Priest

Last Updated: 10/27/08 (9138)

Notes on listed Abilities/Talents: Abilities and Talent description may not match WoWHead tooltips. All information listed here is based on the very latest updates to Blizzard's official talent calculators and patch notes, which are more up-to-date than the in-game builds from which WoWHead draws its data. We are not responsible for discrepancies in WoWHead's database.

New Trained Abilities

	Ability	Rank	Level	School	Description
	Divine Hymn	Rank 01	80	Holy	You recite a Holy hymn, causing the closest 10 enemies within 15 yards to become incapacitated for 20 sec., and heals the closest 10 friendly targets within 15 yards for 348 every sec for 6 sec. Incapacitated enemies take 40% less damage while incapacitated and for 3 sec after the incapacitation ends. Damage caused may interrupt the effect on all incapacitated targets. (750 Mana, 1.5 sec Cast, 6 min Cooldown)
	Mind Sear	Rank 02	75	Shadow	Causes an explosion of shadow magic around the enemy target, causing 212 to 228 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 5 sec to all enemies within 10 yards around the target. (28% of Base Mana, Channeled, 30 yd Range)

New Talents

	Talent	Tier	Tree	Description
	Twin Disciplines	01 (0 Pt Req)	Discipline	Increases the damage and healing done by your instant spells by 1/2/3/4/5%. (5 Ranks)
	Aspiration	08 (35 Pt Req)	Discipline	Reduces the cooldown of your Inner Focus, Power Infusion, Pain Suppression and Penance spells by 10/20%. (2 Ranks)
	Rapture	08 (35 Pt Req)	Discipline	Causes you to gain up to .5/1/1.5/2/2.5% of your maximum mana each time you heal with Greater Heal, Flash Heal or Penance, or damage is absorbed by your Power Word: Shield or Divine Aegis. Increasing the amount healed or absorbed increases the mana gained. (5 Ranks)
	Divine Aegis	09 (40 Pt Req)	Discipline	Critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 10/20/30% of the amount healed. Lasts 12 sec. (3 Ranks)
	Grace	09 (40 Pt Req)	Discipline	Your Flash Heal, Greater Heal, and Penance spells have a 50/100% chance to bless the target with Grace, reducing damage done to the target by 1% and increases all healing received from the Priest by 2%. This effect will stack up to 3 times. Effect lasts 8 sec. (2 Ranks)
	Borrowed Time	10 (45 Pt Req)	Discipline	Grants 5/10/15/20/25% spell haste for your next spell after casting Power Word: Shield, and increases the amount absorbed by your Power Word: Shield equal to 8/16/24/32/40% of your spell power. (5 Ranks)
	Penance	11 (50 Pt Req)	Discipline	Rank 4: Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 288 Holy damage to an enemy, or 1484 to 1676 healing to an ally every 1 sec for 2 sec. (1 Talent Rank/4 Trained Ranks) (Rank 4: Level 80, 16% of Base Mana, Channeled, 10 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Desperate Prayer	03 (10 Pt Req)	Holy	Rank 9: Instantly heals the caster for 3716 to 4384. (1 Talented Rank/9 Trained Ranks) (Rank 9: 21% of base mana, Instant, 2 min cooldown
	Serendipity	08 (35 Pt Req)	Holy	If your Greater Heal or Flash Heal spells heal your target over maximum health, you are instantly refunded 8/17/25% of the spell's mana cost. (3 Ranks)
	Improved Holy Concentration	09 (40 Pt Req)	Holy	Increases the chance you'll enter Holy Concentration by 5/10/15%, and also increases your spell haste by 10/20/30% for the next 2 Greater Heal, Flash Heal or Binding Heal spells after you gain Holy Concentration. Lasts 20 sec. (3 Ranks)
	Test of Faith	09 (40 Pt Req)	Holy	Increases healing by 2/4/6% and spell critical effect chance by 2/4/6% on friendly targets at or below 50% health. (3 Ranks)
	Divine Providence	10 (45 Pt Req)	Holy	Increases the amount healed by Circle of Healing, Binding Heal, Holy Nova, Prayer of Healing, Divine Hymn and Prayer of Mending by 2/4/6/8/10%, and reduces the cooldown of your Prayer of Mending by 6/12/18/24/30%. (5 Ranks)
	Guardian Spirit	11 (50 Pt Req)	Holy	Calls upon a guardian spirit to watch over the friendly target. The spirit increases the healing received by the target by 40%, and also prevents the target from dying by sacrificing itself. This sacrifice terminates the effect but heals the target of 50% of their maximum health. Lasts 10 sec. (1 Rank, 6% of Base Mana, Instant, 3 min Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Improved Spirit Tap	01 (0 Pt Req)	Shadow	Your Mind Blast and Shadow Word: Death critical strikes increase your total Spirit by 5/10%. For the duration, your mana will regenerate at a 10/20% rate while casting. Lasts 8 sec. (2 Ranks)
	Mind Melt	06 (25 Pt Req)	Shadow	Increases the critical strike chance of your Mind Blast, Mind Flay and Mind Sear spells by 2/4%. (2 Ranks)
	Improved Shadowform	08 (35 Pt Req)	Shadow	Your Fade ability now has a 50/100% chance to remove all movement impairing effects when used while in Shadowform, and reduces casting or channeling time lost when damaged by 35/70% when casting any Shadow spell while in Shadowform. (2 Ranks)
	Psychic Horror	09 (40 Pt Req)	Shadow	Causes your Psychic Scream ability to inflict Psychic Horror on the target when the fear effect ends. Psychic Horror reduces all damage done by the target by 15/30% for 6 sec. (2 Ranks)
	Pain and Suffering	09 (40 Pt Req)	Shadow	Your Mind Flay has a 33/66/100% chance to refresh the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain on the target, and reduces the damage you take from your own Shadow Word: Death by 10/20/30%. (3 Ranks)
	Twisted Faith	10 (45 Pt Req)	Shadow	Increases your spell power by 2/4/6/8/10% of your total Spirit, and your damage done by your Mind Flay and Mind Blast is increased by 2/4/6/8/10% if your target is afflicted by Shadow Word: Pain. (5 Ranks)
	Dispersion	11 (50 Pt Req)	Shadow	You disperse into pure Shadow energy, reducing all damage taken by 90%. You are unable to attack or cast spells, but you regenerate 6% mana every 1 sec for 6 sec. Dispersion can be cast while stunned, feared or silenced. (1 Rank, Instant, 3 min Cooldown)

Discipline

Abilities

• Dispel Magic: Now has a 30 yard enemy (offensive dispel) range and 40 yard friendly (defensive dispel) range.
• Inner Fire now increases spell power instead of just "healing spell power."
• Levitate now costs 3% of base mana.
• Prayer of Fortitude: Now buffs the whole raid.

