Shadow Priest

The below Stat Priority recommendations are designed to optimize DPS effectiveness for most character setups. While the most accurate stat priority comes from simulating your own character with proper settings, you can still use this stat priority to simplify decisions on gear choices and consumables.

Stat Priority

Intellect > Mastery > Critical Strike > Versatility > Haste

Stat Summaries

• Intellect increases the damage and healing done by your spells.
• Mastery provides a passive bonus to your character based on your specialization. Mastery Madness increases the damage done by most of your key abilities including Shadow Word Pain and Mind Blast.
• Critical Strike increase the chance for your spells and attacks to critically hit for additional damage and healing.
• Versatility increases your damage, healing, and absorption done and decreases damage received.
• Haste increases attack and spell casting speed, adds additional damage and healing to DoTs and HoTs, and reduces the GCD.

Stat Weights

• Intellect 11.6
• Spell Power 10.67
• Mastery 6.53
• Critical Strike 6.17
• Versatility 6.12
• Haste 5.36

PAWN String (AddOn)

( Pawn: v1: "noxxic-legacy-priest-shadow": Class=Priest, Spec=Shadow, MasteryRating=6.53, Versatility=6.12, CritRating=6.17, Intellect=11.6, HasteRating=5.36 )