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Shadowy Insight

Shadowy Insight1 point

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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TypeTalent
Ranks1 point
ClassPriest
Specializations3
Tree sectionShadow specialization talents
Row5 of 11
Opens at8 points spent
Game build12.1.5
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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.

Connected below

Shadowy Insight leads on to Shadowfiend, Dark Thoughts and Maddening Touch.

  • 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.

  • Dark Thoughts

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

  • Maddening Touch

    Vampiric 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.

  • Voidtouched

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

  • 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.

  • Haunting Shadows

    Shadowy 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 Decay

    Increases 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).

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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)
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