Talents

• Absolution moved from Tier 3 to Tier 4.
• Divine Spirit: Mana cost reduced.
• Enlightenment: Now increases spell haste (instead of spell damage) in addition to Stamina and Spirit. No longer increases Intellect.
• Focused Power reworded - Now increases damage and healing done by your spells by 2/4%. In addition, your Mass Dispel cast time is reduced by 0.5 sec.
• Improved Divine Spirit: Changed to 3/6% (down from 5/10%). Now Divine Spirit and Prayer of Spirit spells also increase the target's spell power by an amount equal to 50/100% of the Spirit granted.
• Improved Inner Fire: Moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2. Now also increases the effect of your Inner Fire spell by 15/30/45% (up from 10/20/30%) and increases the total number of charges by 4/8/12.
• Improved Power Word: Fortitude: Moved to Tier 2.
• Improved Power Word: Shield: Moved to Tier 3.
• Martyrdom - The Focused Casting effect reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Priest spells and decreases the duration of Interrupt effects by 10/20%.
• Mental Strength: Now increases Intellect by 3/6/9/12/15% (was "Increases maximum mana by 2%/4%/6%/8%/10%).
• Pain Suppression: Cooldown increased to 3 minutes.
• Power Infusion: Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes.
• Reflective Shield now causes 15/30/45% of the damage absorbed by your Power Word: Shield to reflect back at the attacker and is a 3 point talent. (Previously was a 5 point talent, 10/20/30/40/50%)
• Renewed Hope: Increases the critical effect chance of your Flash Heal, Greater Heal and Penance spells by 2/4% (down from 3/6%) on targets afflicted by the Weakened Soul effect.
• Silent Resolve: Ranks 4 and 5 removed.
• Unbreakable Will now reduces the duration of Stun, Fear, and Silence effects done to you by an additional 3/6/9/12/15%.

Holy

Abilities

• Desperate Prayer: Now accessible by all races in Tier 3 of the Holy tree. New 70+ ranks added.
• Holy Fire: Cast time reduced to to 2 seconds, down from 3.5. Initial damage increased roughly 60%. Duration for the damage over time effect reduced to 7 seconds, down from 10. Now has a 10 second cooldown. Now has a 2 sec cast time (down from 3.5 sec). (Old Version: Holy Fire)
• Holy Nova: Mana cost reduced to 25% of base mana from 33% of base mana.
• Hymn of Hope: Now you recite a Holy hymn of Hope, restoring 2% mana every 2 sec to all party members within 40 yards. Lasts 8 sec. The Priest must channel to keep the hymn active. Mana cost removed.

Talents

• Blessed Recovery: Now after being struck by a melee or ranged critical hit, heal 5/10/15% of the damage taken over 6 sec. Additional critical hits taken during the effect increase the healing received.
• Circle of Healing: Mana cost increased by 19%.
• Empowered Healing: Your Greater Heal spell gains an additional 8/16/24/32/40% (up from 2/4/6/8/10%) and your Flash Heal and Binding Heal gain an additional 4/8/12/16/20% (up from 1/2/3/4/5%) of your bonus healing effects.
• Healing Focus - Reduces the pushback suffered by 35/70% instead of giving you a 35/70% chance to avoid interruption.
• Holy Concentration: Now gives you a 10/20/30% chance to enter a clearcasting state after casting any critical Flash Heal, Binding Heal, or Greater Heal spell. (Previously 2/4/6% chance)
• Holy Nova: Now trainable.
• Holy Reach: Now affects Divine Hymnn.
• Improved Healing: Now affects Penance and Divine Hymn. (Reduces the mana cost of your Lesser Heal, Heal, Greater Heal and Penance spells by 5/10/15%.)
• Inspiration: Can now trigger from the Penance spell, in addition to all the old spells that could trigger Inspiration.
• Lightwell: Cast time reduced to 0.5 seconds (down from 1.5). Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes (down from 6). Charges increased to 10 (up from 5). Heal effect now only breaks from any attack that hits you for 30% or more of your total health.
• Searing Light: Now also increases the damage of Holy Nova and Penance in addition to Smite and Holy Fire.
• Surge of Light: Now affects Flash Heal.

Shadow

Abilities

• Devouring Plague: Mana cost reduced to 25% of base mana from 31%. Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (down from 3 min). Amount of damage that heals you now specified, 15% of damage caused by the Devouring Plague heals the caster.
• Fade: Now only have 1 rank.
• Mind Control: Now only has one rank and works on targets of all levels. Now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Mind Flay: Damage on all ranks reduced.
• Mind Soothe: Now only has one rank and works on targets of all levels. Now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Mind Vision: Now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Psychic Scream: Now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Shackle Undead: Now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Shadow Word: Pain: Damage on all ranks reduced.
• Shadowfiend: Duration increased to 18 sec from 15 sec.

Talents

• Focused Mind: Now also reduces the mana cost of Mind Sear in addition to Mind Blast, Mind Control, and Mind Flay.
• Improved Fade renamed to Veiled Shadows: Now also reduces the cooldown of your Shadowfiend ability by 1/2 minutes.
• Improved Shadow Word: Pain: Now increases the damage dealt by 3/6% (down from 5/10%), no longer increases duration.
• Improved Vampiric Embrace: Now increases the healing received from Vampiric Embrace by 33/67% (up from 5/10%).
• Misery changed to 3 ranks. Now your Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Flay and Vampiric Touch spells also increase the chance for harmful spells to hit by 1/2/3% lasting 24 sec, and increases the damage of your Mind Blast, Mind Flay and Mind Sear spells by an amount equal to 5/10/15% of your spell power.
• Shadow Focus: Reduced to give 1%/2%/3% (down from 2%/4%/6%/8%/10%) increased chance to hit with Shadow spells, but will now additionally reduce Shadow spell costs by 2%/4%/6%.
• Shadow Form: Now reduces threat generated by 30% in addition to it's current effects. Now also allows for your Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, and Vampiric Touch abilities deal increased percentage damage equal to your spell critical strike chance.
• Shadow Power: Extra crit chance reduced to 2/4/6/8/10% (down from 3%/6%/9%/12%/15%), but now increases the critical damage bonus of the affected spells by 20/40/60/80/100% (up from 10/20/30/40/50%). Now also works with Mind Flay.
• Shadow Resilience renamed to Mind Melt: Now increases the critical strike chance of your Mind Flay, Mind Sear and Mind Blast spells by 2/4%.
• Shadow Weaving changed to 3 ranks and your Shadow damage spells have a 33/66/100% chance to increase the Shadow damage you deal by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Silence global cooldown removed.
• Spirit Tap: Reduced to 3 Ranks: 33%/66%/100% chance to trigger.
• Vampiric Embrace: Changed to allow you to be healed for 15% and other party members to be healed for 3% of any Shadow spell damage you deal.
• Vampiric Touch revamped. Now causes up to 10 party or raid members to gain .25% (down from .5%) of their maximum mana per second when you deal damage with Mind Blast. (Previously worked with all shadow spells.)

