This can be used either to help peel for your team or to lock down healers while your teammate finishes off a low-health enemy. Mind Control - Mind Control is a spammable crowd control that lets you gain control of the enemy, allowing you to move their character (without access to their abilities).Silence - This ability is a 45 second cooldown five second silence that can be used on enemy healers to help assisting in landing kills on DPS.It's best used on enemy healers to score kills, however it can be used on DPS to either peel or allow you to get casts off. Psychic Scream - Now a one minute cooldown, six second long fear, causing your enemy to flee.Alternatively, you could wait for the enemy healer to use their dispel. This means you should look to either use Mind Bomb after your Silence or a teammate's crowd control. Mind Bomb - Picture Mind Bomb as a fear from range after 2 seconds it will detonate and can be dispelled.Psychic Horror - This is a 45 second cooldown, five second long stun that can be used either as a way to set up kills on a DPS, or even as a way to easily secure your Psychic Scream onto the enemy healer.This then allows you to cast the stolen spell for 20 seconds whilst removing your opponent's ability to utilise that spell simultaneously. Thoughtsteal - Thoughtsteal is a powerful PvP talent added with Shadowlands, allowing you to steal Polymorph or Fear along with a few other abilities.In Battle for Azeroth, Shadow Priests gained access to a little more crowd control with the re-introduction of Psychic Horror, meaning we have a very strong crowd control chain every minute. It gives you the ability to grip your healer away from crowd control such as a Priest trying to Psychic Scream them, as well as giving you the ability to grip teammates away from melee or even as a tool to help assist your team in landing crowd control. Leap of Faith - This ability is a multi-purpose tool which has more uses than you could imagine.This is great when used in conjunction with Voidform to give either you or your team some added healing. Vampiric Embrace - Vampiric Embrace provides some small healing based on any single-target damage you deal.Power Word: Shield - This is a small absorb you can give to either yourself or a teammate, with the added bonus of a small movement speed via Body and Soul.It's a great tool to either save yourself or a teammate from certain death. Void Shift - This allows you to swap health with anybody on your team.Mass Dispel - Mass Dispel has two uses its first being a great way to get your healer out of important magical crowd control such as Polymorph or Fear, and its second use is to remove immunities from enemies such as Divine Shield and Ice Block.Let’s first cover what utility we have and how we should use it.
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Learning how to effectively use the crowd control and utility at your disposal is a vital part of mastery Shadow Priest PvP. Note: Shadow Word: Pain will automatically apply when you cast Vampiric Touch if you are running Misery.Įffective Strategies for Shadow Priests in PvP Power Infusion should be used when you're looking to burst a target, best combined with Voidform,.Shadowfiend/ Mindbender should be used once inside Voidform as it benefits from the damage you gain.This change allows you to easily incorporate Dispel Magic into your rotation thanks to Hallucinations, without having to worry about your mana. After the nerfs to the mana cost of Dispel Magic, you should be heavily prioritising dispelling over doing damage a lot of the time - especially against Restoration Druids and Mistweaver Monks.Out of Void Form your rotation is as follows: Inside of the Arena, your main priority is to get your DoTs up and then build enough Insanity to cast Devouring Plague. You can catch him either on his Stream or on Discord if you have any questions or inquiries. He has been playing at the highest level for multiple seasons in all aspects of Player vs Player content, being the highest rated Shadow Priest in the world in 2v2 and Rated Battlegrounds for the entirety of Legion. Xot is a eight time Rrated, tournament-competing Shadow Priest. Although PvP isn't necessarily rotation-based, it is useful to know how to output as much damage as you can (when it is possible to do so). We also cover ideal rotations for Shadow Priests in PvP. Strategy is crucial for winning arenas, so knowing how to use your abilities will prove useful. Welcome to Wowhead's Shadow Priest Arena PvP Guide, up to date for 9.2! In this section of the guide, we cover effective strategies for Shadow Priests in PvP including how to effectively use crowd control and utility, and the author's top five tips for the specialization.