WoW Forever Priest racials: race-specific Priest spells

29 Oct 2026 (AEDT), from Blizzard's beta notes (updated 26 Oct US) and official articles. Launch: Thu 5 Nov 10:00 AEDT. Unconfirmed = our read or not yet stated by Blizzard; may change at launch.

Priests in WoW Forever keep race-specific spells. The 26 Oct beta notes changed four of them. Blizzard hasn't published a full list of every race's Priest spells for Forever, so Unconfirmed: races not listed below may also have Priest racials we can't yet source.

Priest talent trees UI (Discipline/Holy/Shadow). Source: World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives. Image © Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

Priest racial spell changes (26 Oct notes)

Gnome: Contingency Plan

Can now land critical hits. Gnome is a new Priest race in Forever.

Gnome: Confounding Flash

Now has a cast visual, more Holy than Arcane, with new sounds.

Night Elf: Starshards

Now correctly gains spell pushback resistance from the Twilight Focus talent.

Undead: Dark Sacrifice

No longer breaks crowd control that breaks on damage. The tooltip now shows its mana gain scales with Spirit.

Unconfirmed: base effects, ranks and cooldowns of these spells are not in Blizzard's notes; we'll add them when Blizzard publishes them or at launch.

Other Priest changes

Renew can crit.
Power Word: Shield can always overwrite an existing Shield on a target without Weakened Soul.
Known issue: the Cooldown Manager tracks all Priest spells by default.

Priest races: Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome (Alliance); Undead, Troll (Horde). Normal racials are in all racials; Priest builds are in the Priest hub.

Updated 29 Oct 2026, 12:00am AEDT

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