Shadow Priests definitely got nerfed

1) Shadow Weaving - total amount of plus damaged reduced by 5% (was 15% now 10% extra shadow damage)
2) Shadow Word: Death - Cooldown increased to 12 seconds (up from 6 seconds)
3) (Indirectly) Paladin Spiritual Attunement no longer awards mana if the paladin is healed while at full health. (So basically, Vampiric Embrace will no longer give a paladin mana if they're already full on heath).

There were some priest buffs

Pain Suppression - now reduces damage taken by 65% and increases resistance to Dispel mechanics by 65% for the duration (damage reduction is increased by 5% and dispel resistance 65%)

Binding Heal - mana cost reduced 32%

Circle of Healing - Effect increased (unspecified in patch notes)

What people need to realize though, is that the priest abilities that were buffed, were buffed because no one was using them. CoH still is a terrible terrible talent, even though Blizzard keeps buffing it. And Binding Heal is still a gimick ability as well as pain suppression.

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