Shadow Covenant

For other covenants, see Covenant (disambiguation).

Shadow Covenant
Shadow Covenant Row 5 Discipline priest talent 40 yd range 4.5% of base mana 30 sec cooldown Instant Make a shadowy pact, healing the target and 4 other injured allies within 30 yds for (165% of Spell power). For 7 sec, your Shadow spells deal 25% increased damage and healing, and Halo, Divine Star, and Penance are converted to Shadow spells.
Properties
Class	Priest
School	Shadow
Cooldown	30 seconds
Talents
Talent required	[Schism] or [Painful Punishment] or [Malicious Intent]
Improvements	[Embrace Shadow], [Twilight Corruption]
Related buff
Shadow Covenant Shadow spells damage and healing increased by 25%. Halo, Divine Star, and Penance are converted to Shadow spells. Duration: 7 seconds

Shadow Covenant is a Discipline priest talent. It is a powerful instant heal that strengthens Shadow damage and healing, while turning [Divine Star], [Halo], and [Penance] into [Divine Star], [Halo], and [Dark Reprimand].

Tips

• Shadow Covenant (scov) would typically be pressed before other damage abilities (such as pressing [Schism]) for the 25% shadow damage buff. It would also buff [Dark Reprimand], which was also a strong damage spell, especially with [Harsh Discipline] stacked up for extra bolts. This increased damage would also improve the healing converted from [Atonement].
• The buff would also be strong with [Halo] for improving its direct raidwide healing by 25%, although its damage portion would only trigger Atonement once for the first enemy target hit. As the maximum duration of the buff is 15s and neither [Divine Star] nor [Halo] are affected by haste cooldown reduction, it would not be possible to cast more than one of Halo/Divine Star per shadow covenant buff.

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2023-06-26): Fixed an issue causing Shadow Covenant to fail when [Blessing of Spellwarding] was active on the Priest.
  
• Hotfix (2023-05-09): Fixed an issue causing [Halo] and [Divine Star] to not convert to Shadow spells when casting Shadow Covenant.
  
• Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Fixed an issue causing Divine Star and Halo healing to not be increased from Shadow Covenant.
  
• Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Now converts Penance to a Shadow spell.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now converts Halo and Divine Star to Shadow spells instead of locking out all Holy spells. Now a row 5 Discipline talent (was a level 40 Discipline talent).
  
• Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): Healing increased by 10%, mana cost reduced by 10%, and duration lowered to 7 seconds (was 9 seconds).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Re-added and redesigned as a level 40 Discipline talent (was 75) – Make a shadowy pact, healing the target and 4 other injured allies within 30 yards. For 9 seconds, your Shadow spells deal 25% increased damage and healing, but you cannot cast Holy spells. 30 second cooldown, costs 5% base mana.

  Previous: Draws on the power of shadow to heal up to 5 injured allies within 30 yds of the target for (450% of spell power), but leaves a shell on them that absorbs the next (225% of spell power) healing they receive within 6 sec.
  

• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Removed.
  
• Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Shadow Covenant moved to level 75 (was 100), replacing [Contrition].
  
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10):
  • Now increases healing by 450% (was 550%).
  • Is now instant (was a 1.5 second cast)
  • No longer replaces [Power Word: Radiance].
    
• Hotfix (2016-08-08): The amount of healing absorbed by the shield that Shadow Covenant leaves allies has been slightly increased.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Added.
  

External links

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