Additionally, if Vampiric Touch is dispelled it will deal a chunk of damage.

Vampiric Touch now procs Replenishment instead of its own unique mana regeneration.

The healing has been significantly reduced for everyone but the player, making it more akin to passive health regeneration for your party as opposed to supplementing healers.

Vampiric Embrace is now a 30-minute self buff, giving it 100% uptime.

You can also cast Abolish Disease and Cure Disease without breaking Shadowform. Notably, Shadow Word: Pain can crit but does not benefit from haste.

Shadowform now gives Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague and Vampiric Touch the ability to crit, and Devouring Plague and Vampiric Touch the ability to benefit from haste.

This changes Shadow Weaving into a personal buff instead of a raid-wide debuff.

Shadow Weaving no longer stacks on your target, instead stacking on the Shadow Priest.

If you are the type of person who likes to choose your class based on its power in the current raid, we have prepared a Tier List that goes over the best DPS specs in the current raid tier and an explanation on why from our Class Writers.Ĭlass Changes for Shadow Priest in Wrath of the Lich King Shadow Priest still has an involved rotation that primarily focuses on juggling cooldowns, DoT uptime and effective use of fillers. Because this isn't an immunity, you can use it to soak mechanics that Paladin bubbles couldn't. The most unique aspect of Shadow Priest in Wrath of the Lich King is Dispersion, a 2-minute cooldown that reduces all damage taken by 90% and makes you immune to stuns, fears, silences, snares and movement impairs. Shadow Priest's are now competitive DPS throughout the entire expansion but don't bring any unique support. Shadow Priest loses its main aspect from TBC, going from primarily support to primarily DPS. Make sure to navigate to other pages of the guide to find more in-depth information, as each works as a knowledge hub for their subject.Ĭlass Overview for Shadow Priest in Wrath of the Lich King

Throughout this guide, we will cover many different aspects to increase your Shadow Priest expertise, including concepts like Shadow Priest talents and talents builds, Shadow Priest BiS gear choices, Shadow Priest stat priorities, Shadow Priest consumables, Shadow Priest gems, Shadow Priest enchants, among many other aspects of your class and specialization.

Welcome to Wowhead's Shadow Priest DPS PvE Class Overview guide for Wrath of the Lich King Classic! This guide will help you improve at your class and role, improving your knowledge to face the hardest Dungeons and Raids from Wrath of the Lich King Classic.

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