Notes on listed Abilities/Talents: Abilities and Talent description may not match WoWHead tooltips. All information listed here is based on the very latest updates to Blizzard's official talent calculators and patch notes, which are more up-to-date than the in-game builds from which WoWHead draws its data. We are not responsible for discrepancies in WoWHead's database.

New Ranks for All Abilities

	Ability	Rank	Level	School	Description
	Divine Spirit	Rank 06	80	Discipline	Holy power infuses the target, increasing their Spirit by 80 for 30 min. (680 Mana, Instant, 30 yd Range)
	Feedback	Rank 07	80	Discipline	The priest becomes surrounded with anti-magic energy. Any successful spell cast against the priest will burn 165 of the attacker's Mana, causing 1 Shadow damage for each point of Mana burned. Lasts 15 sec. (705 Mana, Instant, 3 min Cooldown)
	Inner Fire	Rank 08	71	Discipline	A burst of Holy energy fills the caster, increasing armor by 1800 and healing spell power by 95. Each melee or ranged damage hit against the priest will remove one charge. Lasts 10 min or until 20 charges are used. (450 Mana, Instant)
	Inner Fire	Rank 09	77	Discipline	A burst of Holy energy fills the caster, increasing armor by 2440 and healing spell power by 230. Each melee or ranged damage hit against the priest will remove one charge. Lasts 10 min or until 20 charges are used. (555 Mana, Instant)
	Mana Burn	Rank 08	77	Discipline	Destroy 1478 to 1562 mana from a target. For each mana destroyed in this way, the target takes 0.5 Shadow damage. (510 Mana, 3 sec Cast, 30 yd Range)
	Penance	Rank 01	60	Discipline	Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 184 Holy damage to an enemy, or 670 to 756 healing to an ally every 1 sec for 2 sec. (Talent: Tier 11) (16% of Base Mana, Channeled, 10 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Penance	Rank 02	70	Discipline	Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 224 Holy damage to an enemy, or 805 to 909 healing to an ally every 1 sec for 2 sec. (Talent: Tier 11) (16% of Base Mana, Channeled, 10 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Penance	Rank 03	75	Discipline	Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 256 Holy damage to an enemy, or 1278 to 1442 healing to an ally every 1 sec for 2 sec. (Talent: Tier 11) (16% of Base Mana, Channeled, 10 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Penance	Rank 04	80	Discipline	Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 288 Holy damage to an enemy, or 1484 to 1676 healing to an ally every 1 sec for 2 sec. (Talent: Tier 11) (16% of Base Mana, Channeled, 10 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Power Word: Fortitude	Rank 08	80	Discipline	Power infuses the target increasing their Stamina by 165 for 30 min. (1125 Mana, Instant, 30 yd Range)
	Power Word: Shield	Rank 13	75	Discipline	Draws on the soul of the party member to shield them, absorbing 1920 damage. Lasts 30 sec. While the shield holds, spellcasting will not be interrupted by damage. Once shielded, the target cannot be shielded again for 15 sec. (815 Mana, Instant, 4 sec Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Power Word: Shield	Rank 14	80	Discipline	Draws on the soul of the party member to shield them, absorbing 2230 damage. Lasts 30 sec. While the shield holds, spellcasting will not be interrupted by damage. Once shielded, the target cannot be shielded again for 15 sec. (960 Mana, Instant, 4 sec Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Prayer of Fortitude	Rank 04	80	Discipline	Power infuses the target's party, increasing their Stamina by 165 for 1 hr. (2875 Mana, Instant, 40 yd Range)
	Prayer of Spirit	Rank 03	80	Discipline	Power infuses the target's party, increasing their Spirit by 80 for 1 hr. (2875 Mana, Instant, 40 yd Range)
	Starshards	Rank 09	73	Discipline	Rains starshards down on the enemy target's head, causing 830 Arcane damage over 15 sec. (Instant, 30 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Starshards	Rank 10	80	Discipline	Rains starshards down on the enemy target's head, causing 1030 Arcane damage over 15 sec. (Instant, 30 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Binding Heal	Rank 02	72	Holy	Heals a friendly target and the caster for 1619 to 2081. Low threat. (1000 Mana, 1.5 sec Cast, 40 yd Range)
	Binding Heal	Rank 03	78	Holy	Heals a friendly target and the caster for 1952 to 2508. Low threat. (1215 Mana, 1.5 sec Cast, 40 yd Range)
	Chastise	Rank 07	77	Holy	Chastise the target, causing 685 to 795 Holy damage and Immobilizing them for up to 2 sec. Only works against Humanoids. This spell causes very low threat. (350 Mana, Instant, 30 sec Cooldown, 20 yd Range)
	Circle of Healing	Rank 06	75	Holy	Heals up to 5 friendly party or raid members within 15 yards of the target for 589 to 651. (625 Mana, Instant, 6 sec Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Circle of Healing	Rank 07	80	Holy	Heals up to 5 friendly party or raid members within 15 yards of the target for 684 to 756. (730 Mana, Instant, 6 sec Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Desperate Prayer	Rank 08	73	Holy	Instantly heals the caster for 3111 to 3669. (Instant, 10 min Cooldown)
	Desperate Prayer	Rank 09	80	Holy	Instantly heals the caster for 3716 to 4384. (Instant, 10 min Cooldown)
	Divine Hymn	Rank 10	80	Holy	You recite a Holy hymn, causing the closest 10 enemies within 15 yards to become incapacitated for 20 sec., and heals the closest 10 friendly targets within 15 yards for 348 every sec for 6 sec. Incapacitated enemies take 40% less damage while incapacitated and for 3 sec after the incapacitation ends. Damage caused may interrupt the effect on all incapacitated targets. (750 Mana, Instant, 10 min Cooldown)
	Flash Heal	Rank 10	73	Holy	Heals a friendly target for 1684 to 1956. (640 Mana, 1.5 sec Cast, 40 yd Range)
	Flash Heal	Rank 11	79	Holy	Heals a friendly target for 2054 to 2386. (775 Mana, 1.5 sec Cast, 40 yd Range)
	Greater Heal	Rank 08	73	Holy	A slow casting spell that heals a single target for 3395 to 3945. (1095 Mana, 3 sec Cast, 40 yd Range)
	Greater Heal	Rank 09	78	Holy	A slow casting spell that heals a single target for 3950 to 4590. (1290 Mana, 3 sec Cast, 40 yd Range)
	Guardian Spirit	Rank 01	60	Holy	Calls upon a guardian spirit to watch over the friendly target. The spirit increases the healing received by the target by 40%, and also prevents the target from dying by sacrificing itself. This sacrifice terminates the effect but heals the target of 50% of their maximum health. Lasts 10 sec. (Talent: Tier 11) (6% of Base Mana, Instant, 3 min Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Holy Fire	Rank 10	72	Holy	Consumes the enemy in Holy flames that cause 732 to 928 Holy damage and an additional 287 Holy damage over 7 sec. (290 Mana, 2 sec Cast, 10 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Holy Fire	Rank 11	78	Holy	Consumes the enemy in Holy flames that cause 890 to 1130 Holy damage and an additional 350 Holy damage over 7 sec. (290 Mana, 2 sec Cast, 10 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Holy Nova	Rank 08	75	Holy	Causes an explosion of holy light around the caster, causing 333 to 387 Holy damage to all enemy targets within 10 yards and healing all party members within 10 yards for 611 to 709. These effects cause no threat. (25% of Base Mana, Instant)
