Dark Inspiration, a WoW Forever Priest talent, in words

What it does Shadow row 4

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  Dark Inspiration5 ranks · passiveRequires 15 points in Shadow Talents (level 25).Rank 1: Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party's Spirit by 3% for 10 sec.Rank 2: Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party's Spirit by 6% for 10 sec.Rank 3: Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party's Spirit by 9% for 10 sec.Rank 4: Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party's Spirit by 12% for 10 sec.Rank 5: Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party's Spirit by 15% for 10 sec.New in Forever. No Classic talent with this name.

Who takes it pick rates from this site's builds

• 41% of Priest buildsTaken in 41% of the 10,103 Priest builds with 41 or more points planned here, since the Oct 15 patch (build 70425).
• 12% of Discipline buildsTaken in 12% of the 2,963 builds that lead in Discipline.
• 8% of Holy buildsTaken in 8% of the 1,674 builds that lead in Holy.
• 66% of Shadow buildsTaken in 66% of the 5,466 builds that lead in Shadow, its own tree.
• How it is countedEach build counts once, the way the calculator's pick-rate badges count. Recounted a few times a day, last on 2026-10-19.

Beta build history

• Build 1.60.1.70425, 2026-10-15Replaces Improved Fade in Shadow: Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party's Spirit by 3% for 10 sec. Blizzard: "New talent (Row 4): Dark Inspiration – Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party's Spirit by 3/6/9/12/15% for 10 seconds." (notes for build 70425)

Around it in the Shadow tree

• Same row (15 points in Shadow, level 25)Vampiric Embrace, Shadow Weaving.
• Row above (level 20)Improved Psychic Scream, Mind Flay, Improved Mind Flay.
• Row below (level 30)Silence, Devouring Contagion.
• Gone from Classic ShadowShadow Affinity, Improved Fade, Improved Vampiric Embrace.

Every Shadow talent 17

• Shadow Focusrow 1
• Blackoutrow 1
• Spirit Taprow 1
• Improved Mind Blastrow 2
• Improved Shadow Word: Painrow 2
• Shadow Reachrow 2
• Improved Psychic Screamrow 3
• Mind Flayrow 3
• Improved Mind Flayrow 3
• Dark Inspirationrow 4
• Vampiric Embracerow 4
• Shadow Weavingrow 4
• Silencerow 5
• Devouring Contagionrow 5
• Early Demiserow 6
• Darknessrow 6
• Shadowformrow 7

The other two trees

• Discipline talents18
• Holy talents17