Holy Priest PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.1.7)

We will discuss the general build for Holy Priests going into The War Within. Keep in mind that adapting your build to the situation is essential. This greatly depends on what composition you are playing and what you are facing.

This build is centered around efficient, casted heals with excellent output while still having the needed crowd control to set up kills on the enemy team. As long as you can cast freely, this build's single-target healing output is unmatched.

• Dispel Magic, Mass Dispel, Leap of Faith, Shadow Word: Death and Power Infusion are part of your defensive and offensive utility and need to be picked.
• Benevolence increases the healing of your spells and should always be chosen.
• Surge of Light is a powerful healing talent as it can proc instant Flash Heal free of cost. It helps with sustained healing.
• Phantom Reach increases the range of most spells by 15%. This is great for Priests because one of your weaknesses is mobility. If your team starts to kite away from you, you will still be in range to heal.
• Psychic Voice reduces the cooldown of your Psychic Scream by 15s. It is crucial as Psychic Scream is your best crowd control ability.
• Mind Control is a solid pick as it gives you a powerful crowd control option that you can use both offensively and defensively.
• Twist of Fate is a great talent as it allows you to recover when the enemy team has brought someone in your team low on health.
• Void Tendrils allows you to mass root enemies. It is a good ability as it gives you more crowd-control options and makes it easier to survive when being trained by melee DPS.

• Guardian Spirit is your main defensive external cooldown, and its value gets increased by Guardian Angel, which lowers its cooldown to 60 seconds in case the Guardian Spirit did not get proceed.
• Symbol of Hope shortens a defensive Cooldown by 60 seconds for all party members. This affects your Desperate Prayer. On top of that, you restore a certain amount of mana for all party members.
• Holy Word: Chastise gives you instant crowd control. This allows you to set up your Crowd Control chain on an enemy by using Holy Word: Chastise into Psychic Scream. You will also want to pick up Censure to turn Holy Word: Chastise into a stun so that it cannot break to damage.
• Apotheosis makes the reduces the cooldown on your Holy Words and makes them Mana cost-free. This will be one of your primary burst healing cooldowns. With Divinity, your healing is increased while Apotheosis is active and after using Apotheosis, your next 3 Heal or Prayer of Mending casts will be instant and heal for 25% more.
• Miracle Worker greatly increases your healing throughput by having an additional charge of Holy Word: Sanctify and Holy Word: Serenity. Holy Word: Serenity is by far your best single target instant healing cooldown.
• Enlightenment increases your mana regeneration by 10%. This is extremely valuable since it allows you to play longer games without going out of mana too fast.
• Lightwell is a good instant healing cooldown that heals your party members within 20 yards if they fall below 75% health. The Lightwell lasts for 2 minutes or when it healed for 15 times.
• Resonant Words increases the healing of Heal or Flash Heal after using a Holy Word. This talent increases your single target output a lot.
• Divine Hymn is a channeled healing cooldown which heals your party within 40 yards over 8 seconds. Each heal applies a stacking healing buff on party members. Seraphic Crescendo reduces the cooldown of Divine Hymn by 60 seconds.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents; each has 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.

Spirit of the Redeemer puts you into a spirit form, which allows you to free-cast heals on your team for 8 seconds. The great part about this being an active spell is that your spells will cost no Mana and you cannot be crowd controlled during it. This is one of the first cooldowns to use when you need extra healing.

Phase Shift makes you immune against attacks and spells for 1 second. This is great for immuning crowd control and moving around the map.

Ray of Hope. For the next 6 seconds, all damage and healing delt to the target is delayed until Ray of Hope ends. All healing that is delayed by the it is increased by 50%. This gives Holy Priests and additional cooldown that can be rotated with their other spells. It is crucial to pair this with a Holy Word: Serenity so that the ray is not negative.

Purification gives Purify a maximum of two charges and grants your target an small absorb shield. It is crucial against teams with spammable, dispellable crowd control like Polymorph or Fear as you will be able to dispel your teammates multiple times, increasing their uptime and preventing the enemy team from controlling the pace of the game.

Divine Ascension is a great talent if you face melees and know that you are most likely to be trained. It lets you fly into the air to free-cast spells with an increased spell range.