Improved Mind Flay, a Shadow Priest talent in WoW Forever

Improved Mind Flay is a passive talent in row 3 of the Shadow tree. Row 3 needs 10 points in Shadow, but its prerequisite Mind Flay has to be at 1/1 first, which makes it 11 points in Shadow and level 21 at the earliest (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 2 ranks. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.

Improved Mind Flay

2 ranks

• Requires 10 points in Shadow
• Requires Mind Flay at 1/1

Your Mind Flay now deals 10% more damage, gains 5 yards increased range, but slows the target's movement speed by 35%.

Every rank of Improved Mind Flay

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Your Mind Flay now deals 10% more damage, gains 5 yards increased range, but slows the target's movement speed by 35%.
Rank 2	Your Mind Flay now deals 20% more damage, gains 10 yards increased range, but slows the target's movement speed by 20%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Shadow tree

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Needs

• Mind Flay at 1/1

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

• Improved Mind Blast
• Improved Psychic Scream
• Mind Flay

Row above (row 2)

• Shadow Affinity
• Improved Shadow Word: Pain
• Shadow Reach

Row below (row 4)

• Improved Fade
• Vampiric Embrace
• Shadow Weaving

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

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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.