Psychic Horror

Psychic Horror
Psychic Horror Level 74 priest ability 30 yd range All Shadow Orbs 45 sec cooldown Instant cast Consumes all Shadow Orbs to terrify the target, causing them to tremble in horror for 1 sec plus 1 sec per Shadow Orb consumed and to drop their weapons and shield for 8 sec.
Usable by
Class	Priest
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Shadow
Cooldown	45 seconds
Other information
Level learned	74
Related debuffs
Magic Psychic Horror Horrified. Duration: X seconds Psychic Horror Disarmed. Duration: 8 seconds

Psychic Horror is a Shadow priest ability, available at level 74. Psychic Horror consumes all available [Shadow Orbs] to horrify the target (similar to a stun) for 2–4 seconds, and disarms them for 8 seconds, making it a great tool to use against melee targets.

Improvements

• Glyph of Psychic Horror
• Major Glyph
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  Reduces the cooldown of your Psychic Horror by 10 sec.
• Classes: Priest
• Requires Level 25
• Sell Price: 1

Tips

• Psychic Horror's horrify effect lasts for 2–4 seconds, depending on the number of Shadow Orbs consumed. However its disarm effect has a fixed duration of 8 seconds. When used against melee targets, priests may therefore choose to use Psychic Horror when they only have 1 Orb available, in order to keep their opponent disarmed as much of the time as possible, and saving the rest of their Orbs for use with [Devouring Plague] (which has no cooldown).

• Psychic Horror is very useful against melee classes and hunters, as its 8-second disarm effect will not only greatly reduce damage but also entirely prevent them from using many of their abilities.

• Psychic Horror is particularly useful against warriors, who are often immune to [Fear] due to their [Berserker Rage]. Psychic Horror is a horrify effect, and as such is not affected by this or other specific fear effect immunities.

• Targets that are immune to Psychic Horror's horrify effect are still subject to its disarm effect. This makes it an effective way of disarming warriors using [Bladestorm]; the disarm will also cancel the Bladestorm. However, targets with less specific immunities (such as [Divine Shield]) will not suffer the disarm effect.

Patch changes

• Patch 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): The durations of all disarm effects have been reduced to 8 seconds.
  
• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Psychic Horror no longer has a forward facing requirement, making it consistent with other non-projectile-based crowd control spells.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): This spell no longer has an invisible missile, so there is no travel time before the spell takes effect.
  
• Hotfix (2009-04-21): "Psychic Horror will now properly disarm targets at all ranges."
  
• Hotfix (2009-04-16): "The disarm effect from Psychic Horror should no longer be able to be dodged."
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Has been redesigned and is now a 1-pt talent. You terrify the target, causing them to tremble in horror for 3 sec. and drop all weapons (disarm effect: including bows) for 10 sec. 1 minute cooldown. Instant cast. The horror effect can be dispelled, but the disarm cannot.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

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