Atonement

Atonement is a passive Discipline priest ability. It causes Power Word: Shield, Shadow Mend and Power Word: Radiance to apply Atonement, causing applied targets to be healed when the priest deals damage with its offensive spells.

Where possible, healing in this way will conserve mana, and allow the priest to DPS while healing, leading to faster kills.

Tips

 * When soloing mobs or players, Atonement is a great rotation for combined healing and DPS. Although the healing is halved when received by the priest, it is still enough to reduce or even remove entirely the need to shield or heal, saving global cooldowns and so potentially increasing DPS. However, priests using Atonement while under attack may still wish to use Power Word: Shield, if only to prevent pushback.

Trivia

 * Atonement first appeared as a common Paladin ability card in the World of Warcraft: Trading Card Game's Blood of Gladiators series, before becoming as a spell in the game.