	Holy Nova	Rank 09	80	Holy	Causes an explosion of holy light around the caster, causing 398 to 462 Holy damage to all enemy targets within 10 yards and healing all party members within 10 yards for 713 to 827. These effects cause no threat. (25% of Base Mana, Instant)
	Lightwell	Rank 05	75	Holy	Creates a Holy Lightwell. Members of your raid or party can click the Lightwell to restore 3915 health over 6 sec. Any direct damage will cancel the effect. Lightwell lasts for 3 min or 10 charges. (605 Mana, 0.5 sec Cast, 5 min Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Lightwell	Rank 06	80	Holy	Creates a Holy Lightwell. Members of your raid or party can click the Lightwell to restore 4620 health over 6 sec. Any direct damage will cancel the effect. Lightwell lasts for 3 min or 10 charges. (710 Mana, 0.5 sec Cast, 5 min Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Mark of Divinity	Rank 01	70	Holy	Marks the target with Divinity, causing 30% of all of your healing to also heal the target. Lasts for 30 min. (65% of Base Mana, Instant)
	Prayer of Healing	Rank 07	76	Holy	A powerful prayer heals party members within 30 yards for 2091 to 2209. (1840 Mana, 3 sec Cast)
	Prayer of Mending	Rank 02	74	Holy	Places a spell on the target that heals them for 905 the next time they take damage. When the heal occurs, Prayer of Mending jumps to a raid member within 20 yards. Jumps up to 5 times and lasts 30 sec after each jump. This spell can only be placed on one target at a time. (545 Mana, Instant, 10 sec Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Prayer of Mending	Rank 03	79	Holy	Places a spell on the target that heals them for 1043 the next time they take damage. When the heal occurs, Prayer of Mending jumps to a raid member within 20 yards. Jumps up to 5 times and lasts 30 sec after each jump. This spell can only be placed on one target at a time. (640 Mana, Instant, 10 sec Cooldown, 40 yd Range)
	Renew	Rank 13	75	Holy	Heals the target for 1235 over 15 sec. (610 Mana, Instant, 40 yd Range)
	Renew	Rank 14	80	Holy	Heals the target for 1400 over 15 sec. (720 Mana, Instant, 40 yd Range)
	Resurrection	Rank 07	78	Holy	Heals the target for 1400 over 15 sec. (60% of Base Mana, 10 sec Cast, 30 yd Range)
	Smite	Rank 11	74	Holy	Smite an enemy for 604 to 676 Holy damage. (520 Mana, 2.5 sec Cast, 30 yd Range)
	Smite	Rank 12	79	Holy	Smite an enemy for 707 to 793 Holy damage. (615 Mana, 2.5 sec Cast, 30 yd Range)
	Devouring Plague	Rank 08	73	Shadow	Afflicts the target with a disease that causes 1144 Shadow damage over 24 sec. Damage caused by the Devouring Plague heals the caster. (1520 Mana, Instant, 3 min Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Devouring Plague	Rank 09	79	Shadow	Afflicts the target with a disease that causes 1376 Shadow damage over 24 sec. Damage caused by the Devouring Plague heals the caster. (1850 Mana, Instant, 3 min Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Dispersion	Rank 01	60	Shadow	You disperse into pure Shadow energy, reducing all damage taken by 90%. You are unable to attack or cast spells, but you regenerate 6% mana every 1 sec for 6 sec. Dispersion can be cast while stunned, feared or silenced. (Talent: Tier 11) (Instant, 3 min Cooldown)
	Hex of Weakness	Rank 08	80	Shadow	Weakens the target enemy, reducing damage caused by 55 and reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 20%. Lasts 2 min. (470 Mana, Instant, 30 yd Range)
	Mind Blast	Rank 12	74	Shadow	Blasts the target for 837 to 883 Shadow damage. (605 Mana, 1.5 sec Cast, 8 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Mind Blast	Rank 13	79	Shadow	Blasts the target for 992 to 1048 Shadow damage. (715 Mana, 1.5 sec Cast, 8 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Mind Flay	Rank 08	74	Shadow	Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 492 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing the target to 50% of their movement speed. (9% of Base Mana, Channeled, 20 yd Range)
	Mind Flay	Rank 09	80	Shadow	Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 588 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing the target to 50% of their movement speed. (9% of Base Mana, Channeled, 20 yd Range)
	Mind Sear	Rank 01	75	Shadow	Causes an explosion of shadow magic around the enemy target, causing 183 to 197 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 5 sec to all enemies within 10 yards around the target. (28% of Base Mana, Channeled, 30 yd Range)
	Mind Sear	Rank 02	80	Shadow	Causes an explosion of shadow magic around the enemy target, causing 212 to 228 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 5 sec to all enemies within 10 yards around the target. (28% of Base Mana, Channeled, 30 yd Range)
	Prayer of Shadow Protection	Rank 03	77	Shadow	Power infuses the target's party, increasing their Shadow resistance by 130 for 20 min. (2400 Mana, Instant, 40 yd Range)
	Shadow Protection	Rank 05	76	Shadow	Increases the target's resistance to Shadow spells by 130 for 10 min. (1200 Mana, Instant, 30 yd Range)
	Shadow Word: Death	Rank 03	75	Shadow	A word of dark binding that inflicts 639 to 741 Shadow damage to the target. If the target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, the caster takes damage equal to the damage inflicted upon the target. (430 Mana, Instant, 12 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Shadow Word: Death	Rank 04	80	Shadow	A word of dark binding that inflicts 750 to 870 Shadow damage to the target. If the target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, the caster takes damage equal to the damage inflicted upon the target. (510 Mana, Instant, 12 sec Cooldown, 30 yd Range)
	Shadow Word: Pain	Rank 11	75	Shadow	A word of darkness that causes 1176 Shadow damage over 18 sec. (775 Mana, Instant, 30 yd Range)
	Shadow Word: Pain	Rank 12	80	Shadow	A word of darkness that causes 1380 Shadow damage over 18 sec. (915 Mana, Instant, 30 yd Range)
	Shadowguard	Rank 08	75	Shadow	The caster is surrounded by shadows. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, the attacker will be struck for 195 Shadow damage. Attackers can only be damaged once every few seconds. This damage causes no threat. 3 charges. Lasts 10 min. (385 Mana, Instant)
	Touch of Weakness	Rank 08	80	Shadow	The next melee attack on the caster will cause 95 Shadow damage and reduce the damage caused by the attacker by 55 for 2 min. (375 Mana, Instant)
	Vampiric Touch	Rank 04	75	Shadow	Causes 735 Shadow damage over 15 sec to your target and causes all party members to gain mana equal to 2% of any Shadow spell damage you deal. (595 Mana, 1.5 sec Cast, 30 yd Range)
	Vampiric Touch	Rank 05	80	Shadow	Causes 850 Shadow damage over 15 sec to your target and causes all party members to gain mana equal to 2% of any Shadow spell damage you deal. (700 Mana, 1.5 sec Cast, 30 yd Range)

