Priest: Forever against Classic

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New in Forever

Talents with no counterpart in Classic 1.12.

Discipline	Power in Light Smite and Penance deal more damage if the target is afflicted by Holy Fire or Shadow Word: Pain.
Discipline	Twin Disciplines Improves your instant spells of both kinds.
Discipline	Holy Precision Increases the chance for Holy spells to hit.
Discipline	Soul Warding Power Word: Shield comes off cooldown sooner.
Discipline	Penance Three quick bolts that either heal or harm.
Discipline	Renewed Hope Heals on targets with Weakened Soul crit more often and shorten Weakened Soul.
Discipline	Divine Aegis Critical heals leave behind a shield.
Holy	Twilight Focus Your spells lose casting time less often when you take damage.
Holy	Holy Binding Flash Heal on others heals you as well, without generating threat.
Holy	Litany of Light Your healing over time lasts longer.
Holy	Prayer of Mending A heal that jumps onward when the target is struck.
Shadow	Improved Mind Flay Each tick of Mind Flay hits harder than the one before.
Shadow	Dark Inspiration Mind Blast and fully channelled Mind Flay briefly increase your party’s Spirit.
Shadow	Devouring Contagion Your damage-over-time spells spread to nearby enemies.
Shadow	Early Demise Increases damage against targets at low health.

Gone from Classic

Talents that existed in Classic and are not in the Forever client. The text below each one is the Classic tooltip, not our summary.

Discipline	Unbreakable Will Increases your chance to resist Stun, Fear, and Silence effects by an additional 3%.
Discipline	Improved Power Word: Fortitude Increases the effect of your Power Word: Fortitude and Prayer of Fortitude spells by 15%.
Discipline	Divine Spirit Holy power infuses the target, increasing their Spirit by 17 for 30 min.
Discipline	Force of Will Increases your spell damage by 1% and the critical strike chance of your offensive spells by 1%.
Holy	Healing Focus Gives you a 35% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting any healing spell.
Holy	Improved Prayer of Healing Reduces the Mana cost of your Prayer of Healing spell by 10%.
Holy	Lightwell Creates a holy Lightwell near the priest. Members of your raid or party can click the Lightwell to restore 800 health over 10 sec. Being attacked cancels the effect. Lightwell lasts for 3 min or 5 charges.
Shadow	Shadow Affinity Reduces the threat generated by your Shadow spells by 8%.
Shadow	Improved Fade Decreases the cooldown of your Fade ability by 3 sec.
Shadow	Improved Vampiric Embrace Increases the percentage healed by Vampiric Embrace by an additional 5%.

Moved within its tree

Same tree, different row. A row is a price: from row 2 to row 5 the talent costs 25 points in the tree instead of 10.

Discipline	Wand Specialization a different column in the same row - the price stays at 0 points
Discipline	Improved Power Word: Shield from 5 points in the tree to 10
Discipline	Meditation a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
Discipline	Mental Agility from 15 points in the tree to 10
Discipline	Improved Mana Burn a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Discipline	Mental Strength from 20 points in the tree to 5
Shadow	Spirit Tap a different column in the same row - the price stays at 0 points
Shadow	Blackout a different column in the same row - the price stays at 0 points
Shadow	Improved Shadow Word: Pain a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Shadow	Shadow Focus from 5 points in the tree to 0
Shadow	Improved Psychic Scream a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
Shadow	Improved Mind Blast from 10 points in the tree to 5
Shadow	Shadow Reach from 15 points in the tree to 5
Shadow	Shadow Weaving a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Shadow	Vampiric Embrace from 20 points in the tree to 15

A different number of ranks

The talent exists in both, with a different number of ranks.

Discipline	Wand Specialization 5 ranks in Classic, 2 in Forever
Discipline	Silent Resolve 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Discipline	Mental Agility 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Holy	Spiritual Healing 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Shadow	Shadow Reach 3 ranks in Classic, 2 in Forever
Shadow	Shadow Weaving 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever

What changed since BlizzCon

11 changes between the trees shown at BlizzCon and the launch client.

gone	Shadow Magic	Shadow Affinity Reduces threat from Shadow spells.
replaced	Holy	Binding Heal → Holy Binding Flash Heal on others heals you as well, without generating threat.
replaced	Shadow	Improved Fade → Dark Inspiration Mind Blast and fully channelled Mind Flay briefly increase your party’s Spirit.
moved	Discipline	Improved Power Word: Shield Power Word: Shield absorbs more damage.
moved	Discipline	Mental Strength Increases your Intellect.
moved	Discipline	Improved Mana Burn Reduces the cast time of Mana Burn.
moved	Shadow	Improved Mind Blast Reduces the cooldown of Mind Blast.
reworded	Discipline	Power in Light Smite and Penance deal more damage if the target is afflicted by Holy Fire or Shadow Word: Pain.
reworded	Discipline	Renewed Hope Heals on targets with Weakened Soul crit more often and shorten Weakened Soul.
reworded	Holy	Twilight Focus Your spells lose casting time less often when you take damage.
reworded	Shadow	Improved Mind Flay Each tick of Mind Flay hits harder than the one before.

Two independent Classic 1.12 talent datasets, compared against each other: maladr0it/classic-talent-calculator and hseager/Classic-WoW-Talent-Planner. All 431 talents they share sit at identical positions in both. Names and positions are taken from the second, which is the complete one; the first is missing Faerie Fire (Feral).