Shadow Priest 9.2 Tier Set & Necrolord Legendary Tuning - Guide Writer Thoughts Build 42174

In a recent PTR build, there was additional tuning to the Shadow Priest tier set bonus as well as a nerf to the Priest Necrolord legendary, Pallid Command. In this article, EllipsisPriest gives his thoughts and opinions on the recent changes.

Shadow Priest Changes for Build 42174   Consuming a Dark Thought causes your shadow to animate after a moment, dealing 34%20.9% of Spell power) * 6] Shadow damage over 6 sec to all enemies within 10 yards of your target. Item Set: Habiliments of the Empyrean: 4 pieces   Casting Unholy Nova summons a Rattling Mage that gains 2% additional damage and healing each time an enemy affected by Unholy Transfusion is damaged by an ally, up to 100%. The Rattling Mage serves you for 20 sec, blasting your target for (40%25.1% of Spell power) Shadow damage.

EllipsisPriest, our Shadow Priest guide writer, has given their thoughts on the changes to both the tier set bonus and nerfs to the Necrolord legendary.

In a recent 9.2 PTR build, there were two large nerfs to Shadow Priest. One to the strength of the tier set in Single Target and AoE, and one to the power of the Necrolord covenant legendary, Pallid Command. This build also came with some new and old bugs that have been affecting Shadow throughout the PTR cycle, and made it difficult to test changes up until recently.The NerfsThe damage of Living Shadow has been reduced by 40% The damage of Rattling Mage's Unholy Bolt has been reduced by 40% The BugsLiving Shadow is once again no longer affected by mastery (This has been fixed but you will have felt its impact if you did any testing last week) Living Shadow can deal damage to your target if it's not already in combat The Numbers Purely from sims, the nerfs looks to be 7-10% on Single Read more on wowhead.com