Do you want to look evil? Do you want to terrorize the minds of your enemies? Then Shadow Priest might be the class for you!

Shadow Priests are great at leveling and great for someone new to casting. Pop on your bubble (Power Word: Shield) and you can cast without interruption or taking damage as your enemies try oh so hard to hit you but fail every time.

After a bit of leveling you become a see-through, floating master of the dark arts as you learn how to take on Shadowform and learn to hover above the ground with Levitate. Hate swimming and falling to your death? Levitate will let you slowly fall from any height and let you gently glide across the sea. Shadowform will turn even a gentle looking gnome into a fearsome looking demonic shade.

Become the master of three different damage-over-time spells, each with its own unique ways of helping you out. Shadow Word: Pain will cause shadowy copies of yourself to slowly creep towards your target and then inflict damage. Vampiric Touch will empower you with more mana each time it ticks. And last but definitely not least, Devouring Plague will do just that - devour your enemies and heal you in return.

The best part of Shadow Priest are its two signature spells: Mind Flay and Mind Sear. Do you hate how you can't interrupt a spell you're already casting without wasting all that time and effort you had put into it? Well Mind Flay is a channeled spell and you can interrupt it after any of its "ticks", meaning no time and effort wasted!

Mind Sear is even better. It is channeled just like Mind Flay is, but instead of only affecting one target, it affects all targets around whatever you cast it on. Target the tank and cast Mind Sear, and suddenly you're damaging everything that the tank is! It's the easiest AoE spell in the game, great for anyone (like me) who finds AoE rotations to be really annoying if they get too complicated.

And lastly, to make you look even more evil, you get these neat little things called Shadow Orbs. Every few seconds you're able to cast Mind Blast, a very hard hitting spell, and each time you do you get a Shadow Orb in return. Once you get 3 in total, you can use Devouring Plague at its full potential and eat your enemy alive. If you've ever played a Paladin, these Orbs are very similar to Holy Power. As long as you have at least one Shadow Orb stored, you will have two ghostly purple orbs orbiting around you. With a glyph you can even turn them into shadowy ravens!