Best In Slot Shadow Priest Shadowlands
Hello all, I’d like to share some macros. Some of them are longtime personal faves, others are ones I made with the unpruning and Shadowlands in mind, others you have likely seen before. I’ll explain the benefits of each where it may help. Please feel free to provide feedback on them or add your own, and please let me know if you see any errors! I’d like to add the disclaimer that some of these macros come from my personal quirks, and they may even seem weird, so please do not feel like I am suggesting you should adopt these necessarily; if you find value in them, great! If not, totally cool.
FYI - these macros will prioritize mouseovers, then targets, and then (if the spell is a beneficial spell and auto selfcast is enabled) yourself.
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First, Some Macros Combining “Similarly Situated” Abilities Across Specs
Does anyone else feel like their macro menu often gets very cluttered? I’m very much that way. Here are some macros that essentially do the same thing, or roughly the same thing, across multiple specs. This will also allow you to set up your action bars so that “V” (or whatever key you like) does roughly the same thing across specs.
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Group Heal
This macro will cast Vampiric Embrace when you are specced Shadow, Power Word: Radiance when specced Disc, and Prayer of Healing when specced Holy.
#showtooltip [spec:1] Power Word: Radiance; [spec:2] Prayer of Healing; [spec:3] Vampiric Embrace
/cast [@mouseover, help,nodead][]Prayer of Healing
/cast [@mouseover, help,nodead][]Power Word: Radiance
/cast [spec:3]Vampiric Embrace
Purify Disease if specced Shadow, Purify if specced Disc or Holy
#showtooltip [nospec:3]Purify; [spec:3] Purify Disease
/cast [@mouseover, help,nodead][]Purify Disease
/cast [@mouseover, help,nodead][]Purify
Defensive or Damage Reduction Cooldown
This macro will cast Dispersion if you are Shadow or will cancel dispersion if you are already dispersed. It will also cast Pain Suppression if you are Disc or Guardian Spirit if you are Holy, prioritizing mouseover>target>yourself.
#showtooltip [spec:1] Pain Suppression; [spec:2] Guardian Spirit; [spec:3] Dispersion
/cast [@mouseover, help,nodead,spec:1][]Pain Suppression
/cast [@mouseover, help,nodead,spec:2][]Guardian Spirit
/cancelaura Dispersion
/cast [spec:3]Dispersion
Void Eruption Stacked Cooldown Macro
This macro will simultaneously cast Power Infusion on yourself, use your DPS trinket (assuming it is in slot 13, the first trinket slot), and cast Void Eruption. This is all possible since Power Infusion is not on the GCD.
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#showtooltip Void Eruption
/cast Power Infusion
/use 13
/cast Void Eruption
Mindflay if Shadow, Smite if Disc or Holy
This uses your medium-damage, no-cooldown, short cast time ability depending on your spec.
#showtooltip [nospec:3] Smite; [spec:3] Mind Flay
/cast [@mouseover, nodead,nospec:2][]Smite
/cast [@mouseover, nodead,nospec:2][]Mind Flay
Mind Blast if Disc/Shadow, Holy Fire if Holy
#showtooltip [nospec:3] Smite; [spec:3] Mind Flay
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead[][nospec:3]Smite
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][][spec:3]Mind Flay
Damnation, Void Torrent, or Mindbender depending on your talent choice
#showtooltip [talent:6/1]Damnation; [talent:6/3]Void Torrent; [talent:6/2]Mindbender
/cast Damnation
/cast Void Torrent
/cast Mindbender
Short Instant Cast CD Throughput Ability
This is for each spec’s ~10 second instant cast cooldowns. This will cast Offensive Penance if you are Disc, Prayer of Mending if Holy, and Devouring Plague if Shadow.
#showtooltip [spec:1] Penance;[spec:2]Prayer of Mending;[spec:3]Devouring Plague
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][][spec:1]Penance
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][][spec:2]Prayer of Mending
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][][spec:3]Devouring Plague
Instant Cast AOE Ability
This will cast Shadow Covenant if specced Disc or Searing Nightmare if Shadow (depending on talents), and Circle of Healing if Holy.
#showtooltip [spec:1]Shadow Covenant;[spec:2]Circle of Healing;[spec:3]Searing Nightmare
/cast [@mouseover,nodead][][spec:3]Searing Nightmare
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][][spec:1]Shadow Covenant
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][][spec:2]Circle of Healing
AOE Talent - Shadow Crash, Halo, or Divine Star
This will cast the above abilities depending on your spec and talent choices. If specced into Shadow Crash, the macro will cast it at the cursor.
