Vampiric Touch

Vampiric Touch, a Priest Shadow Magic ability, is unchanged in WoW Forever: its tooltip matches Classic Era, and the client only changed internal columns the tooltip does not show (base level 1 to 0). 16% of base mana, 30 yd range, 1.5 sec cast.

Vampiric Touch tooltip: Classic Era vs WoW Forever

The same tooltip players see in-game, side by side, with each changed line marked.

Classic Era Sep 29, 2026

Vampiric Touch

Shadow school

16% of base mana · 30 yd range · 1.5 sec cast

Requires level 1

Applies your Vampiric Embrace talent to your target, causes level-scaled Shadow damage over 15 sec to your target, and causes all party members to gain mana equal to 2% of any Shadow spell damage you deal to the target.

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Priest's party gains mana equal to 2% of Shadow spell damage caused by the priest to this target.

Forever Oct 22, 2026

Vampiric Touch

Shadow school

16% of base mana · 30 yd range · 1.5 sec cast

Applies your Vampiric Embrace talent to your target, causes level-scaled Shadow damage over 15 sec to your target, and causes all party members to gain mana equal to 2% of any Shadow spell damage you deal to the target.

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Priest's party gains mana equal to 2% of Shadow spell damage caused by the priest to this target.

A value this tooltip would print is left out: the referenced number is not in the tables this build ships, so it is not stated rather than invented. Values that depend on your character (level, Spirit, Attack Power, spell power) are named in words instead of given a number.

Vampiric Touch changes between Forever builds

Related to Vampiric Touch

Talents that affect Vampiric Touch

Other client rows named Vampiric Touch

The game client ships one more row named Vampiric Touch (a creature's copy or an internal duplicate, not something a player casts). This page is the player ability; the other keeps its own page.

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