Vampiric Touch

Vampiric Touch
Vampiric Touch Level 24 Shadow priest ability 40 yd range 1.5 sec cast A touch of darkness that causes (192.5% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 21 sec, and heals you for 50% of damage dealt. If Vampiric Touch is dispelled, the dispeller flees in Horror for 3 sec. Generates 6 Insanity.
Properties
Class	Priest
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	24
Improvements	[Mastery: Madness], [Misery], [Spiteful Apparitions], Thought Harvester
Related debuffs
Magic Vampiric Touch Suffering (27.5% of spell power) Shadow damage every 3 sec. Duration: 21 seconds Magic Sin and Punishment Fleeing in terror. Duration: 3 seconds

In the World of Warcraft: Trading Card Game.

Vampiric Touch (VT) is a level 24 Shadow priest ability. It deals Shadow damage over 21 seconds, heals the priest for a portion of the damage, and generates Insanity when cast.

Vampiric Touch is one of the Shadow priest's main damage over time effects. It is used to steadily deal damage to enemies, and should generally be kept active at all times. Additionally, Vampiric Touch is one of the few periodic damaging effects that features built in dispel protection, immediately horrifying the dispeller when dispelled.

Improvements

Talents

• [Misery]

Azerite Traits

• [Spiteful Apparitions]
• Thought Harvester

Notes

• The horrify effect triggered from dispelling does not have diminishing returns.

History

Added in Patch 2.0.1, Vampiric Touch was the second periodic shadow damaging ability (third for Forsaken priests, who already had [Devouring Plague] as one of their priest racial abilities) made available to Priests. It was designed to be an additional DoT for Shadow, and to help alleviate the serious mana issues Shadow priests faced. This version of the ability restored mana to the priest's group, based on shadow damage the priest dealt to the target, and gave Shadow priests the reputation as "mana batteries."

Patch 3.0.2 introduced [Replenishment], a passive mana restoration effect designed incredibly similar to Vampiric Touch's original mana restore effect (Replenishment also replaced this effect). Vampiric Touch was one of the few spells that made use of this new mechanic, triggering every time [Mind Blast] damaged the target. This continued until Patch 5.0.4 removed the [Replenishment] mechanic entirely, and Vampiric Touch instead restored 2% of the priest's maximum mana each time it ticked, no longer restoring any mana to other group members. Its signature mana restoration effect was finally removed entirely in Patch 6.0.2.

Patches and hotfixes

• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Duration reduced to 21 seconds, down from 24 seconds.
  
• Hotfix (2017-09-06): [Hotfix in testing] Fixed a bug that made Void Eruption's Vampiric Touch missile display incorrectly.
  
• Hotfix (2017-06-13): Vampiric Touch damage reduced by 15% in PvP situations.
  
• Hotfix (2017-01-24): Vampiric Touch now deals 10% less damage in PvP situations (was 25% less).
  
• Hotfix (2017-01-17):
  • Vampiric Touch damage reduced by 14%.
  • The damage of Vampiric Touch is reduced by 25% in PvP situations.
    
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Generates 6 Insanity when cast (was 4). Duration is now 24 seconds (was 18 seconds).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Vampiric Touch now heals the priest for 50% of damage dealt, and now generates Insanity upon application. Duration increased from 15 seconds to 18 seconds. The dispel backlash effect from [Sin and Punishment] has been built into this spell. Mana cost removed.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): [Dispersion] and Vampiric Touch no longer restore mana. Base mana regeneration rate for Shadow priests has been increased by 200%, [Shadow Word: Pain] and Vampiric Touch mana costs have been reduced by 50% to compensate.
  
• Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Now deals 20% more damage.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer triggers [Replenishment]. Instead, each time damage is dealt, the caster gains 2% of maximum mana.
  
• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Damage done has been decreased by 12%. In addition, [Sin and Punishment]'s Vampiric Touch backlash fear effect no longer has diminishing returns.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): No longer causes damage upon being dispelled. Dispel protection is now available from the talent [Sin and Punishment].
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): While in [Shadowform], Vampiric Touch will gain benefit from Haste rating.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): The amount of damage done when this spell is dispelled has been doubled.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): When dispelled, Vampiric Touch will deal damage to the afflicted target. While in [Shadowform], bonus damage from critical strike chance removed and replaced by the ability generate critical strikes.
  
• Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): The Spell power coefficient has been doubled and no longer triggers Replenishment when other priests cast [Mind Blast]. Vampiric Touch cast in Shadowform now deals increased damage percentage equal to the player’s chance to get a spell crit on their target.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Vampiric Touch's mana restoration effect redesigned. Mind Blast damage now triggers the [Replenishment] effect, causing up to 10 party or raid members to gain 0.25% of their maximum mana per second.

  Previous effect: causes all party members to gain mana equal to 5% of any Shadow spell damage you deal.
  

• Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.
  

See also

• Vampiric Touch TCG card

External links

Vampiric Touch	Sin and Punishment
Wowhead WoWDB	Wowhead WoWDB