New Abilities

Improved Shadowform

Passive

Reduces the mana cost of your Shadow spells by 15% while in Shadowform.

Pain Spike

Learned at Level: 60 Cooldown: 15 sec

Causes instant Shadow damage, but the damage dealt begins healing itself back over 5 sec after it lands. Burst that has to be followed up.

Shadow Mend

Heals a friendly target, but damages you for 50% of the amount healed. Generates reduced threat. A Shadow Priest's only direct heal.

Race-Specific Spells

Several Priest spells are taught only to certain races. Most are the familiar Classic racials, but a few are new to OctoWoW: Dwarves learn Avatar, Night Elves gain Searing Shot, and the Tauren Priest arrives with Spiritwalk and Light of An'she. (Fear Ward, once a Dwarf-only prayer, is now trained by Priests of every race, so it no longer appears here.)

Human

★ Feedback
Surrounds you with anti-magic energy: any spell cast against you burns the attacker's mana and deals Shadow damage for each point burned.

★ Desperate Prayer (shared with Dwarves)
An instant self-heal on a short cooldown.

Dwarf

★ Desperate Prayer (shared with Humans)
An instant self-heal on a short cooldown.

★ Avatar
Turns a friendly target to stone, increasing their armor and all resistances for a short time.

Night Elf

★ Elune's Grace
Reduces ranged damage taken and increases your chance to dodge; every melee attack you dodge while it is active restores mana equal to your Agility.

★ Starshards
Rains starshards down on the target, dealing Arcane damage over time.

★ Searing Shot
Fires a searing arrow for weapon damage plus additional Fire damage.

Undead

★ Touch of Weakness
The next melee attack against you strikes the attacker for Shadow damage and reduces the damage they deal.

★ Devouring Plague
Afflicts the target with a disease dealing Shadow damage over time; the damage it deals also heals you.

Tauren

★ Spiritwalk
Enter the spirit realm, becoming invisible for the duration.

★ Light of An'she
Blasts the target with light, reducing their chance to hit and burning them for Holy damage over time.

Troll

★ Hex of Weakness
Weakens the target, reducing the damage they deal and the effectiveness of any healing they receive.

★ Shadowguard
Surrounds you with shadows; anything that strikes you is struck back for Shadow damage. It carries limited charges and generates no threat.

Changes to Class Mechanics

★ Holy Nova in Shadowform
Holy Nova can be cast while you are in Shadowform. It is not free: casting it in Shadowform also deals Holy damage to you.

Changes to Baseline Spells

★ Divine Spirit
Baseline for every Priest from level 30. It is also far cheaper (Rank 3: 785 → 340, Rank 4: 970 → 445) and gains a fifth rank at level 60.

★ Lightwell
Baseline from level 30, and rebuilt so that nobody has to click it. Whenever you heal a friendly target with Lesser Heal, Flash Heal, Heal or Greater Heal, the Lightwell heals another injured ally nearby. Cooldown 10 min → 5 min.

★ Smite
Costs 40 mana and gains a ninth rank.

★ Holy Nova
Costs 180 mana and can be cast in Shadowform: it is the one Holy spell Shadowform does not lock out, at the cost of damaging you.

★ Prayer of Healing
Heals your target and their party, so you can heal a different group in the raid.

★ Blessed Recovery
Heals a percentage of the damage taken after a melee or ranged critical hit.

Talent Changes

Discipline

★ Chastise
Row 7, 1 Rank: new capstone, replaces Power Infusion
Causes Holy damage. On an enemy it disorients them until they take damage; on an ally it increases their attack and casting speed, for longer if the damage crits.

★ Enlighten
Row 5, 1 Rank: new
Brings a party member under your tutelage. Your Discipline and Holy casts have a chance to burn them for a share of their health as Holy damage and increase both your and their spell damage and healing.