Animations

Mind Sear

51 Point Talents

Penance

Dispersion

3.0.2.9095 (October 18 2008)

Holy

• Divine Providence - Now also reduces the cooldown of your Prayer of Mending by 6/12/18/24/30%.

Shadow

• Devouring Plague - Max rank does 1088 damage, down from 1216.
• Improved Vampiric Embrace - Now increases the healing received from Vampiric Embrace by 33/67%. Up from 5/10%.
• Vampiric Embrace - Changed to allow you to be healed for 15% and other party members to be healed for 3% of any Shadow spell damage you deal.
• Shadowform - Now also allows for your Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, and Vampiric Touch abilities deal increased percentage damage equal to your spell critical strike chance.

3.0.2.9038 (October 3 2008)

Discipline

• Improved Power Word: Fortitude - Moved to Tier 2.
• Improved Power Word: Shield - Moved to Tier 3.

3.0.2.9014 (September 30 2008)

Discipline

• Improved Inner Fire - Moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2.
• Improved Power Word: Fortitude - Moved from Tier 2 to Tier 3.
• Silent Resolve - Ranks 4 and 5 removed.
• Twin Disciplines - Now increases "damage and healing" instead of "spellpower".

Holy

• Guardian Spirit - This sacrifice terminates the effect but heals the target of 50% of their maximum health. Up from 10%.
• Holy Nova - Mana cost reduced to 25% of base mana from 33% of base mana for higher ranks. Lower ranks also had a mana cost reduction.

Shadow

• Devouring Plague - Amount of damage that heals you now specified, 15% of damage caused by the Devouring Plague heals the caster.
• Twisted Faith - Now works if your target is afflicted by your Shadow Word: Pain instead of Mind Flay.

3.0.2.8982 (September 24 2008)

Shadow

• Shadow Word: Pain - Damage on all ranks reduced.
• Improved Shadow Word: Pain - Damage increase changed to 3%/6% down from 5%/10%.
• Mind Flay - Damage on all ranks reduced.
• Twisted Faith - Increases your spell power by 2/4/6/8/10% of your total Spirit, and your damage done by your Mind Flay and Mind Blast is increased by 2/4/6/8/10% if your target is afflicted by Mind Flay.

3.0.2.8970 (September 19 2008)

Discipline

• Focused Power reworded - Now increases damage and healing done by your spells by 2/4%.
• Martyrdom - The Focused Casting effect reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Priest spells and decreases the duration of Interrupt effects by 10/20%.

Holy

• Desperate Prayer - Mana cost increased to 21% of base mana from 19%.
• Healing Focus - Reduces the pushback suffered by 35/70% instead of giving you a 35/70% chance to avoid interruption.
• Hymn of Hope - Mana cost removed.

Shadow

• Devouring Plague - Mana cost reduced to 25% of base mana from 31%.
• Dispersion - Part of description removed, "If Dispersion runs its full duration, and you are not the victim of any damage or harmful effects during its duration, your spells gain 25% damage for 60 sec."

3.0.2.8962 (September 18 2008)

Discipline

• Prayer of Fortitude: Now buffs the whole raid.
• Divine Spirit: Mana cost reduced.
• Borrowed Time: Now grants 5/10/15/20/25% spell haste for your next spell after casting Power Word: Shield, and increases the amount absorbed by your Power Word: Shield equal to 8/16/24/32/40% of your spell power.
• Grace: Now increases all healing received from the priest by 2% in addition to its previous effect. Stacks up to 3 times.
• Improved Divine Spirit: Now Divine Spirit and Prayer of Spirit spells also increase the target's spell power by an amount equal to 50/100% of the Spirit granted.
• Twin Disciplines: Now increases your spell power on instant spells by 1%. (Previously increased spell damage and healing)

Holy

• Divine Hymm: You recite a Holy hymn, causing the closest 10 enemies within 15 yards to become incapacitated for 20 sec, and heals the closest 10 friendly targets within 15 yards for 348 every sec for 6 sec. Incapacitated enemies take 40% less damage while incapacitated and for 3 sec after the incapacitation ends. Damage caused may interrupt the effect on all incapacitated targets. 6 min cooldown.
• Holy Fire: Now has a 2 sec cast time (down from 3.5 sec).
• Holy Nova: Is now a base ability.
• Hymn of Hope: Now you recite a Holy hymn of Hope, restoring 2% mana every 2 sec to all party members within 40 yards. Lasts 8 sec. The Priest must channel to keep the hymn active.
• Divine Providence: Now affects Divine Hymnn.
• Holy Concentration: Now gives you a 10/20/30% chance to enter a clearcasting state after casting any critical Flash Heal, Binding Heal, or Greater Heal spell. (Previously 2/4/6% chance)
• Improved Holy Concentration: Now increases the chance you'll enter Holy Concentration by 5/10/15% and affects the next 2 spells. (Previously was 1/2/3% and affected only the next spell)
• Surge of Light: Now affects Flash Heal.
• Holy Reach: Now affects Divine Hymnn.
• Improved Healing: Now affects Divine Hymnn.
• Blessed Recovery: Now after being struck by a melee or ranged critical hit, heal 5/10/15% of the damage taken over 6 sec. Additional critical hits taken during the effect increase the healing received.
• Desperate Prayer (NEW TIER 3 TALENT): Instantly heals the caster for 263 to 325. Instant Cast. 2 Minute Cooldown.

