Holy Word: Chastise

For the Burning Crusade priest racial ability, see [Chastise].

Holy Word: Chastise
Holy Word: Chastise Row 2 Holy priest talent 30 yd range 2% of base mana 1 min cooldown Instant Chastises the target for (140% of Spell power) Holy damage and incapacitates them for 4 sec. Rank 2: Cooldown reduced by 4 sec when you cast Smite.
Properties
Class	Priest
School	Holy
Cooldown	1 minute
Talents
Talent required	[Holy Word: Serenity]
Rank levels	26 (rank 2)
Improvements	[Censure], [Divine Image], [Light of the Naaru], [Resonant Words]
Related debuff
Holy Word: Chastise Incapacitated. Duration: 5 seconds

Holy Word: Chastise is a Holy priest Holy Word ability. It is an instant-cast damage spell that disorients its target.

Tips and tactics

The disorientation effect of Holy Word: Chastise can be invaluable for priests in PvP, and the spell's damage, though not considerable, can be useful as an extra nuke. However it should be noted that the disorientation effect will break immediately upon any damage taken by the target, meaning that this effect is best used for crowd control or to allow time for healing, escape or the use of an ability with a long cast time. However even in hectic battleground encounters, it can still be used to interrupt a caster at a critical moment.

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2023-06-26): Damage increased by 35%.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 Holy talent (was a level 23 Holy ability).
  
• Hotfix (2022-06-24): Now incapacitates enemy players for 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
  
• Patch 9.2.0 (2022-02-22): Damage increased by 25%.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 23 (was 16).
  
• Patch 8.1.0 (2018-12-11): Now learned at level 16 (was 18).
  
• Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Damage increased by 25%.
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 18 (was 24).
  
• Hotfix (2016-09-08): Holy Word: Chastise will no longer remove periodic damaging effects from targets in PvE situations.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Damage increased by 633%. Duration increased from 3 seconds to 5. Now learned at level 24 (was 10).
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Mesmerize effects.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Holy Word: Sanctuary healing done has been increased by 35%. In addition, it has a new spell effect.
  
• Hotfix (2011-03-16): Casting Holy Word: Chastise against bosses will cause damage, but no longer disorient them when they are immune to such effects.
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Now has a 30-second cooldown, up from 25. In addition, it properly breaks from damage.
  
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Holy Word: Sanctuary: now has a diminished effect when healing more than 6 players at once.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.
  

External links

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