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Shadow Priest Raid Rotation

The most popular Shadow Priest Rotation in WoW - TWW. Data-driven builds updated daily for Nexus-King Salhadaar in The War Within 11.2.5. Disclaimers & FAQ

Last updated: 10 hours agoTotal Parses: 13Based on a small sample of top rankings from the last 14 days.

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Throughput

Below is an average breakdown of a small sample of top Shadow Priest rankings for Nexus-King Salhadaar. You can use this to compare to your own cast counts and uptime to find potential points of improvement. Note that the top logs on some encounters may be skewed towards unnecessary padding that you might not want to emulate.

Damage Breakdown

This table shows damage against all targets in the encounter. The top 3 damage abilities are

Mind Flay: Insanity,

Psychic Link, and

Shadow Word: Madness. The ability that does the most damage per cast is

Vampiric Touch, at 55.9M per cast.

Name			Casts	CPM	Avg Cast	Hits	Avg Hit	Crit	Uptime	DPS
Mind Flay: Insanity	23.28%	646.88M	57.8	10.9	11.19M	225	2.88M	37.3%	19.27%	2.04M
Psychic Link	11.74%	326.21M	-	-	-	496	658.7K	-	-	1.03M
Shadow Word: Madness	11.64%	323.51M	65.8	12.5	2.06M (2.86M)	67.5 (138)	2.01M (1.36M)	28.4% (31.3%)	88.26%	1.02M
Shadowy Apparition	9.26%	257.35M	-	-	-	473.6	543.4K	29.2%	-	811.7K
Halo	5.78%	160.68M	5.3	1.0	30.32M	73.4	2.19M	29.3%	-	506.8K
Thing from Beyond	5.40%	150.07M	-	-	-	253.9	591.1K	30.6%	-	473.4K
Void Bolt	4.69%	130.27M	40.9	7.7	3.19M	42.1	3.09M	27.1%	-	410.9K
Mind Blast	4.04%	112.19M	38.6	7.3	2.91M	39.1	2.87M	41.2%	-	353.9K
Idol of C'Thun	3.80%	105.68M	-	-	-	135.5 (321.4)	116.5K (279.7K)	26.5% (29.8%)	83.70%	333.3K
Idol of N'Zoth	3.59%	99.81M	-	-	-	36.1	2.76M	27.4%	-	314.8K
Ethereal Energy	3.33%	92.57M	-	-	-	45.2	2.05M	28.1%	-	292.0K
Void Volley	3.10%	86.02M	9.7	1.8	8.87M	106.2	810.0K	30.9%	-	271.3K
Vampiric Touch	2.21%	61.40M	1.1	0.2	55.86M	282.9	217.2K	29.3%	97.80%	193.7K
Shadow Word: Pain	1.98%	55.10M	-	-	-	426	129.3K	28.9%	97.80%	173.8K
Void Torrent	1.52%	42.31M	10	1.9	4.23M	27.1	1.56M	28.0%	4.96%	133.5K
Shadow Crash	1.31%	36.44M	9.7	1.8	3.76M	24.7	1.48M	23.5%	-	114.9K
Shards of the Void	1.25%	34.66M	-	-	-	18.1	1.92M	26.0%	-	109.3K
Mindbender	0.56%	15.49M	5.2	1.0	2.98M	96.8	160.0K	32.2%	-	48.9K
Shadow Weaving	0.46%	12.88M	-	-	-	99.4	129.6K	-	-	40.6K
Mind Flay	0.39%	10.96M	9.5	1.8	1.15M	19.9	550.9K	39.2%	4.06%	34.6K
Shadow Word: Death	0.32%	8.91M	3.8	0.7	2.34M	3.8	2.34M	34.2%	-	28.1K
Shadow Crash	0.16%	4.45M	1.1	0.2	4.05M	2.6	1.71M	42.3%	-	14.0K
Voidform	0.15%	4.07M	3	0.6	1.36M	8.4	484.5K	34.5%	-	12.8K
Suffocating Darkness	0.04%	1.03M	-	-	-	10.2	101.3K	-	6.28%	3.3K
Melee	0.00%	2.8K	0.6	0.1	4.7K	0.6	4.7K	16.7%	-	9.0
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Total	100.00%	2.78B								8.77M

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Damage to Bosses

This table only shows the damage breakdown against boss targets. On average, 2.2B total damage was done to bosses.

