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Devouring Plague

Devouring Plague

3 Shadow Orbs	40 yd range

Instant cast
Requires Priest (Shadow)
Requires level 21

Consumes 3 Shadow Orbs to deal (300% of Spell power) Shadow damage and then an additional 100% of the initial damage over 6 sec. Heals the caster for 100% of damage done.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Disease

GCD category

Normal

Cost

3 Shadow Orbs

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

School Damage (Shadow)
Value: 1

Effect #2

Dummy
Value: 100
Server-side script

Effect #3

Dummy
Value: 100
Server-side script

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Comments

Comment by Hordecore

Despite its high mana cost a great spell for both shadow and holy/disc specced priests. Personally I use this spell only with inner focus to save myself some mana.

Use it for warriors or rogues to get them down faster before they get enough damage (read mortal strike) in to outdamage your heals.

Also a tip: don't use this on (frost)mages in a duel before they iceblocked.

Comment by Rigors

If you have vampiric embrace on the target of devouring plague, you get healed for both the damage you deal (through the vamp embrace) and the actual spell effect of the plague. This, combined with shadow word pain and renew provides for some healthy damage over time as well as healing over time.

Comment by Toldry

the only disease that can be casted by players, unless you are referring to weapon buffs consumables and items. am i correct?

Comment by crispy12

You don't have to be in shadow form to cast shadow spells.

Comment by tboy44

very useful for shadow priests (of coarse only for undead)

Comment by xenosapian

does this spell do damage or does it just heal the caster?

Comment by Puus

Casting Shadow Word: Pain and Devouring Plague on a target is awesome.

Comment by FlavioGomes

Question:

The shadow damage from this spell triggers Vampiric Touch/Embrace?

Comment by waaagh

How does this scale with spelldamage?

Comment by supertao

I was pretty excited to see this skill when i rolled an undead priest, but my excitment quickly faded when I realised it had a 3min cooldown. Still useful, but still too lengthy cooldown

Comment by Arideni

This spell is an instant cast racial, available only to Undead priests. It has a 3 minute cooldown, somewhat high mana cost, and is a disease. In some cases it cannot be dispelled (for example: felhunters).

It can be "removed" by Cloak of Shadows & Stoneform. It is affected by most, if not all Shadow talents, but is incapable of criticals.

Comment by Ishtar

Devouring Plague - Now a base ability. Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds, mana cost greatly reduced.

Comment by Ishtar

Devouring Plague - Now a base ability. Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds, mana cost greatly reduced.

Comment by SixTwoSixFour

As of Wrath, this will no longer be a Priest Racial. Rather, it will be baseline, have a 30 second cooldown, and have a lower mana cost.

Comment by FeralRoot

It would be nice to know if all the diseases of the DK's and of the Shadowpriests stack, or only the strongest ones.

The reason why i am interested is that this would influence raid setup choices in favour of multiple DK's and shadowpriests just to keep stacking the diseases and the have them transported to nearby mobs... seems OP to me.

Diseases will be the cornerstone for DK's to do dmg and keep aggro in WotLK. Currently in TBC they have no real role.

Comment by ArcaneRabbit

Does any one else think this spell should be renamed? Devouring Plague made sense when it was an Undead racial, but now it seems kind of random. Not that it really matters....

Comment by Dirtypriest

As of beta build 8982, it appears to not be giving 100% of the damage done back as health. I hope this is bugged and not a nerf. Last thing shadow priests need is a nerf to survivability.

Comment by marcimi

Now available for all priests at level 20.

Comment by pvpalot

i traded starshards and elunes grace for this bs?

Comment by Hellnaw

I traded consume magic and touch of weakness for this? SCORE!111

Comment by EvilElpay

Currently, when a death knight casts Pesitilence it spreads Devouring Plague to all other targets within melee range. The newly effected targets consider the death knight the caster for threat, damage, and healing. Throw this on your aoe tanking Death Knight's main target before he casts pestilence.

Also as long as 1 frost fever, 1 blood plague, 1 ebon plaguebringer, and 1 devouring plauge is on the target, the target is considered to be effected by 4 diseases for purposes of death knight mechanics. These are the only diseases in the game. Having 2 of any kind of disease doesn't not increase the modifier for this mechanic.

Consider a priest a death knight's best friend because of this ability!

Comment by Haxxer

This spell combined with a Death Knight's Pestilence can really boost your DPS.

I just read on Pestilence, it says "Spreads existing Blood Plague and Frost Fever infections from your target to all other enemies", does this mean they "fixed" the spreading?

