Shadowy Insight
Shadow Word: Pain periodic damage has a chance to cause your next Mind Blast to be instant and ignore its cooldown.
Tree position
In the Shadow Priest talent tree, Shadowy Insight sits in the Shadow specialization talents, row 5 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Shadow Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Shadowy Insight from Tormenting Whispers.
Tormenting WhispersIncreases Shadow Word: Madness damage by 15%.
Connected below
Shadowy Insight leads on to Shadowfiend, Dark Thoughts and Maddening Touch.
ShadowfiendShadow 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.
Dark ThoughtsIncreases the chance for Shadowy Insight to occur by 25%. When consuming Shadowy Insight, Mind Blast generates 1 additional Insanity.
Maddening TouchVampiric Touch deals 20% additional damage and has a chance to generate 1 Insanity each time it deals damage.
Same row
Also on this row: Voidtouched, Voidform, Haunting Shadows and Mental Decay.
VoidtouchedIncreases your Shadow Word: Madness damage by 6% and increases your maximum Insanity by 50.
VoidformBombards 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.
Haunting ShadowsShadowy Apparition damage increased by 10%. When Shadowy Apparitions deal damage, they extend the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch on the target by 1.1 sec.
Mental DecayIncreases the damage of Mind Flay by 25%.
Talent trees
Shadowy Insight is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Priest: Discipline (Healer), Holy (Healer), Shadow (DPS).
Shadowy Insight Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)