Priest Class Changes for Shadowlands (Patch 9.0.2)

• Fade now has an additional effect — Fade now reduces the range at which enemies will attack you.
• All Priests can now use the following abilities:
  • Shadow Word: Pain — A word of darkness that causes Shadow damage instantly, an additional Shadow damage over 12 seconds. Shadow Priest generate 4 Insanity.
  • Shadow Word: Death — A word of dark binding that inflicts Shadow damage to the target. If the target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, the caster takes damage equal to the damage inflicted upon the target. Damage increased by 175% to targets below 20%.
  • New PvP Talent: Thoughtsteal — Peer into the mind of an enemy, attempting to steal a known spell. If stolen, the victim cannot cast that spell for 20 seconds. Can only be used on Humanoids with mana. If you are unable to find a spell to steal, the cooldown of Thoughtsteal is reset.
  • Power Word: Shield — Shields an ally for 15 seconds, absorbing damage. You cannot shield the same target again for 7.5 seconds. Instant-cast, costs 3.1% of Base Mana, 40-yard range.

• Mind Soothe (Level 52) — Soothes the target, reducing the range at which it will attack you by 10 yards. Only affects Humanoid and Dragonkin targets. Does not cause threat. Lasts 20 seconds. Instant-cast, costs 100 Mana, 40-yard range.
• Mass Dispel (Level 54) — Mass Dispel is now potent enough to remove some Magic that is normally undispellable.
• Power Infusion (Level 58) — Infuses the target with power for 20 seconds, increasing Haste by 25%. 40-yard range, instant-cast, 2-minute cooldown.

• New Ability: Holy Nova — If your Holy Nova deals damage to at least 3 enemies, a second Holy Nova will be cast a moment later at 50% effectiveness at the same location.
• New Ability: Mind Sear — Corrosive shadow energy radiates from the target, dealing Shadow damage over 4.5 seconds to all enemies within 10 yards of the target.
• New Ability: Mind Blast — Blasts the target's mind for Shadow damage and has an additional effect: Mind Blast prevents some of the next damage dealt by the enemy.
• Rapture now immediately casts Power Word: Shield on your friendly target when used, if no ally is targeted, Power Word: Shield will be cast on yourself, and its duration has been reduced to 8 seconds (from 10 seconds).
• Holy Nova now deals reduced damage if there are more than 5 targets.
• Power Word: Shield is no longer increased by 10% in PvP combat.

• New Talent: Spirit Shell (replaces Luminous Barrier) — For 10 seconds, Penance, Power Word: Radiance, and Atonement create absorb shields instead of healing. Replaces Rapture when talented. Spirit Shell does not have a global cooldown.
• Schism now increases your spell damage to the target by 25% (was 40%).
• Shadow Covenant has been redesigned — Make a shadowy pact, healing the target and 4 other injured allies within 30 yards. For 9 seconds, your Shadow spells deal 25% increased damage and healing, but you cannot cast Holy spells. 30-second cooldown, costs 5% Base Mana.

Below is the current talent tree for Discipline Priests.

• Level 15 Talents: Castigation / Twist of Fate / Schism;
• Level 25 Talents: Body and Soul / Masochism / Angelic Feather;
• Level 30 Talents: Shield Discipline / Mindbender / Power Word: Solace;
• Level 35 Talents: Psychic Voice / Dominant Mind / Shining Force;
• Level 40 Talents: Sins of the Many / Contrition / Shadow Covenant;
• Level 45 Talents: Purge the Wicked / Divine Star / Halo;
• Level 50 Talents: Lenience / Spirit Shell / Evangelism.

• New Ability: Holy Nova — If your Holy Nova deals damage to at least 3 enemies, a second Holy Nova will be cast a moment later at 50% effectiveness at the same location.
• Circle of Healing is no longer a Talent and learned by all Holy Priests at level 39.
• Holy Fire's instant damage has been increased by 300%, but now has a 1.5-second cast time.
• Holy Nova now deals reduced damage if there are more than 5 targets.
• Power Word: Shield is no longer increased by 10% in PvP combat.
• Prayer of Mending is now instant-cast.
• Smite now costs 0.2% of Base Mana.

