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Mind Flay

Mind Flay

0.25% of base mana	40 yd range

Channeled
Requires Priest (Shadow)
Requires level 10

Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing (90% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%.

Enhanced Mind Flay (Level 92+)
Your Mind Flay deals damage 33.3333% faster.

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Spell Details

Duration

3 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

0.25% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 1 every 1 second

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Decrease Run Speed %
Value: -50%
Mechanic: Snared

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Comment by Lucavious

As a Shadow Priest, Mind Flay will become your most oft used offensive ability. With the new talent tree introduced in 2.0.1 patch you can reduce the cost of casting by 15% of it's already low cast, becoming extremely mana efficient as far as damage output goes. When coupled with Vampiric Embrace this ability will be an extremely valuable health regeneration technique for your party, especially so when casting the occasional Mind Blast and Shadow Word: Pain.

With several Priests casting Mind Flay along with Vampiric Embrace you can effectively reduce the need for a healer, opting instead for an offensive group of Shadow Priests (Except during instances involving mobs of enemies as Mind Flay can be broken in a single attack; Power Word: Shield is your FRIEND!).

Comment by DarkCrisis

The bread and butter of a shadowpriest. This and Mind Blast will be your main face melting magic. Toss on a Vamp Embrace and SW: Pain and have fun.

Comment by 1337Lucius

A very useful macro for this spell that EVERY SINGLE SP should use to make their life easier is the following:

/cast mind flay

This allows you to spam the mind flay button (like, say, frostbolt) without starting the channel all over again. However, the channel will still get interrupted if you hit for example Mind Blast mid-channel. After I started using this I can't imagine DPSing without it :p

Comment by vevianx

As other like DarkCrisis have said, its gives the shadow priests the nickname "face melters" :D

Comment by rizzpapa

Sorry-- But at low lvl this spell is weak!

Comment by Flagg

"...and slowing their movement speed by 15%."
Is it true? i don't find any difference between this and rank 2 which slow movement speed by 50%

Comment by AmoTHRILL

according to wowhead mind flay does 501 damage at level 1 and level 85.

You only get Mind Flay at level 10...

Comment by Yevon

On top of the whole: Movement speed slowed. buff
There should be an added novelty buff just for laughs

Brain Damage
I should read: "You've really done it this time!" as the debuff.

Comment by davesignal

Apply directly to the forehead.

Comment by DeGoudenEeuw

Pre-Wrath Mind Flay used to have a different graphic if someone's wondering, it was previosly akin to a bright blue lightning. This graphic can still be seen on everything else that melts faces in WoW, except for player shadow priests who now stand out.

Comment by sylancer

for Shadow Priest, Mind Flay replaces Smite.

Mind Flay reduce target's movement speed by 50%.

enter Shadowform increase Mind Flay's damage by 25%.
Mind Flay DO affected by Mastery: Shadowy Recall

Solace and Insanity causes Devouring Plague to trigger Mind Flay (Insanity) on the target by 6 sec, increases damage of Mind Flay by 33% for each Shadow Orbs (3 max) consumed.
Shadow Orbs is the new resources for Shadow Priest, one can have 3 Shadow Orbs max.
it generate by:

Mind Blast (+1; Divine Insight give Shadow Word: Pain a 5% chance per tick to reset its cd, and make it instant and free)
Shadow Word: Death (+1; only usable on target less than 20% health; cd is reset if target does not die, but this additional cast does not grant Shadow Orbs, 6 sec internal CD.)

when and only when Priest have at least 1 Shadow Orbs, these spells can be cast to consume all Shadow Orbs:

Devouring Plague (Damage and healing increased based on the number of Shadow Orbs consumed)
Psychic Horror (Horrify duration increased based on the number of Shadow Orbs consumed, Disarm duration unaffected)

Glyph of Mind Flay causes Mind Flay:

remove the slowing effect
increase movement speed by 15% for 5 sec after each tick. stacking up to 3 times

Mind Flay and Mind Spike are only two no-CD single-target damage spells Priest can cast in Shadowform. Mind Spike have slightly higher DPS, but will consume Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, Devouring Plague on the target. those DoTs are so strong on DPS that Priest can NOT afford to lose them. this fact leave Mind Flay as the only choice as a filler in normal DPS rotation when every other spell is on CD. if enemies will die too quickly for DoTs to be efficient (less than 15 seconds or so), use Mind Spike to replace Mind Flay as there is no DoTs to be consumed.

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