Desperate Times
Increases healing by 10% on friendly targets at or below 50% health.
Tree position
In the Holy Priest talent tree, Desperate Times sits in the Holy specialization talents, row 9 of 11. It takes 2 points to fill. Its row opens once 20 points are spent in Holy Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Desperate Times from Say Your Prayers and Ultimate Serenity.
Say Your PrayersPrayer of Mending has a 15% chance to not consume a charge when it jumps to a new target.
Ultimate SerenityIncreases the healing done by Holy Word: Serenity by 10% and causes it to heal 4 nearby injured allies for 15% of its healing done. Talents that affect Holy Word: Sanctify instead affect Holy Word: Serenity.
Connected below
Desperate Times leads on to Lasting Words and Epiphany.
Lasting WordsHoly Word: Serenity applies 12 sec of Renew to its target. Ultimate Serenity applies 6.1 sec of Renew to allies it heals.
EpiphanyYour Holy Words have a 25% chance to cause your next cast of Prayer of Mending to ignore its cooldown.
Same row
Also on this row: Crisis Management, Light of the Naaru, Light in the Darkness, Prismatic Echoes and Radiant Plea.
Crisis ManagementIncreases the critical strike chance of Flash Heal and Prayer of Healing by 15%.
Light of the Naaru2 ranksThe cooldowns of your Holy Words are reduced by an additional 10% when you cast the relevant spells.

Prismatic Echoes2 ranksIncreases the healing done by your Mastery: Echo of Light by 5% and your Renew by 13%.
Radiant PleaIncreases Prayer of Mending healing by 15%.
Talent trees
Desperate Times is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Priest: Discipline (Healer), Holy (Healer), Shadow (DPS).
Desperate Times Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)