Maddening Touch

In the Shadow Priest talent tree, Maddening Touch sits in the Shadow specialization talents, row 6 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Shadow Talents.

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The tree draws a line into Maddening Touch from Voidform, Shadowy Insight and Voidtouched.

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  Voidform

  Bombards your target with a Void Volley and twists your Shadowform with void magic, increasing your spell damage by 20% for 20 sec. During Voidform, Void Volley replaces this spell and can be used up to 3 times. Releases a volley of pure void energy, firing 10 bolts at your target and 1 boltsbolt at all enemies of your target for (95.4% of Spell Power) Shadow damage. Generates 10 Insanity.

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  Shadowy Insight

  Shadow Word: Pain periodic damage has a chance to cause your next Mind Blast to be instant and ignore its cooldown.

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  Voidtouched

  Increases your Shadow Word: Madness damage by 6% and increases your maximum Insanity by 50.

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Maddening Touch leads on to Mastermind and Mind's Eye or Distorted Reality.

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  Mastermind2 ranks

  Increases the critical strike chance of Mind Blast, Mind Flay, and Shadow Word: Death by 4% and increases their critical strike damage by 20%.

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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.

Same row

Also on this row: Shadowfiend, Dark Thoughts, Improved Voidform or Ancient Madness, Shadeburst, Dark Evangelism and Shattered Psyche.

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  Shadowfiend

  Shadow Word: Death has a 40% chance to summon a Shadowfiend for 5 sec when damaging targets below 20% health. Summons a Shadowfiend to attack your target for 5 sec. Generates 1 Insanity each time the Shadowfiend attacks.

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  Dark Thoughts

  Increases the chance for Shadowy Insight to occur by 25%. When consuming Shadowy Insight, Mind Blast generates 1 additional Insanity.

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  Improved Voidform

  Voidform increases your spell damage by an additonal 5% and grants 2 additional uses of Void Volley.

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  Ancient Madness

  When Voidform ends, the haste lingers and decays over 10 sec.

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  Shadeburst
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  Dark Evangelism

  Increases your periodic spell damage by 6%.

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  Shattered Psyche

  Lasts 10 sec.