Penance

Priest · Discipline · opens at 20 points spent · 1 rank

Penance does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

150 Mana · 36 yd range · Instant · 12 sec cooldown

Penance ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 45 Holy damage to an enemy, or 134 healing to an ally, instantly and every 1 sec for 2 sec.

Where Penance sits in the Discipline tree

Penance is a Discipline talent for Priest. You need 20 points in Discipline before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Power Infusion.

Unlocks: Power Infusion
Same row: Renewed Hope

How often people take Penance

51 of the 184 public Priest builds saved here (28%) put at least one point in Penance. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Penance

2 of the public Priest builds written up here spend points on Penance.

Priest Discipline 21/18/0 · 1/1 , 88 up
Priest Discipline 21/18/0 · 1/1 , 6 up

Where this came from

New in Forever.

Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)