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Desperate Prayer

Desperate Prayer

Instant	2 min cooldown

Requires Priest
Requires level 15

Heals the caster for 22% of maximum health.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect

Heal for % of Total Health
Value: 22

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Healing Priest Guide (Disc/Holy)

Raid and Class
cooldown list.

Shadow Priest Guide

Warlords of Draenor
Priest Changes

Comments

Comment by Fenrari

As a player who has multiple priests imo this talent is almost useless... Though admittingly while leveling the amount healed should be around 40ish% of your health not factoring in excessive PVP gear... as a healer (as this is a holy talent) you're not likely to put much use into it.

Comment by elf8bliss

This spell should be trainable just like Prayer of Spirit is going to be in 3.1 patch.

Comment by priestsrbeast

where can you get this?

Comment by murkyleyon

I read on wow.com that this is race related and only available to Humans and Dwarfs. Dont know if its true.

Comment by Ambelleina

I don't know, I actually use Desperate Prayer, albeit not extremely often.

Sometimes I'll take one big hit that knocks me down hard due to crap armor and it's helpful to make sure I don't die while trying to heal because once I go, everyone usually follows suit quickly.

Its usefulness is situational, agreed, as I mostly only end up taking that hard hit when I pull the ever-lovely heal aggro and everything within a 50 yard radius decides I need to die.

I didn't really start using it until around lvl 60, though, as instances got a little more difficult.

DP, bubble and renew is a nice little combo when I get into a sticky situation.

That being said, I tend to find personal use in spells most others usually disregard, so don't take my word as a rule, just my opinion. :)

Comment by cardinn

In Cataclysm, the talent Binding Prayers is being changed; this will now also heal the lowest-health party/raid member within 40 yards.

Useless no more.

Comment by SaintJohn

Now that it costs no mana anymore, this talent is much more interesting, as mana efficiency will be a premium at the beginning of Cataclysm

Comment by ectl3k

Such a great talent for progressing through Cataclysm raids right now, I wouldn't skip this if your not use to the fights yet.

Comment by Alzu

In the future patch 4.0.6, this spell will heal the priest for 30% of his/her maximum health, making this far from useless.

Comment by Noktaris

The latest change to Desperate Prayer—along with changes to the way Power Word: Shield and Prayer of Mending will work for properly specced/glyphed Priests—reinforces Blizzard's intent to make us less reliant on mobility in PvP. Precedent existed for Blizzard to make Phantasm into a glyph (see: Travel Form, Hand of Freedom, Ghost Wolf), but they opted for improving our ability to just roll with the punches.

Comment by LuckySleven

This spell can basically save a priest from nearly getting blown up in arena.

I've seen a priest heal back to full (110k hp) from 2k hp in under a second which is pretty op

Comment by archonoid

can anyone comfirm can Desperate Prayer crit ?

Comment by Boghdan

Playing with my first disc priest now and am following this table (which was highly rated on wowpopular.com for a PvP disc priest) to fill my talent points. So thinking about desperate prayer, 30% could be pretty fine for a damage dealer, but not that much healers imho. Wouldn't it be a better option to put another point into divine fury instead of this?

Comment by archonoid

this talent is usefull in many pvp situations

but also in pve it can save your ass, simply while taking major damage ( like 50-60k ) in a raid you can heal yourself with one click instantly, no healing spell that priest have can do and it is free (except Holy Word: Serenity with less healing). Simply it could save your raid healers time and mana.

Comment by guatafu

Not displayed here, but this talent has a 2 minute cooldown.

Comment by rhinoloupe

This can be used in shadowform.

Comment by CircleofHealing

The "Oh %$#@" button for my Holy Priest in PvP which has saved my butt more than a few times. A really, really useful spell in BGs.

Hit this along with Guardian Spirit, Psychic Scream and Power word shield (for a quick getaway) when in serious trouble. Sometimes gets you far enough away and wih enough healthto continue your healing.

Comment by codeytherhino

This is a pretty handy talent for all specs, but I especially like it when playing Disc. The combination of Void Shift on the main tank when it's an emergency and then having Desperate Prayer macro'd has worked wonders on multiple occasions.

Comment by ktcap

I wonder, does this spell still crit as of 5.1?

Comment by Mormolyce

Oooooooooh... it's an Elf's head bowed down and two hands pressed together, making a prayer. Hands in the bottom left, head in the top right, divine rays of light top left.

So many years and only today do I actually make out what it is.

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