• New Talent: Renewed Faith (replaces Enduring Renewal) — Your healing is increased by 10% on targets with your Renew.
• New Talent: Prayer Circle (replaces Circle of Healing) — Using Circle of Healing reduces the cast time of your Prayer of Healing by 25% for 8 seconds.
• Afterlife now also increases the range of your healing spells while in Spirit of Redemption by 30%.
• Apotheosis now resets the cooldowns of your Holy Words when activated.
• New PvP Talent: Cardinal Mending — Prayer of Mending now heals the target for 10% of their maximum health, ignoring any healing reduction effects.
• New PvP Talent: Divine Ascension — You ascend into the air out of harm's way. While floating, you are only able to cast Holy spells.
• Divine Attendant (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Delivered from Evil no longer reduces Leap of Faith's cooldown by 45 seconds. Instead, it increases the healing of your next spell on the target by 100%.
• Miracle Worker now also reduces the cooldown of Holy Word: Serenity by 25%.

Below is the current talent tree for Holy Priests.

• Level 15 Talents: Enlightenment / Trail of Light / Renewed Faith;
• Level 25 Talents: Angel's Mercy / Body and Soul / Angelic Feather;
• Level 30 Talents: Cosmic Ripple / Guardian Angel / Afterlife;
• Level 35 Talents: Psychic Voice / Censure / Shining Force;
• Level 40 Talents: Surge of Light / Binding Heal / Prayer Circle;
• Level 45 Talents: Benediction / Divine Star / Halo;
• Level 50 Talents: Light of the Naaru / Apotheosis / Holy Word: Salvation.

• New Ability Silence (Level 54) — Increases the range of Silence by 10 yards.
• New Mastery: Mastery: Shadow Weaving — Your damage is increased by 4% for each of Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, and Devouring Plague on the target. During Voidform, all targets receive the maximum effect.
• New Ability: Devouring Plague — Afflicts the target with a disease that instantly causes Shadow damage plus an additional 4 Shadow damage over 6 seconds. Heals you for 300% of damage dealt.
• New Ability: Dark Thoughts (Passive) — For each of your damage over time effects on the target, your Mind Flay and Mind Sear have a 2% chance to instantly add a charge of Mind Blast, causing it to be instantly cast, and allowing it to be cast while channeling Mind Flay or Mind Sear within 6 seconds.
• Voidform has been redesigned — Now has a 90-second cooldown and increased damage by 20% for 15 seconds. The ability no longer reduces the cooldown of Mind Blast, but now refreshes the cooldown of Mind Blast and you gain 2 charges while in Voidform. You no longer gain Haste every 0.5 seconds while in Voidform.
• Void Eruption cast time reduced by 40% and no longer requires 90 Insanity to cast.
• Shadowy Apparitions has been redesigned — When you use Mind Blast, Devouring Plague, or Void Bolt, you also create a shadowy version of yourself that floats towards all targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch, dealing Shadow damage. Critical strikes will cause two Apparitions to be created.
• Shadow Word: Death no longer generates Insanity.
• Mind Blast's Insanity generation is now 8 (was 12).
• Vampiric Touch's Insanity generation is now 5 (was 6).
• Void Bolt's Insanity generation is now 15 (was 20).
• Mind Sear's Insanity generation is now 6 (was 8).
• Dark Thoughts duration has been increased to 10 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Mind Flay damage has been reduced by 15%.
• Mind Sear damage has been reduced by 15%.
• Devouring Plague's initial damage has been reduced by 15% and its periodic damage has been reduced by 12%.

• Shadow Mend (Level 56) — When Shadow Mend is cast on yourself, increases all healing you do to yourself with your own spells by 15% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 2 times.

