Desperate Prayer
Increases maximum health by 35% for 20 sec, and instantly heals you for that amount.
Tree position
In the Discipline Priest talent tree, Desperate Prayer sits in the Priest class talents, row 7 of 10. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Class Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Desperate Prayer from Inspiration and Binding Heals.

Binding Heals20% of Flash Heal or Shadow Mend healing on other targets also heals you.
Connected below
Desperate Prayer leads on to Angel's Mercy and Protective Light.
Angel's MercyReduces the cooldown of Desperate Prayer by 20 sec.
Protective LightCasting Flash Heal or Shadow Mend on yourself reduces all damage you take by 10% for 10 sec.
Same row
Also on this row: Twist of Fate, Tithe Evasion and Fade.
Twist of Fate2 ranksAfter damaging or healing a target below 35% health, gain 5% increased damage and healing for 8 sec.
Tithe EvasionShadow Word: Death deals 50% less damage to you.
FadeFade out, removing all your threat and reducing enemies' detection range against you for 10 sec.
Talent trees
Desperate Prayer is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Priest: Discipline (Healer), Holy (Healer), Shadow (DPS).
Desperate Prayer Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)