Shadow

• Devouring Plague: Mana cost reduce. Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (down from 3 min).
• Dispersion: Now you disperse into pure Shadow energy, reducing all damage taken by 90%. You are unable to attack or cast spells, but you regenerate 6% mana every 1 sec for 6 sec. Dispersion can be cast while stunned, feared or silenced. If Dispersion runs its full duration, and you are not the victim of any damage or harmful effects during its duration, your spells gain 25% damage for 1 min.
• Psychic Horror: Now causes your Psychic Scream ability to inflict Psychic Horror on the target when the fear effect ends. Psychic Horror reduces all damage done by the target by 15/30% for 6 sec.
• Vampiric Touch: Now restores .25% of max mana when you deal damage with Mind Blast. (Previously worked with all shadow spells and was .5% of max mana)
• Improved Shadowform: Now gives you a 50/100% chance to remove all movement impairing effects when using Fade while in Shadowform.
• Misery: Now your Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Flay and Vampiric Touch spells also increase the chance for harmful spells to hit by 1/2/3% lasting 24 sec, and increases the damage of your Mind Blast, Mind Flay and Mind Sear spells by an amount equal to 5/10/15% of your spell power.
• Shadow Power: Now increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Mind Blast, Mind Flay, and Shadow Word: Death spells by 20/40/60/80/100%.
• Shadow Resilience: Replaced with Mind Melt.
• Mind Melt (NEW TIER 6 TALENT): Increases the critical strike chance of your Mind Blast, Mind Flay and Mind Sear spells by 2/4%.

Upcoming Priest Changes (September 11 2008)

Discipline

• Grace will now provide 2% healing for the Priest, stacks up 3 times. So 6% increased healing taken from that target who has Grace (but only by you, the Priest).
• Twin Disciplines will now work with Mind Flay.

Holy

• We're going to make Holy Concentration scale with spell crit instead of just a flat %
• Divine Hymn now does a short duration heal over time effect in addition to it's crowd-control capability, and is now baked into a lot
• We improved Blessed Recovery so that it now works like Ignite (Mage), where each crit gets added into the periodic heal over time and refreshes the duration.
• Lightwell: You can now see how many charges are left in the Lightwell by clicking on it.

Shadow

• Shadow Resilience: Re-designed. Now called Mind Melt - Increases the critical strike chance of your Mind Flay, Mind Sear and Mind Blast spells by 2/4%.
• Shadow Power: Now 20/40/60/80/100% critical strike damage bonus, also works with Mind Flay.
• Improved Shadowform - The chance to remove all movement impairing effects when you Fade is now restored.
• Psychic Horror: Redesigned. Now reduces all damage done by targets when Psychic Scream ends by 15/30%. Lasts 6 sec.
• Dispersion: 90% damage reduction is restored.
• Misery: Now has 5/10/15% bonus spell power to Mind Flay, Mind Sear and Mind Blast.

3.0.2.8926 (September 10 2008)

Discipline

• Renewed Hope - Increased critical effect down to 2/4% from 3/6%.
• Twin Disciplines - Now only increases spellpower on instant spells.
• Borrowed Time - Now reduces base global cooldown by 3/6/9/12/15% instead of .5 sec off the global cooldown.
• Rapture - Now causes you to gain up to .5/1/1.5/2/2.5% of your maximum mana each time you heal with Greater Heal, Flash Heal or Penance, or damage is absorbed by your Power Word: Shield or Divine Aegis. Increasing the amount healed or absorbed increases the mana gained.
• Enlightenment - No longer increases Intellect.
• Improved Inner Fire - Now increases the effect of your Inner Fire spell by 15/30/45% (down from 20/40/60%), and increases the total number of charges by 4/8/12.
• Martyrdom now decreases the duration of Interrupt effects by 10/20% instead of giving a chance to resist them.

Holy

• Divine Hymn - Now "You recite a Holy hymn, causing the closest 10 enemies within 0 yards to become incapacitated for 20 sec., and heals the closest friendly targets within 0 yards for 4506 over 6 sec." PvE sleep time changed to 20 seconds from 10 seconds.
• Test of Faith - Now increases healing by 2/4/6%, down from 5/10/15% and spell critical effect chance by 2/4/6%, down from 4/7/10% on friendly targets at or below 50% health.
• Serendipity - Any overheal gives back 8/17/25% of the spells mana cost, changed from 50% overheal gives back 20/40/60% of the spells mana cost.
• Improved Holy Concentration - Increases the chance you'll enter Holy Concentration by 1/2/3% (down from 4/7/10%), and also increases your spell haste by 10/20/30% (down form 20/40/60%) for the next Greater Heal, Flash Heal or Binding Heal spells after you gain Holy Concentration. Lasts 20 sec.
• Empowered Healing - Your Greater Heal spell gains an additional 8/16/24/32/40% (up from 2/4/6/8/10%) and your Flash Heal and Binding Heal gain an additional 4/8/12/16/20% (up from 1/2/3/4/5%) of your bonus healing effects.

Shadow

• Improved Spirit Tap - Changed to "Your Mind Blast and Shadow Word: Death critical strikes increase your total Spirit by 5/10%. For the duration, your mana will regenerate at a 10/20% rate while casting. Lasts 8 sec."
• Fade - All ranks but Rank 1 removed.
• Twisted Faith - Now increases all spellpower by 2/4/6/8/10% of your Spirit, down from 6/12/18/24/30%.
• Dispersion - Damage reduction lowered to 60% from 90%. Now only regens mana, not health and mana.
• Improved Shadowform - Movement impairing effects removal effect removed.
• Shadow Resilience - Now reduces the chance you'll be critically hit by all spells by 2/4% instead of reducing physical damage taken by 2/4%.
• Misery - No longer increases the damage of your Mind Blast, Mind Flay and Mind Sear spells by an amount equal to 15% of your spell power.
• Improved Fade renamed to Veiled Shadows: Now also reduces the cooldown of your Shadowfiend ability by 1/2 minutes.

3.0.2.8905 (September 05 2008)

Shadow

• Misery changed to: our Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Flay and Vampiric Touch spells also increase the chance for harmful spells to hit by 1/2/3%, and increases the damage of your Mind Blast, Mind Flay and Mind Sear spells by an amount equal to 5/10/15% of your spell power.

3.0.2.8885 (August 29 2008)

Discipline

• Inner Fire now increases spell power instead of just "healing spell power"
• Penance (Tier 11) damage and healing has been increased for all ranks. Now ticks twice instead of 3 times.
• Borrowed Time (Tier 10) increases the amount absorbed by your Power Word: Shield equal to 8/16/24/32/40% of your spell power. (Previously 4/8/12/16/20%)
• Grace (Tier 9) changed to: Your Flash Heal, Greater Heal, and Penance spells have a 50/100% chance to bless the target with Grace, reducing damage done to the target by 1%. This effect will stack up to 3 times. Effect lasts 8 sec.
• Reflective Shield (Tier 7) now causes 15/30/45% of the damage absorbed by your Power Word: Shield to reflect back at the attacker and is a 3 point talent. (Previously was a 5 point talent, 10/20/30/40/50%)
• Focused Power (Tier 6) now increases your total spell damage and healing done by 2/4%. In addition, your Mass Dispel cast time is reduced by 0.5 sec.
• Enlightenment (Tier 6) increases intellect as well as spirit and stamina now. Damage and healing bonus replaced with spell haste.
• Improved Inner Fire moved to Tier 3 and now increases the effect of your Inner Fire spell by 20/40/60%.
• Absolution moved from Tier 3 to Tier 4.
• Unbreakable Will (Tier 1) now reduces the duration of Stun, Fear, and Silence effects done to you by an additional 3/6/9/12/15%.
• Renewed Hope (Tier 8 ): Increases the critical effect chance of your Flash Heal, Greater Heal and Penance spells by 3% on targets afflicted by the Weakened Soul effect.

