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Silence

Silence

0.9% of base mana	30 yd range

Instant	45 sec cooldown

Requires Priest (Discipline, Shadow)
Requires level 52

Silences the target, preventing them from casting spells for 5 sec. Non-player victim spellcasting is also interrupted for 3 sec.

Buff

Silence	Magic

Silenced.
5 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

5 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

Silenced

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

0.9% of base mana

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

45 seconds

GCD

0 seconds

Effect

Apply Aura: Silence
Value: 1

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Comments

Comment by Hartwick

Another must talent. Extremely useful in PVP. This will save your life when your trying to shut up a mage that is about to cast a spell on you or trying to sheep someone. This is also very useful in PVE against those pesky caster mobs.

Comment by Lucavious

The drawback to this talent unfortunately is it remains in a specific part of your talent tree that takes up points that could be far more effectively spent. To obtain this ability you must invest three points total; 1 in Silence and 2 in Improved Fade. At this point in the talent tree one would be far more tempted to invest n the 20% increase in casting range or a full investment in Shadow Weaving to increase your shadow damage output by 15%.

Early on you will have to decide if you want Silence but be less effective as a Shadow Priest, but at later levels (47+) there is no excuse not to have this ability.

Comment by daurenr

Combined with arcne torrent (bl elf racial) can give an advatage in fight ( however it may be hard to get in close range in some cases).

Comment by Arilyn

Horrible, horrible leveling talent. Silence costs 225 mana flat, and at level 30 it's an insane amount of mana. To put it in perspective, Heal (Rank 3) costs 255 mana and heals for 582-658. Offensive spells at level 30 do not deal nearly that much damage.

Comment by AudreyChandler

Silence can also be used as an "Interrupt" effect, since it shuts down the cast if someone is in the middle of a spell when they're hit with it.

Do note, however, that if the mob (or player?) in question is Immune to silence effects, they will also suffer no interrupt effect from the failed Silence. This can lead to some disappointing situations (to put it mildly), so don't rely on it blindly, especially in higher-difficulty instance/raid pulls.

Comment by xeroo

Can paladin cast divine shield when he have silence from mage ?

Comment by crescentwindx

Far from a "must-have" - this talent is very situational in solo and 5-man PvE, and completely useless in raid situations. It is not an interrupt like a rogue's Kick or a warrior's Shield Bash, and many raid enemies are immune to Silence effects (but not to interrupts).

If you're a PvP Shadow Priest then go for it, this talent will serve you well. But if you're building primarily for raiding, skip it.

Comment by skatyer

update for patch 3.0.3:Silence mana cost is removed!That's really good...

Comment by Skelic

SILENCE! I kill you!

In PvP this actually works just like Achmed says it does - 5 second silence is godlike. You can heal yourself up, or just cast 2 spells within it.

Comment by bobgoatse

Changed to 30 yards on the 3.1 PTR and with Shadow Reach we now have a 36 yard Silence.

This change has been due for a long time. I still dream of a world where it is on a 24 second cooldown with Counterspell/Spell Lock though.

Comment by Reoiam

They should make this available on forums so you can stop the forum trolls!

Comment by TItan100

There isnt a mana cost huh? On thottbot and wowwiki is written. Dont know, i am begin play as a priest and calculated up my talents.

Comment by dreadblood

this also prevents all warrior shouts :P

Comment by wowogamer

Does it work against Rogue's http://www.wowhead.com/spell=2094?

Comment by zeroninerhai

silence is such a nice skills . it can kick your ass off when you are a magic type ...

Comment by Aaro

I'm finding it very difficult to spec into Silence, which is chained up into talents enough that you have to make pretty large sacrifices to get it. It seems they're steering it so it's more of a PvP ability; it's near impossible to find a spec that makes it optional.

There are other classes with silences/interrupts that don't have to go through the talent hoops SPriests have to go through right now. If you don't want this, don't feel like you need to get it.

Comment by Nitiga

Does anyone know if this spell has limited availability against bosses compared to eg. counterspell? We had our shadow priest spec into this to get an additional back-up interrupter, but he claimed that there were very few abilities that he actually could interrupt, where I could interrupt them with counterspell.

Comment by Denozavr

Does it works against meele (rogues, warriors, dk, paladins, ferals)? Can they use abilities or autoattack only?

Comment by Gettor

I kinda don't understand the description - Non-player victim spellcasting is also interrupted for 3 sec.
So they're silenced for 5 sec... what's the point of that 3 sec interruption, since it won't last as long as the silence itself?
Or maybe it stacks like 5sec silence + 3 sec interrupt after silence breaks?

Comment by SgtFrog

Like Skelic said, it would be hilarious if somebody rolled a Forsaken shadowpriest named Achmed, and then made a macro like

/cast Silence
/y SILENCE! I KILL YOU!
/cast Mind Spike, Mind Blast, whatever you got.

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