Instilled Doubt
Increases the critical strike chance of Vampiric Touch and Shadow Word: Pain by 8% and their critical strike damage by 20%.
Tree position
In the Shadow Priest talent tree, Instilled Doubt sits in the Shadow specialization talents, row 7 of 11. It takes 2 points to fill. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Shadow Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Instilled Doubt from Dark Evangelism, Shadeburst and Shattered Psyche.
Dark EvangelismIncreases your periodic spell damage by 6%.

Shattered PsycheLasts 10 sec.
Connected below
Instilled Doubt leads on to Auspicious Spirits and Maddening Tentacles.
Auspicious SpiritsYour Shadowy Apparitions deal 15% increased damage and have a chance to generate 1 Insanity.
Maddening TentaclesTentacle Slam afflicts your target with Shadow Word: Madness at 25% effectiveness.
Same row
Also on this row: Subservient Shadows, Mastermind, Mind's Eye or Distorted Reality and Spectral Horrors.
Subservient ShadowsSummoned minions last 20% longer and deal an additional 15% damage.
Mastermind2 ranksIncreases the critical strike chance of Mind Blast, Mind Flay, and Shadow Word: Death by 4% and increases their critical strike damage by 20%.
Mind's EyeReduces the Insanity cost of Shadow Word: Madness by 5.
Distorted RealityIncreases 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.
Spectral HorrorsShadow Apparitions deal 30% increased damage to targets affected by your Shadow Word: Madness.
Talent trees
Instilled Doubt is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Priest: Discipline (Healer), Holy (Healer), Shadow (DPS).
Instilled Doubt Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)