#showtooltip [spec:2,talent:6/3]Halo;[spec:2,talent:6/2]Divine Star;[spec:1,talent:6/3]Halo;[spec:1,talent:6/2]Divine Star;[spec:3,talent:5/3]Shadow Crash
/cast Divine Star
/cast Halo
/cast [@cursor] Shadow Crash
Single-Target Throughput Cooldown
Possibly the weirdest mashup here. Casts Serenity if Holy, or Shadowfiend/Mindbender if Disc/Shadow.
#showtooltip [spec:1][spec:3]Shadowfiend;[spec:2]Holy Word: Serenity
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][][spec:1][spec:3]Shadowfiend
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][][spec:2]Holy Word: Serenity
Cast Power Infusion on Yourself…Only
Because it’s our cooldown godd@#$(*,
#showtooltip Power Infusion
/cast [@player] Power Infusion
Some Fun Ones…
Create a Mirror Image of Yourself With Fade to Distract Newbies in PVP
95% of the time no one falls for this, but it’s fun when they do . This uses a toy that’s off the GCD to create a double of yourself when you fade.
#showtooltip Fade
/cast Highborne Soul Mirror
/cast Fade
Turn Dying Enemies to Stone with Shadow Word:Death
Just make this your default SW:D macro. Turn enemies - even raid bosses - to stone if you land the killing blow. Since SW:D will hit like an 18-wheeler in Shadowlands, you will be landing killing blows more often!
#showtooltip Shadow Word: Death
/use Kang’s Bindstone
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][]Shadow Word: Death
Cast Psychic Scream and Yell For Them To Flee!
An absolutely skillless macro that is nonetheless still fun to use.
/bye
/cast Psychic Scream
Oldies But Goodies
Cast Mass Dispel at Cursor
/cast [@cursor] Mass Dispel
Cast PW:Barrier at Cursor
#showtooltip Power Word: Barrier
/cast [@cursor] Power Word: Barrier
Cast Holy Word: Sanctify at Cursor
#showtooltip Holy Word: Sanctify
/cast [@cursor] Holy Word: Sanctify
Cast Angelic Feather on Yourself
/cast [@player] Angelic Feather
/stopspelltarget
Shadowlands Legendary powers grant impactful gameplay effects for your Holy Priest through the new Runecarving system. As your crafted Shadowlands legendary will be the most important piece of gear in the expansion, providing large performance benefits, it is crucial to pick the right legendary to craft and effectively spend your Soul Ash.
Holy Priest Trinket Rankings Shadowlands
In this guide, we will recommend the best legendary powers and item slots for your Holy Priest for Shadowlands content, as well as highlighting which legendaries are not worth crafting.
9.1 Holy Priest Legendary Changes
- Legendaries can be upgraded from 235 Rank 4 to Rank 6 262 now using Soul Cinders.
- There are 4 new legendaries, one for each covenant.
- VenthyrShadow Word: Manipulation: Do not craft. Crit bonus after casting Mindgames.
- NecrolordPallid Command: Summons a minion after using your covenant ability, not worth taking as a primary legendary.
- Night FaeBwonsamdi's Pact: The cooldown reduction provided by this legendary is very interesting, especially in more casual content where you can buff your friends to massive heights. Though in a progress environment Holy has a better alternative. Fun legendary to mess around with.
- KyrianSpheres' Harmony: The cooldown reduction provided by this legendary gives a strong damage bonus but not strong enough to take as your sole legendary. Do not craft.
Ideal Upgrade Order for Holy Priest Legendaries
Assuming you're not looking for a specific legendary for off-spec, we recommend the following crafting order:
| #1 | Recraft Flash Concentration in the Neck slot if you have not already. If you have, upgrade to R5/6 |
| #2 | Relax and enjoy |
| #3 | Craft/Upgrade alternative legendaries below as desired. |
Recrafting Legendaries for Holy Priest in 9.1
Shards of Domination is a new system for Sanctum of Domination gear that provides powerful customizable bonuses by slotting Shards of Domination into specific gear pieces from Sanctum of Domination. Unfortunately, you'll be unable to add Domination Sockets to Legendaries in Patch 9.1; therefore, you'll typically want to avoid equipping legendaries in slots that conflict with Domination Socketed items. This includes all Helms, Shoulders, Chests from Sanctum of Domination as well as two other item slots depending on your armor type:
- Cloth: Bracers & Belt
If your current legendary does conflict with a Domination Socketed item, you'll typically want to recraft that legendary to a different item slot. Additional item slot options have been added to most legendaries to accommodate these new requirements. For convenience, we've highlighted the most useful legendaries for Holy Priest that you'll likely want to recraft as well as the new recommended slot for that legendary in order to avoid conflicts with Domination Sockets:
| Legendary | New Best Slot |
| Flash Concentration | Neck |
Best Holy Priest Legendaries
What Legendaries to Craft As a Holy Priest
We listed the legendaries in terms of impact. The strongest and important legendaries are ranked first; legendaries not worth crafting are not mentioned at all (and there are many of them!).
