Devouring Plague

Devouring Plague is a Shadow priest ability, learned at level 12. It is an instant cast Shadow-based spell that consumes 50 Insanity to deal instant damage and apply a strong damage over time debuff, healing the caster each time it deals damage.

Specialization

 * Mastery: Shadow Weaving

Talents

 * Damnation

PvP Talents

 * Lasting Plague

Tips and tactics

 * Devouring Plague is one of the three periodic effects that "applies" Mastery: Shadow Weaving to the target. Therefore it is ideal to refresh the effect near its end in order to maximize its uptime, so long as the priest will not cap their insanity doing so.
 * While in Voidform, shadow weaving applies its full effect to all targets regardless and players should instead prioritize casting Devouring Plague whenever possible.
 * As a disease, Devouring Plague can be dispelled by abilities such as Detox and Purify Disease. Devouring Plague has no dispel protection on its own, but it can benefit from the dispel protection provided by Vampiric Touch and Unstable Affliction against dispel abilities that remove both disease and magic effects (such as Cleanse).