Shadow Reach

Priest · Shadow Magic · opens at 5 points spent · 2 ranks

Shadow Reach works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Shadow Reach ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Increases the range of your offensive Shadow spells by 10%.
Rank 2 Increases the range of your offensive Shadow spells by 20%.

What Shadow Reach 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. It has 3 ranks in Classic Era rather than 2.

Rank 1 Increases the range of your Shadow damage spells by 6%.
Rank 2 Increases the range of your Shadow damage spells by 13%.

Where Shadow Reach sits in the Shadow Magic tree

Shadow Reach is a Shadow Magic talent for Priest. You need 5 points in Shadow Magic before the row it sits on opens.

Same row: Shadow Affinity, Improved Shadow Word: Pain

How often people take Shadow Reach

63 of the 180 public Priest builds saved here — 35% — put at least one point in Shadow Reach. 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