Shadowform

Shadowform
Shadowform Priest ability 13% of base mana 1.5 sec cooldown Instant Assume a Shadowform, increasing your Shadow damage by 15%, reducing all damage done to you by 15%, and increasing all party and raid members spell haste by 5%. However, you may not cast Holy spells while in this form.
Properties
Class	Priest
School	Shadow
Cooldown	1.5 sec
Talents
Talent tree	Shadow, Tier 3
Related buffs
Shadowform Shadow damage you deal increased by 15%. All damage you take reduced by 15%. Mind Quickening Spell haste increased by 5%.

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"I draw deep from the shadows to slake my thirst for power. I'm never thirsty for long."

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, by 3/6/10%.

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Glyph improvement

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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 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): [Cure Disease] can no longer be cast in shadowform.
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): This talent also now causes Devouring Plague and Vampiric Touch to benefit from haste. Both the period length and the duration of these spells will be reduced by haste. In addition, the mana cost has been reduced from 32% to 13% of base mana.
  
• 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.
  • Entering Shadowform gives a new action bar (like stealth).
    
• Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Switching to Shadowform no longer cancels Holy buffs on a priest.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12): Changed so all spells except Holy can be cast rather than only Shadow and Discipline spells. Tooltip updated. This fixes several bugs that prevented various actions (creating tradeskill items, mining, summoning a mount, using a hearthstone and many more).
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Priests can now use scrolls and the  [Heart of Noxxion] while in Shadowform.
  

External links

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• WoWDB