Gear
Season 4 Information
Tier Set
- (2) Set Bonus: Increases the chance for Shadowy Insight to trigger by 25%. When consuming Shadowy Insight, Mind Blast deals 40% increased damage and generates 4 additional Insanity.
- (4) Set Bonus: Devouring Plague damage increased by 18%. Every 4 casts of Devouring Plague increases the damage of Shadowy Apparitions conjured within the next 10 sec by 100%.
Shadow Priest Best in Slot Gear
As this is a very early guide for Season 4, some of the gear might change because of tuning. But this is a general list of gear you should strive towards.
You should still prioritize the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Shadow Priest, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.
The list below is meant to give you a goal, not the end all be all. You can tweak various pieces depending on your exact stats or setup. You should always sim yourself on various settings to determine if something is an upgrade rather than blindly following this list.
Overall Best Gear
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Mask of the Furnace Seraph (TIER) | Tindral Sageswift, Raszageth, Magmorax |
| Neck | Eye of the Rising Flame | Tindral Sageswift |
| Shoulders | Devotion of the Furnace Seraph (TIER) | Smolderon, Broodkeeper, Neltharion |
| Cloak | Voice of the Silent Star | Sarkareth |
| Chest | Vesture of the Smoldering Serpent | Volcoross |
| Wrist | Vibrant Wildercloth Wristwraps (BSL) or Allied Wristguards of Time Dilation (OPTION) | Crafted |
| Gloves | Grasp of the Furnace Seraph (TIER) | Igira the Cruel, Dathea, Forgotten Experiments |
| Belt | Blooming Redeemer's Sash | Fyrakk, the Blazing |
| Legs | Breeches of the Furnace Seraph (TIER) | Larodar, Sennarth, Rashok |
| Boots | Vibrant Wildercloth Slippers (BSL) | Crafted |
| Ring | Seal of Filial Duty | Broodkeeper |
| Ring | Seal of Diurna’s Chosen | Eranog |
| Trinket | Neltharion’s Call to Suffering | Neltharion |
| Trinket | Ominous Chromatic Essence | The Forgotten Experiments |
| Main Hand | Vakash, the Shadowed Inferno | Fyrakk, the Blazing |
| Off Hand | Scripture of Primal Devotion | Kurog Grimtotem |
Embellishments
- 2x Blue Silken Lining: For your personal DPS this will always be the best.
- Allied Wristguards of Time Dilation: Still decent for progress or pushing very high keys.
- Hood of Surging Time: Still very strong for M+, until you hit the absolute top, this will generally be better than 1x BSL in dungeons.
Trinkets
For Single Target:
- Vessel of Searing Shadows (This requires you to have Seal of Diurna’s Chosen)
- Nymue’s Unraveling Spindle (If the target is Immobilized)
- Neltharion’s Call to Suffering
- Ominous Chromatic Essence (All Allies)
- Spoils of Neltharus
- Umbrelskul’s Fractured Heart (If the fight has any form of adds it’s VERY good)
For Dungeons:
- Tome of Unstable Power
- Ominous Chromatic Essence (All Allies)
- Neltharion’s Call to Suffering
- Whispering Incarnate Icon (even if no one else has it)
- Spoils of Neltharus
Note: Vessel of Searing Shadows requires you to have Seal of Diurna’s Chosen to be a top tier choice for ST. Since it deals fire damage, it can proc the ring, and will almost triple the damage the ring does on ST (even if you already have Vakash and the Incandescent Essence Head Enchant)
There's not really any set combination of trinkets that will ALWAYS be bis since a lot of them are very close in value.
Chromatic Essence and Icon has the drawback of needing other people in the raid/group to also have the trinket for you gain max value, but even with just a few they are still up there.
Spoils is the only stat on-use trinket that will compete, so will be very good if you need on demand burst damage.
Tome of Unstable Power and Umbrelskul’s Fractured Heart were both reworked and look to be very solid options both for M+ and Raid fights with adds.