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  <title>Priest patch notes · WoW Forever Tracker</title>
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  <entry>
    <title>Priest: Beta build, Oct 15</title>
    <id>https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/2360696/6#priest</id>
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    <published>2026-10-16T00:15:23.135000+00:00</published>
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    <content type="html">&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fixed an issue where high ranks of Renew were preventing other Priests from applying Renew to the target.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fixed an issue causing Holy Fire Rank 5 periodic damage to be higher than Rank 6.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fixed an issue where casting Power Word: Shield would say SHIELDED twice in your scrolling combat text.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devouring Plague cooldown reduced to 24 seconds (was 1 minute).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shadow Word: Death cooldown increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fixed an issue where casting Mind Vision would cause the target to stand up and interrupt drinks.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discipline&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Inner Focus will now correctly only be used on a single spell, even if you spell queue another spell into Penance’s channel.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis explicitly that it is activated by Non-Periodic critical heals.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis what the maximum value for the shield is.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Power in Light now increases Smite and Penance if the target is afflicted by Holy Fire or Shadow Word Pain.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Silence Resolve threat reduction now applies to all spells.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mental Strength moved to Row 2 from Row 4 and changed to increase your intellect by 2/4/6/8/10%.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Improved Power Word: Shield moved to Row 3 from Row 2.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Twin Disciplines now correctly benefits Shadow Word: Death, Mind Flay, Starshards and Penance.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shadow&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was not benefitting from Shadowform’s increase to critical strike damage.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Changed Vampiric Embrace so that it can’t be resisted.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vampiric Embrace cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 1 minute).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Improved Fade removed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shadow Infinity removed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Improved Mind Blast moved from Row 3 to Row 2.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Improved Mind Flay changes to: Each instance of damage of Mind Flay deals 10/20% more damage than its previous instance of damage.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devouring Contagion now spreads to 2 targets.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fixed an issue with Shadow Weaving’s Tooltip. It now correctly states that it causes the target to take increased damage from you.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>Priest: Beta build, Oct 8</title>
    <id>https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/2360696/5#priest</id>
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    <published>2026-10-08T21:32:38.124000+00:00</published>
    <updated>2026-10-08T21:32:38.124000+00:00</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discipline&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Developers’ notes: Penance has received multiple updates to bring it more in line with powerful spells that have a cooldown.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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%.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Healing done by Penance has been increased on Penance ranks 2 and 4.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>Priest: Beta build, Oct 1</title>
    <id>https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/2360696/4#priest</id>
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    <published>2026-10-01T22:56:04.517000+00:00</published>
    <updated>2026-10-01T22:56:04.517000+00:00</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devouring Plague can now correctly critically strike.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was always benefitting from the Early Demise talent regardless of the target’s health %.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discipline&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Inner Focus no longer applies its Critical Strike increase to Periodic Effects.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shadow&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shadow Weaving can no longer fail to apply.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Priest: Beta build, Sep 24</title>
    <id>https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/2360696/1#priest</id>
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    <published>2026-09-24T22:23:24.849000+00:00</published>
    <updated>2026-09-24T22:23:24.849000+00:00</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Corrected an issue and now Renew can land critical hits.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Power Word: Shield can now always overwrite an existing Power Word: Shield on a target that does not have Weakened Soul.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gnome&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Corrected an issue and now Contingency Plan can land critical hits.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Night Elf&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Starshards now correctly gains resistance to spell pushback from the Twilight Focus talent.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Undead&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks Crowd Control that breaks on damage.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dark Sacrifice’s tooltip now correctly displays that the Mana gained from the ability scales with Spirit.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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