Holy Priest Healing Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (Season 1)

Last updated on Sep 09, 2024 at 18:00 by Niphyr 49 comments
General Information

In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Holy Priest in World of Warcraft — The War Within (Season 1).

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Holy Priest Mythic+ Guide for The War Within Season 1

In this guide, we will talk about getting the most out of your Priest in Mythic+ dungeons, including the best way to set up your character, how your rotation may change, and tips and tricks for using your abilities most optimally.

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.

To learn more about the Mythic+ Meta, check out our Mythic+ Tier List below.

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Holy Priest in The War Within Mythic+

Holy Priest has several main draws that make it an attractive spec to play for M+ content in The War Within, with multiple strong cooldowns in Guardian Spirit Icon Guardian Spirit and Apotheosis Icon Apotheosis, reliable single-target damage, hefty group healing potential, and a straightforward, reactive playstyle. Power Infusion Icon Power Infusion can also be a strong boost to your group's damage if coordinated well with a DPS.

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Best Mythic+ Talents for Holy Priest in The War Within

For a more general overview of Talents for Holy Priest, please visit our dedicated Talents page.

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Best Mythic+ Talent Builds for Holy Priest

High Mythic+ Talent Build — Oracle Casual Mythic+ Talent Build — Archon
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Best Mythic+ Talents for Holy Priest in The War Within

This build is my recommendation for High Mythic+ Pushing. 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 — I recommend this build if you are doing serious Mythic+, whatever that means for you.

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

2.1.

Flexible Talents

There are a few changes to the suggested talent build that you could make to suit your personal preferences. These decisions are around the utility you wish to provide to your group and can be dungeon dependent.

  • Desperate Measures Icon Desperate Measures can be taken over Prophet's Will Icon Prophet's Will to survive larger damage spikes.

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

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Best Archon Mythic+ Talents for Holy Priest in The War Within

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 Icon Halo for both damage and healing. The additional Surge of Light Icon Surge of Light procs are great for party triage and contributes to even more Holy Word: Serenity Icon 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 Icon Premonition.

2.1.

Flexible Talents

There are a few changes to the suggested talent build that you could make to suit your personal preferences. These decisions are around the utility you wish to provide to your group and can be dungeon dependent.

  • Shock Pulse Icon Shock Pulse can be taken over Incessant Screams Icon Incessant Screams to help control large packs of melee enemies.

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

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Mythic+ Utility for Holy Priest in The War Within Season 1

This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depth explanations of all Holy Priest Abilities and Talents, including these; check out our Spells page.

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Utility of Holy Priest in The War Within

Interrupts, Stuns and Stops Other Utility Damage Output
3.1.

Interrupts, Stuns and Stops

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

Psychic Scream Icon 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 Icon Psychic Voice. When talented into Archon's Incessant Screams Icon 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 Icon Holy Word: Chastise is your single-target "stop". We recommend using this in the same way as you would Psychic Scream Icon Psychic Scream, except that it only affects one enemy.

Shackle Undead Icon 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 Icon Mind Control and Dominate Mind Icon 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.

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Other Utility

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

Mass Dispel Icon Mass Dispel acts as both Purify Icon Purify and Dispel Magic Icon 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 Icon 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 Icon 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 Icon 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.

3.2.

Damage Output

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

Damage spell priority for 1-3 targets:

  1. Holy Fire Icon Holy Fire
  2. Holy Nova Icon Holy Nova with high stacks of Rhapsody Icon Rhapsody
  3. Shadow Word: Pain Icon Shadow Word: Pain (if the target will survive for the full duration)
  4. Holy Word: Chastise Icon Holy Word: Chastise (if you do not need the incapacitate/stun for cc)
  5. Divine Star Icon Divine Star
  6. Smite Icon Smite

Shadow Word: Death Icon Shadow Word: Death can be cast as extra damage while on the move in place of Smite Icon 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 Icon Shadow Word: Death has a similar priority to Holy Word: Chastise Icon Holy Word: Chastise.

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

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Affix Tips, Tricks and Management for Holy Priest in The War Within Season 1

This section has Holy Priest-specific tips for dealing with the various affixes of Mythic+. If you want general guides for each of our Dungeons or Mythic+ in general, check out our dedicated page below.

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Affix Guide for Holy Priest in The War Within

Affix: Ascendant Affix: Oblivion Affix: Devour
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Ascendant Affix Management for Holy Priest

No fancy tips yet. Please check back throughout the Season, as I am sure to find fancy tips to put here!

5.2.

Oblivion Affix Management for Holy Priest

No fancy tips yet. Please check back throughout the Season, as I am sure to find fancy tips to put here!

5.3.

Devour Affix Management for Holy Priest

No fancy tips yet. Please check back throughout the Season, as I am sure to find fancy tips to put here!

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Changelog

  • 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for The War Within Season 1.
  • 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within pre-patch.
  • 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 4.
  • 29 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 17 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7.
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
  • 08 May 2023: Improved talent suggestions ready for Season 2.
  • 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1 with new affixes and talent changes.
  • 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed 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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