found throughout the Patch 10.2 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 was released on November 7th, 2023.
Spell Changes
Priest Spells
- Power Infusion Haste reduced to 20% (was 25%) and duration reduced to 15 seconds (was 20 seconds).
- Shadow Word: Death now deals 8% of the Priest’s maximum health in damage when it fails to kill a target instead of the backlash damage being based on damage dealt.
- Shadow Word: Death backlash damage is now reduced by damage reduction effects.
- Tithe Evasion now reduces Shadow Word: Death damage dealt to the Priest by 50% (was 75%).
- Mass Dispel cooldown is now 2 minutes (was 45 seconds).
- Improved Mass Dispel is now a PvP Talent and reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 seconds (was 20 seconds).
- Improved Mass Dispel no longer reduces the cast time of Mass Dispel.
- Improved Mass Dispel has been replaced with Mental Agility in the Priest talent tree.
- New Talent: Mental Agility – Reduces the mana cost of Purify, Purify Disease, and Mass Dispel by 50% and Dispel Magic by 10%.
- Rhapsody now only highlights Holy Nova at max stacks while in combat.
- Power Word: Life received a number of changes:
- Now costs 2.5% mana (was 0.5%).
- Cooldown decreased to 15 seconds (was 30 seconds), but its cooldown is no longer decreased when cast on targets below 35% health.
- Is now only usable on targets below 35% health.
- Healing increased by 500% and no longer increases healing on targets below 35% health.
Holy Spells
- Holy Word: Serenity healing increased by 30%.
- Flash Heal healing increased by 40%.
- Heal healing increased by 40%.
- Holy Word: Salvation’s cooldown is now reduced by 15 seconds (was 30 seconds) by Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify.
- Symbol of Hope now restores 10% of missing mana (was 15%) and recovers 40 seconds of cooldown for a major defensive ability (was 60 seconds).
- Holy Word: Sanctify now heals up to 5 allies (was 6).
- Divine Star healing decreased by 25%.
- Halo healing decreased by 15%.
- Echo of Light received a number of related changes:
- Prismatic Echoes now increases the healing of Echo of Light by 4/8% (was 6/12%).
- Echo of Light healing decreased by 15%.
- Echo of Light heals every 2 seconds and lasts 4 seconds (was heals every 3 seconds and lasts 6 seconds).
- Divine Image received a number of changes:
- Divine Image's Dazzling Lights healing decreased by 35%.
- Divine Image's Blessed Light healing decreased by 20%.
- Prayer of Mending healing decreased by 5%.
- Trail of Light replicates Heal or Flash Heal for 13/25% value (was 18/35%).
- Pontifex increases healing done by Holy Words by 20%, stacking 2 times (was 10%).
Dragonflight Systems
Season 3 brings with it 2-piece and 4-piece set bonuses. At time of writing, they are:
(2) Set Bonus: Holy Word: Serenity applies 14 seconds of Renew to its target. Holy Word: Sanctify applies 5 seconds of Renew to allies it heals.
(4) Set Bonus: Renew's healing has a chance to cause your next Holy Word: Sanctify or Holy Word: Serenity to not consume a charge when cast and cost 50% less Mana, stacking up to 2 times.
- 4pc
- Sacred Reverence (buff)
The items that are a part of the bonus:
The following items are also able to be obtained using the Revival Catalyst.
Notable hotfixes
Dec 19, 2023: All healing increased by 3%.Dec 19, 2023: Prayer of Mending healing increased by 15%.Dec 05, 2023: All healing increased by 4%.Dec 05, 2023: Burning Vehemence now causes Holy Fire to deal 75% of its initial damage to nearby enemies (was 60%).Dec 05, 2023: Amirdrassil 2pc: Renews caused by Serenity now last 18 seconds (was 14 seconds) and Renews caused by Sanctify now last 6 seconds (was 5 seconds).Nov 28, 2023: Resolved an issue preventing the cooldown of Mass Dispel from resetting when an encounter ends.
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.
- 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 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: