Ultimate Penitence
Ascend into the air and unleash a massive barrage of Penance bolts, causing Holy damage to enemies or healing to allies over 6 sec. While ascended, gain a shield for 100% of your health. In addition, you are unaffected by knockbacks or crowd control effects.
Tree position
In the Discipline Priest talent tree, Ultimate Penitence sits in the Discipline specialization talents, row 4 of 11. It is a single-point node.
Choice node
Ultimate Penitence shares its node with Power Word: Barrier. A character takes one of the two.
Power Word: BarrierSummons a holy barrier to protect all allies at the target location for 10 sec, reducing all damage taken by 20% and preventing damage from delaying spellcasting.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Ultimate Penitence from Dark Indulgence, Sanctuary and Pain Transformation or Protector of the Frail.
Dark IndulgenceMind Blast has a 100% chance to grant Power of the Dark Side and deals 20% additional damage.
SanctuarySmite prevents the next damage dealt by the enemy.
Pain TransformationPain Suppression also heals your target for 15% of their maximum health and applies Atonement.
Protector of the FrailPain Suppression gains an additional charge. Power Word: Shield reduces the cooldown of Pain Suppression by 3 sec.
Connected below
Ultimate Penitence leads on to Lenience.
LenienceAtonement reduces damage taken by 2%.
Same row
Also on this row: Bright Pupil or Enduring Luminescence, Shield Discipline, Painful Punishment and Revel in Darkness.
Bright PupilReduces the cooldown of Power Word: Radiance by 3 sec.
Enduring LuminescenceReduces the cast time of Power Word: Radiance by 30% and causes it to apply Atonement at an additional 10% of its normal duration.
Shield DisciplineWhen your Power Word: Shield is completely absorbed, you restore of your maximum mana.

Revel in DarknessShadow Word: Pain deals 5% additional damage and spreads to 1 additional targets when you cast Penance to its target.
Talent trees
Ultimate Penitence is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Priest: Discipline (Healer), Holy (Healer), Shadow (DPS).
Ultimate Penitence Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)