Comment by RedwoodElf

Yeah, Priests having racial powers broke Blizzard's "Both sides get all the same classes" template. I only started playing a priest recently, and never even knew about the racial special priest powers until they became no longer available.

Comment by sebelas

last night i healed some heroics and i did cast this spell on a boss. i saw health coming back, but not only to me, but the whole party. we didnt have a DK, so i wondered if this was coming from DP ?
we were with a pally, but im sure he didnt ast his seal of light... further a lock, a hunter and a rogue.
i was looking if there was a shammy hidden somewhere haha ;P
i saw numbers between 700 and 800, so that was very cool, hope it comes from DP but the discription says that the caster will be healed, thus me...
anyone can clear this for me ?
thanks

Comment by eclampsia

After this latest patch I'm not getting the cooldown timer showing a darkening of my DP icon.
All others seem to be working the same.
Anyone else noticed this? I'm having to rely on my cast bar timer (I use ForteXorcist) to know when it's cooldown is up.

Comment by kierah

And give us touch of weakness back!

^ this

Comment by kierah

Just add "#showtooltip" or "#showtooltip Devouring Plague" (minus the quotation marks, of course) to the beginning of the macro and you're set. :)

yes but either of those will show the spell's own icon instead of the new custom icon suggested above. (this is all horrifically off topic)

Comment by asherkobin

This will fail to cast on Mechanical mobs as they are immune. I'm guessing that's because Mechanicals don't have blood. (they have oil?)

Comment by DeminRamst

This spell is now somewhat of a Moonfire. Apply hit, then dot.
In which case, you'll see a lot of priests spamming it for dps in a non-cast-time situation,
and generally from nooby hands.

Also a complete waste of mana(unless you can spare(only when spammed)), just like Moonfire.
:D

Comment by Murdof

If it's reflected, you can't remove it from yourself by recasting it on someone - the "This spell can only affect one target at a time." doesn't work in this case

Comment by tombc

Has to be one of my favourite spell icons in game.

Fed up with the recycled Warcraft III graphics still spattered across the rest of my toons' spellbooks.

Make more like this please!

Comment by EightBitBus

If the DoT effect crits it will proc Divine Aegis.

Comment by Firebug

So if a Death Knight uses Dark Simulacrum on you, and you Cast Devouring Plague... does that count as a 3rd disease (or 4th for unholy?) for the Death Knight?

Comment by rlindse5

Nope. Only DK specific diseases work on their strikes.
For a Death Knight Blood Boil won't spread it and Festering Strike obviously won't add to it's time, but testing has showed that if you use Dark Simulacrum to apply Devouring Plague it will modify strike damage on abilities like Obliterate. Whether or not it effects hasn't been determined.
TL:DR - If you coordinate with your Shadow Spriest you can get ~24 secs of a 3rd or 4th disease if YOU apply it.

*note: if not obvious, as Unholy, this will not apply

Comment by foxvanallen

Welcome back, old friend. How I missed you in the beta. <3

Comment by taohinton

* Exclusive to Shadow priests
* Consumes all Shadow Orbs - not mana
* Deals instant damage, plus applies a Disease DoT effect that deals damage every 1 sec for 6 sec - healing you each time it does
* Damage and healing is increased proportionate to the number of Orbs consumed
* If the cast misses or is evaded by the target, no Shadow Orbs will be consumed
* Direct damage and DoT components can crit
* Healing component CANNOT crit
* Can now be applied to multiple targets
* Although it can be applied to multiple targets at once, each target can only have one of your Devouring Plagues on it. Recasting will overwrite the existing buff, wasting its damage and healing, even if the new debuff is weaker
* Minor Glyph: Glyph of Dark Archangel gives you the old Dark Archangel 'wings' effect when you cast it

Tips:
* Save globals by not casting it til you have 3 Orbs (ideally)
* This is the DPS/self-healing option for Shadow Orbs - Psychic Horror is the damage mitigation/crowd control option

Comment by sylancer

each tick of Devouring Plague heal the Priest for 1% of maximum health per Shadow Orbs consumed.

enter Shadowform increase Devouring Plague's damage by 25%.
Devouring Plague affected by Mastery: Mental Anguish

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)

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.

since Dark Archangel is gone in MoP, and it's really COOL, Glyph of Dark Archangel can bring the old look back, bind with Devouring Plague.

Comment by Cassonberry

New graphic added in 5.2, unless I've been derping out for 5+ months...

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