An Overview of Priest Class Changes in Dragonflight Patch 10.2.6

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• Leap of Faith no longer interrupts spell casts from the ally it was used on.

• Atonement transfers 35% of damage to healing (was 40%).
• Atonement healing increased by 70% outside of raids (was 50%).

• Empyreal Blaze has been redesigned — Holy Word: Chastise cases your next 2 casts of Holy Fire to be instant, cost no mana, and incur no cooldown. Refreshing Holy Fire on a target now extends its duration by 7 seconds.
• Pontifex has been redesigned — Flash Heal, Heal, Prayer of Healing, and Circle of Healing increase the healing done by your next Holy Word spell by 6% stacking up to 5 times. Lasts 30 seconds.
• Lightwell has been redesigned. Creates a Holy Lightwell. Every second the Lightwell will attempt to heal a nearby party or raid member within 40 yards that is lower than 50% health and apply a Renew to them for 6 seconds. Lightwell lasts for 2 minutes or until it heals 15 times. Cooldown reduced by 3 seconds when you cast Holy Word: Serenity or Holy Word: Sanctify.
• All healing done reduced by 7%.
• Holy Fire mana cost reduced to 0.4% of base mana (was 1%).
• Holy Word: Chastise mana cost reduced to 0.6 of base mana (was 2%).
• Resonant Words now causes Holy Words to increase the healing done by your next Flash Heal, Heal, Prayer of Healing, or Circle of Healing by 20%/40%. Lasts 30 seconds.
• Divine Word now increases the effectiveness of your next Holy Word spell by 30% (was 50%).
• Casting Holy Word: Chastise with Divine Word active now increases damage dealt by 20% and refunds 15 seconds from the cooldown of Holy Word: Chastise instead of its previous effect.
• Casting Holy Word: Sanctify with Divine Word active now blesses the target area and heals 5 targets (was 6). Healing done increased by 25%.
• Casting Holy Word: Serenity with Divine Word active no longer increases the critical strike chance of Flash Heal, Heal, and Renew.
• Healing Chorus now increases the healing of Circle of Healing by 5% stacking up to 20 times (was 2% stacking up to 50 times).
• Prayerful Litany now heals for 100% more to the most injured ally it affects (was 30%).
• Harmonious Apparatus has been renamed to Voice of Harmony and its icon has changed.
• Voice of Harmony now causes Holy Nova to reduce the cooldown of Holy Word: Chastise in addition to Holy Fire.
• Gales of Song is now a 1-point talent with the values of the previous 2-point version.
• Orison now has a connection to Pontifex.
• Divine Service now has a connection to Say Your Prayers.
• Empowered Renew and Rapid Recovery have been removed.
• The final 3 rows of the tree have been reorganized.

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (2) Set Bonus: Increases the damage of Mind Blast by 40% when Shadowy Insight triggers (was 30%).
• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (4) Set Bonus: Increases Devouring Plague damage by 18% (was 15%).
• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (4) Set Bonus: Causes every 4 casts of Devouring Plague to increase Shadowy Apparitions damage by 100% for 10 seconds (was 80%).

• Atonement (Discipline) healing increased by 35% in PvP combat (was 15%).

You will find other Patch 10.2.6 class changes linked below.