The current best in slot gear for Shadow Priests optimizing PvE DPS in WoW Shadowlands 9.1. Welcome to our World of Warcraft Shadowlands DPS Rankings updated for the latest Shadowlands Patch 9.1 and the newest Raid – Sanctum of Domination. We check this data very often and make sure that it is accurate and up to date.

Recommended Raiding Build

Single Target

• Last Word / Psychic Horror
• Mindbender / Void Torrent

Multi Target

• Misery / Twist of Fate
• Last Word / Psychic Horror
• Auspicious Spirits / Shadow Crash

Recommended Mythic+ Build

• Searing Nightmare / Misery
• Last Word / Psychic Horror
• Shadow Crash / Auspicious Spirits
• Ancient Madness / Hungering Void

Fortress of the Mind - The best for single target fights. More insanity generation, and more damage from Mind Blast and Mind Flay. Also synergizes well with the talent Psychic Link and the Talbadar's Stratagem Legendary.

Death and Madness - Can be good in Mythic plus when mobs in a pull dies at different times, and to load up on insanity before the next pack. The biggest downside is that it does substantial reflect damage, which can be dangerous. If your group is doing big pulls this can be a good pick because you basically want to Mind Sear -> Searing Nightmare and not cast Mind Blast or Vampiric Touch, making the other talents considerably less valuable. Death and Madness helps you finish off the remaining mobs after you’re done aoe’ing and will give you a full battery of Insanity for the next pull. Also has incredible synergy with Shadowflame Prism, since chain resetting Shadow Word: Death just gives you more Rifts from the Legendary.

Unfurling Darkness - While not having much value in PvE is the clear winner for PvP - after casting Vampiric Touch your next Vampiric Touch is instant and deals initial damage. Synergises well with both Misery and also Damnation.

Body and Soul - The best talent in this row. Giving us some much-needed mobility.

San’layn - Would be a great survivability talent if it wasn’t in the same row as our only reliable mobility spell.

Intangibility - Would be a great survivability talent if it wasn’t in the same row as our only reliable mobility spell.

Twist of Fate - The best talent for pure single target DPS.

Misery - The best talent in multi-dotting situations.

Searing Nightmare - The best talent for 3+ target AoE. Is picked for most dungeons. If it can hit 3 or more targets you completely stop casting Devouring Plague.

Last Word - You pick this if your group needs more interrupts.

Mind Bomb - Weak pick because it replaces Psychic Scream.

Psychic Horror - Instant single target stun. Very strong pick in both raids (if there are adds to use it on) and M+.

Auspicious Spirits - Best single target and low target cleave pick. Increases your Insanity generation and the damage from your spirits.

Psychic Link - Strong for spread cleave. Does nothing on single-target.

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Shadow Crash - Strong stacked cleave pick. Not far behind Auspicious Spirits on single target due to the high insanity generation and high damage.

Damnation - Can be nice for world content to quickly kill a target however, it has no real value in PvE content. It synergises well with Misery and Unfurling Darkness, since the application of Vampiric Touch through Damnation deals the initial damage.

Mindbender - In combination with the Shadowflame Prism legendary this is the strongest pick on single target and cleave.

Void Torrent - Strong single target pick if you do not have the Shadowflame Prism legendary.

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Ancient Madness - Can be useful in situations of big AoE where you want to remove void bolt from your rotation while in Void Form. Synergizes well with Searing Nightmare to burst down those big AoE packs in M+.

Hungering Void - The baseline choice for single target and multitarget cleave. You can extend your Void Form by a significant amount depending on your haste and crit. It also makes your void bolt increase your damage done to target for 6 seconds.

Surrender to Madness - This talent gives you a 25 second STM buff, increasing your insanity generation by 100%. It also activates your Void Form for 15 seconds. When the target you cast STM on dies you lose the STM buff but you don’t lose the Void Form buff.

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If you can utilizeSurrender to Madness perfectly, it can be strong in low dungeons, where the time between pulls are shorter than the cooldown of Voidform (less than a minute). Currently does not see play in most situations.