Holy Priest Healing Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.2)

Archon represents a more simple, and arguably more fun, playstyle for Mythic+ than Oracle. The different talent choices are primarily to make use of Halo for both damage and healing. The additional Surge of Light procs are great for party triage and contributes to even more Holy Word: Serenity casts.

Overall, this build provides slightly reduced flexibility with burst damage and healing, and instead has a more reliable output without the complication of Oracle's Premonition.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

This is a viable alternative primarily for High Mythic+ Pushing where the added defensive utility is required to survive specific mechanics. High Mythic+ is defined as any level of Mythic+ that you are actually pushing, where the timer is a relevant concern, and the content is difficult. For one player, this may be Mythic+20, for another, it may be Mythic+12.

The reason for going Oracle is a combination of personal defense, damage output and burst healing.

Holy Priest has no Interrupt. Instead, you are limited to Stuns and Stops.

Psychic Scream is your "AoE stop". When cast, it will immediately cause all nearby enemies to be feared and unable to attack back. This fear is often broken nearly immediately in Mythic+ due to the amount of damage the enemies receive; however, it still functions to stop enemy casts. The cooldown can be reduced by talenting into Psychic Voice. When talented into Archon's Incessant Screams, it will be cast a second time shortly after the first cast, acting as a second AoE stop. It should also be noted that many enemies are immune to fear, particularly Undead and mini-boss enemies.

Holy Word: Chastise is your single-target "stop". We recommend using this in the same way as you would Psychic Scream, except that it only affects one enemy.

Shackle Undead can be used to disable a single Undead enemy for 50 seconds. Several dungeons have dangerous Undead enemies, which are good candidates for Shackle Undead. Damage taken will remove this effect.

Mind Control and Dominate Mind temporarily control an enemy, which allows you to move, attack, and cast some of their abilities. This can be beneficial in some dungeons, as specific enemies have valuable spells that can buff your party or debuff enemies.

Purify will dispel all magic effects from one party member with a short cooldown. It will also remove all diseases when talented into Improved Purify. This ability is used frequently in Mythic+, and there are multiple important spells throughout the dungeons that it should be used on to make encounters easier and prevent deaths.

Dispel Magic is an offensive dispel, also known as a "purge". This removes one magical buff from an enemy.

Mass Dispel acts as both Purify and Dispel Magic, but is limited to magical effects on 5 friendly and 5 enemy targets. This is most often used to remove dangerous magical debuffs from multiple party members but also has some use in purging dangerous magical buffs from multiple enemies.

Mind Soothe provides a unique buff reducing the distance at which an enemy will aggro onto you and your allies. This has fairly niche usage but can be used in some scenarios to avoid having to pull a pack of enemies and instead walk right past them.

Leap of Faith has a lot of uses, especially when coordinated with your group. In particular, it can be coordinated with your tank to remove them from danger and create distance between them and the enemies they're fighting.

Void Tendrils are an uncommon talent but can be great in some situations to keep a dangerous enemy in place until your group decide to engage with it.

As a healer, despite your role focus being to keep everyone alive through your healing and utility, any spare time you get should be spent on providing additional damage. Be mindful that only Smite costs very little Mana; the other spells can start to become taxing on your Mana, so particularly on some longer tyrannical bosses, you may need to reduce your damage output a little by sticking to the slightly weaker hitting Smite casts.

Damage spell priority for 4+ targets:

1. Divine Word with Holy Word: Chastise
2. Divine Star
3. Holy Fire
4. Holy Nova

Damage spell priority for 1-3 targets:

1. Holy Fire
2. Holy Nova with high stacks of Rhapsody
3. Holy Word: Chastise (if you do not need the incapacitate/stun for cc)
4. Divine Star
5. Smite

Shadow Word: Death can be cast as extra damage while on the move in place of Smite on the priority list; just be mindful that it does do damage back to you when cast. If the target is below 20% health, Shadow Word: Death has a similar priority to Holy Word: Chastise.

For more information about the Holy Priest healing rotation in Mythic+, refer back to the Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities page.

Periodically, orbs of cosmic energy will spawn near your group. As a Holy Priest, you can use the following spells to get rid of these orbs:

• Psychic Scream - Your best option where possible.
• Mass Dispel - Capped at 5 targets.
• Holy Word: Chastise - Usually best to save this for something else.
• Dispel Magic - As a last resort.

When the Voidbound affix spawns, you can assist be changing this to your primary DPS target in-between healing your group.

Be sure to pay attention to these orbs and try to move near other players prior to to them spawning to speed up collection. Everyone in the group should help soak the orbs. It is completely reasonable during periods of high healing to ask your group to soak them without you, as a lot of your healing spells require you to stand still.

When Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour is present that week, you should always be prepared to use Mass Dispel or Purify to dispel Void Rift as often as you can on your party. You can also remove this with racials such as Stoneform. If you are running Oracle, you can also use Premonition of Insight then Purify multiple targets in a row. If any debuffs aren't dispelled by your or your party members, focus first on clearing the squishiest targets first, and the tank last. You can also use Desperate Prayer to help clear your own debuff if needed.