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WoW Forever tools, patch notes and dates. Sources checked.

World of Warcraft: Forever Priest

From the beta client, build 1.60.1.70009, read 25 Sep 2026, and Blizzard's notes of 24 Sep 2026.

Priest in Blizzard's newest notes

In the notes

7 lines under the Priest heading of WoW Forever Beta Development Notes, Updated September 24, Blizzard's words.

  • Corrected an issue and now Renew can land critical hits.
  • Power Word: Shield can now always overwrite an existing Power Word: Shield on a target that does not have Weakened Soul.

Gnome

  • Corrected an issue and now Contingency Plan can land critical hits.
  • Confounding Flash now has a cast visual. The casting visual is now more Holy oriented than Arcane and the sounds have been updated to match.

Night Elf

  • Starshards now correctly gains resistance to spell pushback from the Twilight Focus talent.

Undead

  • Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks Crowd Control that breaks on damage.
  • Dark Sacrifice’s tooltip now correctly displays that the Mana gained from the ability scales with Spirit.

Talents

Plan a build

53 talents in three trees, 14 of them not in Classic Era by name.

Discipline 18

Not in Classic Era by name

  • Power in Light
  • Twin Disciplines
  • Holy Precision
  • Soul Warding
  • Penance
  • Renewed Hope
  • Divine Aegis

Classic Era talents not in this tree

  • Divine Spirit
  • Force of Will
  • Improved Power Word: Fortitude
  • Unbreakable Will

Holy 17

Not in Classic Era by name

  • Twilight Focus
  • Binding Heal
  • Litany of Light
  • Prayer of Mending

Classic Era talents not in this tree

  • Healing Focus
  • Improved Prayer of Healing
  • Lightwell

Shadow Magic 18

Not in Classic Era by name

  • Improved Mind Flay
  • Devouring Contagion
  • Early Demise

Classic Era talents not in this tree

  • Improved Vampiric Embrace

Abilities

Every rank by level

54 abilities and 234 ranks the class line trains.

Not in Classic Era by name

  • Confounding Flash level 10
  • Divine Grace level 10
  • Chastise level 20
  • Contingency Plan level 20
  • Dark Sacrifice level 20
  • Binding Heal level 32
  • Shadow Word: Death level 32
  • Penance level 40
  • Prayer of Mending level 50

Tagged on the abilities page as possible Season of Discovery leftovers: Shadowfiend, Increased Fortitude.

Races that can be a Priest

Every race

Common questions

What changed for the Priest in World of Warcraft: Forever?

By name, in the beta client's tables, 14 of the Priest's 53 talents and 9 of its 54 abilities are not in Classic Era's lists. Blizzard's notes of 24 Sep 2026 carry 7 lines under the Priest heading, shown on this page.

Which races can be a Priest in World of Warcraft: Forever?

In the beta client's tables: Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Undead and Troll. New pairs in Forever: Gnome.

Talents and abilities are the beta client's own tables, read through the wago.tools mirror; the notes are Blizzard's words from its forum. World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.