Holy Priest PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / Patch 9.0.2)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Holy Priest and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Holy Priest PvP Guide.
Regular Talent for Holy Priests
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15 |
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25 |
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30 |
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35 |
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40 |
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45 |
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50 |
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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.
Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents
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.
Tier 2 (Level 25) Talents
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.
Tier 3 (Level 30) Talents
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.
Tier 4 (Level 35) Talents
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.
Tier 5 (Level 40) Talents
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.
Tier 6 (Level 45) Talents
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.
Tier 7 (Level 50) Talents
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.
PvP Talents for Holy Priests
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.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Cardinal Mending makes is so the first time you use
Prayer of Mending
it heals and will ignore any healing reduction effects. 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.
Situational PvP Talents
Greater Heal is a crucial PvP talent to have. Single target healing
has always been a weakness for Holy Priests. This talent provides a strong
heal when there are no interrupts available. Use this PvP talent if the enemy
team primarily has single target damage.
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
Miracle Worker is another talent that increases your instant single
target healing. If you do not want to use
Greater Heal, use this PvP
talent instead.
Holy Word: Serenity is by far your strong healing spell
in your toolkit.
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.
Divine Ascension is a talent that should be taken when you are
queueing into a team with two melee on it that will be targeting you. This will
send you into the air and you will slowly fall down. You are allowed to cast Holy
spells while falling and this will make it extremely difficult for the enemy
melee to kill you.
Holy Word: Concentration causes all party members in the circle on the
ground to be immune to all silence and interrupt effects. This talent is
absolutely crucial against teams with multiple interrupts or if you are playing
with two casters.
Changelog
- 05 Dec. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tier 1 Regular Talent.
- 30 Nov. 2020: Removed outdated Traits and Essences.
- 04 Nov. 2020: Updated PvP Talents.
- 15 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch (9.0.1)
This guide has been written by Mysticall, a seasoned PvP player who has repeatedly achieved Arena Master and 2500 rating. You can watch his stream on Twitch, and you can also check out his YouTube channel.
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