Shadow Priest PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets (Season 4)

The stat priority for Shadow Priests in PvP is as follows:

1. Intellect;
2. Versatility;
3. Haste;
4. Critical Strike;
5. Mastery.

Intellect is the best stat in all situations. Versatility is the strongest secondary stat at all times because it increases your overall damage dealt and reduces damage you take. Haste is your next best secondary stat. This will help with reducing the Global Cooldown on abilities and increasing the tick rate of your DoTs.

In general, Shadow Priests do not have a specific cooldown that you need trinkets to line up with. As a result, your trinkets can have a passive or on-use effect. The stat you want to be increasing is Intellect. You want to increase Intellect because it drastically increases your overall damage output. Here is the best gear we recommend you using as a Shadow Priest.

• Head: Mask of the Furnace Seraph
• Neck: Draconic Gladiator's Necklace
• Shoulders: Devotion of the Furnace Seraph
• Cloak: Scalewarden's Cloak
• Chest: Command of the Furnace Seraph
• Wrists: Draconic Gladiator's Silk Armbands
• Hands: Grasp of the Furnace Seraph
• Waist: Draconic Gladiator's Silk Cord
• Legs: Infurious Legwraps of Possibility
• Feet: Vibrant Wildercloth Slippers
• Ring 1: Draconic Gladiator's Ring
• Ring 2: Signet of Titanic Insight - Crafted with Versatility and Haste
• Trinket 1: Draconic Gladiator's Medallion
• Trinket 2: Draconic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity
• Weapon: Draconic Gladiator's Staff

Note: It is essential to be wearing 2 PvP trinkets. This will give you a Stamina and stat boost that will increase your survivability.

As noted above, acquiring both your 2-set and 4-set bonus is crucial. It is also important to note that ALL tier sets are nerfed by 50% in PvP. Although this nerf is significant, tier sets are still important to acquire to maximize your chances of winning. For Shadow Priest, this is your tier set:

• 2-set: Increases the chance for Shadowy Insight to trigger by 25%. When consuming Shadowy Insight, Mind Blast deals 30% increased damage and generates 4 additional Insanity.
• 4-set: Devouring Plague damage increased by 15%. Every 4 casts of Devouring Plague increases the damage of Shadowy Apparitions conjured within the next 10 sec by 80%.

Embelishments are bonuses that can be put on crafted gear. These affects can have a drastic impact on the game. You are only allowed to have 2 Embellishments equipped at the same time. Here are the recommended Embellishments for Shadow Priest:

• Statuette of Foreseen Power. This embellishment makes it so when an interrupt is used on you while you are not casting, you gain haste and are immune to all crowd control for 4 seconds. Ideally, this is crafted on your feet.
• Infurious Legwraps of Possibility have an Embellishment on them that makes it so after you are crowd-controlled, you get a Haste buff. This has an internal cooldown of 30 seconds. This is great because you will often be the target of choice for most teams and this buff will have high uptime throughout an arena game.

Here are the best enchants and gems for a Shadow Priest:

• Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Homebound Speed
• Chest: Enchant Chest - Reserve of Intellect
• Bracers: Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Speed
• Belt: Shadowed Belt Clasp
• Legs: Temporal Spellthread
• Feet: Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze
• Rings: Enchant Ring - Devotion of Haste
• Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion

Energized Ysemerald is the best gem you can use.