WoW: Forever Priest changes

Beta build notes — October 15, 2026 (27 changes)

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General Priest changes

• Fixed an issue where high ranks of Renew were preventing other Priests from applying Renew to the target.fix source
• Fixed an issue causing Holy Fire Rank 5 periodic damage to be higher than Rank 6.fix source
• Power Word: Shield will now correctly tell the player they can’t replace a Power Word: Shield on a target if the Power Word: Shield they have is stronger. source
• Fixed an issue where casting Power Word: Shield would say SHIELDED twice in your scrolling combat text.fix source
• Devouring Plague cooldown reduced to 24 seconds (was 1 minute). source
• Shadow Word: Death cooldown increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds). source
• Fixed an issue where casting Mind Vision would cause the target to stand up and interrupt drinks.fix source
• The Quick and the Dead should now affect more Priest spells.uncertain source

Discipline

• Inner Focus will now correctly only be used on a single spell, even if you spell queue another spell into Penance’s channel. source
• Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis explicitly that it is activated by Non-Periodic critical heals. source
• Added to the tooltip for Divine Aegis what the maximum value for the shield is. source
• Power in Light now increases Smite and Penance if the target is afflicted by Holy Fire or Shadow Word Pain. source
• Silence Resolve threat reduction now applies to all spells. source
• Mental Strength moved to Row 2 from Row 4 and changed to increase your intellect by 2/4/6/8/10%. source
• Improved Power Word: Shield moved to Row 3 from Row 2. source
• Twin Disciplines now correctly benefits Shadow Word: Death, Mind Flay, Starshards and Penance. source

Shadow

• Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was not benefitting from Shadowform’s increase to critical strike damage.fix source
• Fixed an issue where Devouring Contagion was causing the bounced Devouring Plague to cost Mana, perform a cast animation, and put the caster’s Devouring Plague back on full cooldown.fix source
• Changed Vampiric Embrace so that it can’t be resisted. source
• Vampiric Embrace cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 1 minute). source
• Improved Fade removed. source
• Shadow Infinity removed. source
• Improved Mind Blast moved from Row 3 to Row 2. source
• New talent (Row 4): Dark Inspiration – Your Mind Blast and fully channeled Mind Flay causes Dark Inspiration, increasing yours and your party’s Spirit by 3/6/9/12/15% for 10 seconds. source
• Improved Mind Flay changes to: Each instance of damage of Mind Flay deals 10/20% more damage than its previous instance of damage. source
• Devouring Contagion now spreads to 2 targets. source
• Fixed an issue with Shadow Weaving’s Tooltip. It now correctly states that it causes the target to take increased damage from you.fix source

Beta build notes — October 8, 2026 (5 changes)

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General Priest changes

• Smite: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-4 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-5 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. source
• Lesser Heal and Heal: The base points of ranks 1-3 of Lesser Heal and ranks 1-2 of Heal have been adjusted to make the growth rate of this family of spells up to Heal Rank 3 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade. source

  Developers’ notes: Penance has received multiple updates to bring it more in line with powerful spells that have a cooldown.

Discipline

• Reduced Penance spell damage and healing to resolve a bug where it was being treated like a 3-second channel instead of a 2 -second channel.fix source
• Adjusted Penance mana costs so that it has a consistent advantage in mana efficiency over the Heal/Greater Heal family of spells. Rank 1 mana cost was increased by 50%. source
• Healing done by Penance has been increased on Penance ranks 2 and 4. source

Beta build notes — October 1, 2026 (4 changes)

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General Priest changes

• Devouring Plague can now correctly critically strike. source
• Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death was always benefitting from the Early Demise talent regardless of the target’s health %.fix source

Discipline

• Inner Focus no longer applies its Critical Strike increase to Periodic Effects. source

Shadow

• Shadow Weaving can no longer fail to apply. source

Beta build notes — September 24, 2026 (9 changes)

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General Priest changes

• Corrected an issue and now Renew can land critical hits.fix source
• Power Word: Shield can now always overwrite an existing Power Word: Shield on a target that does not have Weakened Soul. source
• Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock are available for testing the Cooldown Manager.uncertain source
• Priest tracks all spells by default.known issueuncertain source

Gnome racial spells

• Corrected an issue and now Contingency Plan can land critical hits.fix source
• Confounding Flash now has a cast visual. The casting visual is now more Holy oriented than Arcane and the sounds have been updated to match. source

Night Elf racial spells

• Starshards now correctly gains resistance to spell pushback from the Twilight Focus talent. source

Undead racial spells

• Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks Crowd Control that breaks on damage. source
• Dark Sacrifice’s tooltip now correctly displays that the Mana gained from the ability scales with Spirit. source