Name			Casts	CPM	Avg Cast	Hits	Avg Hit	Crit	Uptime	DPS
Mind Flay: Insanity	26.40%	578.19M	51.1	9.7	11.31M	193.7	2.98M	37.9%	16.34%	1.82M
Shadow Word: Madness	13.46%	294.73M	58.3	11.0	2.08M (2.97M)	58.3 (121.9)	2.08M (1.42M)	28.8% (31.1%)	76.48%	929.6K
Shadowy Apparition	9.17%	200.81M	-	-	-	309.1	649.7K	29.3%	-	633.4K
Thing from Beyond	5.92%	129.61M	-	-	-	173.1	748.8K	31.4%	-	408.8K
Void Bolt	5.19%	113.60M	34.9	6.6	3.26M	34.8	3.26M	28.4%	-	358.3K
Halo	5.17%	113.31M	5.3	1.0	21.38M	45.8	2.47M	31.0%	-	357.4K
Psychic Link	5.13%	112.35M	-	-	-	196.3	572.3K	-	-	354.4K
Mind Blast	4.82%	105.46M	36.3	6.9	2.91M	36.3	2.91M	42.1%	-	332.6K
Idol of N'Zoth	4.13%	90.50M	-	-	-	31.7	2.85M	27.4%	-	285.5K
Idol of C'Thun	3.99%	87.36M	-	-	-	2 (310.2)	103.8K (281.0K)	20.0% (30.0%)	74.07%	275.5K
Ethereal Energy	3.37%	73.87M	-	-	-	29	2.55M	27.9%	-	233.0K
Void Volley	3.32%	72.62M	9.7	1.8	7.49M	88.6	819.7K	29.7%	-	229.1K
Vampiric Touch	1.94%	42.51M	0.7	0.1	60.73M	197.8	214.9K	30.3%	95.34%	134.1K
Void Torrent	1.77%	38.82M	9.1	1.7	4.27M	24.4	1.59M	29.9%	4.48%	122.4K
Shadow Word: Pain	1.72%	37.78M	-	-	-	296.9	127.2K	29.2%	95.34%	119.2K
Shards of the Void	1.46%	31.96M	-	-	-	16.6	1.93M	25.9%	-	100.8K
Shadow Crash	0.70%	15.30M	9.7	1.8	1.58M	12	1.27M	21.7%	-	48.3K
Mindbender	0.65%	14.16M	4.4	0.8	3.22M	85.3	166.1K	32.6%	-	44.7K
Shadow Weaving	0.53%	11.56M	-	-	-	85	136.0K	-	-	36.5K
Mind Flay	0.49%	10.69M	9.3	1.8	1.15M	19.5	548.4K	39.0%	3.97%	33.7K
Shadow Word: Death	0.37%	8.01M	3.5	0.7	2.29M	3.5	2.29M	34.3%	-	25.3K
Voidform	0.19%	4.07M	3	0.6	1.36M	8.4	484.5K	34.5%	-	12.8K
Shadow Crash	0.09%	1.90M	0.9	0.2	2.11M	1.4	1.36M	28.6%	-	6.0K
Suffocating Darkness	0.04%	964.7K	-	-	-	9.5	101.6K	-	5.82%	3.0K
Melee	0.00%	2.8K	0.6	0.1	4.7K	0.6	4.7K	16.7%	-	9.0
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Total	100.00%	2.19B								6.91M

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Damage to Adds

This table only shows the damage breakdown against non-boss targets. On average, 586.8M total damage was done to non-bosses.

