Shadow Focus
Priest · Shadow Magic · available from the first tier · 5 ranks
Shadow Focus works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Shadow Focus ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your chance to hit with your Shadow spells by 1%.
- Rank 2 Increases your chance to hit with your Shadow spells by 2%.
- Rank 3 Increases your chance to hit with your Shadow spells by 3%.
- Rank 4 Increases your chance to hit with your Shadow spells by 4%.
- Rank 5 Increases your chance to hit with your Shadow spells by 5%.
What Shadow Focus does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Reduces your target's chance to resist your Shadow spells by 2%.
- Rank 2 Reduces your target's chance to resist your Shadow spells by 4%.
- Rank 3 Reduces your target's chance to resist your Shadow spells by 6%.
- Rank 4 Reduces your target's chance to resist your Shadow spells by 8%.
- Rank 5 Reduces your target's chance to resist your Shadow spells by 10%.
Where Shadow Focus sits in the Shadow Magic tree
Shadow Focus is a Shadow Magic talent for Priest. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.
- Same row: Blackout, Spirit Tap
How often people take Shadow Focus
64 of the 180 public Priest builds saved here — 36% — put at least one point in Shadow Focus. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
- Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:27:06 (rank 1 tooltip)