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Priest

Shields and Atonement

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Overview

Shield and Purify your allies to give them Atonement. Then Penance and Smite heal them through your damage.

How to play

  • Put Atonement on both allies before damage starts.
  • Penance a shielded ally in an emergency.
  • Your casts can be kicked, so fake them.

Key passives

  • Atonement

    Shield and Purify apply Atonement (10 sec): Atoned allies heal for 90% of Penance and 150% of Smite damage.

  • Borrowed Time

    Shielded allies (5.2 sec): your Penance on them heals 38% more, channels 15% faster.

  • Desperate Grace

    At 40% health you get a 55 absorb for 3.5 sec. Once every 22 sec.

  • Healing Echo

    Direct heals echo 36% (shields 34%) to the lowest other ally below 88% health.

Action bar

Hover or tap a spell for its in-game tooltip. Default keybinds.

Stock kit

Penance1
Power Word: Shield2
Psychic Scream3
SmiteE
Purify4
EvangelismQ
Desperate Prayer5
Angelic SpeedSpace
Gladiator's MedallionV

Abilities

1

Penance

Holy

42 yd range1.4 sec channel4.9 sec cooldown

Channels 4 bolts over 1.4 sec: heals an ally for 69 each, or deals 15 Holy damage each to an enemy.

Damage heals allies with Atonement for 90% of the damage dealt.

2

Power Word: Shield

Holy

42 yd rangeInstant4 sec cooldown

Shields an ally, absorbing 176 damage for 4.5 sec, and applies Atonement for 10 sec.

3

Psychic Scream

Shadow

8 yd rangeInstant15 sec cooldown

Fears enemies within 8 yd for 3.6 sec and increases your movement speed by 18%.

E

Smite

Holy

42 yd range1.5 sec cast

Deals 26 Holy damage.

Heals allies with Atonement for 150% of the damage dealt.

4

Purify

Holy

42 yd rangeInstant9 sec cooldown

Removes magic effects from an ally, heals them for 68 and shields them for 48.

Does not remove physical slows.

Q

Evangelism

42 yd rangeInstant60 sec cooldown

Applies Atonement to all allies in range and extends existing Atonements by 6 sec. Atonement healing increased by 40% for 10 sec.

Off the global cooldown.

5

Desperate Prayer

Instant34 sec cooldown

Heals you for 185 and reduces damage taken by 15% for 4 sec.

Usable while stunned.

Space

Angelic Speed

Instant13.6 sec cooldown

Increases movement speed by 72% for 2.8 sec.

V

Gladiator's Medallion

Instant50 sec cooldown

Removes all stuns, roots, slows, Polymorph, Fear, Blind, Gouge and Cyclone effects. Only usable while crowd-controlled.

Talents

One pick per row, or leave a row on the stock kit.

1Keystone

Leap of Faith

Pull an ally to you, even if they're rooted.

Pulls your selected ally (or the one nearest your cursor) to you, even if they're rooted.

You don't get a speed boost. 16 sec cooldown (was 13.6).

Pull a partner out of a stun chain or away from a kill.

Silence

Purify on an enemy silences them for 3 seconds.

Purify with an enemy selected silences them for 3 sec and stops their cast.

Silencing puts Purify on a 20 sec cooldown and doesn't cleanse anything.

Silence their healer for a kill, or a caster before their burst.

Void Tendrils

Psychic Scream roots everyone around you for 4 seconds instead.

Roots every enemy around you for 4 sec. Damage doesn't break it.

No fear, so enemies can still cast and attack.

Lock two melee in place while your team keeps hitting them.

2Tactics

Rapture

A Shield right after Penance absorbs more.

Power Word: Shield cast within 6 sec of a Penance absorbs 30% more.

Penance cooldown 3.4 sec (was 3).

Penance, then Shield, when the go lands.

Holy Haste

Smite casts much faster for a little less damage.

Smite cast time 1.1 sec (was 1.5).

Smite deals 27 damage (was 30).

More Smites in a go; Atonement keeps healing.

Contrition

Damaging Penance bolts reduce the target's healing taken.

Damaging Penance bolts reduce healing taken by 15% for 4 sec (strongest healing reduction applies, no stacking).

Penance cooldown 3.6 sec (was 3).

Penance the kill target during your go.

3Style

Schism

Smite and Penance hit harder, but you heal less.

Smite and Penance deal 12% more damage.

Your healing is 5% less effective.

Best when Atonement is up and you're the kill pressure.

Angelic Bulwark

The first time you get low with Desperate Prayer used, you get a shield.

Below 30% health while Desperate Prayer is on cooldown: gain a shield worth 20% of your maximum health. Once per life.

Evangelism cooldown +15 sec.

Spend Desperate Prayer first. Bulwark covers you after.

Body and Soul

Power Word: Shield also gives a burst of speed.

Power Word: Shield gives its target +30% movement speed for 3 sec and removes slows.

Shield absorbs 10% less.

Shield a slowed ally, or yourself, to walk out of a chase.