Name			Casts	CPM	Avg Cast	Hits	Avg Hit	Crit	Uptime	DPS
Psychic Link	36.44%	213.86M	-	-	-	299.7	715.3K	-	-	674.5K
Mind Flay: Insanity	11.71%	68.70M	6.7	1.3	10.25M	31.3	2.19M	33.5%	2.93%	216.7K
Shadowy Apparition	9.63%	56.54M	-	-	-	164.5	343.8K	29.0%	-	178.3K
Halo	7.77%	45.60M	5.3	1.0	8.60M	26.4	1.73M	26.5%	-	143.8K
Shadow Word: Madness	4.90%	28.77M	7.5	1.4	1.86M (1.98M)	9.2 (16.1)	1.52M (920.7K)	26.1% (32.9%)	11.79%	90.8K
Shadow Crash	3.60%	21.14M	9.7	1.8	2.18M	12.7	1.66M	25.2%	-	66.7K
Thing from Beyond	3.48%	20.40M	-	-	-	80	255.1K	29.0%	-	64.4K
Vampiric Touch	3.22%	18.89M	0.4	0.1	47.33M	85.1	222.5K	26.9%	12.64%	59.6K
Ethereal Energy	3.16%	18.54M	-	-	-	16	1.17M	28.7%	-	58.5K
Idol of C'Thun	3.12%	18.33M	-	-	-	133.5 (11.2)	116.7K (245.2K)	26.6% (25.9%)	9.65%	57.8K
Shadow Word: Pain	2.95%	17.32M	-	-	-	129.1	134.2K	28.3%	12.64%	54.6K
Void Bolt	2.84%	16.67M	6	1.1	2.78M	7.3	2.28M	20.5%	-	52.6K
Void Volley	2.28%	13.40M	9.7	1.8	1.38M	17.6	761.3K	36.9%	-	42.3K
Idol of N'Zoth	1.59%	9.31M	-	-	-	4.4	2.11M	27.3%	-	29.4K
Mind Blast	1.15%	6.73M	2.3	0.4	2.93M	2.8	2.41M	28.6%	-	21.2K
Void Torrent	0.60%	3.50M	0.9	0.2	3.88M	2.7	1.29M	11.1%	0.48%	11.0K
Shards of the Void	0.46%	2.70M	-	-	-	1.5	1.80M	26.7%	-	8.5K
Shadow Crash	0.43%	2.55M	0.2	0.0	12.76M	1.2	2.13M	58.3%	-	8.1K
Mindbender	0.23%	1.32M	0.8	0.2	1.65M	11.5	115.1K	29.6%	-	4.2K
Shadow Weaving	0.23%	1.32M	-	-	-	14.4	91.8K	-	-	4.2K
Shadow Word: Death	0.15%	901.2K	0.3	0.1	3.00M	0.3	3.00M	33.3%	-	2.8K
Mind Flay	0.05%	268.8K	0.2	0.0	1.34M	0.4	672.1K	50.0%	0.09%	847.9
Suffocating Darkness	0.01%	68.2K	-	-	-	0.7	97.4K	-	0.46%	215.0
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Total	100.00%	586.84M								1.85M

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Damage Done during Dark Ascension

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Damage Done to Platform Adds

Kill these adds as soon as possible. The Manaforge Titan will Self-Destruct and kill everyone on the platform if it reaches 100 energy. The top 3 damage abilities are

Psychic Link,

Mind Flay: Insanity, and

Shadowy Apparition. The ability that does the most damage per cast is

Vampiric Touch, at 42.6M per cast.

Name			Casts	CPM	Avg Cast	Hits	Avg Hit	Crit	Uptime	DPS
Psychic Link	37.32%	188.21M	-	-	-	267.2	705.3K	-	-	593.7K
Mind Flay: Insanity	10.57%	53.29M	5	0.9	10.66M	23.9	2.23M	35.6%	2.24%	168.1K
Shadowy Apparition	9.59%	48.38M	-	-	-	147.9	327.1K	29.1%	-	152.6K
Halo	6.70%	33.80M	0.8	0.2	42.25M	19.6	1.72M	27.0%	-	106.6K
Shadow Word: Madness	4.57%	23.06M	6.5	1.2	1.74M (1.80M)	8 (16.8)	1.42M (697.9K)	27.5% (31.5%)	11.71%	72.7K
Shadow Crash	4.19%	21.14M	2	0.4	10.57M	12.7	1.66M	25.2%	-	66.7K
Thing from Beyond	3.60%	18.16M	-	-	-	75.8	239.6K	28.5%	-	57.3K
Ethereal Energy	3.42%	17.24M	-	-	-	15.4	1.12M	27.9%	-	54.4K
Vampiric Touch	3.38%	17.02M	0.4	0.1	42.56M	101.4	167.9K	28.2%	12.85%	53.7K
Idol of C'Thun	3.11%	15.69M	-	-	-	113.3 (14.1)	115.9K (181.4K)	26.5% (30.5%)	9.73%	49.5K
Shadow Word: Pain	3.07%	15.48M	-	-	-	154.2	100.4K	26.9%	12.85%	48.8K
Void Bolt	2.95%	14.88M	5.6	1.1	2.66M	6.9	2.16M	20.3%	-	46.9K
Void Volley	2.61%	13.18M	1	0.2	13.18M	18.3	720.5K	35.5%	-	41.6K
Idol of N'Zoth	1.54%	7.78M	-	-	-	4	1.94M	27.5%	-	24.5K
Mind Blast	1.26%	6.37M	2.3	0.4	2.77M	2.7	2.36M	33.3%	-	20.1K
Void Torrent	0.63%	3.16M	0.9	0.2	3.51M	2.7	1.17M	11.1%	0.48%	10.0K
Shadow Crash	0.51%	2.55M	0.2	0.0	12.76M	1.2	2.13M	58.3%	-	8.1K
Shards of the Void	0.49%	2.47M	-	-	-	1.4	1.77M	21.4%	-	7.8K
Shadow Weaving	0.20%	1.03M	-	-	-	11.1	93.0K	-	-	3.3K
Mindbender	0.19%	971.4K	0.8	0.2	1.21M	8.3	117.0K	31.3%	-	3.1K
Mind Flay	0.05%	268.8K	0.2	0.0	1.34M	0.4	672.1K	50.0%	0.09%	847.9
Shadow Word: Death	0.03%	171.7K	0.2	0.0	858.6K	0.2	858.6K	-	-	541.6
Suffocating Darkness	0.01%	68.4K	-	-	-	0.9	76.0K	-	0.54%	215.8
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Total	100.00%	504.39M								1.59M

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Damage Done During King's Hunger

Deal as much damage as possible to the Dragon during this damage amp. The top 3 damage abilities are

Mind Flay: Insanity,

Shadow Word: Madness, and

Shadowy Apparition. The ability that does the most damage per cast is

Vampiric Touch, at 9.4M per cast.

Name			Casts	CPM	Avg Cast	Hits	Avg Hit	Crit	Uptime	DPS
Mind Flay: Insanity	31.78%	199.34M	57.8	10.9	3.45M	33.4	5.97M	36.8%	19.27%	628.8K
Shadow Word: Madness	16.73%	104.93M	65.8	12.5	589.5K (1.01M)	8.2 (16.7)	4.73M (3.96M)	37.8% (34.7%)	88.26%	331.0K
Shadowy Apparition	8.96%	56.21M	-	-	-	33.1	1.70M	28.7%	-	177.3K
Thing from Beyond	7.48%	46.91M	-	-	-	25.9	1.81M	37.5%	-	148.0K
Void Bolt	5.75%	36.06M	40.9	7.7	881.7K	6.3	5.72M	19.0%	-	113.7K
Halo	5.48%	34.35M	5.3	1.0	6.48M	7.6	4.52M	32.9%	-	108.4K
Idol of N'Zoth	4.79%	30.04M	-	-	-	4.8	6.26M	25.0%	-	94.7K
Idol of C'Thun	3.61%	22.62M	-	-	-	36.6	618.2K	33.6%	83.70%	71.4K
Mind Blast	3.08%	19.32M	38.6	7.3	500.5K	2.8	6.90M	57.1%	-	60.9K
Void Volley	2.32%	14.57M	8	1.5	1.82M	8	1.82M	36.3%	-	46.0K
Ethereal Energy	2.24%	14.05M	-	-	-	2.2	6.38M	50.0%	-	44.3K
Vampiric Touch	1.65%	10.37M	1.1	0.2	9.43M	17.3	599.7K	34.7%	97.80%	32.7K
Shadow Word: Pain	1.47%	9.22M	-	-	-	26.2	352.1K	32.8%	97.80%	29.1K
Void Torrent	1.15%	7.21M	9.2	1.7	783.4K	2.1	3.43M	33.3%	4.61%	22.7K
Shards of the Void	1.04%	6.52M	-	-	-	1.8	3.62M	16.7%	-	20.6K
Mindbender	0.80%	5.00M	4.6	0.9	1.09M	16.3	306.8K	35.0%	-	15.8K
Shadow Weaving	0.67%	4.22M	-	-	-	16.3	259.0K	-	-	13.3K
Shadow Word: Death	0.43%	2.70M	2.1	0.4	1.29M	0.5	5.41M	60.0%	-	8.5K
Mind Flay	0.28%	1.78M	3.8	0.7	468.5K	1.7	1.05M	29.4%	1.60%	5.6K
Voidform	0.17%	1.06M	1.8	0.3	587.7K	1.2	881.5K	25.0%	-	3.3K
Suffocating Darkness	0.07%	413.0K	-	-	-	1.5	275.3K	-	6.28%	1.3K
Shadow Crash	0.04%	265.8K	0.8	0.2	332.2K	0.1	2.66M	-	-	838.2
Psychic Link	0.00%	9.2K	-	-	-	0.5	18.3K	-	-	28.9
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Total	100.00%	627.19M								1.98M

