Shadow Priest Midnight 12.0.7 Guide

Welcome to the Shadow Priest Guide from Method written by Jaerv.

I am Jaerv, a former Shadow Priest main for Method that also dabbles in theorycrafting and SimulationCraft over at Warcraft Priests, where I help out with everything from APL work, general theory testing and just coming up with all the not so smart ideas to try and implement.

Patch 12.0.7

While Shadow Priest receives no direct changes in 12.0.7, there are a couple of introductions that need addressing.

• With Rotmire comes the addition of new, higher item level Sporefused Gear.
• The Omnium Folio serves as a gradual power increase, lasting throughout Midnight.

More information on both of these systems can be found in the Gearing section of the guide.

Patch 12.0.0

In Midnight, Blizzard has pruned almost every spec in the game, removing a lot of abilities, talents and passives. There are a lot of changes to Shadow, and if you want to read them all I suggest going to the official patch notes.

Below is a summary of important changes for Shadow Priest in Midnight.

Baseline Changes:

• Silence is now baseline (cooldown changed from 45s to 30s).
• Dispersion is now baseline.
• Vampiric Embrace is now baseline.

Class Talent Changes:

• Many nodes have changed position in the tree.
• Mind Blast is now in the class tree and Shadow Word: Death is no longer granted by default.
• Shadowfiend has been removed as a baseline spell, and is now only available as a proc from the talent Depth of Shadows.
• Psychic Scream, Desperate Prayer, and Fade have been moved into the Class Tree.

Spec Talent Changes:

• Many nodes have changed position in the tree.
• Mind Flay: Insanity procs are now only for Archon, and only proc after casting Halo.
• Devouring Plague renamed to Shadow Word. Madness. Mechanically still very similar.
• Shadow Crash reworked into Tentacle Slam.
• Dark Ascension has been removed.
• Void Eruption reworked into Voidform - Voidform has 2 additional talents, Improved Voidform and Ancient Madness.
• Void Bolt replaced by Void Volley. Void Volley has a 15s base cooldown (reduced by haste).
• Shadowfiend, Mindbender and Voidwraith are now all passive spells.

Hero Talent Changes:

• Halo is now the keystone for Archon (removed from Voidweaver).
• Void Torrent is now the keystone for Voidweaver (removed from Archon).