Thaaner's Shadow Priest PvE Build
Thaaner (Tarren Mill EU) is a top Mythic+ Shadow Priest in World of Warcraft Dragonflight Season 3, achieving a rating of 3932 with 488 ilvl equipment.
Here is the breakdown of her 11.0 PvE character build, featuring stats, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems. Use this as a reference to enhance and inspire your own Shadow Priest build.
Stat Priority
Stats are crucial attributes that influence a character's power in World of Warcraft. They determine the character's strength and overall playstyle. Stat bonuses can be found on various equipment pieces, consumables created by Alchemy, certain foods, some enchantments, and gems.
Each stat experiences diminishing returns once its equipped bonus reaches +20%. Optimizing a character's performance involves finding a balanced distribution. Here is how Thaaner's Secondary and Minor stats are distributed:
Secondary Stats
- Mastery
- Haste
- Versatility
- Critical Strike
Minor Stats
- Avoidance
- Leech
- Speed
Class Talents
Talents are the main element defining a character's build, significantly influencing playstyle by adding, modifying, and enhancing abilities and behaviors. They are crucial in shaping how a character functions in battle.
Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Priest specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Priest class. They offer a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Priest's overall capabilities.
Specialization Talents
Specialization talents provide Shadow Priests with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style.
Hero Talents
Hero talents allow deeper customization of the Shadow Priest class fantasy, enhancing character builds.
PvP Talents
PvP talents are tailored for player-versus-player combat scenarios. Activated in arenas, battlegrounds, and the open world with war mode enabled, these talents optimize a Shadow Priest's performance in PvP encounters. They provide specialized enhancements that give players an edge in combat against other players, reflecting the unique demands of PvP gameplay.
Gear
Gear consists of items that directly determine a character's power level. It can be acquired from various sources: dungeons, raids, world drops, crafted through professions, obtained from PvP vendors, or chosen as rewards from the Great Vault.
Each piece of gear significantly boosts a character's overall strength and capabilities. Here is Thaaner's gear for each equipment slot:
Neck
Shoulders
Feet
Ring 1
Ring 2
Trinket 1
Trinket 2
Main Hand
Off Hand
Embellishments
Embellishments are unique effects associated with crafted items, either as predefined elements in a recipe or added with an optional embellishment reagent, creating embellished gear. These enhancements diversify and amplify characters' capabilities.
Given that only a maximum of two embellished items can be equipped at a time, here are Thaaner's embellishments:
Enchantments
Enchantments provide minor yet valuable enhancements to various items, including Head, Back, Chest, Wrist, Waist, Legs, Rings, Feet, Main Hand, and Off Hand.
Most enchantments are crafted via the Enchanting profession. However, Waist enchantments specifically require Blacksmithing, Legs enhancements are crafted by Leatherworkers, and Head enchantments come from the Incandescent Essence , a reward obtained through a quest in the Amirdrassil raid.
Enchantments are usually available at the auction house, making them accessible for upgrades. Here are the specific enchantments chosen by Thaaner for each equipment slot:
Head
Back
Chest
Wrist
Waist
Legs
Feet
Ring 1
Ring 2
Main Hand
Gems
Gems are crafted stones from the Jewelcrafting profession, typically offering stat bonuses to enhance your gear and balance character stats as a final touch. These gems can be socketed into specific items such as Head, Neck, Wrist, Waist, and Rings.
Even though the presence of sockets on these items is usually random upon their drop, neck pieces can be uniquely modified to have up to three sockets by using three Tiered Medallion Setting . Additionally, a single socket can be added to other eligible items with an Eye of Awakening , which requires three Aspects' Tokens of Merit obtained from the Great Vault.
Available through both the auction house and the crafting order system, here are the gems currently socketed by Thaaner:
