An Overview of Priest Class Changes in Dragonflight Patch 10.1 (2024)

Last updated on May 03, 2023 at 09:20by Stan3 comments

On this page, we maintain an overview of all Priest changes that wentlive in Patch 10.1.

If you are looking for Priest class guides, please, visit one of theguides linked below.

• Divine Star and Halo should properly override the otheron your Action Bar when swapping talents.
• Shadow Word: Death now has a 10-second cooldown (was 20 seconds).

• Enduring Luminescence now also reduces the cast time of Power Word: Radiance by 30%.
• Power Word: Radiance now has a spell school of Radiant (was Holy).
• Improved Mass Dispel reduces the cast time of Mass Dispel by0.5 seconds (was 1 second).
• Psychic Scream now hits all enemies within 8 yards (was a maximumof 5 enemies).
• Void Tendrils now hits all nearby enemies within 8 yards (was a maximumof 5 enemies).
• Fixed an issue causing Divine Aegis to double dip into absorptionincrease or reduction mechanics.
• Divine Aegis once again creates an absorb shield for 5%/10% of theamount healed (was 3%/6%).

• The bounce radius of Prayer of Mending has been increased by 10 yards.
• Divine Image now spawns 1 Naaru that is empowered and grows with furtherHoly Word casts.
• Divine Image now teleports near the Priest when the Priest casts aHoly Word spell if the Image is further than 15 yards away.
• Divine Favor: Chastise and Divine Favor: Serenity have been addedto the Personal Resource Display.
• Dazzling Lights healing from Divine Image reduced by 50%.
• Empowered Renew now only triggers when casting Renew.
• Empowered Renew now causes Renew to instantly heal your targetfor 40% of its total periodic effect (10%).
• Healing Chorus now causes Renew to increase the healing doneby your next Circle of Healing by 2%, stacking up to 50 times (was 1%).

