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Comment by 6770

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 9250

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 35206

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

Comment by 92336

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

Comment by 107459

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

Comment by 111055

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

Comment by 34988

Question:

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

Comment by 129537

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 Salali

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 108095

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 149643

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 22114

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 237938

i traded starshards and elunes grace for this bs?

Comment by 240421

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 253703

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 292117

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 77433

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 30516

And give us touch of weakness back!

^ this

Comment by 30516

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 223389

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 451079

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 543855

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 Pestilence 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 743836

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

Comment by Zaalbeth

* 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 319936

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: Shadowy Recall

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)

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.

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...

Comment by Thottbot

The Forsaken are a rogue group of undead who were gathered up by Sylvanas Windrunner. UD is their race, Forsaken is their cause (to become free of the Scourge and to destroy those on earth that hunt them). the Scourge is the group of undead led by the Lich King, Ner'zhul, who's purpose was to reak havok on the world until the Burning Legion arrived. The Lich was under the influence of the Burning Legion. So, this spell should be classified as either "Undead" or "Forsaken" but Scourge is technically incorrect; however, when you are creating a game, it really doesn't matter what tags you put on to things because the classification "scourge" cannot be seen in-game.

Comment by Thottbot

I like how the dude above calls someone a nerd, although he's on a site listing magic spells about a MMO that I'm sure he plays countless hours everyday. Pleb.

btw, Devouring Plague rocks.

Comment by Thottbot

It is like another SW:P only with abit less dmg if you got imp SW:P, uses alot of mana but heals you...hmm...does it double heal if you use vampiric embrace too?

Comment by Thottbot

there isnt a quest for this ne more just talk to trainer and buy it

Comment by Thottbot

a draenei cant get this quest, not even this spell. Draenei = ally, that consist of human, gnome, dwarf, night elf and draenei. this is a spell for undead priests. undead = horde, that consist of undead, orc, troll, tauren and blood elf. if u want this spell, then u have to reroll undead.

UC = Undercity. its the undead/horde city. if u wanna live, dont go there as an ally

Comment by Thottbot

Does anyone READ the damn spell and small print before posting retard questions!

Comment by Thottbot

That is true in math, but not in life. A=B so B=A is true.

BUT, the correct example would be, all horses are animals, but not all animals are horses.

Therefore all scourge are undead and all forsaken are undead, but not all undead are forsaken and scourge. Obvously they can't be both.

/flex

Comment by Thottbot

So, just for clarification sake, this is an undead spell only. If you're a blood elf, or troll priest for example, you can't get this spell.

Comment by Thottbot

This spell still rocks! You place this and SW:P , shield ,MB, PS ,again with the MB and watch almost everything die this way.
Lasperic
Lvl 60 undead Shadow Priest

Comment by Thottbot

Better on mobs or enemies who can't dispell a disease.
Putting it on a pally or something would be a waste.

Comment by Thottbot

To learn the spell DEVOURING PLAGUE you have to be a level 20 undead priest. The spell STARSHARDS is the alliance "style" of devouring plague. it can only be used by Night Elf priests.

Comment by Thottbot

i have a 31 priest and he's shadow,THIS ROCKS it does that shadow weave thing and if i do vampiric touch i get healed a bit faster , then i pop renew and i'm gettign healed more then i'm being damaged most of the time ^__^.

Comment by Thottbot

Pros : Does damage over time and ABSORBS health over time. What more could you want?

Cons : Mana Cost is ridiculous. Has substantially large Cooldown too.

Bottom line : If you are an undead, this is a must-get spell. If you are a shadow-priest undead, you have absolutely no excuse for not getting this spell.

Comment by Thottbot

in my opinion, UDs are makes the best and coolest pvp shadowpriests and this spell is extremely good to have once ure shadowspecc. I allmost feel sry for the other shadow priests that doesnt have it.

Comment by Thottbot

BOOOOO, nope
i think every class and race should have there own special ability

Comment by Thottbot

I have read the spell listing over and over and I do not see where it gives a code for a race specific designation, I understand that it is for undead priests only but Iwould like to know where that code is. are there any Troll priest specific spells?

Comment by Thottbot

Hey can some one tell me if this is capable of a critical hit? I want to combine this with "Inner Focus" thus doing awsome damage, w/o costing n e manna and I'm shadow so this is perfect, plus they have the same CD time? but i feel like i would be waisting the additional 25% chance to crit that Inner Focus add. if it is incapable of Critical. Comments? Suggestion?

Comment by Thottbot

Ok for the "Scourge/Undead" thing Undead r a group of Rogue group of well Undead risen from the Banshee Queen Sylvanas Windrunner. the Scourge go by the lich kings rule to take over Azeroth with Undead. So Undead are allied with the Horde trying to destroy the alliance, Scourge allied with the Lich King trying to take over Azeroth

P.S.: Undead and this spell PWN :P

Comment by Thottbot

umm i got a Q: imma make undead priest cause i made BE priest on accident and i love the area but if i quest in ghostlands can i still get this quest from the trainer thier or will i have to go all the way back so so so far away to undercity (yes i know silvermoon is connected to undercity via portal i was jk)

Comment by Thottbot

this spell is ownage =D best spell ever, use it on a lot of instance bosses. It was so worth being a UD just for this little spell

Pancakeboy
Burning Legion
lvl 35 =]

Comment by Thottbot

Just one of the many reasons undead make the best shadow priests.
QQ Alliance.

Comment by Thottbot

I am alliance and I have to say that I am freaking jaelous as hell ><

Alliance do not have an extra dot spell on any race.

in the arenas, mana is not an issue, it's just surviving long enough to be able to use up all of your mana.... Why not have a nice, extra, bonus, instant-cast, high-damage dot spell?

Comment by Thottbot

Pfft. Don't get me started

Comment by Thottbot

I kinda regret rolling a Draenei priest now... im level 24 .

Comment by Thottbot

~Can this spell proc Blackout(Shadow talent) on individual ticks? Or is it like Shadow Word: Pain, where Blackout only procs on the initial cast and not the ticks?~
(Sorry if this has been answered in the threads already, after a good 5 minutes of reading through a *!@#load of retarded question and killing my braincells in the process I gave up and typed this.) An answer would be much appreciated.

Comment by Thottbot

This shadow priest spell is only for undeads ;) muhhahah and it pwn as hell ^^

Comment by Thottbot

3 min cooldowns not gonna do much good in BG tbh though.
so dream on about countless DoT rapeage with this and SWP...

Comment by Thottbot

This spell is learnable only by undead priests. The following are the race-specific abilities for priests:

Alliance

Draenei: Symbol of Hope and Chastise
Dwarf: Desperate Prayer and Chastise
Night Elf: Starshards and Elune's Grace
Human: Desperate Prayer and Feedback

Horde

Blood elf: Touch of Weakness and Consume Magic
Troll: Hex of Weakness and Shadowguard
Undead: Touch of Weakness and Devouring Plague

Hopefully this will help you choose the race that suits your needs best when you create your priest. I'm already regretting my Blood Elf decision.

Comment by Thottbot

This is a vastly overhyped but still situationally useful spell.

When you get it at 20, it can really help you whenever you need to take down multiple mobs at once unavoidably. The best example I can think of is in southern barrens when you need to fight those bugs and dig up silithid eggs. If you dont dps the big bug down fast enough, he starts summoning little bugs and eventually you will get interrupted to death. At that level, your spell dps is a little too low to go and outright nuke it down.

At level 70, it isn't exactly "the second shadow word pain" but it does help. If you are raiding and on a boss, always use the spell combined with inner focus. If you are exterminating trash, inner focus isn't needed.

A lot of people use the spell in PvP. The healing benefit really helps, and the damage from the disease does cause vampirics to work as expected (giving you even more healing). It's important if you intend on staying alive for any period of time. In PvP, you do not necessarily have to combine it with inner focus. Deep discipline (or properly specd discipline) gives a 10% reduction on all instant cast spells... including this one.

As an aside "coolness factor", this is the only player castable disease in the entire game.

Comment by Thottbot

Useless spell for arena. It can be used only in duels with classes that cant disspell.

Comment by Allakhazam

Aint that some chit. NE's like me get gayshards and homo's grace...2 of the most useless spells in my book and horde get dots? WTF blizzard You always give horde the better racial spells. /finger

Edited, Jun 22nd 2007 12:41pm by Chaongel

Edited, Jun 22nd 2007 12:43pm by Chaongel

Comment by Allakhazam

awesome

Comment by Allakhazam

I wont even touch this in a group, but while solo questing this will be everywhere

Comment by Allakhazam

Agro magnet best use for PvP

Shadow Agro
Healing Agro

ouch -> run!

Comment by Allakhazam

* Desperate Prayer (Level 10). (Dwarf/Human only.)
* Starshards (Level 10). (Night Elf only.)
* Touch of Weakness (Level 10). (Undead only.)
* Hex of Weakness (Level 10). (Troll only.)
* Fear Ward (Level 20). (Dwarf only.)
* Feedback (Level 20). (Human only.)
* Elune's Grace (Level 20). (Night Elf only.)
* Devouring Plague (Level 20). (Undead only.)
* Shadowguard (Level 20). (Troll only.)

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Devouring Plague

Devouring Plague	Level 90

1 Shadow Orbs	40 yd range

Instant cast

Consumes all of the caster's Shadow Orbs to deal 0 Shadow damage and an additional 0 Shadow damage every 1.00 sec for 6 sec. Also heals the caster for 1% of their maximum health when it deals periodic damage.

Damage and healing increased based on the number of Shadow Orbs consumed. [Solace and Insanity: While Devouring Plague is active, damage from your Mind Flay is increased by 33% per orb consumed]

Buff

Devouring Plague	Level 90

Causes 1 damage every 0.00 seconds, healing the caster.
6 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

6 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Disease

GCD category

Normal

Cost

1 Shadow Orbs

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

School Damage (Shadow)
Value: 1
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 1 every 1 second
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Value: 100
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #4

School Damage (Shadow) (SP mod: 0.786)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #5

School Damage (Shadow) (SP mod: 0.131)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #6

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
PVP Multiplier: 1

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Devouring Plague

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