Auspicious Spirits

In the Shadow Priest talent tree, Auspicious Spirits sits in the Shadow specialization talents, row 8 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 20 points are spent in Shadow Talents.

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The tree draws a line into Auspicious Spirits from Instilled Doubt, Spectral Horrors and Mind's Eye or Distorted Reality.

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  Instilled Doubt2 ranks

  Increases the critical strike chance of Vampiric Touch and Shadow Word: Pain by 8% and their critical strike damage by 20%.

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  Spectral Horrors

  Shadow Apparitions deal 30% increased damage to targets affected by your Shadow Word: Madness.

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  Mind's Eye

  Reduces the Insanity cost of Shadow Word: Madness by 5.

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  Distorted Reality

  Increases the damage of Shadow Word: Madness by 20% and causes it to deal its damage over 12 sec, but increases its Insanity cost by 5.

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Auspicious Spirits leads on to Screams of the Void, Tormented Spirits and Insidious Ire.

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  Screams of the Void2 ranks

  Shadow Word: Madness causes your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch to deal damage 40% faster on all targets for 3 sec.

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  Tormented Spirits

  Your Shadow Word: Pain damage has a chance to create Shadowy Apparitions that float towards all targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch. Critical strikes increase the chance by 100%.

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  Insidious Ire2 ranks

  While you have Shadow Word: Pain, Shadow Word: Madness, and Vampiric Touch active on the same target, your Mind Blast, Void Torrent, Mind Flay, and Void Volley deal 20% more damage.

Same row

Also on this row: Mindbender, Deathspeaker or Death and Madness, Mind Devourer and Maddening Tentacles.

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  Mindbender

  Casting Voidform summons a Mindbender for 10 sec. Summons a shadowy fiend to attack your target. Generates 1 Insanity each time the Mindbender attacks.

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  Deathspeaker

  Shadow Word: Death damage increased by 25%. Shadow Word: Death gains its damage and talent bonuses against targets below 35% health instead of 20%.

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  Death and Madness

  If a target dies within 7 sec after being struck by Shadow Word: Death, generate 8 Insanity. When Shadow Word: Death fails to kill a target below 20% health, its cooldown is reset. Cannot occur more than once every 10 sec.

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  Mind Devourer

  Mind Blast has a 8% chance to make your next Shadow Word: Madness cost no Insanity and deal 20% additional damage.

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  Maddening Tentacles

  Tentacle Slam afflicts your target with Shadow Word: Madness at 25% effectiveness.