Mind Flay

Mind Flay ranks in Forever

1. Rank 1 Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 63 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%.

What Mind Flay does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.

1. Rank 1 Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 75 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%.

Where Mind Flay sits in the Shadow Magic tree

Mind Flay is a Shadow Magic talent for Priest. You need 10 points in Shadow Magic before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Improved Mind Flay.

• Unlocks: Improved Mind Flay
• Same row: Improved Psychic Scream, Improved Mind Flay

How often people take Mind Flay

77 of the 184 public Priest builds saved here (42%) put at least one point in Mind Flay. 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 Mind Flay

7 of the public Priest builds written up here spend points on Mind Flay.

• Priest Shadow Magic 5/3/23 · 1/1 , 52 up
• Priest Shadow Magic 5/0/24 · 1/1 , 12 up
• Priest Shadow Magic 5/0/37 · 1/1 , 10 up
• Priest Shadow Magic 5/3/35 · 1/1 , 2 up
• Priest Shadow Magic 7/3/31 · 1/1 , 2 up
• Priest Shadow Magic 5/0/42 · 1/1 , 2 up
• Priest Shadow Magic 5/3/23 · 1/1 , 2 up

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

• Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
• the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)