Holy Priest PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / Patch 9.1)

Level	Choices
15	✔ Enlightenment	✘ Trail of Light	✔ Renewed Faith
25	✔ Angel's Mercy	✘ Body and Soul	✔ Angelic Feather
30	✘ Cosmic Ripple	✔ Guardian Angel	✘ Afterlife
35	✔ Psychic Voice	? Censure	✘ Shining Force
40	✔ Surge of Light	✘ Binding Heal	✘ Prayer Circle
45	✔ Benediction	✘ Divine Star	✘ Halo
50	✘ Light of the Naaru	✔ Apotheosis	✘ Holy Word: Salvation

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

Enlightenment is the best talent in this tier. Holy Priests will run out of Mana quickly versus most teams. This will help with keeping your Mana healthy throughout an arena match. If you are playing against a team that does not have a Purge ability, Renewed Faith will significantly increase your healing output and should be used.

Angelic Feather is the best choice in this tier. This will help you run to or from enemy players. This will make it much easier to get in range of the enemy healer for Psychic Scream. If you feel you will be the primary target for the enemy team, Angel's Mercy is the better option. This will make your Desperate Prayer have a lower cooldown.

Guardian Angel is the best choice in this tier. Many teams will try to avoid proccing Guardian Spirit to prevent the healing from it. This talent is great when teams do that, so you can use Guardian Spirit more often.

Psychic Voice is the best choice in this tier. This gives you a consistent crowd control on a short cooldown. However, if your team is lacking a stun or you are playing against a team that will prevent you from reaching the enemy healer, Censure is the best choice in this tier.

Surge of Light is the best choice in this tier. Because you have to cast most of your healing spells, this will make it easier to output strong, instant healing.

Benediction is the best choice in this tier. Instead of having to use Mana and globals on Renew, you can use this time to cast other spells.

Apotheosis is the best choice in this tier. This makes the cooldown reductions to your Holy Words 250% and makes their Mana cost free. This will be one of your primary burst healing cooldowns.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful, but can be replaced with other PvP talents depending on your team's goal.

Cardinal Mending increases the healing of Prayer of Mending and the jump range. This is definitely a mandatory talent to take in every situation.

Greater Fade removes all threat, increases your movement speed by 50% and causes most melee, ranged and spells to miss you for 4 seconds. This is a crucial talent for not only avoiding crowd control, but to also avoid damage if you are being focused. You can still be interrupted while this is active, so be careful.

Miracle Worker is another talent that increases your instant single target healing. Holy Word: Serenity is by far your strong healing spell in your toolkit.

Thoughtsteal is a very interesting talent that steals an ability from an enemy. This gives you access to the ability and the enemy cannot use it for 20 seconds! Ideally, you will want to take this PvP talent versus Mages and Restoration Druids. Here is a list of the abilities you can steal from other classes/specs:

• All Druid specs: Rejuvenation
• All Mage specs: Polymorph
• Mistweaver Monk: Renewing Mist
• All Paladin Specs: Blessing of Freedom
• Shadow Priest: Vampiric Touch
• Holy Priest: Renew
• Discipline Priest: Penance
• All Shaman Specs: Frost Shock
• All Warlock Specs: Fear

Holy Ward wards the friendly target against the next full loss of control effect. This talent will make it very hard for enemy teams to get crowd control on you. Against teams with multiple Purge or Spellsteal effects, you should use Holy Ward right before you are put into crowd control.

Improved Mass Dispel is an interesting PvP talent, as it will find the most use against Mages and Paladins to dispel their major defensive cooldowns. If your team's goal is to be extremely aggressive and you want to sacrifice healing output for an extra win condition, take this talent.