• New Talent: Death and Madness (replaces Shadowy Insight) — If a target dies within 6 seconds after being struck by your Shadow Word: Death, you gain 73 Insanity over 4 seconds and the cooldown of your Shadow Word: Death is reset.
• New Talent: Unfurling Darkness (replaces Shadow Word: Void) — After casting Vampiric Touch on a target, your next Vampiric Touch within 8 seconds is instant cast and deals Shadow damage immediately. This effect cannot occur more than once every 15 seconds.
• New Talent: Psychic Link (replaces Shadow Word: Death) — Mind Blast deals 50% of its damage to all targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch within 40 yards.
• New Talent: Searing Nightmare (replaces Dark Void) — Instantly deals Shadow damage to enemies around the target and afflicts them with Shadow Word: Pain. If the enemy is already afflicted by your Shadow Word: Pain, Searing Nightmare's damage is increased by 185%. Only usable while channeling Mind Sear.
• New Talent: Damnation (replaces Lingering Insanity) — Instantly afflicts the target with Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, and Devouring Plague free of cost.
• New Talent: Ancient Madness (replaces Dark Ascension) — Voidform increases your critical strike chance by 30% for 15 seconds, reducing by 2% every second.
• New Talent: Hungering Void (replaces Legacy of the Void) — Void Bolt causes the target to become vulnerable to the void, increasing damage taken from the Priest for 6 seconds. Void Bolt cast on vulnerable targets will also extend the duration of your Voidform by 1 second, 2 seconds if Void Bolt critically strikes. This effect can only be active on one target at any time.
• Shadow Crash has been redesigned — Hurl a bolt of slow-moving, far-reaching Shadow energy at the target destination, dealing Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yards. If Shadow Crash hits a lone target, they suffer 25% increased damage from your next Shadow crash within 15 seconds. Stacks up to 2 and generates 8 Insanity.
• Void Torrent no longer pauses your Insanity while used, but now applies Devouring Plague and refreshes the duration of all of your Shadow damage over time effects while channeling.
• Surrender to Madness no longer instantly generates 100 Insanity when used and has a 1.5-minute cooldown (was 3 minutes). Additionally, the ability now has a heartbeat sound effect that speeds up as you reach the end of the spells' duration.
• Searing Nightmare Insanity cost has been reduced to 30 (was 35).
• Auspicious Spirits now generates 2 Insanity (was 1) and its damage increase to Shadowy Apparitions has been reduced to 15% (was 30%).
• Shadow Crash no longer has 3 charges and no longer applies a Shadow Crash damage vulnerability debuff on the targets hit. Shadow Crash now deals 100% more damage and is on a 30-second cooldown (was 45 seconds).
• Void Torrent's duration is reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds) and damage increased by 20%. Void Torrent now generates 60 Insanity over its duration (was 30), no longer refreshes your damage over time effects, and its cooldown has decreased to 30 seconds (was 45 seconds).
• New PvP Talent: Lasting Plague — Increases the duration of your Devouring Plague by 6 seconds.
• Driven to Madness (PvP Talent) has been redesigned — Now reduces the cooldown of your Void Eruption by 3 seconds when you take damage.
• Shadow Mania (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Body and Soul (Replaces Perseverance) — Power Word: Shield and Leap of Faith increase your target's movement speed by 40% for 3 seconds.

Below is the current talent tree for Shadow Priests.

• Level 15 Talents: Fortress of the Mind / Death and Madness / Unfurling Darkness;
• Level 25 Talents: Body and Soul / San'layn / Intangibility;
• Level 30 Talents: Twist of Fate / Misery / Searing Nightmare;
• Level 35 Talents: Last Word / Mind Bomb / Psychic Horror;
• Level 40 Talents: Auspicious Spirits / Psychic Link / Shadow Crash;
• Level 45 Talents: Damnation / Mindbender / Void Torrent;
• Level 50 Talents: Ancient Madness / Hungering Void / Surrender to Madness.

You can find other Patch 9.0.1 class changes linked below.