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This page is intended for players who are new to the game or class, have no intentions of raiding Mythic difficulty, or simply want a more straightforward way to play their specialisation without being overwhelmed by the numerous subtleties and active abilities that need to be taken into consideration for optimal play.
1. The Basics of Holy Priests
Holy Priests are better suited to AoE/raid healing, where they are able to provide relatively smooth output. That said, they are also capable single target healers. They lack mobility, however, which is a small disadvantage.
2. Talent Choice for Holy Priests
These are currently the best talent choices as a Holy Priest. Note that some of the suggestions sacrifice a bit of performance for ease of use, but overall the difference is not great. Consult the detailed talents page for the complete picture.
- Level 15:
Enlightenment (raids) or 
Trail of Light
(dungeons) - Level 30:
Angelic Feather - Level 45:
Afterlife - Level 60:
Light of the Naaru - Level 75:
Piety or 
Binding Heal - Level 90:
Divinity - Level 100:
Benediction
3. Stat Choice for Holy Priests
Currently, you will want to prioritise secondary stats as follows for raid content:
- Mastery;
- Critical Strike;
- Haste;
- Versatility.
For dungeon content, the priority is:
- Critical Strike;
- Haste;
- Mastery;
- Versatility.
4. Basic Playstyle for Holy Priests
4.1. Single Target Healing
- low to medium damage: use
Heal and
Prayer of Mending (on cooldown). In dungeons, you can also use
Renew if the damage is low enough. - medium to high damage: begin incorporating
Flash Heal (as
your Mana allows, and any time you have a 
Surge of Light proc, if you
have taken this talent). - high or very high damage: use
Holy Word: Serenity; if this is
still not enough, you also have access to 
Guardian Spirit.
If you have taken the 
Binding Heal talent, then you should use
Binding Heal instead of 
Heal and 
Flash Heal.
Make regular use of your 
Light of T'uure (Artifact ability); use
it on cooldown, unless you need to save it for predictable meaningful damage.
Note that it buffs the target to increase your healing done to them by 25% for
10 seconds, so make sure to follow up on it with spells such as
Holy Word: Serenity.
Prayer of Mending should be used on cooldown, unless the encounter
has only single target damage (which is very rare/unlikely) or unless you
cannot afford the global cooldown because single target damage is too high.
4.2. AoE/Raid Healing
- low damage: use Prayer of Mending on cooldown, and use
Heal on the players that require healing. You can supplement this
healing with Holy Word: Serenity as needed.
- high sustained damage: turn to
Holy Word: Sanctify and
Prayer of Healing. In addition to this, you should continue to use
Holy Word: Serenity and Prayer of Mending. Renew and
Heal are too slow to be worth using.
Power of the Naaru, an Artifact trait, buffs 
Prayer of Healing for 15 seconds after using 
Holy Word: Sanctify. You should try to
maximise your AoE healing by playing around this buff, namely by using a
Holy Word: Sanctify before casting Prayer of Healing (provided that you have
unlocked this trait).
5. Cooldown Usage for Holy Priests
As a Holy Priest, you have two cooldowns. Here is how you should use them:
Divine Hymn should be used during periods of very intense raid
damage. Keep in mind, however, that your raid leader may instruct you to use it
a very specific time.- Guardian Spirit should be used depending on many factors,
including on your raid leader's instructions. If you do not have to save
Guardian Spirit for a specific event, then just use it as a "life-saver" on
the tank or another raid member who needs it.
About Our Reviewer
This guide has been reviewed and approved Niphyr, a generally knowledgeable, long-time healing Priest and theorycrafter. You can follow him on Twitter.
6. ChangeLog
- 10 Jul. 2017: Updated the playstyle section to mention usage of Binding Heal.
- 12 Jun. 2017: Updated this page to reflect various changes made to the rest of the guide.
- 22 Apr. 2017: Changed tier 4 and 5 talent recommendations.
- 08 Feb. 2017: Updated tier 1 talent recommendation to Enlightenment.
- 10 Jan. 2017: Updated tier 7 talent recommendation to Benediction.
- 22 Dec. 2016: Added easy mode page.
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