A Quick Guide to Shadow Priest for 5.4

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First off, stat priority is int-spirit (until hit cap)- haste-crit and then mastery. Haste does have certainbreak points where you get extra ticks off your dots, but even after these breakpoints its still your best stat. Treat crit and matery as if they're the same thing unless you have Unerring Vision of Lei Shen trinket, then mastery is better than crit.

As for talents, they change very often depending on the fight.

For the best single target low movement fight, take Insanity, twist of fate and Halo.

For add heavy fights take Insanity, Twist of fate, and Halo

For multi dot fights, take Insanity, Divine insight and halo.
Altenativley you can take From darkness comes light in place of Insanity because it does scale quite well with the more targets you dot up, but insanity is such a strong burst talent that its rarely ever worth speccing out of and is king for almost any fight.

Now for very movement heavy fights where you know for a fact you can't use the full benifits of insanity, take From darkness comes light, Divine insight and cascade. Show preist have absolutly terrible movement dps and hoping for random instant cast procs is really the only thing you can do on the move besides spamming shadow word pain for that small upfront damage it does.
for the rotaion, For opening up you want to use Mind blast, Halo, Shadow word pain, Vampirac touch, and then shadowfiend.

After the opening you don't really have a set rotation but a set of priorities to follow. Priority number is to use Devouering plague at 3 stacks of shadow orbs. Then, if you took insanity, ignore everything else and cast mindflay. Do not refresh your dots during insanity, its ok to let them fall off, although you should plan ahead so that they do not. Also make sure to re-cast mindflay one last time before Devouring plauge falls off because it will stay as an instanity mindflay even if DP falls off.

Second, mind blast on cooldown.

3rd, shadow word death times times two. It use to be that you only needed to use the first one that gave a shadow orb, but in the recent patch they buffed its damage so you can go ahead and use both of them back to back again.

Next keep Shadow word pain and Vampiric touch up. Shadow word pain is more important because it procs the appiritions while VT only procs them with a certain set bonus.

Last you use halo or cascade. depending on which one you took.

Then mindflay when you have nothing else to do.

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