• Mind Sear, Dark Void, Coalescing Shadows, Puppet Master, Harnessed Shadows,The pain of Death, Surge of Darkness, and Damnation have been removed.
• Shadowy Insight no longer passively grants an additional charge of Mind Blast.
• Shadowy Insight no longer temporarily increases the maximum chargesof Mind Blast when it triggers.
• Psychic Link now affects Devouring Plague and Shadow Word: Death.
• Psychic Link is now a 1-point talent and has been moved toMind Sear’s location.
• Psychic Link has been reworded — Your damaging single targetspells deal 40% of their damage to all other targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch within 40 yards. It does not apply to damage from Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch.
• Auspicious Spirits now causes Shadowy Apparitions to have achance to generate 2 Insanity instead of always generating 1 Insanity.
• Maddening Touch now increases the damage of Vampiric Touch by10%/20% and has a chance to generate 1 Insanity/2 Insanity.
• Void Torrent generates 24 Insanity over its duration (was 60).
• Shadow Crash generates 6 Insanity (was 15).
• Shadow Crash no longer applies Vampiric Touch.
• Mind Devourer now has a 4%/8% chance to grant a free cast of Devouring Plague (was 10%/20%).
• Mind Devourer now increases the damage of your next Devouring Plagueby 8%/15% when it triggers.
• Mind Melt no longer reduces the cast time of Mind Blast.
• Mind Melt increases the critical strike chance of Mind Blastby 10%/20% (was 25%), stacking up to 4 times (was 2).
• Idol of C'Thun can now trigger from Mind Spike and Void Torrent damage.
• Idol of C'Thun now spawns a Void Lasher if there are more than 2 targetsnearby and otherwise spawns a Void Tendril.
• Idol of C'Thun Mind Flay damage reduced by 20%.
• Idol of C'Thun Mind Sear damage increased by 75%.
• The Void Tendril and Void Lasher from Idol of C'Thungenerate 15 Insanity over their duration (was 30).
• Idol of Yogg-Saron now scales with Shadow Priest's Mastery.
• Mind Sear from Idol of C'Thun now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• The cast speed of Mind Sear from Idol of C'Thun no longer scaleswith Haste.
• Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C'Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N'Zoth, and Void Torrent now have5% damage variance.
• Mind Spike now replaces Mind Flay.
• Mind Spike damage increased by 15%.
• Mind Flay: Insanity has been renamed to Surge of Insanity.
• Surge of Insanity generates 12 Insanity over its duration (was 16).
• Surge of Insanity now empowers your next Mind Flay or Mind Spike.
• Surge of Insanity now lasts 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).
• Surge of Insanity can now accumulate up to 2 charges.
• Surge of Insanity and Mind Spike: Insanity have been added tothe Personal Resource Display.
• Screams of the Void has been redesigned — Devouring Plaguecauses your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch to deal damage40%/80% faster for 3 seconds.
• Mental Decay now also increases the duration of Shadow Word: Painand Vampiric Touch by 2 seconds when Mind Spike is cast.
• Dark Evangelism can now also be triggered by Mind Spike.
• Insidious Ire now also affects Void Torrent damage.
• New Talent: Thought Harvester — Mind Blast gains anadditional charge.
• New Talent: Whispering Shadows — Shadow Crash generatesan additional 6 Insanity and applies Vampiric Touch to up to 8 targets itdamages.
• New Talent: Voidtouched — Increases your Devouring Plaguedamage by 6% and increases your maximum Insanity by 50.
• New Talent: Mastermind — Increases the critical strike chanceof Mind Blast, Mind Flay, and Mind Spike by 2%/4% andincreases their critical strike damage by 13%/25%.
• New Talent: Phantasmal Pathogen — Shadowy Apparitionsdeal 75%/150% increased damage to targets affected by your Devouring Plague.
• New Talent: Mind's Eye — Reduces the Insanity cost of Devouring Plague by 5.
• Throes of Pain generates 1 Insanity per rank (was 3 and 5).
• Ancient Madness is now a 1-point talent.
• Dark Ascension and Void Eruption should now properly overridethe other on your Action Bar when swapping talents.
• Several nodes in the talent tree have changed position.
• Updated the Shadow Priest starter build.
• Shadow Crash damage reduced by 70%.
• Shadow Crash now has a 20-second cooldown (was 30 seconds).
• Death and Madness Insanity generation reduced to 8 (was 30).
• Death and Madness generates Insanity immediately instead of over 3 seconds.
• Shadow Word: Death now generates 4 Insanity.
• Deathspeaker trigger rate increased by 50%.
• Deathspeaker now increases the damage of Shadow Word: Deathby 25% while active.
• Deathspeaker now temporarily increases the maximum charges of Shadow Word: Death by 1.
• Deathspeaker no longer triggers Death and Madness’ cooldown.
• New Talent: Distorted Reality — Increases the damage of Devouring Plague by 20%, but Devouring Plague deals its damage over 12seconds and its Insanity cost is increased by 25.
• Encroaching Shadows has been removed.
• Devouring Plague instant damage increased by 75%.
• Surge of Insanity has moved to Encroaching Shadows’ position.
• Surge of Insanity now has a Spell Alert while active.
• Mental Decay now updates the maximum duration of Shadow Word: Painand Vampiric Touch so that the remaining durations are more easily understood.
• Shadow Word: Death damage reduced by 38%.
• Shadow Word: Death deals 250% increased damage below 20% health (was 150%).
• Mastermind increases the critical strike chance of the affected spellsby 4%/8% (was 2%/4%).
• Maddening Touch increases Vampiric Touch damage by 15%/30%(was 10%/20%).
• Whispering Shadows no longer causes Shadow Crash to generateadditional Insanity.
• Mind Spike damage reduced by 6%.
• Mind Spike: Insanity damage reduced by 11%.
• Mind Spike: Insanity generates 6 Insanity (was 8)
• Mental Decay now also increases the damage of Mind Flay and Mind Spike by 10%.
• Unfurling Darkness and Mental Decay have swapped positionson the talent tree.
• Mind Devourer has a 5%/10% chance (was 4%/8%) to trigger and increasesthe damage of Devouring Plague by 20% (was 15%).
• Mind Flay damage from Idol of C'Thun reduced by 25%.
• Inescapable Torment damage reduced by 40%.
• Inescapable Torment increases the duration of Mindbenderby 0.7 seconds (was 1 second).
• Void Bolt generates 10 Insanity (was 12).
• Void Bolt now updates the maximum duration of Shadow Word: Painand Vampiric Touch so that the remaining durations are more easily understood.
• Mindbender and Shadowfiend generate 2 Insanity per attack (was 3).
• Devouring Plague extends the duration of Voidform by 2.5seconds (was 2 seconds).
• Void Torrent now has a 45-second cooldown (was 60 seconds).
• Unfurling Darkness damage increased by 75%.
• Mind Melt is now a 1-point talent.
• Malediction is now a 1-point talent.
• Inescapable Torment is now a 1-point talent for Shadow.
• Void Torrent now always triggers Idol of C'Thun.
• Vampiric Embrace no longer triggers from Psychic Link damage.
• Vampiric Embrace no longer triggers Hallucinations.
• Shadow Word: Death damage increased by 10% for Shadow.
• Mind Flay and Mind Sear damage from Idol of C'Thun reduced by 30%.
• Distorted Reality increases the damage of Devouring Plague by20% (was 8%) and increases its Insanity cost by 5 (was 10).
• Auspicious Spirits causes Shadowy Apparitions to have a chanceto generate 1 Insanity (was 2).
• Power Word: Shield absorbs 25% additional damage.
• Renew healing increased by 25%.
• Prayer of Mending healing increased by 25%.
• Flash Heal healing increased by 50%.
• Psychic Link now causes your direct damage spells to inflict 30% oftheir damage on all other targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch (was 40%).
• Mastermind now increases the critical strike damage of Mind Blast, Mind Flay, Mind Spike, and Shadow Word: Deathby 20%/40% (was 13%/25%).

• New PvP Talent: Phase Shift — Step into the shadows when you cast Fade, avoiding all attacks and spells for 1 second. Interrupt effects arenot affected by Phase Shift.
• Phase Shift has been added to the Personal Resource Display.
• New PvP Talent: Absolute Faith — Leap of Faith also pullsthe spirit of the 3 furthest allies within 40 yards and shields all allies affected.
• Eternal Rest (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Delivered from Evil (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Silence duration decreased to 3 seconds in PvP combat (was 4 seconds).
• The bounce radius of Prayer of Mending has been increased by 10 yards.
• Prayer of Mending healing increased by 50% in PvP combat.
• Cardinal Mending (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Power Word: Barrier effectiveness increased by 100% in PvP combat.
• Dome of Light has been removed.
• Vampiric Touch damage is no longer reduced in PvP combat (was reducedby 5%).
• Void Origins (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Mind Spike and Mind Spike: Insanity damage is now increased by30% in PvP combat (was 25%).
• Mind Flay and Surge of Insanity damage is now increased by30% in PvP combat.
• Deathspeaker increases the damage of Shadow Word: Death by 10%in PvP combat (was 25%).

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