TBC Classic Holy Priest Spec, Builds, and Talents

Holy Priest is the go-to spec for healing priests. It has a handful of talents that increase your healing capabilities as well as your Mana regeneration. When focusing on PvE raiding content, Holy is the go-to spec.

If you are looking for leveling builds, please refer to our leveling guide for Priests.

Priest has a few builds that it can bring to the raid, depending on what the raid group needs. The first "Main Healing" build is primarily for AoE healing, and will not really be needed until Phase 3 and onward. The "Pain Suppression" build is great for early raids, especially with a Protection Paladin main tank, as Pain Suppression brings a great external defensive cooldown for tanks. Finally, the "Divine Spirit" build brings the Divine Spirit buff which improves the raids spell damage, offering a raid-wide DPS increase.

This is the recommended Priest healing spec early on, as Pain Suppression is a great defensive cooldown.

This is the recommended Holy Priest PvE spec. There is not much wiggle room in regards to choosing different talents as this build picks up many improvements to your healing overall, as well as some much-needed Mana generation talents.

This spec goes into the Discipline tree to grab Divine Spirit and Improved Divine Spirit to boost the damage of spell casters in the raid.

Here we will go over some of the key talents that you will want to have if specializing in Holy.

1. Meditation — This is a large improvement to your Mana regeneration.
2. Silent Resolve — Holy Priests that find themselves having threat issues may wish to put points into this talent. Points from Improved Power Word: Fortitude can be put here instead if you have another Priest with this talent, as well as the point in Absolution.
3. Inner Focus — This can be used for a free spell cast. This spell will not interrupt your Spirit-based Mana regeneration.
4. Mental Agility — As Holy, a large portion of your spell casts are instant, giving this talent very high value.

1. Holy Nova — This gives you the option to deal a bit of AoE damage while also healing your party members that are in range.
2. Improved Healing — This helps with your Mana costs.
3. Spirit of Redemption — This gives you a 5% increase to Spirit. In addition to that, if you ever die you will turn into an Angel form, allowing you to continue healing for up to 15 seconds with no Mana cost and making you immune to damage.
4. Holy Concentration — This gives you a 6% chance to get a free spell cast. Use these procs on Greater Heal whenever possible.
5. Circle of Healing — This is an amazing AoE healing spell, and one of the best in the game. Be careful to not overuse this spell as it has a high Mana cost in proportion to how quickly you can use it.

Holy Priest does not utilize the Shadow tree for their PvE talent build.

Holy Priest has an alternative build that aims to buff their party and raid even further.

This spec goes for Improved Divine Spirit to buff their raid with increased Spirit, Spell Damage and healing. While the increased stats are nice, this spec is typically replaced later on when raid damage is much higher.