Holy Priest Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight (12.0.1)

While optimising talents on a contextual basis is the highly recommended method of setting up your build, the Talent builds listed below work great for specific purposes.

Depending on the talents you end up choosing, your playstyle may be slightly altered. To properly understand the impact talents have on your rotation and to utilise them alongside the rest of your toolkit, have a look at the rotation page below.

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Best Talents for Holy Priest

Archon Dungeon & Delve Oracle Dungeon & Delve

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Best Archon Dungeon & Delve Talents for Holy Priest

Archon is the recommended spec for Dungeons 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 contribute 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!

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Flexible Talents

The Class Tree has limited flexibility without dropping important defensive and 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.

Shadow Priest Talent Builds

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Best Oracle Dungeon & Delve Talents for Holy Priest

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!

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

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.

Shadow Priest Talent Builds

The Holy Priest apex talent is Benediction, which provides the following benefits as you put points into it:

• Benediction (1 point): Prayer of Mending bounces periodically transform your next cast of Flash Heal into Benediction, increasing the healing done and triggering a Cosmic Ripple.
• Benediction (2 points): Increases all healing done, and further increases the healing of Cosmic Ripple.
• Benediction (1 point): Causes each pulse of Divine Hymn to trigger Cosmic Ripple. During Apotheosis, Flash Heal is upgraded to Benediction.

How it works: The periodic Benediction procs are triggered by regularly casting Prayer of Mending. When triggered, Flash Heal is replaced with Benediction for your next cast, doing increased healing and triggering a Cosmic Ripple. Due to the added healing, Benediction is a high value spell to use and should be prioritised as part of your rotation whenever it triggers.

Archon is very straight-forward and easy to use, with a focus on buffing your Halo casts. The additional stronger Surge of Light procs are excellent at improving our triage healing capabilities. Finally, the additional healing during Apotheosis further improves our ability to react to heavy group damage.

Oracle focuses around regular usage of Prayer of Mending to generate constant healing to your group through increased healing to Prayer of Mending, Renew and Piety. Oracle also provides single-target triage through Prompt Prognosis.

Some talents will require you to play in a particular way to get the most out of them. You can find more information on how your rotation will look after selecting your talents on our rotation page below.