Shadowform

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Shadowform
Shadowform Instant cast 32% of base mana Assume a Shadowform, increasing your Shadow damage by 15%, reducing all damage done to you by 15% and threat generated by 30%. However, you may not cast Holy spells while in this form except Cure Disease and Abolish Disease. Grants the periodic damage from your Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, and Vampiric Touch spells the ability to critically hit for 100% increased damage.
Usable by
Class	Priest
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Shadow
Cooldown	2 sec
Talents
Talented	Yes
Talent tree	Shadow, Tier 7
Talent required	Vampiric Embrace
Other information
Ranks	1
Related buff
Shadowform Shadow damage you deal increased by 15%. All damage you take reduced by 15% and threat generated is reduced by 30%. You may not cast Holy spells except Cure Disease and Abolish Disease. Grants the periodic damage from your Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, and Vampiric Touch spells the ability to critically hit for 100% increased damage.

"I draw deep from the shadows to slake my thirst for power. I'm never thirsty for long."^{TCGHoA 88}

Shadowform is a priest buff that can be acquired from the Shadow Magic talent tree. While active, it increases Shadow damage dealt by 15% and reduces all damage taken by 15%.

Notes

Shadowform does not lock the Holy school, but only the Holy tree. That is the reason why Holy spells from the Discipline tree, such as Power Word: Shield, can still be cast without removing Shadowform. However, as of Patch 2.3, if you are in Shadowform and try to use an ability that may not be used while in Shadowform, you will leave it and use that ability. This function can be disabled with the command: /console autoUnshift 0

The character looks translucent black while in Shadowform. While mounted, the priest's mount also gains this appearance.

Unlike Darkness, Shadowform does affect Shadow spells from the Discipline tree (e.g. Mana Burn) and shadow-elemental wands.

Normally a Priest who uses this spell is considered a Shadow Priest.

Talent improvement

Mental Agility reduces the mana cost of all instant-cast Priest spells, including Shadowform.

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Tips and tactics

Shadowform's damage reduction is before the damage reduction.of Armor. If a melee blow would land for 1000 damage on an unarmored opponent, shadowform would reduce it to 850 before armor reduction is calculated. Shadowform does not *stack* with armor. See field tests here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4463777931&sid=1&pageNo=2.

Known bugs

Look-altering actions that take place while shadowformed (such as being poisoned or diseased) will alter the look until Shadowform is dropped and reassumed.

Patch changes

Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Now reduces all damage taken by 15%, not just physical damage. Bonus damage from critical strike chance removed and replaced by the ability of those periodic damage spells to generate critical strikes.
Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Abolish Disease and Cure Disease can now be cast while in Shadowform.
Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): You can now shift into Shadowform while mounted or sitting.
Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Spirit of Redemption and Spiritual Guidance now work while the priest is in Shadowform.
Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): (Undocumented) Entering Shadowform gives a new action bar (like stealth).

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