Holy

• Empowered Healing (Rank 5): Description changed from 'Your Greater Heal spell gains an additional 10% and your Flash Heal and Binding Heal gain an additional 5% of your bonus healing effects.' to 'Your Greater Heal spell gains an additional 40% and your Flash Heal and Binding Heal gain an additional 20% of your bonus healing effects.'

Shadow

• Vampiric Touch (Tier 9) changed to cause up to 10 party or raid members to gain 0.5% of their maximum mana per second while you are dealing shadow damage.
• Pain and Suffering (Tier 9) reduces the damage you take from your own Shadow Word: Death by 10/20/30%. (Previously 20/40/60%)
• Misery (Tier 8 ) changed to 3 ranks and your Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Flay and Vampiric Touch spells also increase the chance for harmful spells to hit by 1/2/3%.
• Shadow Weaving (Tier 4) changed to 3 ranks and your Shadow damage spells have a 33/66/100% chance to increase the Shadow damage you deal by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Twisted Faith (Rank 5): Description changed from 'Increases your shadow spell power by 30% of your total Spirit, and your damage done by your Mind Flay and Mind Blast is increased by 5% for each of your Shadow damage over time effects on the target.' to 'Increases your Shadow spell power by 30% of your total Spirit, and your damage done by your Mind Flay and Mind Blast is increased by 5% for each of your Shadow damage over time effects on the target.'
• Dispersion: Description changed from 'You disperse into pure shadow energy, reducing all damage taken by 90%. You are unable to attack or cast spells, but you regenerate 6% health and mana every 1 sec for [DURATION].' to 'You disperse into pure Shadow energy, reducing all damage taken by 90%. You are unable to attack or cast spells, but you regenerate 6% health and mana every 1 sec for [DURATION].'
• Shadow Focus (Rank 5): Description changed from 'Reduces your target's chance to resist your Shadow spells by 10%.' to 'Increases your chance to hit with your Shadow spells by 10%, and reduces the mana cost of your Shadow spells by 1%.'

3.0.1.8820 (August 21 2008)

Shadow

• Improved Shadowform (Tier 8 ) changed to - reduces casting or channeling time lost when damaged by 35% when casting any Shadow spell while in Shadowform. (Previously reduced chance to get interrupted by 35%)
• Mind Sear mana cost reduced from 67% to 28% of base.

3.0.1.8770 (August 8 2008)

Discipline

• Enlightenment: Now also gives 1% spell damage and 1% heal per point.
• Improved Inner Fire - Now also increases the bonus healing on your Inner Fire spell by 10/20/30%.
• Levitate now costs 3% of base mana.

Holy

• Circle of Healing: Cooldown reinstated to 6 seconds.
• Holy Fire: Cast time reduced to to 2 seconds, down from 3.5. Damage increased roughly 60%. Duration for the damage over time effect reduced to 7 seconds, down from 10. Holy Fire now has a 10 second cooldown.
• Lightwell: Cast time reduced to .5 sec, down from 1.5 sec. Charges increased to 10, up from 5. Now breaks from any attack that hits you for 30% or more of your total health. Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5.

Shadow

• Silence global cooldown removed.
• Shadowform: Now has an innate 30% threat reduction. Now has a shapeshift UI.
• Improved Shadow Word: Pain - Now increases damage done by your Shadow Word: Pain by 5/10%, but no longer increases the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain.

3.0.1.8681 (July 28 2008)

Discipline

• Rapture: Divine Aegis shield effect was added to also give back 5% of the damage absorbed in mana. (Causes you to gain mana equal to 0.5/1.0/1.5/2.0/2.5% of the healing done by your Greater Heal, Flash Heal and Penance spells, and 5% the damage absorbed by your Power Word: Shield and Divine Aegis is returned as mana to you.)
• Aspiration: The cooldown of Penance is now also reduced by this talent. (Reduces the cooldown of your Inner Focus, Power Infusion, Pain Suppression and Penance spells by 10/20%.)
• Penance: Rank 1 damage component lowered from 437 to 184 holy damage. Now instant cast. (Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 184 Holy damage to an enemy, or 670 to 756 healing to an ally every 1 sec for 3 seconds. Cooldown : 10 Seconds)

Holy

• Improved Healing: Now affects Penance. (Reduces the mana cost of your Lesser Heal, Heal, Greater Heal and Penance spells by 5/10/15%.)
• Circle of Healing: Cooldown removed. Rank 1 Mana cost changed from 300 to 370.

Shadow

• Dispersion: Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes down from 5 minutes.

Talent Changes (July 25 2008)

See: MMO-Champion
See Also: Official Calculator Updates

Discipline

• Grace - (Discipline) - added duration
• Enlightenment - (Discipline) - fixed stats
• Borrowed Time - (Discipline) - fixed stats, updated icon

Holy

• Empowered Healing - (Holy) - Updated Stats

Shadow

• Vampiric Touch - (Shadow) - Stat reduction to 2%
• Improved Spirit Tap - (Shadow) - updated stats

3.0.1.8634 (July 17 2008)

Discipline

• Focused Will: Now increases healing effects on you by 3/4/5%, down from 4/7/10%.
• Force of Will: This talent now increases your spell damage by a flat amount, rather than increasing your spells by a %. (Now increases school %, rather than selected spells damage %). In other words, your spell damage gained from this talent is now reflected on your character sheet, rather than the skill tool-tips.
• Improved Inner Fire: Now also increases the bonus healing on your Inner Fire spell by 10/20/30%.
• Twin Faiths (New): Increases your damage and healing by 1/2/3/4/5%.
• Shackle Undead now costs 9% of base mana.
• Wand Specialization has been removed.

Holy

• Circle of Healing: Now works on any targets in the caster's raid, and is now a "smart" heal and chooses the lowest health targets to heal first within it's range. Also now has a 6 second cooldown. Also no longer will heal summoned Snakes from Hunter's Snake Trap.
• Holy Fire: Cast time reduced to to 2 seconds, down from 3.5. Damage increased roughly 60%. Duration for the damage over time effect reduced to 7 seconds, down from 10. Holy Fire now has a 10 second cooldown.
• Levitate now costs 3% of base mana.
• Lightwell: Cast time reduced to .5 sec, down from 1.5 sec. Charges increased to 10, up from 5. Now breaks from any attack that hits you for 30% or more of your total health. Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5.

