Priest

• Power Infusion Haste reduced to 20 percent (was 25 percent) and duration reduced to 15 seconds (was 20 seconds).
  • Developers’ note: Power Infusion has proved to be too impactful due to how it stacks with cooldowns on specializations that excel at dealing damage in a short window. We’re reducing it’s duration and amplitude to balance our burst classes and keep them more in line with steady-state damage dealers.

• Shadow Word: Death now deals eight percent of the Priest’s maximum health in damage when it fails to kill a target instead of the backlash damage being based on damage dealt.
• Tithe Evasion now reduces Shadow Word: Death damage dealt to the Priest by 50 percent (was 75 percent).
• Shadow Word: Death backlash damage is now reduced by damage reduction effects.
• Mass Dispel cooldown is now two minutes (was 45 seconds).
  • Developers’ note: We’re reducing the frequency that Priests have access to Mass Dispel as the value of the spell is exceeding the value of other utility at its current power level and cooldown. We’re looking to allow for more situations where magic debuffs are applied to multiple players without having a Priest trivializing the intended difficulty of the mechanics.

• Improved Mass Dispel is now a PvP Talent and reduces the cooldown of Mass Dispel by 60 seconds (was 20 seconds).
• Improved Mass Dispel no longer reduces the cast time of Mass Dispel.
• Improved Mass Dispel has been replaced with Mental Agility in the Priest talent tree.
• New Talent: Mental Agility – Reduces the mana cost of Purify, Purify Disease, and Mass Dispel by 50 percent and Dispel Magic by 10 percent.
• Rhapsody now only highlights Holy Nova at max stacks while in combat.
• Power Word: Life now costs 2.5 percent mana (was 0.5 percent).
• Power Word: Life cooldown decreased to 15 seconds (was 30 seconds), but its cooldown is no longer decreased when cast on targets below 35 percent health.
• Power Word: Life is now only usable on targets below 35 percent health.
• Power Word: Life’s healing increased by 500 percent and no longer increases its healing on targets below 35 percent health.

Shadow

• Shadow Crash damage is now reduced beyond five targets.
• Surge of Insanity now triggers from every three casts of Devouring Plague instead of every cast of Devouring Plague.
• Developers’ note: The rotation has a lot going on and much of that is due to the frequency that Mind Flay: Insanity and Mind Spike: Insanity are available, so we’re adjusting the frequency of the effect.
• Mind Flay damage increased by 10 percent.
• Mind Flay: Insanity damage increased by 30 percent.
• Mind Spike: Insanity damage increased by 20 percent.
• Fixed an issue causing Deathspeaker to reset the cooldown of Shadow Word: Death to 10 seconds.
• Fixed an issue causing Deathspeaker to trigger the cooldown lockout for Death and Madness.
• Fixed an issue causing additional Shadow Word: Deaths from the Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope Set Bonus to not trigger Psychic Link.
• Inescapable Torment now triggers at 35 percent reduced effectiveness from additional Shadow Word: Deaths caused by the Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope Set Bonus.
• Surge of Insanity now triggers from every two casts of Devouring Plague (was three).
  • Developers’ note: The Shadow rotation slowed down more than we were intending for from our changes earlier this patch and we’ve seen similar feedback from the community. We maintain our goal to reduce how busy the Shadow rotation is, so we’re not reverting Surge of Insanity to its Fury Incarnate state, and instead reducing the casts required. We’re also increasing the Insanity generated from the associated spells to further distinguish their power from the base versions of the spells.
• Mind Spike: Insanity now generates eight Insanity (was six).
• Mind Flay: Insanity now generates 16 Insanity over its duration (was 12).