Holy Priest PvP Talents and Builds — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0.1)

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.

• 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.
• 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, and your next 3 Prayer of Healings heal for more and are instant.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ultimate Serenity is by far one of your best passives. This replaces Holy Word: Sanctify and increases the healing done by Holy Word: Serenity. In addition to bonus healing, it will also heal to 4 nearby allies for 15% of its healing done. Ultimately, this turns Holy Word: Serenity into both a single-target and spread healing button.

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 avoiding crowd control and moving around the map.

Psychic Shroud. When your Psychic Scream affects 1 or more players, the next crowd control effect against you is prevented. This is great versus teams that will be stacked.

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.