At first I was worried about the extra haste, after all, in Wrath too much haste leads to wasted time in between mind blasts. But then I got thinking, if we manage to get enough haste, (approximately 30%, yes I know that's a lofty goal, but we get almost 10 just from being a priest) then we'll have time to cast a Mind Spike, or Shadow Word: Death. This is exactly what I wanted from Cataclysm, the Spriest rotation to change to something less repetitive and more reactive.

Though a downside I just can't shake is the shadowy appartion. Sure it LOOKS cool, but when you break down the numbers its really not all that great.
At max rank, theres a 6% chance to proc 15% of Mind Blast damage every ~3 seconds. This works our to about a 1/50 chance (while standing still.) Assuming a Mind Blast damage of 10k (for easy maths sake) this works out to a dps of only 30.
Sure you can move to increase the proc rate and the dps to 300 but then you have to lose a mind flay for just the chance of a proc, and if your mind blast is doing 10k then thats definitely more.
Yes it's nice to have a novelty talent, but in a tree that is already limited by being both the PvE and PvP dps tree for a class, we need every useful talent we can get.

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