I never know what gear to get first when starting to PVP on a fresh noobed level 85 Priest, so i thought i would list some of my findings here.

usually i just find a shadow priest that is doing massive damage in battle grounds and just check there gear/spec, but i have found a couple of useful posts on this one. I think we can forget about spirit for the moment, for shadow as the mana usage pretty much just sux anyway no matter how much spirit you have, however you can get the spirit geat and reforge it to Haste for a better option. Plus get the +spel pen cloak as well and that will be mostly enough for most players apart from mages where you need around 225 or so spell pen.

SuperShadow said: Personally, I think haste is the best stat for pvp once your hit and spell pen capped. What im doing is getting the back for spell pen, 201, and one blue gem for 50 spell pen which equals 251. I’m a tailor so I want my back enchant. Then im getting haste neck and boots without reforging them. Then im getting all the spirit gear available, (bracers, belt, two rings, of hand, wand) and reforging all the spirit and hit, one of the rings has hit, into haste. This will give just enough hit to be hit capped and maximize all your haste. You can reforge 40% so here’s the math.

Bracers= 134 spirit X .40 =81 spirit 43 haste
Ring = 134 spirit X .40 =81 spirit 43 haste
Ring = 134 hit X .40 =81 spirit 43 haste
Waist = 159 spirit X .40 = 96 Spirit 63 haste
Of Hand = 127 spirit X .40 = 77 Spirit 30 haste
Wand = 72 Spirit X .40 = 44 Spirit 28 Haste
Total 460Spirit 250 haste

You can get crit wand if u want cause hit capped is 410. Take away the wand and spirit will be at 416, only 6 above hit capped which is very good. Of course im reforging all my main set pieces into haste as well unless it already has the stat. I’m actually getting disc hands cause they have haste and getting the other four pieces into shadow. I hope this helps.

Kulva Said: Personally I believe haste is the go getter to what you wish to stack as well as 40 intel gems and/or 20 haste 20 intel … the faster and longer your dots have, the better. I mean, where do you find yourself casting in arenas anyway, towards the end? Yea, that sounds about right. Getting locked down 4x trying to flay or MS/MB is just annoying. VT is the main thing you want to have up in an open window since it still does very nice damage over time.

Overall, mastery is kind of gimped. I believe it’s strictly for PvE purposes and shadoworbs are just extra buffs to be dispelled (They are always the first to be spellstolen I think.) And with crit, wouldn’t you have slower dots that will just run out easily meaning you have to recast and oom yourself within a short while? I don’t think it’s really that dependable to stack but still good to keep a decent amount (Having more haste for sure)

You will need 195 spell pen for most all classes besides mage which is 240.

My haste/crit is at 6.6%/13.5%. My additional haste comes from: talents(3%), mind quickening(5%), black magic on my mh(+250),and my troll racial beserking (20% for 10 or 20 sec cant remember) makes haste for me not a problem. most of the bloodthirsty gear that u will get is stacked with crit. what i do is gem haste where needed for meta bonus on helm and rest int for other socket bonuses. Add more crit if u want to but i like to hit them faster than i do harder in arena.

hit is at 4 % for lvl 85 targets no more no less is needed

so it goes hit 4% >sp 240 > toy with haste/crit until u like it!

Related Videos for Cataclysm Priest 85 Shadow Spec Gear Options

Heres a bit of shadow priest PVP action, gives you an idea of the kind rotation your spost to be using, Mind Spike is good to use towards the end of the fight as you can burn them down nice and fast, three mind spikes and you get a 100% chance of crit instant cast Mind Blast .

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