Vampiric Touchedit

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Vampiric Touch
  • Vampiric Touch
  • 1.5 sec cast
  • 30 yd range
  • 16% of Base Mana
  • Causes X Shadow damage over 15 seconds to your target and causes up to 10 party or raid members to gain 1% of their maximum mana per 5 sec when you deal damage from Mind Blast. In addition, if the Vampiric Touch is dispelled it will cause Y damage to the afflicted target.
Usable by
ClassPriest
Properties
TypeOffensive
SchoolShadow
CooldownNone/Global Cooldown
Talents
TalentedYes
Talent treeShadow
Talent required40
Other information
Ranks5
Related debuff
  • Magic
  • Vampiric Touch
  • [X/5] Shadow damage every 3 seconds. Priest's party or raid members gain 1% of their maximum mana per 5 sec when the priest deals damage from Mind Blast.
  • Duration: 15 seconds

Vampiric Touch is an ability in the Shadow tree for priests. This ability has large raid viability as it acts like a mana battery. Putting a Shadow priest in a healing group or a group that uses mana to DPS in raids, such as a group with mages and warlocks, is very effective at easing the burden of mana on a raid, although arguably less so than before Wrath of the Lich King, when the mana restored was equal to 5% of shadow damage done while the spell was on the target rather than a percentage of the raid or party member's mana.

Rank table

Rank Level Damage Dispel damage Cost
1 50 450 720 Talent
2 60 600 960 20s 70c
3 70 650 1040 20s 70c
4 75 735 1176 90s
5 80 850 1360 90s

Patch changes

  • Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): The amount of damage done when this spell is dispelled has been doubled.

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