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.
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Beta development notes · 2026-10-16
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DisciplineSilence 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.
ShadowImproved 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.
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Beta development notes · 2026-10-08
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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.
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Beta development notes · 2026-10-01
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Devouring Plague can now correctly critically strike.
DisciplineInner Focus no longer applies its Critical Strike increase to Periodic Effects.
ShadowShadow Weaving can no longer fail to apply.
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Beta development notes · 2026-09-24
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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.