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Priest

Your class, through every change.

  1. Source publication dateLatest update Official source
    Beta

    Beta development notes · 2026-10-16

    Nerfs3Bugfix7New3Removed2Changes11

    Nerfs

    Shadow Word: Death cooldown increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds).

    Devouring Plague cooldown reduced to 24 seconds (was 1 minute).

    Shadow

    Vampiric Embrace cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 1 minute).

    Bugfix

    Fixed an issue where casting Power Word: Shield would say SHIELDED twice in your scrolling combat text.

    Fixed an issue where high ranks of Renew were preventing other Priests from applying Renew to the target.

    Fixed an issue causing Holy Fire Rank 5 periodic damage to be higher than Rank 6.

    Fixed an issue where casting Mind Vision would cause the target to stand up and interrupt drinks.

    Shadow

    Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was not benefitting from Shadowform’s increase to critical strike damage.

    Fixed an issue with Shadow Weaving’s Tooltip. It now correctly states that it causes the target to take increased damage from you.

    Fixed an issue where Devouring Contagion was causing the bounced Devouring Plague to cost Mana, perform a cast animation, and put the caster’s Devouring Plague back on full cooldown.

    New

    Discipline

    Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis what the maximum value for the shield is.

    Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis explicitly that it is activated by Non-Periodic critical heals.

    Shadow

    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.

    Removed

    Shadow

    Improved Fade removed.

    Shadow Infinity removed.

    Changes

    Power Word: Shield will now correctly tell the player they can’t replace a Power Word: Shield on a target if the Power Word: Shield they have is stronger.

    Discipline

    Silence Resolve threat reduction now applies to all spells.

    Inner Focus will now correctly only be used on a single spell, even if you spell queue another spell into Penance’s channel.

    Power in Light now increases Smite and Penance if the target is afflicted by Holy Fire or Shadow Word Pain.

    Twin Disciplines now correctly benefits Shadow Word: Death, Mind Flay, Starshards and Penance.

    Mental Strength moved to Row 2 from Row 4 and changed to increase your intellect by 2/4/6/8/10%.

    Improved Power Word: Shield moved to Row 3 from Row 2.

    Shadow

    Improved Mind Blast moved from Row 3 to Row 2.

    Improved Mind Flay changes to: Each instance of damage of Mind Flay deals 10/20% more damage than its previous instance of damage.

    Devouring Contagion now spreads to 2 targets.

    Changed Vampiric Embrace so that it can’t be resisted.

  2. Source publication date Official source
    Beta

    Beta development notes · 2026-10-08

    Buffs1Nerfs1Bugfix1Changes2

    Buffs

    Discipline

    Healing done by Penance has been increased on Penance ranks 2 and 4.

    Nerfs

    Discipline

    Adjusted Penance mana costs so that it has a consistent advantage in mana efficiency over the Heal/Greater Heal family of spells. Rank 1 mana cost was increased by 50%.

    Bugfix

    Discipline

    Reduced Penance spell damage and healing to resolve a bug where it was being treated like a 3-second channel instead of a 2 -second channel.

    Changes

    Smite: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-4 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-5 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade.

    Lesser Heal and Heal: The base points of ranks 1-3 of Lesser Heal and ranks 1-2 of Heal have been adjusted to make the growth rate of this family of spells up to Heal Rank 3 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade.

  3. Source publication date Official source
    Beta

    Beta development notes · 2026-10-01

    Bugfix1Changes3

    Bugfix

    Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was always benefitting from the Early Demise talent regardless of the target’s health %.

    Changes

    Devouring Plague can now correctly critically strike.

    Discipline

    Inner Focus no longer applies its Critical Strike increase to Periodic Effects.

    Shadow

    Shadow Weaving can no longer fail to apply.

  4. Source publication date Official source
    Beta

    Beta development notes · 2026-09-24

    Bugfix2Changes5

    Bugfix

    Corrected an issue and now Renew can land critical hits.

    Gnome: Corrected an issue and now Contingency Plan can land critical hits.

    Changes

    Power Word: Shield can now always overwrite an existing Power Word: Shield on a target that does not have Weakened Soul.

    Gnome: Confounding Flash now has a cast visual. The casting visual is now more Holy oriented than Arcane and the sounds have been updated to match.

    Night Elf: Starshards now correctly gains resistance to spell pushback from the Twilight Focus talent.

    Undead: Dark Sacrifice’s tooltip now correctly displays that the Mana gained from the ability scales with Spirit.

    Undead: Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks Crowd Control that breaks on damage.