Shadow

• Mind Control now has only one rank and costs 12% of base mana.
• Mind Soothe now has only one rank, costs 6% of base mana and has no max target level.
• Mind Vision now costs 3% of base mana.
• Psychic Scream now costs 15% of base mana.
• Shadowform: Now has an innate 30% threat reduction. Now has a shapeshift UI.
• Spirit Tap: Talent reduced to 3 points, down from 5. Now also leads into "Improved Spirit Tap"

Worldwide Invitational Information (June 28-29 2008)

(From WoWInsider's coverage)

• Divine Hymn: Allows priest to cast a hymn (holy tree) that heals party members. If an opponent strikes a party member, they go into a trance. It gives a deep holy priest not only a healing mechanic, but a pretty interestnig emergency ability to use for control
• Dispersion: Reduce damage 90% regen 6% health/mana per second. 51 point shadow, a way to turtle against incoming attacks and regen. Can move but not cast spells. (Meant to give Shadow Priests more viability in PvP.)
• Guardian Spirit: Talent that prevents party member death. Castable cheat death pet. Follows a party member, if party member takes a killing blow, the spirit dies instead. All three are specifically designed to address core priest issues, or solidify their overall role.

3.0.1.8471 (June 12 2008)

Holy

• Circle of Healing: "Heals up to 5 friendly party or raid members within 15 yards of the target for 246."

3.0.1.8391 (May 30 2008)

Discipline

• Improved Divine Spirit: Changed to 3/6% (down from 5/10%).

Holy

• Circle of Healing: Cooldown changed to 6 sec (down from 8).

Shadow

• Dark Spirit: removed.
• Growing Pains: removed.
• Improved Shadowform: Changed from 25/50% chance to 50/100% chance to avoid spell pushback in Shadowform.
• Pain and Suffering (new): Your Mind Flay has a 33/66/100% chance to refresh the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain on the target, and reduces the damage you take from your own Shadow Word: Death by 20/40/60%.
• Shadowfiend: Duration increased to 18 sec from 15 sec,
• Twisted Faith (new): Increases your Shadow damage by 6/12/18/24/30% of your total Spirit, and your damage done by your Mind Flay and Mind Blast is increased by 1/2/3/4/5% for each of your Shadow damage over time effects on the target.

3.0.1.8334 (2008)

Discipline

• Enlightenment now increases spell damage and healing by 1/2/3/4/5% in addition to it's old effects.
• Mental Strength now increases your Intellect by 3/6/9/12/15% instead if it's old effect.
• Pain Suppression cooldown increased to 3 minutes.
• Power Infusion cooldown reduced to 2 minutes.

Holy

• Circle of Healing now has a 8 second cooldown.
• Holy Fire now deals more of it's damage on the initial cast, but it's damage over time duration and damage have been reduced. It should still result in a net increase in damage dealt.
• Inspiration can now proc from the Penance spell, in addition to all the old spells that could proc Inspiration.
• Lightwell cast time reduced to 0.5 seconds.
• Lightwell cooldown reduced to 5 minutes.
• Lightwell charges increased to 10.
• Searing Light now also increases the damage of Holy Nova and Penance.

Shadow

• Focused Mind now also affects Mind Sear.
• Improved Shadow Word: Pain now increases the damage dealt by 5/10% instead of it's old effect.
• Improved Spirit Tap added, this new talent gives your Mind Blast and Shadow Word: Death spells a 50/100% chance to give 50% extra spirit and 25% mana regeneration while casting for 8 seconds.
• Mind Control now only has one rank and works on targets of all levels.
• Mind Control now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Mind Flay range has been increased to 30 yards.
• Mind Soothe now only has one rank and works on targets of all levels.
• Mind Soothe now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Mind Vision now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Psychic Scream now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Shackle Undead now has a percentage of base mana cost instead of fixed cost.
• Shadow Focus reduced to give 1% Shadow spell hit per point, but will now additionally reduce Shadow spell costs by 2% per point. Talent now has 3 points total to spend on it, down from 5.
• Shadow Form now reduces threat generated by 30% in additional to it's old effects.
• Shadow Power extra crit chance reduced to 2/4/6/8/10%, but Shadow Power now increases the critical damage bonus of the affected spells by 10/20/30/40/50%.
• Shadow Resilience now reduces physical damage taken instead of it's old effect.
• Spirit Tap now gives a 33/66/100% chance to proc, total talent points that can be put into the talent reduced to 3.
• Vampiric Touch now gives mana to your party members for 2% of your shadow damage dealt, down from 5%.

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Priests hold both life and death in their very hands. On one side there's the priest who swears to protect his or her allies in battle and cast powerful spells gained from years of spiritual insight and prayers to a certain divine diety or the light that negate and reverse injuries a person may take and even reverse the effects of death. On the other side there are priests who bring destruction and death with them, commanding powerful spells of shadow magic much like a warlock. These shadow priests cast spells causing pure pain or assaulting a targets mind directly and destroying them from the inside out or even controlling the mind if it's weak enough.

Priests generally get their power from a complex, organised form of spirituallity that embodies moralistic philosophies, the worship of a divine diety such as elune in cases such as the night elves or the light as opposed a close connection to the elements like shamans or the living earth like druids.

Years of spiritual guidance have given priests the ability to cast spells close to what can be considered miracles, saving people from the brink of death, reversing death, bringing death in its purest form, taking control of anothers mind and empowering others so they may live longer in battle. These are a few of the many things priests do and with the battle in northrend raging the priests will have to play an integral part in keeping their armys alive and fresh for the fight with holy magic and slaying the evil forces of the scourge with their shadow magic prowess

History

taken from WoWwiki

The Clerics of Northshire were human Priests who served the kingdom of Stormwind during the First War. The clerics served as healers on the battlefield, but were ill-prepared for the hazards of combat, and thus suffered heavy casualties. This order was largely destroyed, and the Second War saw fragile Priests replaced on the battlefield by armored paladins; The Knights of the Silver Hand, established by the Clerics' leader Archbishop Alonsus Faol, and his apprentice Uther Lightbringer.

During events of the Third War, despite the high elves' official departure from the Alliance, some elves still remained true to their former human and dwarven allies. The altruistic Priests of Quel’Thalas refused to abandon their roles as healers and agreed to remain in Lordaeron despite the edicts from their reclusive masters in Silvermoon. The high elven Priests used their Light-given powers to heal the wounded and bolster the spirits of Lordaeron’s fighting elite. A holy field medic, these padres roam the battlefield curing the wounds of fallen comrades.