Holy Priest Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — The War Within (11.2)

The Raid Archon Build is centered around large single target Surge of Light-buffed Flash Heal casts, alongside the consistent healing from Holy Words, and Prayer of Mending. Halo can be paired up with Apotheosis or Divine Hymn for powerful raid healing.

You can easily import the talent tree below by clicking 'Export Talents' and then importing it in-game.

The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:

• Seraphic Crescendo can be swapped for Gales of Song if you are unable to make use of the extra Divine Hymn casts.
• Sustained Potency can be swapped for Energy Compression if you aren't making good use of the Apotheosis procs.
• Divine Service can be swapped for Empyreal Blaze to trade some healing for additional damage.
• Word of Supremacy can be swapped for Heightened Alteration if you can find a way to exploit the added duration with Restitution.

The Class Tree has some flexibility, and there are multiple different talents you can change around depending on the encounter and your personal preference. The following are all great candidates to be situationally removed without altering your playstyle:

• Mass Dispel, particularly in raid encounters, can have limited usage. If Mass Dispel does not fit well with the boss you will be fighting, swapping it out will save you one point.
• Dispel Magic can be taken instead of Mass Dispel for encounters where having an additional purge is important.
• Essence Devourer or Phantom Reach can be swapped out for Angelic Bulwark for a survivability boost if needed.

The Raid Archon Single Target Build focuses on utilising the additional Surge of Light procs alongside Lightweaver to vastly improve spot-healing capability. While this build is not the optimal build, it can be beneficial if you find yourself losing raid members to heavy single-target damage.

You can easily import the talent tree below by clicking 'Export Talents' and then importing it in-game.

The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:

• Seraphic Crescendo can be swapped for Gales of Song if you are unable to make use of the extra Divine Hymn casts.
• Sustained Potency can be swapped for Energy Compression if you aren't making good use of the Apotheosis procs.
• Enlightenment can be swapped for Empyreal Blaze to trade Mana and healing for additional damage.
• Word of Supremacy can be swapped for Heightened Alteration if you can find a way to exploit the added duration with Restitution.

The Class Tree has some flexibility, and there are multiple different talents you can change around depending on the encounter and your personal preference. The following are all great candidates to be situationally removed without altering your playstyle:

• Mass Dispel, particularly in raid encounters, can have limited usage. If Mass Dispel does not fit well with the boss you will be fighting, swapping it out will save you one point.
• Dispel Magic can be taken instead of Mass Dispel for encounters where having an additional purge is important.
• Essence Devourer or Phantom Reach can be swapped out for Angelic Bulwark for a survivability boost if needed.

The Raid Oracle Build focuses on maximising casts of Prayer of Mending through usage of Premonition of Insight. This provides a lot of passive healing from associated talents and from Answered Prayers procs. You then fill in the gaps between all your short-cooldown spells and procs with either Prayer of Healing or Smite. Premonition of Piety can be paired up with Apotheosis or Divine Hymn for powerful raid healing.

You can easily import the talent tree below by clicking 'Export Talents' and then importing it in-game.

The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:

• Seraphic Crescendo can be swapped for Gales of Song if you are unable to take advantage of the reduced cooldown of Divine Hymn.

The Class Tree has some flexibility, and there are multiple different talents you can change around depending on the encounter and your personal preference. The following are all great candidates to be situationally removed without altering your playstyle:

• Mass Dispel, particularly in raid encounters, can have limited usage. If Mass Dispel does not fit well with the boss you will be fighting, swapping it out will save you one point.
• Dispel Magic can be taken instead of Mass Dispel for encounters where having an additional purge is important.
• Essence Devourer or Phantom Reach can be swapped out for Angelic Bulwark for a survivability boost if needed, especially if you choose to play Desperate Measures.

Archon represents a more simple, and arguably more fun, playstyle for Mythic+ than Oracle. The different talent choices are primarily to make use of Halo for both damage and healing. The additional Surge of Light procs are great for party triage and contributes to even more Holy Word: Serenity casts.

Overall, this build provides slightly reduced flexibility with burst damage and healing, and instead has a more reliable output without the complication of Oracle's Premonition.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

The Class Tree has some flexibility. If you want to run Holy Nova with Rhapsody, you should drop Dominate Mind, Phantasm and Psychic Voice, and path to Sanguine Teachings through Sheer Terror.

The Holy Tree can also be changed slightly to prioritize Prayer of Healing over Heal. To do this, drop Holy Mending, Divine Service and Seraphic Crescendo for Prayer of Healing, Prayer Circle and Prayerful Litany. You will lose a bit of passive healing on your party members, but gain more on-demand healing through usage of Prayer of Healing with Lightweaver and Resonant Words.

For delves, we highly suggest you do them as Shadow instead of Holy due to the increased damage output as Shadow. If you still choose to do them alone, as Holy or are doing them in a group as Holy, then use the build below.

This is a viable alternative primarily for High Mythic+ Pushing. High Mythic+ is defined as any level of Mythic+ that you are actually pushing, where the timer is a relevant concern, and the content is difficult. For one player, this may be Mythic+20, for another, it may be Mythic+12.

The reason for going Oracle is a combination of personal defense, damage output and burst healing.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

There are a few changes to the suggested talent build that you could make to suit your personal preferences. These decisions are around the utility you wish to provide to your group and can be dungeon dependent.

• Desperate Measures can be taken over Prophet's Will to survive larger damage spikes.
• Holy Nova and Rhapsody can be dropped if you feel you aren't getting much value from Holy Nova. Good talents to take in their place include Sanguine Teachings and Essence Devourer.