Patch Notes Up (Wowhead)

Classes Priest
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-Priest

Focused Will now stacks to a maximum of 1 (was 2).

Halo damage and healing reduced 6%.

Power Word: Shield applies Weakened Soul, preventing the same caster from recasting it on the same target for 7.5 seconds.

  • Azerite Traits

    New: Death Denied - Leap of Faith absorbs the next 10,736 damage to the target within 10 seconds. While the shield holds, Leap of Faith cools down 200% faster.

Depth of the Shadows healing bonus increased 100%, and now increases Atonement duration, when applied by Shadow Mend, by 2 seconds.

Promise of Deliverance (replaces Sacred Flame) - For 10 seconds after you cast Holy Word: Serenity, Heal and Flash Heal heal for an additional 472, and reduce the cooldown of Holy Word: Serenity by an additional 1 seconds.

Searing Dialogue now also causes Mind Sear to snare targets hit by Mind Sear by 30% for 1 second.

Sudden Revelation (replaces Gift of Forgiveness) - Power Word: Radiance has a 50% chance to cause your next Holy Nova to deal 1470 additional damage and reduce the cooldown of Power Word: Radiance by 3 seconds.

Thought Harvester redesigned. Vampiric Touch damage is increased, and each time Vampiric Touch deals damage you have a chance to increase the damage of your next Mind Sear within 20 seconds by 300%.

Whispers of the Damned redesigned. Mind Blast now deals additional damage and generates additional Insanity on critical strikes.

  • Discipline

Damage of Smite and Shadow Word: Pain reduced by 11%.

Damage of Shadowfiend, Mindbender, Purge the Wicked, Schism, and Power Word: Solace reduced 8%.

Atonement heals for 55% of damage done (was 60%).

Body and Soul no longer has a 6 second internal cooldown.

Evangelism cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 75 seconds).

Power Word: Shield cost increased to 2.65% of mana (was 2.5%).

Rapture additionally allows you to ignore Weakened Soul.

  • Holy

    Benediction proc rate decreased to 25% (was 30%).

Binding Heal healing reduced to 67% of spell power (was 75%), and now costs 2.9% of mana (was 2.4%).

Focused Will (rank 2) allows it to stack to 2.

Greater Fade now cancels when the Priest takes a hostile action.

Heal healing increased to 175% (was 160%)

Holy: Word Salvation initial healing reduced to 110% (was 150%).

Renew healing increased by 15%.

Trail of Light now affects Heal as well as Flash Heal and replicates 35% of the initial cast (was 40%).

  • Shadow

Shadow Priests now have Focused Will.

All damage reduced by 5%.

Dispersion damage reduction increased to 75% (was 60%), and now also increases movement speed by 50% for its duration.

New: Intangibility (replaces Mania) - Dispersion heals for 50% of your maximum health over its duration and has 30 seconds reduced cooldown.

Hallucinations is now a passive ability for all Shadow Priests (was a PvP talent).

Legacy of the Void now increases Voidform’s damage bonus by 5%.

Mind Bomb duration increased to 6 seconds (was 5 seconds).

Mind Sear damage increased by 20%.

Power Word: Shield no longer has a cooldown.

Psychic Scream damage break threshold increased by 40% against non-players.

Shadowform no longer provides 10% physical damage reduction.

Surrender to Madness cooldown reduced to 3 minutes (was 4 minutes), and Insanity generation penalty duration reduced to 15 seconds (was 30 seconds).

Voidform now increases spell damage by 20% (was 10%), and Insanity drain increase reduced by 7.5%.

Void Bolt Insanity generation increased to 20 (was 16).

Void Torrent damage increased by 20%, now generates 25 Insanity over its duration, and no longer requires Voidform.

  • PvP

    - Discipline

  Trinity now also causes Smite, Penance, and Shadowfiend critical strike chance to be increased by 25% when you have Atonement on 3 or more allies.

-  Holy

  Heal healing increased by 50% in PvP.

-  Shadow

   Edge of Insanity now reduces damage taken and damage dealt by 10% and has a 15 second duration.

   Shadowmend healing increased by 25% in PvP.
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Hmm it doesn’t mention the aura changes to Disc priest or Holy priest. Does that mean they just left that out of the notes or out of the patch??

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Those were baked into the patch, what is in the notes is just a culmination of all the changes. Speaking of which, I’ve already canceled my subscription.

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Why such a long time for weakened soul? Did they not learn from how horrible that felt back in Cata?

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I can’t understand the 5% trail of light nerf. That’s a mythic + talent choice where holy priests are nowhere near OP. Blizzard really did just swing the nerf bat blind folded. They should also undo our overall healing percentage nerf they did awhile back if they are going to just go ahead an nerf holy word: salvation. Shadow is looking decent though so I might try that out. Disc just got tossed off the throne. I guess nobody is allowed to be #1 for long. Probably going to go back to maining holy again until blizz figures out what they want to do with disc.

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They did. 4% flat buff. So tired of buffs being ignored around here.

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I was hoping Blizzard would at least make shadow useful if they were gonna nerf disc. But I was stupid to think it because a bunch of unevolved apes do the class balancing.

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Uh have you seen the changes? Shadow is going to be insane…pun intended

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Hopefully insane enough to be picked over a class with brez, lust or shroud for m+

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When was this flat buff maybe I missed it. Last time I saw patch notes was when they did an overall 3% healing nerf to holy priests.

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Spriest is getting a 5% nerf to dmg but 10% more dmg when going into void form

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True but Legacy of the void now gives a +5% damage buff. So it really seems they are wanting us to take legacy now. It more or less gives us the 5% back when in void form. We will have to see how it sims but if i remember correctly before 8.1 legacy and DA was already siming with in 1% of each other.

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I guess. But it will be 5% 50% of the time compared to 5% 100% of the time.

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I bet it will be more then 50% of the time but yes, that is true. I’ll be interested in trying it out though. At the end of the day, i just enjoy how shadow plays more then warlock, so i wont be swapping. I’ve also liked holy a bit more then disc in the past, so ehh.

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https://www.wowhead.com/holy-priest-guide

First thing on the list:
Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done: 36 40%

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Yes Aeterna, we can see that there. That’s from the wowhead ptr data. It’s just not in the official notes.

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The official patch notes are scuffed. We can’t be certain yet whether some of these were just misses or legitimate changes. Spriest discord at least says that wowhead has the correct notes, but we can’t REALLY know until servers are up.

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I am wondering Mindbender or Void Torrent and Legacy of the Void vs Dark Ascension?
Also did the Chorus of Insanity AZ trait get nerfed?

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It’s hard to speculate right now, but I believe we’ll be seeing a meta shift to Lingering Insanity on that row. LotV and DA will probably be fight by fight basis.

Word on the shadow discord is that we do believe the COI nerf is still in, but it was missed in the patch notes (along with a bunch of other stuff).

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I didn’t say it was in the official patch notes. Resherin did not seem aware it was in the ptr. Patch notes have a history of not being exhaustive, so we can’t know for sure whether it was just not mentioned in the patch notes or whether it was pulled at the last second until it goes live.