Soul Warding, a Discipline Priest talent in WoW Forever
Soul Warding is a passive talent in row 4 of the Discipline tree. It needs 15 points in Discipline, so the earliest you can take it is level 25 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 1 rank. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.
Soul Warding
1 rank
- Requires 15 points in Discipline
- Requires Improved Power Word: Shield at 3/3
Reduces the cooldown on your Power Word: Shield spell by 4 sec and reduces its mana cost by 15%.
Every rank of Soul Warding
| Rank | Text |
|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Reduces the cooldown on your Power Word: Shield spell by 4 sec and reduces its mana cost by 15%. |
Where it sits in the Discipline tree
- Needs
Improved Power Word: Shield at 3/3
- Unlocks
- That talent needs Soul Warding at 1/1.
- Same row
- Row above (row 3)
- Row below (row 5)
Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Soul Warding.
Compared with Classic Era
Soul Warding has no Classic counterpart: the data lists it as new in Forever.
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All Discipline talents
- Power in Light
- Wand Specialization
- Twin Disciplines
- Silent Resolve
- Holy Precision
- Improved Power Word: Shield
- Martyrdom
- Mental Agility
- Inner Focus
- Meditation
- Improved Inner Fire
- Mental Strength
- Soul Warding
- Improved Mana Burn
- Penance
- Renewed Hope
- Divine Aegis
- Power Infusion
The other Priest trees: Holy and Shadow. Everything that changed for the Priest since Classic is on the changes page.
Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.