Holy Priest Healing Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

The gems and enchants you will use depend on the content you are primarily focusing on.

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Holy Priest Gems and Enchants

Raiding Mythic+

1.1.

Raiding

Slot	Best	Alternative
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Council's Guile	Enchant Weapon - Authority of Fiery Resolve
Cloak	Enchant Cloak - Chant of Leeching Fangs	Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace
Chest	Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance	—
Bracers	Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Leech	Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Avoidance
Legs	Daybreak Spellthread	Sunset Spellthread
Boots	Enchant Boots - Scout's March	Enchant Boots - Defender's March
Rings	Enchant Ring - Radiant Critical Strike	Enchant Ring - Glimmering Critical Strike
Neck & Rings	Magnificent Jeweler's Setting (adds up to 2 sockets to each)	—
First Gem Socket	Elusive Blasphemite	Insightful Blasphemite
Next 4 Sockets	Masterful Ruby Deadly Emerald Deadly Onyx Deadly Sapphire	—
Remaining Sockets	Masterful Ruby	—

1.2.

Mythic+

Slot	Best	Alternative
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Council's Guile	Enchant Weapon - Authority of Fiery Resolve
Cloak	Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace	Enchant Cloak - Chant of Leeching Fangs
Chest	Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance	—
Bracers	Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Avoidance	Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Leech
Legs	Sunset Spellthread	Daybreak Spellthread
Boots	Enchant Boots - Defender's March	Enchant Boots - Scout's March
Rings	Enchant Ring - Radiant Critical Strike	Enchant Ring - Glimmering Critical Strike
Neck & Rings	Magnificent Jeweler's Setting (adds up to 2 sockets to each)	—
First Gem Socket	Elusive Blasphemite	Insightful Blasphemite
Next 4 Sockets	Quick Ruby Deadly Emerald Deadly Onyx Deadly Sapphire	—
Remaining Sockets	Quick Ruby	—

We suggest using Elusive Blasphemite instead of Insightful Blasphemite, as the value from the Insightful gem is quite small. The added bonus from an increase in movement speed is much more impactful to our throughput and survival despite not stacking with Angelic Feather. Should you not want the additional movement speed, Insightful Blasphemite is a perfectly good replacement.

As a Holy Priest, stats are so close together for healing that you are largely free to use other stat enchants on rings if you prefer them. Mastery for Raiding and Haste for Dungeons are also good alternatives.

As a raiding Holy Priest you will want to use Leech enchants when possible as it provides the most defensive benefit. The avoidance enchants are a bit more unreliable but still a suitable alternative.

The best weapon enchant for Holy Priests is Enchant Weapon - Council's Guile, which has a high variance in proc rate. Enchant Weapon - Authority of Fiery Resolve is a close second and is often a more reliable bonus as it triggers much regularly.

Should you find a specific encounter or dungeon has hefty movement requirements, you can also opt for numerous Speed boosts to assist. These include:

• Wrist - Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed
• Cloak - Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity
• Boots - Enchant Boots - Scout's March
• Epic Gem - Elusive Blasphemite

Consumable	Best	Alternative
Flask	Flask of Tempered Aggression	Flask of Alchemical Chaos
Potion	Algari Mana Potion Slumbering Soul Serum	Tempered Potion
Healing Potion	Invigorating Healing Potion	Algari Healing Potion
Feast	The Sushi Special	Feast of the Divine Day Feast of the Midnight Masquerade
Personal Food	Hearty Salt Baked Seafood	Beledar's Bounty Empress' Farewell Outsider's Provisions Jester's Board
Weapon Rune	Algari Mana Oil	—
Augment Rune	Crystallized Augment Rune	—

Flask of Tempered Aggression should be used in raid and mythic+. Flask of Alchemical Chaos is a close second when using Tempered Potion as your potion, but is a much less reliable throughput increase.

For Mana return, Algari Mana Potion and Slumbering Soul Serum should both be kept available depending on the situation. While Slumbering Soul Serum is preferred; there are situations where you can not spend 10 seconds channeling and should instead use an Algari Mana Potion.

Tempered Potion is your recommended potion for burst healing throughput when mana potions will not be required as it shares a cooldown with mana potions.

Algari Healing Potion acts as your healing potion. Each use will incur a 5-minute cooldown, but multiple can be consumed in an extended boss fight. In addition, a Warlock's Healthstones do not share a cooldown with other healing consumables.

If available, Feast of the Divine Day / Feast of the Midnight Masquerade is your food of choice for some additional Intellect, or The Sushi Special for additional secondary stat. Your personal food of choice is Hearty Salt Baked Seafood for the additional Mastery and Critical Strike. For a cheaper alternative, you can use Beledar's Bounty, Empress' Farewell, Outsider's Provisions or Jester's Board.

For more information on how the above Enchants and Consumables improve your performance, check out our stats page.

While Holy Priest is more than capable of levelling, Priests generally, level as Shadow as it provides superior damage, significantly speeding up the questing process. That said, when venturing into Dungeons and PVP Battlegrounds, Holy Priest, is a fun change of pace and does a great job at keeping your allies alive.

Leveling in a new expansion is all about minimising downtime and front loading power. While endgame enchants and consumables are often disabled or heavily scaled during early leveling, there are still several items worth stockpiling ahead of time to make the process smoother, faster, and less frustrating. The recommendations below focus on items that historically remain useful at expansion launch and provide value regardless of tuning changes.

The War Within enchants will still work throughout the leveling process, and can be a cheap way to add small boosts of power. Enchants that grant haste or speed are particularly valuable early on when gear upgrades are sparse. Prioritise the following:

• Enchant Ring - Radiant Haste (helps as you lose haste while leveling)
• Enchant Boots - Scout's March
• Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity
• Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed

Combat potions that remain usable at lower levels can significantly speed up difficult pulls, elite quests, or story encounters. Stock a small supply for moments where burst damage, healing or survivability matters. Be sure to use these before you get to max level content!

Having a small stack of health potions reduces reliance on cooldowns and self-healing, especially during early levels when defensive toolkits are incomplete. These are particularly helpful for soloing elite quests or accidental overpulls.

I would avoid buying too many, as once you hit level 81 you can acquire Silvermoon Health Potion, which is significantly better and cheaper to make.

Certain consumables can dramatically improve leveling flow:

• Goblin Glider Kit
• Gunshoes or Potion of the Reborn Cheetah
• Light-Step Hoofplates
• Thunderous Drums
• Draught of Silent Footfalls
• Fried Bonefish or Bear Tartare