Holy Priest PvP Best Races and Racials (Dragonflight 10.2)
Racial bonuses can provide interesting PvP benefits. Here are the best races to choose for each faction. The races are sorted from highest impact in arena to lowest. However, all races below have their own unique ways of making an impact in a PvP match.
This page is part of our Holy Priest PvP Guide.
Best Alliance Races for Holy Priest PvP
- Night Elf
- Human
Night Elf Racials
Night Elf is the best race on Alliance. The active racial ability,
Shadowmeld can be used to immune incoming crowd control or to immune a
dangerous cast with proper timing. You can also use it to leave combat in case
you need an emergency drink to replenish your Mana. Being a Night Elf also
provides
you with two noteworthy passive abilities:
Quickness, which grants you
2%
extra movement speed and 2% dodge chance, and
Touch of Elune, that
increases
either your Haste or Critical Strike by 1% depending on whether it is night or
day.
Human Racials
Human is the second-best race on Alliance. The active racial ability,
Will to Survive allows you to break free of a stun once every 3
minutes. This provides you with a different way out of CC to save either yourself
or your team. As a healer, you will most likely always be in CC when the enemy
team goes for a kill, so being able to get out of CC more often is very strong.
The passive racial ability,
The Human Spirit, increases all secondary
stats by a small amount.
Best Horde Races for Holy Priest PvP
- Undead
- Pandaren
Undead Racials
Undead is the best race on Horde. The active racial ability,
Will of the Forsaken allows you to break free of a fear effect once every
two minutes. It is potent as it can act as a second trinket against
Warlocks, Warriors or other Priests. Being an
Undead also grants you the passive abilities
Shadow Resistance,
reducing Shadow damage taken by 1%, and
Touch of the Grave, sometimes
dealing a small amount of Shadow damage to your target and healing you for the
same amount.
Pandaren Racials
Pandaren is the second-best race on Horde. The active racial ability,
Quaking Palm allows you to incapacitate a target for 4s.
This opens up the opportunity to
Holy Word: Chastise a target when you are talented
into
Censure, then
Quaking Palm and finish off with
Psychic Scream.
That is quiet the Crowd Control chain you can setup on your own.
It can also be used defensively when you are silenced.
You can also use a food buff in rated PvP.
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5
- 09 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 01 Aug. 2022: Reviewed for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 01 Mar. 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.
- 26 Nov. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
- 02 Jul. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.1.
- 08 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 15 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch (9.0.1)
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