Confuses up to enemies within 8 yds for 3 sec.
Confounding Flash
3% of base mana
0.5 sec cast2 min cooldown
Requires Level 10
Confuses up to enemies within 8 yds for 3 sec. Any damage taken will break the effect.
WoW Forever gives the Priest 6 new abilities (Confounding Flash, Divine Grace, Chastise, Contingency Plan, Dark Sacrifice, and Shadow Word: Death) and changes the numbers on 29 abilities and 28 talents compared with Classic. Binding Heal, Penance, and Prayer of Mending gain 10 new ranks.
The headline number of each changed ability or talent at its highest changed rank, compared with Classic. Green helps the player, red hurts.
Trainer abilities the Priest did not have in Classic, shown at their highest rank.
Confounding Flash
3% of base mana
0.5 sec cast2 min cooldown
Requires Level 10
Confuses up to enemies within 8 yds for 3 sec. Any damage taken will break the effect.
Divine GraceRank 7
40 yd range
Instant10 min cooldown
Requires Level 58
Instantly heals a friendly target below 50% Health for 1269 to 1497 and removes Weakened Soul from that target. Cannot be cast on self.
ChastiseRank 5
225 Mana20 yd range
Instant2 min cooldown
Requires Level 60
Chastise the target, causing 272 to 306 Holy damage and Immobilizing them for up to 2 sec. Only works against Humanoids. This spell causes very low threat.
Contingency PlanRank 5
30 yd range
Instant10 min cooldown
Requires Level 60
Place a Holy ward on an ally for 30 sec. The next time this ally takes damage dropping their Health below 35%, they will gain a shield absorbing X damage and begin healing for X Health over 15 sec. A target may be affected by only one Contingency Plan.
Dark SacrificeRank 5
Instant10 min cooldown
Requires Level 60
Cannibalize 1600 of your own Health over 15 sec to gain 1600 Mana.
Shadow Word: DeathRank 4
340 Mana30 yd range
Instant18 sec cooldown
Requires Level 56
A word of dark binding that inflicts 434 to 462 Shadow damage to the target. If your target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, you take backlash damage equal to 10% of your maximum health.
Abilities already in the Classic client that WoW Forever trains to higher ranks: the top new rank's tooltip and the level of every new rank.
Binding HealRank 6
380 Mana40 yd range
1.5 sec cast
Requires Level 56
Heal yourself and a friendly target for 757 to 893. This causes low threat.
PenanceRank 4
385 Mana36 yd range
Instant12 sec cooldown
Requires Level 60
Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 92 Holy damage to an enemy, or 425 healing to an ally, instantly and every 1 sec for 2 sec.
Prayer of MendingRank 3
390 Mana40 yd range
Instant10 sec cooldown
Requires Level 60
Places a spell on the target that heals them for 413 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 yds. 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.
Every number that differs from the Classic Era client, rank by rank (Classic → WoW Forever).
Now: Consumes the enemy in holy flames that cause 184 to 232 Holy damage and an additional 75 Holy damage over 10 sec.
Now: Rains starshards down on the enemy target's head, causing 1800 Arcane damage over 6 sec.
Now: Afflicts the target with a disease that causes 848 Shadow damage over 24 sec. Damage caused by the Devouring Plague heals the caster.
Now: Power infuses the target, increasing their Stamina by 70 for 1 hr.
Now: A powerful prayer that heals the target and their party for 631 to 667. Party members must be within 40 yards of target.
Now: Blasts the target for 472 to 498 Shadow damage, but causes a high amount of threat.
Now: Draws on the soul of the party member to shield them, absorbing 928 damage. Lasts 30 sec. While the shield holds, spellcasting will not be interrupted by damage. Once shielded, the target cannot be shielded again for 15 sec.
Now: Heals the target of 830 damage over 15 sec.
Now: Instantly heals the caster for 1269 to 1497.
Now: Heals a friendly target for 757 to 893.
Now: A word of darkness that causes 762 Shadow damage over 18 sec.
Now: Smite an enemy for 160 to 180 Holy damage.
Now: Fade out, discouraging enemies from attacking you for 10 sec. More effective than Fade (rank 5).
Now: Weakens the target enemy, reducing melee attack power by 204 and reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 20%. Lasts 2 min
Now: Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 390 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%.
Now: Casts a bolt of shadow at the target for 96 Shadow damage.
Now: The priest becomes surrounded with anti-magic energy. Any successful spell cast against the priest will burn 105 of the attacker's Mana, causing 1 Shadow damage for each point of Mana burned. Lasts 15 sec.
Now: A slow casting spell that heals a single target for 1853 to 2067.
