Psychic Scream
Psychic Scream 30 sec cooldown 3.0% of base mana Instant cast The caster lets out a psychic scream, causing 5 enemies within 8 yards to flee for 8 sec. Damage caused may interrupt the effect.
Usable by
Class	Priest
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Shadow
Cooldown	30 sec (GCD 1.5 sec)
Level required	12
Related debuff
Magic Psychic Scream Running in Fear. Duration: 8 seconds
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• Psychic Scream
• 3.0% of base mana
• Instant cast
• The caster lets out a psychic scream, causing 5 enemies within 8 yards to flee for 8 sec. Damage caused may interrupt the effect.

Psychic Scream is a priest ability learned at level 12. It causes nearby enemies to run away in fear. There is a chance to resist it that increases as the enemy becomes higher level than the caster. This resistance becomes important when depending upon psychic scream to escape combat and psychic scream fails. Be careful when using it so fleeing enemies do not wake up additional mobs on their return.

Combined with [Mind Flay], shadow priests can tie enemies to them so they don't have the ability to run further than 20 yards and escape to aggro other mobs. Mind Flay also counts as a dot and has a reduced chance of breaking the fear.

Modified by

• [Power Infusion] (talent)
• [Inner Will] (core ability)

2020

• Glyph of Psychic Scream
• Item Level 25Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Major Glyph
• Classes: Priest
• Requires Level 25
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  Targets of your Psychic Scream and your Psyfiend's Psychic Terror now tremble in place instead of fleeing in fear.
• Sell Price: 1

Item improvements

• Arena Reward, Season 3: [Vengeful Gladiator's Investiture] or [Vengeful Gladiator's Raiment]
• Arena Reward, Season 4: [Brutal Gladiator's Investiture] or [Brutal Gladiator's Raiment]

Patch changes

•  Hotfix (2009-04-30): "Mana Burn now causes Fear, Hex and Psychic Scream to break early when used."
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): The damage threshold for Fear, Psychic Scream, Hex, Intimidating Shout, and Turn Evil to break early has been significantly reduced. [Glyph of Psychic Scream]: Increases duration by 2 seconds, but increases cooldown by 8 seconds. 
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Now costs 15% of base mana. Added [Glyph of Psychic Scream]. 
  
• Patch 1.12.0 (22-Aug-2006): This spell now uses the same resistance checks as the Warlock spell Fear. 
  
• Patch 1.8.0 (10-Oct-2005): Updated tooltip to reflect that damage caused to the feared target may break the effect. Included radius in tooltip. 
  
• Patch 0.9 (2004-08-17): Psychic Scream now has a chance to break when the feared target is damaged. 
  

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

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