LEVEL 60 RANKING

Priest Shadow: level 60 build, talents, rotation and DPS

This is what our simulator gets for the Priest Shadow at level 60: the gear the optimizer finds among the items known from the beta, the preset talents, the rotation followed and the damage of every ability over a 180-second fight against a stationary boss.

605 DPSAverage DPS

#1Rank of 21

20.3%Crit

448Spell power

Rotation

Keep Shadow Word: Pain and Devouring Plague up.
Mind Blast on cooldown.
Shadow Word: Death when ready.
Mind Flay as the filler.
Inner Focus for mana.

Observed opening

The first 14 seconds of the simulated fight: the hits that deal direct damage, in order.

3 sShadow Word: Pain4.5 sDevouring Plague4.5 sMind Blast6 sShadow Word: Pain7 sMind Flay7.5 sDevouring Plague8 sMind Flay9 sShadow Word: Pain9 sMind Flay10.5 sDevouring Plague10.5 sMind Blast11.5 sMind Flay12 sShadow Word: Pain12.5 sMind Flay

Damage by ability

Ability	Share	DPS	Casts / min	Crits
Mind Flay	37.6%	227.4	12.0	21%
Mind Blast	25.2%	152.4	8.8	20%
Shadow Word: Pain	20.8%	126	2.9	21%
Shadow Word: Death	10.7%	64.7	3.7	21%
Devouring Plague	5.4%	32.5	1.0	20%
Smokey's Lighter	0.3%	2.1	0.7	—

Active buffs

97%Shadow Weaving

Talents chosen

Discipline 19 points

Power in Light 5/5Your Smite and Penance spells deal 10% increased damage to targets afflicted with your Holy Fire.
Twin Disciplines 5/5Increases the damage and healing of your instant cast spells by 5%.
Inner Focus 1/1When activated, reduces the Mana cost of your next spell by 100% and increases its critical effect chance by 25% if it is a non-periodic spell and capable of a critical effect.
Meditation 3/3Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Mental Agility 3/3Reduces the mana cost of your Smite, Holy Fire, and instant cast spells by 10%.
Mental Strength 2/5Increases your total Intellect by 6%.

Shadow 32 points

Shadow Focus 5/5Improves your chance to hit with Shadow spells by 5%.
Spirit Tap 5/5Gives you a 100% chance to increase your Spirit by 100% for 15 sec after killing a non-trivial target or when an enemy afflicted by your Vampiric Embrace dies. For the duration, 50% of your Mana regeneration will continue while casting.
Improved Shadow Word: Pain 2/2Increases the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain spell by 6 sec.
Improved Mind Blast 5/5Reduces the cooldown of your Mind Blast spell by 2.5 sec.
Improved Mind Flay 2/2Your Mind Flay now deals 20% more damage, gains 10 yards increased range, but slows the target's movement speed by 20%.
Mind Flay 1/1Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 63 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%.
Shadow Weaving 3/3Your Shadow damage spells have a 100% chance to increase the Shadow damage you deal by 2% for 15 sec, stacking up to 5 times.
Vampiric Embrace 1/1Afflicts your target with Shadow energy that causes all party members to be healed for 20% of any Shadow spell damage you deal for 30 sec.
Devouring Contagion 2/2Reduces the mana cost of your Devouring Plague by 50%. Targets that die while Devouring Plague is active spreads it, jumping to a nearby enemy within 10 yds for the remaining duration.
Darkness 5/5Increases your Shadow damage done by 10%.
Shadowform 1/1Assume Shadowform, increasing your Shadow damage by 10%, reducing the Mana cost of all Shadow spells by 50%, increasing the critical strike damage bonus of your Shadow spells by 100%, and reducing Physical damage taken by you by 15%. However, you may not cast healing spells while in this form.

Level 60 gear

Slot	Item	Source
Head	Dreadmist Mask	Scholomance — Darkmaster Gandling
Neck	Choker of the Fire Lord	Molten Core — Ragnaros
Shoulders	Shroud of the Nathrezim	Stratholme
Back	Spritecaster Cape	Blackrock Depths — Houndmaster Grebmar
Chest	Acumen Robes	Maraudon — Twisted Evils
Wrists	Spidertank Oilrag	Gnomeregan — Electrocutioner 6000
Hands	Dreadmist Wraps	Scholomance
Waist	Satyrmane Sash	Maraudon — Lord Vyletongue
Legs	Dreadmist Leggings	Stratholme — Baron Rivendare
Feet	Omnicast Boots	Blackrock Depths — Golem Lord Argelmach
Ring 1	Ring of Spell Power	Molten Core
Ring 2	Blackstone Ring	Maraudon — Princess Theradras
Trinket 1	Talisman of Ephemeral Power	Molten Core
Trinket 2	Smokey's Lighter	Stratholme — The Great Fras Siabi
Two-hand	Mechanic's Pipehammer	Gnomeregan — Data Rescue
Held in off hand	Orb of the Forgotten Seer	Scarlet Monastery — Bloodmage Thalnos

Item effects simulated

Smokey's LighterEphemeral PowerIncrease Spell Dam 18

Character stats

68Strength73Agility151Stamina313Intellect220Spirit448Spell power20.3%Crit2.0%Hit5 695Mana

Assumptions

A 180-second fight against a stationary level-63 boss, the raid buffs and consumables of the class's family, a standard race, item effects on. Level-60 base stats and several Classic values are estimates, flagged in the simulator. Results will move with the game.

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