Penance
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- For the Season of Discovery rune, see
[Penance].
| Penance | |
|---|---|
| |
| Properties | |
| Class | Priest |
| School | Holy |
| Cooldown | 9 seconds |
| Other information | |
| Level learned | 11 |
| Improvements |
 [Blaze of Light],  [Castigation],  [Collapsing Void],  [Inescapable Torment],  [Inner Focus],  [Painful Punishment],  [Preventative Measures],  [Trinity],  [Twinsight], [Weal and Woe] |
| Glyphs |
 [Glyph of Dark Absolution] |
Penance is a level 11 Discipline priest ability, granted upon choosing the Discipline specialization. It is a potent channeled ability that either deals direct damage to an enemy, or heals an ally.
Notes
- Penance bolts normally occur three times per cast, the first tick occurring instantly upon cast.
[Harsh Discipline] significantly improves the potency of that cast of Penance by adding extra bolts. Similarly, [Castigation] will add an extra bolt. Additional bolts come with increased tick rate, firing faster so that the overall channeling time remains constant.- Penance is normally a Holy spell, but can become a shadow spell with use of
[Shadow Covenant]. - [Power Word: Shield] prevents pushback and ensures that the effect of Penance is fully used.
- Penance is one of the only ways for a Discipline priest to deal instant damage. Penance can be channeled while moving.
Trivia
- Penance is a Rare Paladin ability card in the World of Warcraft: Trading Card Game's Drums of War set that was created prior to the implementation of the Priest spell in World of Warcraft.
- Penance was a basic Priest spell in Hearthstone. It was removed during the game's Alpha and replaced with the card Temple Enforcer.
- It was re-implemented in the Saviors of Uldum expansion as a common Priest spell. Its flavor text reads: "This is what happens when you don’t give a sincere apology."
Patch changes
Hotfix (2025-04-15): Damage and healing reduced by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat. - Hotfix (2025-03-17): Fixed an issue causing mouseover and focus casts of Penance on enemies to sometimes not fire Penance bolts.
- Hotfix (2025-03-11): Damage and healing reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
- Patch 11.1.0 (2025-02-25):
[Contrition]'s effects have been made baseline for Penance: When you heal with Penance, everyone with your 
[Atonement] is healed for (18.72% of Spell power).- Damage and healing increased by 50%.
- The cooldown of Penance is now reduced by Haste.
- Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Healing increased by 20%.
Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07):
- Damage increased by 32%.
- Healing increased by 50%.
- Hotfix (2023-09-18): Healing is increased by 35% in PvP combat (was 15%).
- Hotfix (2023-07-24): Damage and healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 11 (was 10). Healing is now 375% of Spell Power. 
Patch 8.3.0 (2020-01-14): Healing increased by 15%. 
Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): 
[The Penitent]'s effects are now included in Penance. - Hotfix (2016-08-26): Penance damage is now 190% of Spell Power (was 175%).
- Hotfix (2016-08-22): Penance mana cost has been reduced to 2.8% base mana (was 3%).
- Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer does direct healing but can be cast while moving. Damage increased by 369%.
Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Now deals 10% less damage, but healing done is increased by 10%. - Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Damage and healing has been increased by 20%, now a cooldown of 9 seconds (was 10 seconds), and has a range of 40 yards for both friendly and hostile targets (was 40 yards for friendly and 30 yards for hostile targets).
- Hotfix (2012-09-18): Penance's base damage has been reduced so that it now deals significantly less damage at lower player levels, and slightly less damage at level-85.
- Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Damage increased by approximately 300%. Cooldown reduced from 12 sec to 10 sec.
Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Penance ticks no longer cause friendly targets to flinch. - Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Mana cost has been increased by 7%, but healing has been increased by 20%.
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Mana cost reduced. Now a level 10 specialization ability for Discipline (was a tier 11 Discipline talent).
Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Cooldown increased to 12 seconds, up from 10 seconds. - Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Penance can now be cast on the priest himself and the damage has been increased.
- Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
Other versions
Wrath Classic
Penance 
- Penance (4 ranks)
- Tier 11 Discipline priest talent
- 30 yd range
- 16% of base mana
- 12 sec cooldown
- Channeled
- Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 240 Holy damage to an enemy, or 670 to 756 healing to an ally instantly and every 1 sec for 2 sec.
Properties Class Priest School Holy Cooldown 12 seconds Other information Improvements 
[Aspiration], 
[Inspiration], 
[Improved Healing], 
[Renewed Hope]Glyphs 
[Glyph of Penance]Cataclysm Classic
Penance - Penance
- Level 10 Discipline priest ability
- 30 yd range
- 14% of base mana
- 12 sec cooldown
- Channeled
- Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 811 Holy damage to an enemy, or 3274 healing to an ally instantly and every 1 sec for 2 sec.
Properties Class Priest School Holy Cooldown 12 seconds Other information Level learned 10 Improvements [Inspiration], [Renewed Hope]Glyphs 
[Glyph of Penance]
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