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Shadow Priest · dungeon leveling · PvE · levels 10–60 · Discipline 9 / Holy 0 / Shadow 42 · Shadow Focus
51 points (Discipline 9 / Holy 0 / Shadow 42). Shadow Focus is one of the spent talents. This is a theory plan, not a playtest.
PriestShadowDPSDungeon levelingPvE10–60Discipline 9Holy 0Shadow 42Checked 26 Oct
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Discipline
9 / 51Holy
0 / 51Shadow
42 / 51Recorded use case
- Recorded scenario: Shadow Priest for dungeon leveling at levels 10–60.
Import and rule checks
This Shadow Priest talent allocation spends 51 points by level 60 (Discipline 9 / Holy 0 / Shadow 42). Checked 2026-10-26 against layout beta-20261022-79b9f5bc.
The source published a spend order. Every prefix from level 10 through the final level passes the current point budget, rank cap and prerequisites.
What the spent talents do
Shadow Focus
Rank 5 of 5 in Shadow: Improves your chance to hit with Shadow spells by 5%.
Spirit Tap
Rank 5 of 5 in Shadow: 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.
Twin Disciplines
Rank 5 of 5 in Discipline: Increases the damage and healing of your instant cast spells by 5%.
Improved Mind Blast
Rank 5 of 5 in Shadow: Reduces the cooldown of your Mind Blast spell by 2.5 sec.
Darkness
Rank 5 of 5 in Shadow: Increases your Shadow damage done by 10%.
Blackout
Rank 3 of 5 in Shadow: Gives your Shadow damage spells a 6% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
Limits of this record
- This site has not playtested this allocation or measured its combat results.
Point order
Spend one point at each level from 10 to 60. Names only here; recorded rank text is on the talents you spend.
- Level 10: Spirit Tap 1/5 (Shadow)
- Level 11: Spirit Tap 2/5 (Shadow)
- Level 12: Spirit Tap 3/5 (Shadow)
- Level 13: Spirit Tap 4/5 (Shadow)
- Level 14: Spirit Tap 5/5 (Shadow)
- Level 15: Improved Shadow Word: Pain 1/2 (Shadow)
- Level 16: Improved Shadow Word: Pain 2/2 (Shadow)
- Level 17: Blackout 1/5 (Shadow)
- Level 18: Blackout 2/5 (Shadow)
- Level 19: Blackout 3/5 (Shadow)
- Level 20: Mind Flay 1/1 (Shadow)
- Level 21: Improved Mind Blast 1/5 (Shadow)
- Level 22: Improved Mind Blast 2/5 (Shadow)
- Level 23: Improved Mind Blast 3/5 (Shadow)
- Level 24: Improved Mind Blast 4/5 (Shadow)
- Level 25: Improved Mind Blast 5/5 (Shadow)
- Level 26: Vampiric Embrace 1/1 (Shadow)
- Level 27: Shadow Weaving 1/3 (Shadow)
- Level 28: Shadow Weaving 2/3 (Shadow)
- Level 29: Shadow Weaving 3/3 (Shadow)
- Level 30: Silence 1/1 (Shadow)
- Level 31: Devouring Contagion 1/2 (Shadow)
- Level 32: Devouring Contagion 2/2 (Shadow)
- Level 33: Shadow Reach 1/2 (Shadow)
- Level 34: Shadow Reach 2/2 (Shadow)
- Level 35: Darkness 1/5 (Shadow)
- Level 36: Darkness 2/5 (Shadow)
- Level 37: Darkness 3/5 (Shadow)
- Level 38: Darkness 4/5 (Shadow)
- Level 39: Darkness 5/5 (Shadow)
- Level 40: Shadowform 1/1 (Shadow)
- Level 41: Shadow Focus 1/5 (Shadow)
- Level 42: Shadow Focus 2/5 (Shadow)
- Level 43: Shadow Focus 3/5 (Shadow)
- Level 44: Shadow Focus 4/5 (Shadow)
- Level 45: Shadow Focus 5/5 (Shadow)
- Level 46: Improved Mind Flay 1/2 (Shadow)
- Level 47: Improved Mind Flay 2/2 (Shadow)
- Level 48: Dark Inspiration 1/5 (Shadow)
- Level 49: Dark Inspiration 2/5 (Shadow)
- Level 50: Early Demise 1/2 (Shadow)
- Level 51: Early Demise 2/2 (Shadow)
- Level 52: Twin Disciplines 1/5 (Discipline)
- Level 53: Twin Disciplines 2/5 (Discipline)
- Level 54: Twin Disciplines 3/5 (Discipline)
- Level 55: Twin Disciplines 4/5 (Discipline)
- Level 56: Twin Disciplines 5/5 (Discipline)
- Level 57: Wand Specialization 1/2 (Discipline)
- Level 58: Wand Specialization 2/2 (Discipline)
- Level 59: Mental Strength 1/5 (Discipline)
- Level 60: Mental Strength 2/5 (Discipline)
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NotesSources and limits
Checked 2026-10-26 against layout beta-20261022-79b9f5bc. Public source name: WoW Forever Builds. Source date: 2026-09-15.
Talent names, ranks, prerequisites and tooltips in these WoW Forever builds use this site’s Forever data snapshot. Point text is checked against that snapshot. A cited guide is linked from the plan; its article is not copied here.
Published source
The link below is the published guide. Talent sentences on this page come from this site’s snapshot.
- Published guide · 2026-09-15
- Published guide · 2026-09-15
- Published guide · 2026-09-15
- Published guide · 2026-09-15
- Published guide · 2026-09-15
- Talent snapshot — layout beta-20261022-79b9f5bc
- Priest spellbook — recorded training levels and spell effects used in the play notes.
- Calculator rules — Each level follows the calculator’s point budget, rank limits and prerequisites: one point at level 10, then one point each level, up to 51 at level 60.
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