Patch 11.1.0 Holy Priest Changes

WORK IN PROGRESS

This page will be updated as info comes out and I get time, does not become a priority until post-launch, as PTR can change a lot.

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 11.1.0 was released on February 25th, 2025.

Spell Changes

• All healing reduced by 8%.

Priest Spells

• No changes yet.

Holy Spells

• The following talents were removed:
  • Guardians of the Light
  • Circle of Healing ☹️
  • Revitalizing Prayers
  • Sanctified Prayers
  • Healing Chorus
  • Orison
  • Pontifex
  • Holy Word: Salvation
• Many talents were moved around, most notably:
  • Restitution is now easily accessible on row 3.
  • Voice of Harmony is now on row 4.
  • Holy Mending is no longer a choice node with Benediction.
  • Trail of Light is now in the bottom third.
• The following talents were added:
  • Seraphic Crescendo
  • Divinity
  • Eternal Sanctity
  • Holy Celerity
  • Dispersing Light
  • Light in the Darkness
  • Lasting Words
• The following talents were changed to be 1-point:
  • Crisis Management
  • Epiphany
  • Prayers of the Virtuous
  • Prismatic Echoes
  • Resonant Words
  • Voice of Harmony
• The following talents were re-worked or adjusted:
  • Apotheosis now reduces the cooldown of Holy Words by 200% (was 300%).
  • Empowered Renew now causes Renew to further decrease the cooldown of Holy Word: Sanctify by 6 sec. It also causes Renew to heal for an additional 60%, but have a 12 sec cooldown.
  • Lightweaver now works with Prayer of Healing, stacks to 4 and increases healing done by 18% (was 25%).
  • Prayer Circle now triggers from Holy Word: Sanctify instead of Circle of Healing.
  • Prismatic Echoes reduced to 5% increased Mastery, and now also increases the healing of Renew by 15% per point.
  • Voice of Harmony now reduces the cooldown of:
    • Holy Word: Serenity when casting Prayer of Mending or Power Word: Life.
    • Holy Word: Sanctify when casting Halo or Divine Star.
    • Holy Word: Chastise when casting Holy Fire.
  • Holy Nova now reduces the cooldown of Holy Word: Chastise by 4 seconds baseline and no longer interacts with Voice of Harmony.
  • Prayer of Healing now prioritizes nearby injured targets instead of the closest targets, and has an impact visual on allies it heals.
  • Divine Hymn channel duration is now 5 seconds (was 8 seconds). Total healing unchanged.
  • Gales of Song has been changed to place 2 stacks of Prayer of Mending on up to 3 allies within its range every 1 tick while channelling Divine Hymn.
  • Prayerful Litany instead of healing the lowest-health target for more, now causes the primary target of Prayer of Healing to be healed for 75% more.
  • Lightwell's health threshold is now 75% (was 50%).
  • Resonant Words now also affects Power Word: Life.
  • Afterlife no longer grants a resurrection cast during Spirit of Redemption.
  • Crisis Management now also increases the critical strike chance of Power Word: Life.
  • Prayer of Healing healing increased by 69%, cast time increased to 2.5sec, mana cost increased to 5.5%, and healing increased by 20%.
  • Trail of Light now replicates 25% of healing done to the previous target (was 35%).
  • Holy Mending healing increased by 30%.
  • Cosmic Ripple healing increased by 150%.

Hero Spells

• Divine Providence was removed and the effect of adding a second charge to Premonition has been baked into Premonition.
• Twinsight replaces Divine Providence.
• Preemptive Care now increases the duration of Renew by 25% (was 6 seconds).

The War Within Systems

Season 2 Tier

Season 2 brings with it 2-piece and 4-piece set bonuses. At time of writing, they are:

(2) Set Bonus: Your healing spells have a chance to apply Insurance! to their targets that heals them over 15 sec. Insurance! is consumed if an ally drops below 40% health to heal them.

• 2pc
  • Insurance! (HoT)
  • Insurance! (Emergency heal)

(4) Set Bonus: Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify apply Insurance! for 10 sec to one target while Apotheosis is active. Your healing is increased by 1% for each Insurance! active on allies.

• 4pc
  • Bankroll (Healing increase buff)

The items that are a part of the bonus:

• Head- Head
• Shoulder - Shoulder
• Chest - Chest
• Hands - Hands
• Legs - Legs

The following items are also able to be obtained using the Matrix Catalyst.

• Cloak - Cloak
• Wrist - Wrist
• Waist - Waist
• Feet - Feet

Notable hotfixes

• Mar 25, 2023: Major Holy Priest tuning changes including:
  • Prayer of Healing healing increased by 25%.
  • Prayer of Mending healing increased by 20%.
  • Renew healing increased by 60%.
  • Lightwell healing increased by 30%.
  • Divine Image healing increased by 20%.
  • Divine Image damage increased by 20%.
  • Holy Fire damage increased by 20%.
  • Renewed Faith now increases healing done to allies with Renew by 10% (was 6%).
  • Renews from Empowered Renew now heal for 120% more than a normal Renew (was 60%).
  • Oracle: Preemptive Care now increases the duration of Renew by 40% (was 25%).
  • Oracle: Preventive Measures now increases the healing of Prayer of Mending by 40% (was 25%).
  • Oracle: Preventive Measures now increases the damage of Smite, Holy Fire, and Holy Nova by 40% (was 25%).
• Mar 12, 2023: Empowered Renew's CDR is now correctly increased by Light of the Naaru and Apotheosis.

No notable changes.

Bugs

Below is a list of things that are suspected to be bugs or unintended behaviour.

Important bugs

• Halo with Archon talents is exceptionally inconsistent with hitting targets as often as you would expect. While movement causes additional problems with targets registering, this also happens while all targets are stationary.
  • Often the return Halo will miss targets close to you, including yourself. See also this github issue.
  • Often targets near the max range of Halo will only be hit once.
• Divine Star frequently will not have a returning star, even if standing still or on flat ground.

Likely a bug

• 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.
• Apotheosis will set the duration of an existing Apotheosis buff (either from and Answered Prayers proc, or from a stored Sustained Potency) to 20 seconds rather than extending it.

Hopefully a bug

• Divine Word: Sanctuary scales tick number with haste, but not tick size - creating minor haste breakpoints.
• Rhapsody buff status/stacks aren't shown properly in combatlog.

Inconsistencies

• Binding Heals also triggers Protective Light on yourself regardless of your Flash Heal target.
• The following spells/talents don't interact with our Mastery. This makes sense given the wording of the spell.
  • Divine Word: Sanctuary
  • Renew (without Prismatic Echoes)
• 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.
• 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.
• Light of the Naaru CDR increase is not reflected in any ability tooltips.

Other Notes

• Patch 11.1 Undermine(d) Update Notes
• Patch 11.1 Hotfixes
• Worldofwarcraft.com Content Update Notes