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Damage Done During Phase 3

The top 3 damage abilities are

Mind Flay: Insanity,

Shadow Word: Madness, and

Shadowy Apparition. The ability that does the most damage per cast is

Halo, at 15.3M per cast.

Name			Casts	CPM	Avg Cast	Hits	Avg Hit	Crit	Uptime	DPS
Mind Flay: Insanity	27.53%	59.35M	6.1	1.2	9.73M	23.1	2.57M	40.3%	2.04%	187.2K
Shadow Word: Madness	12.03%	25.94M	7.3	1.4	1.68M (1.88M)	7.3 (14.4)	1.68M (952.2K)	30.1% (25.0%)	9.78%	81.8K
Shadowy Apparition	9.17%	19.76M	-	-	-	28.5	693.8K	27.0%	-	62.3K
Thing from Beyond	8.06%	17.37M	-	-	-	21.9	793.3K	32.4%	-	54.8K
Void Bolt	7.63%	16.45M	6.4	1.2	2.57M	6.3	2.61M	30.2%	-	51.9K
Mind Blast	4.93%	10.63M	3.8	0.7	2.80M	3.8	2.80M	39.5%	-	33.5K
Ethereal Energy	4.67%	10.07M	-	-	-	3	3.36M	33.3%	-	31.8K
Idol of N'Zoth	4.44%	9.57M	-	-	-	3.9	2.46M	28.2%	-	30.2K
Idol of C'Thun	4.16%	8.96M	-	-	-	35.6	251.8K	23.3%	8.37%	28.3K
Void Volley	3.98%	8.58M	1.1	0.2	7.80M	11	780.2K	30.0%	-	27.1K
Halo	3.54%	7.63M	0.5	0.1	15.26M	3.8	2.01M	23.7%	-	24.1K
Shadow Word: Death	1.91%	4.12M	1.7	0.3	2.42M	1.7	2.42M	23.5%	-	13.0K
Vampiric Touch	1.72%	3.70M	0.3	0.1	12.33M	14.5	255.0K	32.4%	8.17%	11.7K
Shards of the Void	1.68%	3.63M	-	-	-	1.8	2.02M	27.8%	-	11.4K
Void Torrent	1.58%	3.40M	1	0.2	3.40M	1.9	1.79M	36.8%	0.29%	10.7K
Shadow Word: Pain	1.52%	3.27M	-	-	-	22.1	147.8K	28.5%	8.17%	10.3K
Shadow Crash	0.51%	1.11M	0.6	0.1	1.85M	0.5	2.22M	40.0%	-	3.5K
Mindbender	0.41%	886.2K	0.4	0.1	2.22M	7	126.6K	25.7%	-	2.8K
Shadow Weaving	0.34%	741.9K	-	-	-	7	106.0K	-	-	2.3K
Mind Flay	0.10%	213.1K	0.2	0.0	1.07M	0.4	532.7K	25.0%	0.07%	672.1
Shadow Crash	0.06%	128.4K	0.1	0.0	1.28M	0.1	1.28M	-	-	405.1
Suffocating Darkness	0.03%	60.7K	-	-	-	0.9	67.4K	-	0.57%	191.5
Melee	0.00%	921.7	0.2	0.0	4.6K	0.2	4.6K	-	-	2.9
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Total	100.00%	215.58M								680.0K

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Rankings Sample

The data on this page was generated using the following sample of recent top rankings that match your selection.

Name	Date	Duration	DPS
Summerhill	Jan 11	5:52	14,544,614
Darkapøstle	Jan 6	6:02	8,619,117
Santinax	Jan 3	6:31	8,539,308

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