Dispel Magic

Dispel Magic is a priest spell that removes magical debuffs from the priest or magical buffs from enemy targets.



Talent improvements

 * Absolution allows the priest to use Dispel Magic on up to 2 harmful effects on friendly targets.
 * Mental Agility, reduces the mana cost of instant cast spells by 4/7/10%.

Tips and tactics
Dispel Magic is a popular ability in PvP combat. This spell can remove most magical buffs and debuffs. This can stop a steadily damaging effect from yourself, or it can even the playing field by returning an opponent's health, armor, or Intellect to normal. While all priests can use Dispel Magic on themselves and enemy targets, only Discipline and Holy priests are able to dispel debuffs upon friendly targets.

Dispel Magic chooses a buff (for enemy targets) or debuff (for friendly targets) at random. Many enemy players will often cast unnecessary buffs, such as Water Breathing and Water Walking, to reduce the odds that Dispel Magic will remove an important buff.

The impact of a Priest who spams Dispel Magic on a battleground is very potent. You can remove Druid healing over time. You can remove powerful protective spells with cooldowns like Ice Barrier and Sacrifice. You can cancel out Slow Fall or Levitate used by Mages and Priests to escape Lumber Mill on Arathi Basin. You can remove the Power Word: Shield of another Priest. A good Priest on a battleground (hopefully Discipline) will be either shielding, healing, or dispelling at all times, with the majority of time spent dispelling.

The most powerful buffs such as Divine Shield and Ice Block can be removed by Mass Dispel, but not Dispel Magic. Dispel Magic cannot return a Druid to humanoid form because shapeshifting is natural, not magical. However, the Shaman Ghost Wolf form is magical and can be dispelled.