Devouring PlagueSame affliction, lighter bite

There is a particular satisfaction in making your target’s suffering work in your favor. Devouring Plague afflicts the target with a disease, dealing Shadow damage over time and healing you through the damage it causes. That pairing gives the spell its character: an affliction for your enemy and something welcome coming back to you.

In Forever, the important change sits inside that familiar description. The spell still asks you to appreciate the whole course of the disease, rather than just the moment you apply it.

How you get it

We have not recorded how you learn Devouring Plague yet.

What changed in Forever

The comparison between Classic Era 1.15.9 and Forever 1.60.1 centers on the damage total. Before, the description promised 904 Shadow damage over 24 sec. After, it promises 848 over that same duration. For you, that means a lighter bite spread across an unchanged span of time.

Healing remains part of the effect across the comparison, preserving the connection between hurting your target and helping yourself. Because that healing comes from damage caused, the lower total matters to both sides of the spell’s appeal. Read the change as a reduction within an otherwise familiar effect: the defining relationship survives, while the damage feeding it becomes smaller.

Who uses it

If you enjoy spells that combine pressure on a target with recovery for yourself, this is the kind of effect worth your attention. Its appeal is in that exchange, especially if you like watching an affliction do its work after the initial cast. You get to enjoy the unfolding effect, not merely the moment you send it on its way.