An Overview of Priest Class Changes in the War Within Patch 11.1

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• Hero Talents — Voidweaver:
  • Voidwraith’s damage is now reduced by 25% when talented into Mindbender.
  • Voidwraith’s cooldown has been increased to 3 minutes (was 2 minutes), now matching Shadowfiend’s cooldown.

• New Talent: Divine Procession — Smite extends the duration of an active Atonement by 3 seconds.
• New Talent: Inner Focus — Flash Heal, Power Word: Shield, Penance, Power Word: Radiance, and Power Word: Life have a 20% increased chance to critically heal.
• Purge the Wicked renamed to Encroaching Shadows and has been updated — Now causes Shadow Word: Pain to spread instead of overriding it with a new spell.
• Aegis of Wrath has been renamed to Eternal Barrier and has been updated — No longer decays over time and instead increases the duration of Power Word: Shield by 5 seconds and its absorption by 20% (was 30%).
• Void Summoner has been updated — Now reduces the cooldown of Shadowfiend, Mindbender, or Voidwraith by 50%.
• Void Summoner now only triggers from Mind Blast and Penance casts. Reduces the cooldown of Shadowfiend by 8 seconds or Mindbender by 4 seconds (was 4 seconds and 2 seconds).
• Evangelism healing increased by 40%.
• Evangelism now heals all targets affected by Atonement for 4200% spell power, split among targets healed. Continues to extend Atonement by 6 seconds. Visual updated.
• Contrition has been made baseline and now logs as Penance healing.
• Penance damage and healing increased by 50%.
• The cooldown of Penance is now reduced by Haste.
• Penance healing now triggers Divine Aegis.
• Harsh Discipline now only increases the number of Penance bolts by 1 per talent point invested (was up to 2). The buff now represents charges instead of increasing bolts per stack.
• Power of the Dark Side increases the damage and healing of Penance by 30% (was 50%).
• Power Word: Shield absorption increased by 15%.
• Power Word: Radiance healing radius increased to 40 yards (was 30 yards).
• Luminous Barrier healing increased by 20%.
• Smite damage increased by 25%.
• Shadow Word: Pain damage increased by 44%.
• Indemnity increases the duration of Atonement applied by Power Word: Shield by 4 seconds (was 3 seconds).
• Ultimate Penitence now shields the Priest for 100% of their health (was 50%).
• Priests may now slowly move during Ultimate Penitence and can control their landing upon finishing the channel.
• Pain and Suffering increases the damage of Shadow Word: Pain by 15/30% (was 7/15%).
• Pain and Suffering now increases the duration of Shadow Word: Pain by 2 seconds per talent point invested.
• Divine Aegis no longer triggers from periodic healing or Atonement and no longer causes Power Word: Shield critical heals to be stronger. Absorption increased to 30% (was 5%).
• Divine Aegis now displays on raid frames.
• Atonement’s heal impact visual is now hidden for allies in raids and dungeons.
• Several talents have changed positions in the talent tree.
• The following talents have been removed:
  • Heaven's Wrath
  • Rapture
  • Train of Thought
• Hero Talents — Oracle:
  • New Talent: Twinsight — Fires 3 additional Penance bolts at an enemy within 40 yards when healing an ally with Penance, or at an ally within 40 yards when damaging an enemy with Penance.
  • Premonition now has 2 charges baseline.
  • Divine Providence has been removed.
• Hero Talents — Voidweaver:
  • Entropic Rift damage reduced by 20%.
  • Voidwraith grants the reduced effectiveness version of Shadow Covenant when talented into Mindbender.
  • Voidwraith now returns 0.2% mana when talented into Mindbender (was 0.5%).

