found throughout the Patch 10.2.6 Holy Priest Changes
Incomplete List
This is not a comprehensive list and may be missing some changes, for example, undocumented hotfixes, PvP changes or uninteresting bug fixes.
Patch 10.2.6 was released on March 19th, 2024.
Spell Changes
Priest Spells
- Leap of Faith no longer interrupts spell casts from the ally it was used on.
Holy Spells
- All healing done reduced by 7%.
- Empyreal Blaze has been redesigned – Holy Word: Chastise causes your next 2 casts of Holy Fire to be instant, cost no mana, and incur no cooldown. Refreshing Holy Fire on a target now extends its duration by 7 seconds.
- Pontifex has been redesigned – Flash Heal, Heal, Prayer of Healing, and Circle of Healing increase the healing done by your next Holy Word spell by 6% stacking up to 5 times. Lasts 30 seconds.
- Lightwell has been redesigned – Creates a Holy Lightwell. Every second the Lightwell will attempt to heal a nearby party or raid member within 40 yards that is lower than 50% health and apply a Renew to them for 6 seconds. Lightwell lasts for 2 minutes or until it heals 15 times. Cooldown reduced by 3 seconds when you cast Holy Word: Serenity or Holy Word: Sanctify.
- Holy Fire cost reduced to 0.4% of base mana (was 1%).
- Holy Word: Chastise mana cost reduced to 0.6% of base mana (was 2%).
- Resonant Words now causes Holy Words to increase the healing done by your next Flash Heal, Heal, Prayer of Healing, and Circle of Healing by 20%/40%. Lasts 30 seconds.
- Divine Word now increases the effectiveness of your next Holy Word spell by 30% (was 50%).
- Casting Holy Word: Chastise with Divine Word active now increases damage dealt by 20% and refunds 15 seconds from the cooldown of Holy Word: Chastise instead of its previous effect.
- Casting Holy Word: Sanctify with Divine Word active now blesses the target area and heals 5 targets (was 6). Healing done increased by 25%.
- Casting Holy Word: Serenity with Divine Word active no longer increases the critical strike chance of Flash Heal, Heal, and Renew.
- Healing Chorus now increases the healing of Circle of Healing by 5% stacking up to 20 times (was 2% stacking up to 50 times).
- Prayerful Litany now heals for 100% more to the most injured ally it affects (was 30%).
- Harmonious Apparatus has been renamed to Voice of Harmony and its icon has changed.
- Voice of Harmony now causes Holy Nova to reduce the cooldown of Holy Word: Chastise in addition to Holy Fire.
- Gales of Song is now a 1-point talent with the values of the previous 2-point version.
- Orison now has a connection to Pontifex.
- Divine Service now has a connection to Say Your Prayers.
- Empowered Renew and Rapid Recovery have been removed.
- The final 3 rows of the tree have been reorganized.
Dragonflight Systems
No notable changes.
Notable hotfixes
- No notable hotfixes.
Bugs
See the most recent patch changes for details on current outstanding bugs. They're being tracked and updated there.