found throughout the Patch 10.2.5 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 10.2.5 was released on January 16th, 2024.
Spell Changes
Priest Spells
No notable changes.
Holy Spells
No notable changes.
Dragonflight Systems
No notable changes.
Notable hotfixes
Jan 22, 2024: Heal's healing increased by 25%.Jan 22, 2024: Flash Heal healing increased by 15%.Jan 22, 2024: Holy Word: Chastises damage increased by 30%.Jan 22, 2024: Smite's damage increased by 30%.Jan 22, 2024: Shadow Word: Pain's damage increased by 15%.
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: