Shadow Priest Midnight 12.1 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 12.1 Changes for Shadow Priest

You can find all changes to 12.1 over at the official Patch Notes

Developers notes: For Shadow in Curses of Ula’tek, we’re intending to improve Voidform gameplay and are adding an additional source of multi-target damage to reduce the spec’s reliance on Psychic Link in AoE situations. For Voidform, were updating Void Volley to be a limited use ability that can be used a set number of times during Voidform which leaves more room in the rotation while giving you the chance to use it at its most opportune moment. We’ve also updated Voidform support talents to have more noticeable effects to align with our goals.

New Talent: Shadeburst – Shadowy Apparitions that float towards your primary target explode, dealing Shadow damage to all enemies within 8 yards. Damage reduced beyond 5 targets.

Improved Voidform has been redesigned – Voidform increases your spell damage by an additional 5% and grants 2 additional uses of Void Volley.

Ancient Madness has been redesigned – Shadow Word: Madness increases your Haste during Voidform by 2% and increases its duration by 1.5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. When Voidform ends, the Haste lingers and decays over 10 seconds.

All ability damage done increased by 8%.

Void Volley damage reduced by 10%.

Voidform now grants 3 uses of Void Volley instead of Void Volley having a cooldown during Voidform.

Idol Of N'zoth now generates 2 Insanity (was 4) at 50 stacks and 6 Insanity (was 12) at 100 stacks.

Archon:

Focused Outburst has been redesigned - Void Volley deals 5% increased damage and Shadow Word: Madness casts during Voidform unleash a Void Volley at your target at 25% effectiveness.

Resonant Energy has been slightly redesigned - Creating a Halo increases your spell damage by 2% for 10 seconds, stacking up to 4 times.