★ Resurgent Shield
Row 5, 1 Rank: new, takes Divine Spirit's slot
When Power Word: Shield breaks, part of its mana cost is refunded and your Holy damage and healing increase based on how much the shield absorbed.

★ Purifying Flames
Row 4, 2 Ranks: new
Holy Fire has a chance to increase your Holy damage for a duration.

★ Blessed Concentration
Row 2, 2 Ranks: replaces Martyrdom
Being critically struck can grant Focused Casting, which prevents pushback and increases interrupt resistance.

★ Piercing Light
Row 1, 3 Ranks: new
Reduces the chance enemies resist your Holy and Discipline spells.

★ Searing Light
Moved from Holy to Discipline Row 4, 2 Ranks → 3 Ranks: reworked
Your damaging Holy and Discipline crits have a chance to make your next Smite instant and cheaper.

★ Mental Strength
5 Ranks → 3 Ranks: reworked
Increases your total Intellect and your spell casting speed.

★ Mental Agility
Row 4 → Row 1
Also reduces the cost of your offensive Holy and Discipline spells, not just instants.

★ Improved Inner Fire
Row 4 → Row 3, 3 Ranks → 2 Ranks
Boosts all of Inner Fire's effects, not only its armor.

★ Wand Specialization
5 Ranks → 2 Ranks
Covers Bows as well as Wands, adds hit chance, and gives those attacks a chance to restore mana.

★ Force of Will
Also increases the amount absorbed by your Power Word: Shield.

★ Removed: Power Infusion, Martyrdom, and Divine Spirit, which is now baseline. Improved Mana Burn moved to Shadow.

Holy

★ Ascendance
Row 7, 1 Rank: new capstone, replaces Lightwell
Purges all crowd control from you and empowers your healing: your heals cost less mana and cast faster, and allies you heal gain Apotheosis, increasing healing they receive.

★ Reservoir of Light
Row 5, 3 Ranks: new
Increases the effectiveness of Lightwell's healing.

★ Book of Prayer
Row 5, 2 Ranks: replaces Improved Prayer of Healing
You regain part of a healing spell's mana cost whenever it differs from your previous heal, which rewards varying your casts instead of spamming one button.

★ Empowered Recovery
Row 4, 2 Ranks: new
Extends Renew's duration and increases your healing on targets already affected by it.

★ Divinity
Row 1, 5 Ranks: replaces Holy Specialization
Increases the critical effect chance of your Holy and Discipline spells.

★ Holy Focus
Row 1, 2 Ranks: replaces Healing Focus
Avoids interruption while casting any Holy spell, not just heals.

★ Improved Healing
Also reduces the mana cost of Prayer of Healing.

★ Holy Reach
Row 4 → Row 2
Also extends the range of Chastise.

★ Spirit of Redemption
Also increases your total Spirit while alive, so it works before you die as well as after.

★ Spell Warding
5 Ranks → 3 Ranks, moved within Row 2

★ Removed: Holy Specialization, Healing Focus, Improved Prayer of Healing, and Lightwell, which is now baseline

Shadow

★ Vampiric Touch
Row 5, 2 Ranks: replaces Improved Vampiric Embrace
Increases the healing from Vampiric Embrace, and makes it return mana to your whole party equal to a share of your Shadow damage. Shadow's answer to raid mana.

★ Shadow Weaving
Reworked. Your Shadow spells grant you a stacking Shadow Weaving buff, and your spells then apply a vulnerability scaled by how many stacks you hold.

★ Spirit Tap
Also procs from a Mind Blast critical strike, not only from killing blows, so it works in a raid.

★ Improved Fade
Row 4 → Row 3
Also reduces the threat returned to you when Fade ends.

★ Improved Mana Burn
Moved out of Discipline into Shadow.

★ Shadow Reach
3 Ranks → 2 Ranks

★ Improved Mind Blast and Blackout
Repositioned: Improved Mind Blast moves up to Row 1, Blackout down to Row 2.