found throughout the Patch 10.1 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 10.1 had a release date of May 2nd 2023.
Spell Changes
Priest Spells
- Shadow Word: Death now has a 10 second cooldown (was 20 seconds).
- Improved Mass Dispel reduces the cast time of Mass Dispel by 0.5 seconds (was 1 second).
- Psychic Scream now hits all enemies within 8 yards (was a maximum of 5 enemies).
- Void Tendrils now hits all nearby enemies within 8 yards (was a maximum of 5 enemies).
- Divine Star and Halo should now properly override the other on your Action Bar when swapping talents.
Holy Spells
- The bounce radius of Prayer of Mending has been increased by 10 yards.
- Divine Image now spawns 1 Naaru that is empowered and grows with further Holy Word casts.
- Divine Image now teleports near the Priest when the Priest casts a Holy Word spell if the Image is further than 15 yards away.
- Dazzling Lights healing from Divine Image reduced by 50%.
- Empowered Renew now only triggers when casting Renew.
- Empowered Renew now causes Renew to instantly heal your target for 40% of its total periodic effect (was 10%).
- Healing Chorus now causes Renew to increase the healing done by your next Circle of Healing by 2%, stacking up to 50 times (was 1%).
Dragonflight Systems
Season 2 Set Bonus
Season 2 brings with it 2-piece and 4-piece set bonuses. At the time of writing, they are:
(2) Set Bonus: When you cast Prayer of Mending, there is a 35% chance its effect is duplicated to another ally.
- 4pc
- Inspired Word (buff)
(4) Set Bonus: When Prayer of Mending jumps or expires, it increases the damage and healing of your next Holy Word by 4%, stacking up to 15 times.
The items that are a part of the bonus:
Revival Catalyst
Patch 10.1 and season 2 has a new set of revival catalyst items. Catalyst charges can be spent on Season 2 items to change them to the catalyst item from the table below.
| Slot | Replacement Item |
|---|---|
| Head | Head |
| Cloak | Cloak |
| Shoulders | Shoulder |
| Chest | Chest |
| Wrists | Wrists |
| Hands | Hands |
| Belt | Belt |
| Legs | Legs |
| Feet | Feet |
Crafting
There are a few new embellishments.
Also a new enchant.
Notable hotfixes
- Nothing of note.
Bugs
Below is a list of things that are suspected to be bugs or unintended behaviour.
Important bugs
- Answered Prayers Apotheosis proc does not reduce the mana cost of Holy Word: Salvation.
- Divine Star frequently will not have a returning star, even if standing still or on flat ground.
- Empyreal Blaze being queued after a Holy Fire cast will consume one of the 3 buff stacks for no benefit.
- Holy Priest Spec Aura does not increase the healing of:
- Lightwell healing is not increased by Twist of Fate.
- Lightwell partial tick is not increased by Desperate Times.
Likely a bug
- Divine Image's Light Eruption behaves as though Holy Nova is the damage-only version from Legion. It doesn't trigger from, nor do any healing.
- Divine Image does nothing when you cast the following spells:
- Divine Star frequently only heals targets once, happening more often if they are near the 24-yard distance. Happens even when you and the target are stationary.
- Rhapsody buff status/stacks aren't shown properly in combatlog.
- Shadowfiend can't have the following glyphs applied to it, stating "That glyph is invalid for your Holy specialization":
Hopefully a bug
- Empowered Renew healing is increased by Versatility. This effectively has it double-dipping Versatility.
- Divine Word: Sanctuary scales tick number with haste, but not tick size - creating haste breakpoints.
- Surge of Light can't be procced by:
Inconsistencies
- Binding Heals also triggers Protective Light on yourself regardless of your Flash Heal target.
- Empowered Renew triggers mastery.
- Arguably this should be intended, but the initial heal of renew itself doesn't trigger mastery anymore.
- Light of the Naaru CDR increase is not reflected in any ability tooltips.
- Lightwell does not interact with any other spell or talent in our toolkit. Nothing for Holy Words, Renew, Mastery.
- The following spells/talents don't interact with our Mastery. This makes sense given the wording of the spell.
- Prayers of the Virtuous doesn't increase the Prayer of Mending stacks left by Holy Word: Salvation.
- Spirit of Redemption prevents casting of the following:
- Evoker's Blessing of the Bronze which affects a movement enhancing ability for all classes, affects Leap of Faith for Priest.
- Evoker's Time Spiral which affects a movement enhancing ability for all classes, affects Leap of Faith for Priest.
- The following spells appear in the Priest spellbook tab, instead of the Holy tab:
- The following spells appear in the Holy spellbook tab, instead of the Priest tab:
Other Notes
- Nothing of note.