An Overview of Priest Class Changes in Dragonflight Patch 10.1

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• Divine Star and Halo should properly override the other on 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 by 0.5 seconds (was 1 second).
• Psychic Scream now hits all enemies within 8 yards (was a maximum of 5 enemies).
• Void Tendrils now hits all nearby enemies within 8 yards (was a maximum of 5 enemies).
• Fixed an issue causing Divine Aegis to double dip into absorption increase or reduction mechanics.
• Divine Aegis once again creates an absorb shield for 5%/10% of the amount 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 further Holy Word casts.
• Divine Image now teleports near the Priest when the Priest casts a Holy Word spell if the Image is further than 15 yards away.
• Divine Favor: Chastise and Divine Favor: Serenity have been added to 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 target for 40% of its total periodic effect (10%).
• Healing Chorus now causes Renew to increase the healing done by 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 charges of 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 to Mind Sear’s location.
• Psychic Link has been reworded — Your damaging single target spells 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 a chance to generate 2 Insanity instead of always generating 1 Insanity.
• Maddening Touch now increases the damage of Vampiric Touch by 10%/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 Plague by 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 Blast by 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 targets nearby 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'Thun generate 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 scales with Haste.
• Mind Flay and Mind Sear from Idol of C'Thun, Echoing Void from Idol of N'Zoth, and Void Torrent now have 5% 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 to the Personal Resource Display.
• Screams of the Void has been redesigned — Devouring Plague causes your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch to deal damage 40%/80% faster for 3 seconds.
• Mental Decay now also increases the duration of Shadow Word: Pain and 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 an additional charge.
• New Talent: Whispering Shadows — Shadow Crash generates an additional 6 Insanity and applies Vampiric Touch to up to 8 targets it damages.
• New Talent: Voidtouched — Increases your Devouring Plague damage by 6% and increases your maximum Insanity by 50.
• New Talent: Mastermind — Increases the critical strike chance of Mind Blast, Mind Flay, and Mind Spike by 2%/4% and increases their critical strike damage by 13%/25%.
• New Talent: Phantasmal Pathogen — Shadowy Apparitions deal 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 override the 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: Death by 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 12 seconds 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: Pain and 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 spells by 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 generate additional 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 positions on the talent tree.
• Mind Devourer has a 5%/10% chance (was 4%/8%) to trigger and increases the 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 Mindbender by 0.7 seconds (was 1 second).
• Void Bolt generates 10 Insanity (was 12).
• Void Bolt now updates the maximum duration of Shadow Word: Pain and 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 2.5 seconds (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 by 20% (was 8%) and increases its Insanity cost by 5 (was 10).
• Auspicious Spirits causes Shadowy Apparitions to have a chance to 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% of their 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: Death by 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 are not affected by Phase Shift.
• Phase Shift has been added to the Personal Resource Display.
• New PvP Talent: Absolute Faith — Leap of Faith also pulls the 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 reduced by 5%).
• Void Origins (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Mind Spike and Mind Spike: Insanity damage is now increased by 30% in PvP combat (was 25%).
• Mind Flay and Surge of Insanity damage is now increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• Deathspeaker increases the damage of Shadow Word: Death by 10% in PvP combat (was 25%).

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