Shadow Priest endgame PvE build (20/0/31)

How to play it

• Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, Mind Blast on cooldown, Mind Flay filler (Improved Mind Flay makes each tick stronger), Shadow Word: Death under 20%.
• Dark Inspiration gives your party Spirit after Mind Blast and full Mind Flay channels; Vampiric Embrace heals the group.

Talents taken

Discipline (20)

• Twin Disciplines 5/5: Increases the damage and healing of your instant cast spells by 5%.
• Silent Resolve 3/3: Reduces the threat generated by your spells by 30% and reduces the duration of Stun, Fear, and Silence effects inflicted on you by 15%.
• Mental Strength 5/5: Increases your total Intellect by 10%.
• Mental Agility 3/3: Reduces the mana cost of your Smite, Holy Fire, and instant cast spells by 10%.
• Inner Focus 1/1: When activated, reduces the Mana cost of your next spell by 100% and increases its critical effect chance by 25% if it is a non-periodic spell and capable of a critical effect.
• Meditation 3/3: Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.

Shadow (31)

• Shadow Focus 5/5: Improves your chance to hit with Shadow spells by 5%.
• Spirit Tap 5/5: Gives you a 100% chance to increase your Spirit by 100% for 15 sec after killing a non-trivial target or when an enemy afflicted by your Vampiric Embrace dies. For the duration, 50% of your Mana regeneration will continue while casting.
• Improved Mind Blast 5/5: Reduces the cooldown of your Mind Blast spell by 2.5 sec.
• Improved Shadow Word: Pain 2/2: Increases the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain spell by 6 sec.
• Mind Flay 1/1: Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 63 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%.
• Improved Mind Flay 2/2: Each instance of damage of Mind Flay deals 20% more damage than its previous instance of damage.
• Dark Inspiration 1/5: Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party's Spirit by 3% for 10 sec.
• Vampiric Embrace 1/1: Afflicts your target with Shadow energy that causes all party members to be healed for 20% of any Shadow spell damage you deal for 30 sec.
• Shadow Weaving 3/3: Your Shadow damage spells have a 100% chance to increase the Shadow damage the target takes from you by 2% for 15 sec, stacking up to 5 times.
• Darkness 5/5: Increases your Shadow damage done by 10%.
• Shadowform 1/1: Assume Shadowform, increasing your Shadow damage by 10%, reducing the Mana cost of all Shadow spells by 50%, increasing the critical strike damage bonus of your Shadow spells by 100%, and reducing Physical damage taken by you by 15%. However, you may not cast healing spells while in this form.

Point order by level

First point at level 10 (set the Talented perk in the calculator if you start earlier).