if the boss is still active; it should come up in time
• ~2:00 (or when the boss comes back) - Use all CDs again for second Phase 1.
• ~3:00 - Use 4th Mindbender if the boss is still active; it should come up in time
• ~4:20 (or when the boss comes back) - Use all CDs again for third Phase 1
• Rest of the fight, you will probably just get one more use of your CDs pending fight time, use your judgment if you should sync these or not.

Note: you can use Soulshape or Door of Shadows to dodge many of the mechanics in this encounter, but I prefer to hold things like Soulshape for bad line ups of certain mechanics or during intermission phases.

For more information, please refer to our Painsmith Raznal guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Guardian of the First Ones.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Twist of Fate
• Level 35: No specific recommendation
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Guardian of the First Ones: Shadowflame Prism.

Tips will be added after more testing is done on live servers.

We advise you to use the following talents against Fatescribe Roh-Kalo.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Twist of Fate
• Level 35: No specific recommendation
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Fatescribe Roh-Kalo: Shadowflame Prism.

Be sure to swap to the add that spawns after Invoke Destiny. Depending on your raid group, this might die too fast to actually DoT the add. Rather, just nuke it with anything else you have at the time. This is a great target for Twist of Fate procs during these phases.

During Phase 2, if you are struggling with add damage you can take Misery or even Searing Nightmare. Neither of these talents really help you kill the boss faster, but can get you a better parse if your group lets you pad on the adds. Shadow Crash can also be used if you are trying to pad, but will lack substantially in boss damage so you will need quite a lot of damage to beat out Auspicious Spirits.

For more information, please refer to our Fatescribe Roh-Kalo guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Kel'Thuzad.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Misery
• Level 35: No specific recommendation
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Kel'Thuzad: Shadowflame Prism.

With the amount of adds in this fight, Misery will likely be the main choice in talents in that row. With Misery, you should be able to comfortably DoT all the adds. Be sure to focus one at a time with your Devouring Plague casts, or send them into the boss if up/available. If it turns out that you are only concerned about phase 3 damage, you could take Twist of Fate, but this will be considerably weaker in other parts of the encounter.

Typically you will remain in the upstairs phase for this fight as it naturally caters to our damage kit as we can easily damage all the adds in that realm and prioritize damage if need be.

For more information, please refer to our Kel'Thuzad guide.

We advise you to use the following talents against Sylvanas Windrunner.

• Level 15: Fortress of the Mind
• Level 25: No specific recommendation
• Level 30: Misery (or Twist of Fate, situationally)
• Level 35: No specific recommendation
• Level 40: Auspicious Spirits
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Level 50: Hungering Void

We advise you to use the following Legendary against Sylvanas Windrunner: Shadowflame Prism.

Due to the boss "dying" at 50% in Phase 3, taking Twist of Fate has no benefit for Phase 3, and is specifically only useful when sniping adds in the first two phases. As such taking Misery is the preferred choice here so you at least get some value from that talent row in Phase 3.

In Phase 2, you can dot as many adds as possible, but be sure to dump your Devouring Plague into the high-priority Mawforged Summoner add or bank Insanity for when the boss comes back into being vulnerable.

For more information, please refer to our Sylvanas Windrunner guide.