What to Wear: A Shadow Priest’s Guide to the Siege of Orgrimmar

Now that I’ve been making some headway into the Siege of Orgrimmar raid, both in 10 regular and flex, I figured it was time to put together one of my perennial What to Wear Guides. But once I got started with it, I saw my usual simple guide format of days gone by just wasn’t going to cut it with this many bosses and so many gear options per slot. Thus, instead, I put together a handy matrix in Excel:

Download a printable PDF, or save a copy of the matrix in spreadsheet form from google drive.

Know your priorities

Per Icy Veins, stat priority changed up a little bit with Patch 5.4:

1. Intellect
2. 15% Hit Rating or Spirit
3. Haste Rating (until reaching the soft cap)
4. Critical Strike Rating and Mastery Rating (NOTE if you do not have the 2-pc tier 16 bonus, crit still better than mastery)
5. Haste Rating (past the soft cap)

Gem Appropriately

• Meta [Burning Primal Diamond]or  [Sinister Primal Diamond]

If you do not have both a max raid buffed spellpower of 30k and ilvl 505, use these gems:

• Blue [Purified Imperial Amethyst] or [Veiled Imperial Amethyst]
• Red [Brilliant Primordial Ruby]
• Yellow [Reckless Vermilion Onyx]
  

Once you have both a max raid buffed spellpower of 30k and ilvl 505, use these gems:

• Blue [Quick Sun’s Radiance] unless socket bonus is haste or intellect, then use [Energized Wild Jade] or [Lightning Wild Jade]
• Red [Reckless Vermilion Onyx]
• Yellow [Quick Sun’s Radiance]

Maximize Your Enchants

• Belt [Living Steel Belt Buckle]
• Boots [Enchant Boots – Greater Precision][Enchant Boots – Greater Haste]
• Bracers [Enchant Bracer – Super Intellect]
• Chest [Enchant Chest – Glorious Stats]
• Cloak [Enchant Cloak – Superior Intellect]
• Gloves [Enchant Gloves – Greater Haste]
• Legs [Greater Cerulean Spellthread] or [Greater Pearlescent Spellthread]
• Weapon [Enchant Weapon – Jade Spirit]; if that’s out of your budget, [Enchant Weapon – Windsong]
• Off Hand [Enchant Off-Hand – Major Intellect]
• Shoulders [Greater Crane Wing Inscription]

It can be difficult to keep up with maximizing all the changes in stats as you gain new gear. I highly recommend using the Reforge Lite add-on or maximizing your gear via Ask Mr Robot.