Flash Concentration
- Available Slots: Neck, Wrist
- Crafting Preference: Neck
- Stat preference: Mastery/Crit
Very powerful with a decent maintenance requirement. Heal's throughput bonus makes the spell quite efficient in stabilizing your tank and other party or raid members in all content. Maintaining the stacks of the buff in dungeons can be a challenge and you are less mobile but it provides very efficient single target which comes in particular handy on higher level dungeons as well due to the mana efficiency that you receive, allowing you to sustain throughput for a long period of time.
In raids, this legendary works well and with the 9.0.5 buffs to duration it is substantially easier to maintain and get high value from. There are so many short cooldowns that you cycle through regularly so maintaining uptime is very important. Once you do however, you're well set positioned to provide top level spot healing to the raid.
There is tremendous synergy between this legendary and Resonant Words and Trail of Light.
Verdict: Requires maintenance with a high reward. #1 Legendary
Harmonious Apparatus
- Available Slots: Shoulder or Ring
- Crafting Preference: Ring
- Secondaries to use: Crit/Mastery
Simple and easy to work with. So long as you're properly using Circle of Healing and Prayer of Mending, you'll receive some good cooldown reduction over the course of raids or dungeons. Faster cooldown reduction on your Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify just means your healing becomes more efficient and you'll have greater mana efficiency early on in the expansion. This is key now that we have lost Essences and trinkets that regen tons of mana.
In 5 mans, this legendary is decent but rapidly loses value the higher that you go. The lower the damage is on the group the easier it is to just solely lean on Holy Word: Sanctify and Holy Word: Serenity to deal with the brunt of the incoming damage. However, as key damage increases, this legendary lacks the sustained output to heal higher level tank damage or Tyrannical bosses in an efficient manner.
Verdict: Simple legendary that is easy to operate but pales in comparison to Flash Conc.
X'anshi, Return of Archbishop Benedictus
- Available Slots: Legs or Back
- Crafting Preference: Legs
- Secondaries to use: Mastery/Crit
The return of the classic 'croak cloak' this is always a nice legendary to help you get familiar with encounters without the potential expense of costing your raid team a battle rez. The catch is that you don't gain much throughput with this legendary unless you force deaths to save yourself mana, but that also causes you to be rooted for a lengthy period of time where you can spam healing for no cost.
Verdict: Great when you're first learning encounters, but will get outperformed by pure throughput legendaries later on.
Best Holy Priest Legendary for Mythic+
Flash Concentration shines in Mythic+ keys for its high efficiency and powerful throughput. It takes time to properly manage but is absolutely worth it.Best Holy Priest Legendary for Raiding
Flash Concentration is your preferred craft for Raiding in Sanctum of Domination. With the increased duration and Fae buffs from 9.0.5 the spec pumps out powerful single target oriented throughput with ease.
Do Not Craft Legendaries for Holy Priest
...Everything else:
Class:- VenthyrShadow Word: Manipulation: Do not craft. Crit bonus after casting Mindgames.
- NecrolordPallid Command: Summons a minion after using your covenant ability, not worth taking as a primary legendary.
- Night FaeBwonsamdi's Pact: The cooldown reduction provided by this legendary is very interesting, especially in more casual content where you can buff your friends to massive heights. Though in a progress environment Holy has a better alternative. Fun legendary to mess around with.
- KyrianSpheres' Harmony: The cooldown reduction provided by this legendary gives a strong damage bonus but not strong enough to take as your sole legendary. Do not craft.
- Divine Image: Old artifact trait turned legendary. It generates moderate healing, but is often low impact and random.
Holy Priest Trinket Chart Shadowlands
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- Measured Contemplation: Buffs the healing of your Flash Heal like the Azerite essence Devout Spirit from BfA. Problem with this legendary is that there is such a long duration between each buffed Flash Heal that its nowhere near as consistent as the Azerite trait it was made from.
- Vault of Heavens: Causing Leap of Faith to have multiple charges and to be improving your mobility. Fun, but not strong enough to see competitive play.
- Cauterizing Shadows: Steadily nerfed over Beta. Too weak to see competitive play.
If you need help with the legendary system in Shadowlands, check out the following guides on Wowhead: