Death's Torment
Shadow Word: Death deals damage 2 additional times at 15% effectiveness.
Tree position
In the Shadow Priest talent tree, Death's Torment sits in the Shadow specialization talents, row 9 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 20 points are spent in Shadow Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Death's Torment from Deathspeaker or Death and Madness.
DeathspeakerShadow Word: Death damage increased by 25%. Shadow Word: Death gains its damage and talent bonuses against targets below 35% health instead of 20%.
Death and MadnessIf 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.
Connected below
Death's Torment leads on to Idol of N'Zoth.
Idol of N'ZothYou create Horrific Visions when casting harmful spells on enemies. At 50 stacks of Horrific Visions, your target sees a nightmare, dealing (182% of Spell Power) Shadow damage and granting you 2.03333 Insanity over 3 sec. At 100 stacks, your target witnesses a vision of N'Zoth, dealing (689% of Spell Power) Shadow damage and granting you 6.1 Insanity over 3 sec.
Same row
Also on this row: Inescapable Torment, Madness Weaving, Screams of the Void, Tormented Spirits, Insidious Ire and Crushing Void.

Madness Weaving2 ranksThe damage bonus from your Mastery: Shadow Weaving gains 50% additional benefit from Shadow Word: Madness.
Screams of the Void2 ranksShadow Word: Madness causes your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch to deal damage 40% faster on all targets for 3 sec.
Tormented SpiritsYour 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%.
Insidious Ire2 ranksWhile 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.
Crushing VoidTentacle Slam deals 50% increased damage and Void Volley deals 15% increased damage. When Voidform ends, you can cast Void Volley 1 additional times within 30 sec.
Talent trees
Death's Torment is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Priest: Discipline (Healer), Holy (Healer), Shadow (DPS).
Death's Torment Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)