Devouring Contagion, a Shadow Priest talent in WoW Forever

Devouring Contagion is a passive talent in row 5 of the Shadow tree. It needs 20 points in Shadow, so the earliest you can take it is level 30 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 2 ranks. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.

Devouring Contagion

2 ranks

• Requires 20 points in Shadow

Reduces the mana cost of your Devouring Plague by 25%. Targets that die while Devouring Plague is active spreads it, jumping to a nearby enemy within 5 yds for the remaining duration.

Every rank of Devouring Contagion

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Reduces the mana cost of your Devouring Plague by 25%. Targets that die while Devouring Plague is active spreads it, jumping to a nearby enemy within 5 yds for the remaining duration.
Rank 2	Reduces the mana cost of your Devouring Plague by 50%. Targets that die while Devouring Plague is active spreads it, jumping to a nearby enemy within 10 yds for the remaining duration.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Shadow tree

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Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

• Silence

Row above (row 4)

• Improved Fade
• Vampiric Embrace
• Shadow Weaving

Row below (row 6)

• Early Demise
• Darkness

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Devouring Contagion.

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Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.