• Several talents have changed positions in the talent tree.
• New Talent: Lasting Words — Holy Word: Serenity applies 12 seconds of Renew to its target, and Holy Word: Sanctify applies 4 seconds of Renew to allies it heals.
• New Talent: Light in the Darkness — Increases the healing done by Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify by 20%/40%. Increases the radius of Holy Word: Sanctify by 15%/30%.
• New Talent: Dispersing Light — 5% of healing done with Heal, Flash Heal, and Power Word: Life is replicated to 4 injured allies within 40 yards.
• New Talent: Divinity — Your healing is increased by 10% while Apotheosis is active. When you activate Apotheosis, your next 3 casts of Heal or Prayer of Healing are instant and heal for 25% more.
• New Talent: Eternal Sanctity — Your Holy Words extend the duration of Apotheosis by 1 second.
• New Talent: Holy Celerity — Reduces the cooldown of your Holy Words by 15 seconds.
• New Talent: Empowered Renew — Renew reduces the cooldown of Sanctify by an additional 6 seconds and heals for 60% more when cast, but has a 12-second cooldown.
• Voice of Harmony has been updated — Power Word: Life now also reduces the cooldown of Holy Word: Serenity. Divine Star and Halo now reduce the cooldown of Holy Word: Sanctify.
• Seraphic Crescendo has been redesigned and moved from PvP talents to the Holy tree — Now reduces the cooldown of Divine Hymn by 60 seconds.
• Gales of Song has been redesigned — While channeling Divine Hymn, place 2 stacks of Prayer of Mending on up to 3 allies within its range every 1 second.
• Prayerful Litany has been redesigned — Now causes the primary target of Prayer of Healing to be healed for 75% more.
• All healing reduced by 8%.
• Holy Mending healing increased by 30%.
• Prayer of Healing healing increased by 69%.
• Prayer of Healing mana cost increased by 25%.
• Prayer of Healing cast time is now 2.5 seconds (was 2 seconds).
• Prayer of Healing now prioritizes nearby injured targets instead of the closest targets.
• Prayer of Healing now has an impact visual on allies it heals.
• Prayer Circle now triggers from Holy Word: Sanctify.
• Cosmic Ripple healing increased by 150%.
• Lightwell’s health threshold is now 75% (was 50%).
• Resonant Words now also affects Power Word: Life.
• Lightweaver now increases the healing of Heal and Prayer of Healing by 18% (was 25%).
• Lightweaver can now also be consumed by Prayer of Healing in addition to Heal.
• Lightweaver now accumulates up to 4 charges (was 2).
• Divine Hymn channel duration is now 5 seconds (was 8 seconds). Total healing remains unchanged.
• Afterlife no longer grants a resurrection cast during Spirit of Redemption.
• Holy Nova now reduces the cooldown of Chastise by 4 seconds baseline and no longer interacts with Voice of Harmony.
• Crisis Management now also increases the critical strike chance of Power Word: Life.
• Apotheosis now reduces the cooldown of Holy Words by 200% (was 300%).
• Prismatic Echoes now also increases the healing of Renew by 15%/30%.
• Prismatic Echoes increases the healing of Mastery: Echo of Light by 5%/10% (was 6%/12%).
• Resonant Words is now tracked on the Personal Resource Display.
• The following talents are now 1-point:
  • Crisis Management
  • Epiphany
  • Prayers of the Virtuous
  • Prismatic Echoes
  • Resonant Words
  • Voice of Harmony
• The following talents have been removed:
  • Circle of Healing
  • Guardians of the Light
  • Healing Chorus
  • Holy Word: Salvation
  • Orison
  • Pontifex
  • Revitalizing Prayers
  • Sanctified Prayers
  • Say Your Prayers
• Hero Talents — Oracle:
  • New Talent: Twin Sight — An additional 2 stacks of Prayer of Mending is placed on a second ally within 40 yards when casting Prayer of Mending.
  • Preemptive Care now increases the duration of Renew by 25% (was 6 seconds).
  • Premonition now has 2 charges baseline.
  • Divine Providence has been removed.

• All damage increased by 13%.
• Hero Talents — Voidweaver:
  • Void Blast damage increased by 25%.
  • Collapsing Void damage increased by 15%.
  • Inner Quietus increases the damage of Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch by 35% (was 25%).

• Archangel has been redesigned — Now a passive spell that upgrades Evangelism, causing it to heal for 30% more and increase your healing and absorption by 20% for 15 seconds.
• Dark Archangel has been redesigned — Now triggers automatically when you cast Shadowfiend or Mindbender and increases damage done by 10% (was 15%).
• Trinity (PvP Talent) has been redesigned — Atonement duration increased by 10 seconds. Smite, Penance, and Void Blast have 30% reduced cast time when you have Atonement on 3 or more allies.
• Shadow Word: Pain damage no longer increased by 15% in PvP combat.
• Aegis of Wrath has been renamed to Eternal Barrier and is no longer reduced in PvP combat.
• Seraphic Crescendo has moved from PvP talents to the Holy tree.

You can find other Patch 11.1 class changes linked below.