Shadow Priest

The order abilities first landed across 4 top-parsing pulls, with the median time into the fight. The percentage is how many of those parses used the ability at all — a step at 100% is the opener, one at 60% is a choice some players make.

1. 1Tentacle Slam+0.3s100%
2. 2Mind Blast+0.7s100%
3. 3Shadowy Apparition+1.2s100%
4. 4Shadow Word: Pain+1.4s50%
5. 5Halo+2.4s100%
6. 6Void Volley+3.6s75%
7. 7Voidform+4.4s100%
8. 8Power Infusion+5.3s75%

What was pressed next, counted over every observed pair. This is the closest a log gets to a priority list — but it describes behaviour, not a rule: a player casting Execute because it lit up looks the same here as one following a plan.

• Shadowy Apparition96 casts→Shadowy Apparition36%Mind Flay: Insanity17%Mind Blast16%
• Mind Blast31 casts→Shadowy Apparition32%Mind Blast32%Tentacle Slam16%
• Void Volley21 casts→Shadowy Apparition38%Shadow Word: Madness24%Voidform14%
• Shadow Word: Madness18 casts→Shadowy Apparition100%
• Mind Flay: Insanity16 casts→Shadowy Apparition50%Void Volley13%Shadow Word: Madness13%
• Tentacle Slam13 casts→Shadowy Apparition75%Fade8%

Casts per minute across 20 top-parsing kills in The Venomous Abyss. Per minute rather than totals, so a long fight does not read as a heavily used ability.

Fights are sorted by how much damage landed on boss units rather than by a hand-kept list of which encounter is the AoE one, so the split stays right after a retune. Fights in between are left out of both columns.

Updated 31/08/2026. These are observed casts, not a recommended priority — the order reflects how often an ability came up, which is not the same as when to press it.

Secondary stat split across the 100 best-geared synced characters. Averaged per player, so one heavily geared character cannot define the answer for everyone.

• Versatility42.7%926 avg
• Haste39.3%881 avg
• Mastery12.1%298 avg
• Critical Strike5.8%147 avg