Holy Priest Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

The Raid Archon Build is centered around large Surge of Light-buffed Prayer of Healing casts, alongside the consistent healing from Holy Words, and Prayer of Mending. Halo can be paired up with Apotheosis or Divine Hymn for powerful raid healing.

You can easily import the talent tree below by clicking 'Export Talents' and then importing it in-game.

The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:

• Seraphic Crescendo can be swapped for Gales of Song if you are unable to make use of the extra Divine Hymn casts.
• Word of Supremacy can be swapped for Heightened Alteration if you can find a way to exploit the added duration with Restitution.

The Class Tree has some flexibility, and there are multiple different talents you can change around depending on the encounter and your personal preference. The following are all great candidates to be situationally removed without altering your playstyle:

• Mass Dispel, particularly in raid encounters, can have limited usage. If Mass Dispel does not fit well with the boss you will be fighting, swapping it out will save you one point.
• Dispel Magic can be taken instead of Mass Dispel for encounters where having an additional purge is important.

The Raid Oracle Build focuses on maximising casts of Prayer of Mending through usage of Epiphany. This provides a lot of passive healing from associated talents and direct healing from Prompt Prognosis. You then fill in the gaps between all your short-cooldown spells and procs with either Prayer of Healing or Smite.

You can easily import the talent tree below by clicking 'Export Talents' and then importing it in-game.

The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:

• Seraphic Crescendo can be swapped for Gales of Song if you are unable to take advantage of the reduced cooldown of Divine Hymn.

The Class Tree has some flexibility, and there are multiple different talents you can change around depending on the encounter and your personal preference. The following are all great candidates to be situationally removed without altering your playstyle:

• Lightburst can be dropped if you find an encounter with significant movement and require additional mobility.
• Mass Dispel, particularly in raid encounters, can have limited usage. If Mass Dispel does not fit well with the boss you will be fighting, swapping it out will save you one point.
• Dispel Magic can be taken instead of Mass Dispel for encounters where having an additional purge is important.
• Phantasm has situational usage on some encounters, and can be taken instead of some the above mentioned situational utility.

Archon is the recommended spec for Mythic+ as it provides consistent bursts of healing with each Halo cast. 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.

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

The Class Tree has limited flexibility without dropping throughput talents.

The Holy Tree doesn't have many potential talent change options that don't affect your overall healing output and playstyle.

For delves, we highly suggest you do them as Shadow instead of Holy due to the increased damage output as Shadow. If you still choose to do them alone, as Holy or are doing them in a group as Holy, then use this build.

This is a viable alternative to Archon but with reduced burst healing potential. The main reason for going Oracle is a combination of personal defense, damage output and consistent healing.

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

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 can be taken over Prophet's Will to survive larger damage spikes.