Holy Priest

Holy talents

The 17 talents of the Holy tree in the beta, row by row. Each one opens its own page: what every rank does, its requirements and what changes from Classic.

• Twilight FocusRow 1 · 3 ranksChanged
• Improved RenewRow 1 · 3 ranks
• Holy SpecializationRow 1 · 5 ranks
• Spell WardingRow 2 · 5 ranks
• Divine FuryRow 2 · 5 ranks
• Holy NovaRow 3 · 1 rankChanged
• Blessed RecoveryRow 3 · 3 ranksChanged
• InspirationRow 3 · 3 ranksChanged
• Holy ReachRow 4 · 2 ranks
• Improved HealingRow 4 · 3 ranksChanged
• Searing LightRow 4 · 2 ranksChanged
• Binding HealRow 4 · 1 rankNew
• Litany of LightRow 5 · 2 ranksNew
• Spirit of RedemptionRow 5 · 1 rankChanged
• Spiritual GuidanceRow 5 · 5 ranksChanged
• Spiritual HealingRow 6 · 3 ranksChanged
• Prayer of MendingRow 7 · 1 rankNew

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What changes in Forever

What is new and changed for Holy compared with Classic Era: our change list, its talent tree and its abilities.

In our change list

SCHANGEDSpell

Renew

· General

Classic

Cannot crit.

Forever

Can now land critical hits, and Renew from multiple Priests can be active on the same target.

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SCHANGEDSpell

Fear Ward

· General

Forever

Available to all Priests at level 20, regardless of race.

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RCHANGEDRacial

Chastise (Dwarf)

· General

Forever

Dwarf Priest racial learned at level 20. Damages and immobilizes a target for 2 seconds. Only usable on Humanoids. Instant cast, 2-minute cooldown.

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RCHANGEDRacial

Divine Grace (Human)

· General

Forever

Human Priest racial learned at level 10. Instantly heals a friendly target below 50% health and removes Weakened Soul from them. Cannot be cast on self. 5-minute cooldown.

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SCHANGEDSpell

Prayer of Healing

· General

Forever

Instead of healing the Priest's own party, it now heals all the members of the target's party and their pets.

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TCHANGEDTalent

Twilight Focus

· Holy

Forever

Formerly Healing Focus. Now grants pushback protection on all spellcasts, but costs 3 talent points instead of 2.

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TCHANGEDTalent

Blessed Recovery

· Holy

Forever

Now also triggers from any attack that deals more than 30% of your maximum health in a single hit.

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TCHANGEDTalent

Inspiration

· Holy

Forever

Now triggers from all non-periodic critical heals.

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TCHANGEDTalent

Improved Healing

· Holy

Forever

Now also reduces the Mana cost of Penance and Prayer of Mending.

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TCHANGEDTalent

Searing Light

· Holy

Forever

Redesigned. Now increases all Holy damage done, but by a lesser percentage, and grants a chance for Holy Fire damage to make your next Holy Nova cost no Mana.

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TNEWTalent

Binding Heal

· Holy

Forever

New 16-point gold medal talent. New spell with no cooldown and a 1.5 second cast that heals the Priest and their current target. Tuned to be as good as Flash Heal even if the Priest needs no healing.

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TCHANGEDTalent

Litany of Light

· Holy

Forever

Each time you cast a healing spell you are refunded part of its Mana cost, as long as its name is different from the previous healing spell you cast.

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TCHANGEDTalent

Spiritual Guidance

· Holy

Forever

Bonus to spell damage reduced to approximately one third as much as the bonus to spell healing.

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TCHANGEDTalent

Spiritual Healing

· Holy

Forever

Now only needs 3 talent points for the same benefit.

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TNEWTalent

Prayer of Mending

· Holy

Forever

New 31-point gold medal talent, requires Spirit of Redemption. 10 second cooldown. Places a 30 second effect on the target that heals them the next time they take damage or receive non-periodic healing, consuming a charge, then jumps to another party or raid member within 20 yards. It keeps jumping until it heals 5 times in total, and each target may only have one Prayer of Mending active.

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Class-wide changes

They affect every Priest, whatever tree they play:

• Power Word: Shield
• Contingency Plan (Gnome)
• Confounding Flash (Gnome)
• Starshards (Night Elf)
• Dark Sacrifice (Undead)
• Devouring Plague
• Fade
• Shadow Word: Death
• Divine Spirit

New talents

• Binding Heal

  Heals a friendly target and the caster for 247. Low threat.

• Litany of Light

  When you cast a healing spell, gain Mana equal to 10% of the base cost of the spell if your previous heal was a different spell.

• Prayer of Mending

  Places a spell on the target that heals them the next time they take damage or receive non-periodic healing. When the heal occurs, Prayer of Mending jumps to a party or raid member within 20 yards. Jumps up to 5 times and lasts 30 sec after each jump. This spell can only be placed on one target at a time per caster.

Changed or moved talents

• Twilight FocusChanges: ranks, text, numbers, name.
• Holy NovaChanges: text, numbers.
• Blessed RecoveryChanges: text, numbers.
• InspirationChanges: text, numbers.
• Improved HealingChanges: text.
• Searing LightChanges: text, numbers.
• Spirit of RedemptionChanges: text, numbers.
• Spiritual GuidanceChanges: text, numbers.
• Spiritual HealingChanges: ranks, text, numbers.

Removed talents

• Improved Prayer of Healing
• Lightwell

New abilities

• Divine Grace
• Chastise
• Binding Heal
• Prayer of Mending

Changed abilities

• Lesser HealChanges: tooltip.
• SmiteChanges: tooltip.
• RenewChanges: tooltip.
• Desperate PrayerChanges: tooltip, races.
• HealChanges: tooltip.
• Fear WardChanges: cooldown, tooltip, races.
• Flash HealChanges: tooltip.
• Holy FireChanges: tooltip.
• Holy NovaChanges: tooltip.
• Prayer of HealingChanges: range, tooltip.
• Greater HealChanges: tooltip.
• LightwellChanges: talent.

Holy abilities

The 19 abilities the beta spellbook groups under Holy, by the level they are learned at. Each one opens its own page with its ranks, cost and changes.

• Lesser HealLv. 1
• SmiteLv. 1
• RenewLv. 8
• Desperate PrayerLv. 10
• Divine GraceLv. 10
• ResurrectionLv. 10
• Cure DiseaseLv. 14
• HealLv. 16
• ChastiseLv. 20
• Fear WardLv. 20
• Flash HealLv. 20
• Holy FireLv. 20
• Holy NovaTalentLv. 20
• Binding HealTalentLv. 25
• Prayer of HealingLv. 30
• Abolish DiseaseLv. 32
• Greater HealLv. 40
• LightwellLv. 40
• Prayer of MendingTalentLv. 40

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Holy best-in-slot (BiS) gear

The site’s suggestion, not an official list: we score the beta items with our stat weights for each level. The beta is capped at level 30.

Races that can be a Priest

The races that can pick the class in WoW Forever. The ones marked new are combinations Classic did not have.

HumanDwarfNight ElfGnomeNewUndeadTroll

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More on the Priest

Talents and abilities: beta client (build 1.60.1.70205), compared with Classic Era 1.15.9.69722. BiS: the site’s stat weights.