Voidweaver Shadow Priest PvP Guide For Blitz

The War Within Season 1

Based on 50 Characters

From 2630 to 3364 Rating

Updated 17 minutes ago

Welcome to Murlok.io's PvP guide for Voidweaver Shadow Priests in Blitz Battlegrounds. This guide covers the best stats, races, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems for Patch 11.0.7, based on data from the top 50 Voidweaver Shadow Priests in The War Within Season 1 across the US, EU, KR, and TW regions. This includes Jlp (Blackrock EU) , who is currently the highest-ranked with a rating of 3364.

Updated every 12 hours with the latest data from the Battle.net API , this guide also examines each character's recent playtime, specialization frequency, and equipment choices for greater accuracy.

Top Shadow Priests

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 the optimal way to balance Voidweaver Shadow Priest secondary and minor stats for Blitz:

Secondary Stats

+261

5% Critical Strike

+15317

23% Haste

+771

5% Mastery

+14619

19% Versatility

Haste
Versatility
Mastery
Critical Strike

Minor Stats

0% Avoidance

+360

0% Leech

+1232

7% Speed

Speed
Leech
Avoidance

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. The following tree reproduces the in-game class talents disposition as a heatmap. Each color represents the usage frequency and general recommendation level of the talents:

Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Voidweaver Shadow Priests with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. The following tree reproduces the in-game specialization talents disposition and shows the best talents as a heatmap:

Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow deeper customization of the Shadow Priest class fantasy, enhancing character builds. The following trees show the Voidweaver and Archon hero talents as a heatmap, highlighting the most effective choices:

Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Voidweaver

Archon

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 Voidweaver 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. The following shows the best PvP talents as a heatmap:

Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Best In Slot 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 are the top items for Voidweaver Shadow Priests in Blitz, tailored for each equipment slot:

Head

Neck

Shoulders

Set

Living Luster's Dominion

50

Back

Chest

Set

Living Luster's Raiment

50

Wrist

Hands

Waist

Legs

Feet

Rings

Trinkets

Main Hand

Off Hand

Algari Competitor's Lamp

4

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 the best embellishments for Voidweaver Shadow Priests in Blitz:

Enchantments

Enchantments provide minor yet valuable enhancements to various items, including Back, Chest, Wrist, Legs, Rings, Feet, Main Hand, and Off Hand.

Most enchantments are crafted via the Enchanting profession. However, Legs enhancements are crafted by Leatherworkers.

Enchantments are usually available at the auction house, making them accessible for upgrades. Here is a list of the top enchantments for Voidweaver Shadow Priests in Blitz, essential for optimizing combat effectiveness:

Back

Chest

Wrist

Legs

Feet

Ring 1

Ring 2

Main Hand

Gems

Gems are crafted stones from the Jewelcrafting profession that provide stat bonuses to improve gear and fine-tune character stats. These gems can be socketed into various item slots, including Head, Neck, Wrist, Waist, and Rings.

While the availability of sockets on these items is generally random when they drop, Head, Wrist, and Waist items can have a single socket added using the Nerubian Gemweaver , which costs 6 Algari Token of Merit obtained from the Great Vault.

Additionally, for non-PvP Neck and Rings items, sockets can be added with the Magnificent Jeweler's Setting . This item, crafted by Jewelcrafters, can increase the number of sockets to 2 for Neck and Rings slots.

Available through both the auction house and the crafting order system, the following are the top gem choices for Voidweaver Shadow Priests in Blitz:

Citrine Gems

Citrine Gems are a new type of gem socketed into the Cyrce’s Circlet : a powerful ring introduced in World of Warcraft’s The War Within 11.0.7 patch. These gems provide a versatile range of effects to enhance performance in battle.

Obtained through various activities on Siren Isle, Citrine Gems are a compelling choice for adventurers wielding the Cyrce’s Circlet. Here are the best Citrine Gems for Voidweaver Shadow Priest in Blitz:

Thunder Citrine

Sea Citrine

Wind Citrine

Races

Each race in World of Warcraft has unique traits that enhance abilities or improve in-game quality of life. Although these racial traits offer minor advantages, they can provide a competitive edge in certain scenarios.

With Night Elf currently being the top race for Voidweaver Shadow Priests in Blitz, here are the other races that also stand out due to their advantageous traits:

Night Elf

24
Void Elf

8
Undead

5
Orc

4
Human

4