Holy Priest Healing Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Dragonflight 10.2
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Holy Priest, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Holy Priest gems and enchants.
Best Gems for Holy Priests
The gems you will use depend on the content you are primarily focusing on.
Raiding
You should socket Sensei's Neltharite or
Sensei's Alexstraszite
in all of your sockets. Both gems are roughly equal in value. You should also
equip one
Skillful Illimited Diamond or
Inscribed Illimited Diamond.
Dungeons
You should socket Crafty Alexstraszite or
Crafty Ysemerald
in all of your sockets. Both gems are roughly equal in value. You should also
equip one
Fierce Illimited Diamond or
Inscribed Illimited Diamond.
Dungeons and Raid
If you find yourself swapping between both dungeons and raids regularly and
want to optimize for both with the same set of gear, we suggest going with
Sensei's Alexstraszite or
Crafty Ysemerald
in all of your sockets. You should also equip one
Inscribed Illimited Diamond.
Best Enchants for Holy Priests
The optimal enchants are listed in the table below. You can also use the appropriate writ version of an enchant as a cheaper alternative.
Slot | Enchantment |
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Boots |
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Rings |
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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. Meanwhile, for
weapon enchants, Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion is the recommended choice
for your weapon, but any of the Writ alternatives below are also viable
options.
Enchant Weapon - Earthen Writ (raids)
Enchant Weapon - Burning Writ (dungeons & raids)
Enchant Weapon - Sophic Writ (dungeons & raids)
Enchant Weapon - Wafting Writ (dungeons)
In situations where you want some additional survivability, such as difficult
raid encounters or high Mythic+, you can opt for defensive-orientated enchants
such as Frozen Spellthread on legs,
Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Avoidance on Wrist,
Enchant Boots - Watcher's Loam on Boots and
Enchant Cloak - Graceful Avoidance on
Cloak.
Should you find a specific encounter or dungeon has hefty movement
requirements, you can also opt for numerous Speed enchants to assist. These
include Enchant Cloak - Homebound Speed to Cloak,
Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Speed to Wrist and
Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze to Boots.
Consumables for Holy Priests
Best Flasks and Potions for Holy
Phial of Tepid Versatility should be used in raid and mythic+.
Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage is a close second but is a much less reliable
throughput increase and can also deal damage to you at bad times.
For Mana return, Aerated Mana Potion and
Potion of Frozen Focus
should both be kept available depending on the situation. While
Potion of Frozen Focus is preferred; there are situations where you can
not
spend 10 seconds channeling and should instead use an
Aerated Mana Potion.
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power (or its lesser
Elemental Potion of Power variant) is your recommended potion for burst
healing throughput. These potions can also be obtained from a
Potion Cauldron of Ultimate Power/
Potion Cauldron of Power.
Dreamwalker's 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.
Finally, Alchemy offers several utility potions,
including
those that can be used while you are dead! While not every potion will be
listed,
you should at least keep a small number of
Residual Neural Channeling Agent
on you to use while you have an available potion and are waiting for a battle
resurrection.
Best Food for Holy
If available, Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak /
Hoard of Draconic Delicacies is your food of choice for some additional
Intellect. If a feast is unavailable, you should buff yourself with
Filet of Fangs.
Additional, Optional Consumables
While they are not as necessary for success in areas of content as phials, potions and food, there are some additional consumables available for a small amount of extra temporary power for your character.
Weapon Runes function similarly to Weapon Oils of previous expansions,
applying
a temporary buff to your weapon that is not removed on death. In
Dragonflight,
you will want to apply a Buzzing Rune to your weapons for some
additional
Critical Strike.
If you find yourself in need of a Bloodlust-effect, drums are a
useful tool to provide a similar, but weaker, form of the buff. At Level 70, the
only drums that can be used are
Feral Hide Drums.
Note that in Dragonflight, you can freely change your talents at any time outside of combat or a mythic+ dungeon. Because of this, there are no tome consumables to worry about!
Augment Runes for Holy
In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Draconic Augment Runes to
increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of the consumable
runes available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them
for when you need them.
Through the new Emerald Dream Zone and its Dream Wardens
Faction, you can also obtain the Dreambound Augment Rune, which is
permanent!
Changelog
- 08 Nov. 2023: Added more consumable advice.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated with Patch 10.2 changes.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 07 May 2023: Updated with latest hotfix changes.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1 including Onyx Annulet section.
- 31 Mar. 2023: Further Patch 10.0.7 updates.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Niphyr, a generally knowledgeable, long-time healing Priest and theorycrafter. You can follow him on Twitter.
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