Tormented Spirits
Your 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%.
Tree position
In the Shadow Priest talent tree, Tormented Spirits 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 Tormented Spirits from Auspicious Spirits.
Auspicious SpiritsYour Shadowy Apparitions deal 15% increased damage and have a chance to generate 1 Insanity.
Connected below
Tormented Spirits leads on to Idol of Yogg-Saron.
Idol of Yogg-SaronAfter conjuring Shadowy Apparitions, gain a stack of Idol of Yogg-Saron. At 20 stacks, you summon a Thing from Beyond that casts Void Spike at nearby enemies for 20 sec. Hurls a bolt of dark magic, dealing (93.9% of Spell Power) Shadow damage and Shadow damage to all enemies of the target. Damage reduced beyond 5 targets.
Same row
Also on this row: Inescapable Torment, Madness Weaving, Death's Torment, Screams of the Void, Insidious Ire and Crushing Void.

Madness Weaving2 ranksThe damage bonus from your Mastery: Shadow Weaving gains 50% additional benefit from Shadow Word: Madness.
Death's TormentShadow Word: Death deals damage 2 additional times at 15% effectiveness.
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.
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
Tormented Spirits is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Priest: Discipline (Healer), Holy (Healer), Shadow (DPS).
Tormented Spirits Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)