Holy Priest Healing Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5
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 Patch 12.0.5.
If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Holy Priest Gems, Enchants, and Consumables.
Best Gems, Enchants, Food, and Flasks for Holy Priest in Midnight
This section covers your character's optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Holy Priest, please visit our dedicated Stats page.
Many consumables, like enchants, gems, or potions, are available at multiple different ranks. If you are unable to afford the highest rank for any of them, you can safely choose a lower rank one instead, at the cost of some HPS.
Recommended Gems
You will have 2 categories of gems to choose from: Rare or Epic. The Rare gems are either just a single stat or a combination of 2 secondary stats on one gem. The Epic gems are significantly stronger, but you can only use one at a time for your entire character.
Gems can be applied to a Helm, Bracer, or Belt via the
Radiant Jewelbinder item from the Great Vault.
As a Holy Priest, you should utilise the
Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your Epic gem of choice and stack
Flawless Versatile Garnet in all other gem sockets.
FAQWhat Gems Are Used With Jewelcrafting Embellishments?
Certain crafted items get more benefit from having gems of all colors. Use the list below to maximize your colors
while ensuring you have an
Indecipherable Eversong Diamond socketed. In total, there are four distinct colors for
Rare gems: Peridot (Haste), Garnet (Critical Strike), Amethyst (Mastery), and Lapis (Versatility). To best optimize your
gems you should use gems with Critical Strike and Versatility on them.
- Peridot:
Flawless Deadly Peridot - Garnet:
Flawless Versatile Garnet - Amethyst:
Flawless Deadly Amethyst - Lapis:
Flawless Deadly Lapis
Best Enchants
| Slot | Best | Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| Helm | ||
| Shoulders | ||
| Chest | ||
| Legs | ||
| Boots | ||
| Rings | ||
| Weapon |
While our suggested tertiary stat enchants for maximum throughput are Leech, using Speed enchants is also a good option given Holy Priest's limited mobility.
Consumable Recommendations
Flasks
For Season 1, you should use one of the following, depending on which stat you need more of.
Flask of the Shattered Sun - Critical Strike
Flask of Thalassian Resistance - Versatility (Defensive Option)
Potions
Light's Potential is your default potion and should be paired with
Apotheosis or
Divine Hymn to get the most out of it.
Potion of Recklessness is another competitive throughput option.
While the Mana potions
Lightfused Mana Potion and
Potion of Devoured Dreams are available alternatives,
they do not restore enough mana to be worth using over the stat potions.
Silvermoon Health Potion is our healing potion of choice, and where possible you should also be using a
Warlock's
Healthstones.
Food
As a Holy Priest you can use any Feast or Master-level food to get the most optimal results. This includes any of the highest secondary or primary stat food buffs. Below are some examples:
Harandar Celebration - Intellect Feast
Silvermoon Parade - Intellect Feast
Royal Roast - Intellect Personal Food
Impossibly Royal Roast - Intellect Personal Food
If you want cheaper food, you can also use
Sun-Seared Lumifin or
Arcano Cutlets.
Depending on the level of progression content, you can also choose to craft Hearty versions of most food, which gives the exact same effect, but the buff now persists through death. This costs 5 normal food to produce 1 hearty version.
Weapon Runes/Oil
For your temporary weapon oil, you should use
Thalassian Phoenix Oil.
Augment Runes
You should aim to use an Augment Rune to get a boost of Intellect during any progression content.
For Season 1 the following Augment Runes are available:
Void-Touched Augment Rune (Consumable version)
Other Consumables
In addition to the above items, you should also always have the following in your bags for Raiding and Mythic+ environments as a Holy Priest.
Gateway Control Shard - Reusable item that will auto-click a nearby Warlock Gateway.
Void-Touched Drums - Provides a weaker
Bloodlust effect for the group that can be useful in Mythic+
dungeons without a class to provide it naturally.
Emergency Soul Link - Castable Battle Resurrection item that can be used in combat, even as
a non-engineer.
Void-Shrouded Tincture - Invisibility potion that can be used instead of a
Tempered Potion to
skip trash in certain Mythic+ dungeon routes.
Changelog
- 23 Apr. 2026: Update ring enchant suggestion following Patch 12.0.5 fixes.
- 20 Apr. 2026: Reviewed for Patch 12.0.5.
- 24 Mar. 2026: Removed mention of teas after hotfixes.
- 16 Mar. 2026: Updated for Midnight Season 1.
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight launch.
- 10 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight pre-patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.5.
- 23 Mar. 2025: Reformatted the page.
- 26 Feb. 2025: More Patch 11.1 consumable updates.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 17 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 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 long-time healing Priest and theorycrafter. You can follow him on Twitter.
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