Devouring Contagion
Priest · Shadow Magic · opens at 20 points spent · 2 ranks
Devouring Contagion does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.
Devouring Contagion ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces the mana cost of your Devouring Plague by 25%. Targets that die while Devouring Plague is active spreads it, jumping to 2 nearby enemies 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 2 nearby enemies within 10 yds for the remaining duration.
Where Devouring Contagion sits in the Shadow Magic tree
Devouring Contagion is a Shadow Magic talent for Priest. You need 20 points in Shadow Magic before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Silence
How often people take Devouring Contagion
61 of the 184 public Priest builds saved here (33%) put at least one point in Devouring Contagion. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Devouring Contagion
7 of the public Priest builds written up here spend points on Devouring Contagion.
- Priest Shadow Magic 5/3/23 · 2/2 , 52 up
- Priest Shadow Magic 5/0/24 · 2/2 , 12 up
- Priest Shadow Magic 5/0/37 · 2/2 , 10 up
- Priest Shadow Magic 5/3/35 · 2/2 , 2 up
- Priest Shadow Magic 7/3/31 · 2/2 , 2 up
- Priest Shadow Magic 5/0/42 · 2/2 , 2 up
- Priest Shadow Magic 5/3/23 · 2/2 , 2 up
Where this came from
New in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)