Shadow Word: Pain


 * "Your pain is my pleasure." — Omedus the Punisher
 * This spell envelopes a target briefly in a cloud of dark energy conjured from the netherworld.

Shadow Word: Pain is a Shadow Word - a Shadow-based damage over time Priest spell.

Talent Improvements
Shadow tree talents:
 * Improved Shadow Word: Pain increases the damage by 3/6%.
 * Vampiric Embrace: Fills you with the embrace of Shadow energy, causing you to be healed for 6% and other party members to be healed for 3% of any single-target Shadow spell damage you deal.
 * Shadowform increases the damage done by 15%.
 * Pain and Suffering alters Mind Flay, giving it a 30/60% chance to refresh the duration of an existing SW: Pain DoT on a target (note: Mind Flay does not create a SW: Pain on a target, it resets the existing DoT).
 * Twisted Faith increases Shadow damage by 1/2%.

Discipline tree talents:
 * Twin Disciplines increases all Shadow damage done by 2/4/6%.
 * Mental Agility reduces the mana cost of all instant casts by 4/7/10%.

It is possible for Shadow priests to spec all of the above talents in order to improve this spell to its maximum.

Glyph Improvements

 * Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain increases the periodic damage of your Shadow Word: Pain by 10%.

Tips and tactics

 * You can deal an immense amount of damage with just Shadow Word: Pain and Devouring Plague. If you also happen to be Shadow spec, you can add Vampiric Touch to the mix for even more damage.