Now: Heals a friendly target and the caster for 223 to 271. Low threat.
Now: Holy power infuses the target, increasing their Spirit by 40 for 1 hr.
Now: Heal your target for 611 to 691.
Now: Reduces the chance you'll be hit by melee and ranged attacks by 50% for 15 sec or until you are missed 3 times.
Now: Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 42 Holy damage to an enemy, or 126 healing to an ally, instantly and every 1 sec for 2 sec.
Now: Places a spell on the target that heals them for 172 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.
Now: Wards the friendly target against Fear. The next Fear effect used against the target will fail, using up the ward. Lasts 3 min.
Now: Heal your target for 151 to 175.
Now: Power infuses all party and raid members, increasing their Stamina by 70 for 1 hr.
Tooltip text reworded only (3): Levitate, Prayer of Shadow Protection, Prayer of Spirit
Talent ranks with different values. Blizzard hides most ranks above 1 until launch, so rank 1 is what we can compare today.
Now: Reduces the duration of Stun, Fear, and Silence effects inflicted on you by 30%.
Now: Increases your damage with Wands by 25%.
Now: Reduces the threat generated by your spells by 30% and reduces the duration of Stun, Fear, and Silence effects inflicted on you by 15%.
Now: Increases the damage absorbed by your Power Word: Shield by 20%.
Now: Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Now: Increases the Armor bonus of your Inner Fire spell by 45% and increases its total charges by 12.
Now: Reduces the mana cost of your Smite, Holy Fire, and instant cast spells by 10%.
Now: Reduces the casting time of your Mana Burn spell by -1 sec.
Now: Increases your total Intellect by 15%.
Now: Holy power infuses the target, increasing their Spirit by 17 for 1 hr.
Now: Gives your spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
Now: Reduces all spell damage taken by 10%.
Now: Reduces the casting time of your Smite, Holy Fire, Heal, and Greater Heal spells by 0.5 sec.
Now: Causes an explosion of holy light around the caster, causing 25 to 29 Holy damage to all enemy targets within 10 yards and healing all party members within 10 yards for 47 to 55. These effects cause no threat.
Now: Reduces the Mana cost of your Lesser Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, Penance, and Prayer of Mending spells by 15%.
Now: Increases your Holy damage done by 10%, and gives a 10% chance each time your Holy Fire spell deals periodic damage for your next Holy Nova to cost no Mana.
Now: Increases your spell healing by up to 25% of your total Spirit and your spell damage by up to 8% of your total Spirit.
Now: Increases the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain spell by 6 sec.
Now: Improves your chance to hit with Shadow spells by 5%.
Now: Reduces the cooldown of your Psychic Scream spell by 4 sec.
Now: Reduces the cooldown of your Mind Blast spell by 2.5 sec.
Now: Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 63 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%.
Now: Decreases the cooldown of your Fade ability by 6 sec.
Now: Increases the range of your offensive Shadow spells by 20%.
Now: Your Shadow damage spells have a 100% chance to increase the Shadow damage the target takes from you by 2% for 15 sec, stacking up to 5 times.
Now: Afflicts your target with Shadow energy that causes all party members to be healed for 20% of any Shadow spell damage you deal for 30 sec.
Now: Increases your Shadow damage done by 10%.
Now: Assume Shadowform, increasing your Shadow damage by 10%, reducing the Mana cost of all Shadow spells by 50%, increasing the critical strike damage bonus of your Shadow spells by 100%, and reducing Physical damage taken by you by 15%. However, you may not cast healing spells while in this form.
Talents with reworded text only (10): Martyrdom, Inner Focus, Power Infusion, Blessed Recovery, Inspiration, Spiritual Healing, Spirit Tap, Blackout, Silence, Improved Vampiric Embrace
Every race that can be a Priest; highlighted races could not in Classic.
Data: WoW Forever client 1.60.1.70685. How we source this
Priest players can choose from 6 races in WoW Forever (Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Undead, Gnome, and Troll). Prayer of Mending changed the most among its abilities (Healing +132%). 28 talents have different values, starting with Unbreakable Will. 13 more abilities and talents only had their tooltip reworded.
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The Priest gets 6 new abilities and 10 new spell ranks, and 29 abilities and 28 talents have different values than in Classic.
The new Priest abilities are Confounding Flash, Divine Grace, Chastise, Contingency Plan, Dark Sacrifice, and Shadow Word: Death.
Binding Heal, Penance, and Prayer of Mending gain 10 new ranks in total.
Yes, 28 Priest talents have different values than in Classic, starting with Unbreakable Will.
Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Undead, Gnome, and Troll can all be a Priest; Gnome could not in Classic.