Holy Priest PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight / Patch 10.0.7)
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 Talents for Holy Priests
We will discuss the general build for Holy Priests going into Dragonflight. 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.
Priest Tree
Mandatory Talents
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.
Power Word: Life is a powerful healing spell with a short cooldown. It
is instrumental in keeping your team alive.
Surge of Light is a powerful healing talent as it can proc instant
Flash Heal
free of cost. It helps with sustained healing.
Phantasm is a spell Priests have needed for a long time.
It removes snares upon
using Fade, giving Priests much-needed mobility.
Psychic Voice reduces the cooldown of your Psychic Scream by 15s.
It is crucial as Psychic Scream is your best crowd control ability.
Important Talents
Mind Control is a solid pick as it gives you a power crowd control
option that you can use both offensively and defensively.
Mindgames is one of your major offensive cooldowns and will
significantly help your team landing kills on your goes.
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. It also amplifies
the damage to the target when it is 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.
Holy Priest Tree
Mandatory Talents
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.
Apotheosis makes the cooldown reductions to your Holy Words 300%
and makes their Mana cost-free. This will be one of your primary burst healing cooldowns.
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.
Important Talents
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.
Harmonious Apparatus is a great way to reduce the cooldowns of important
Holy Words by using their respective spells.
Lightwell is a good instant healing cooldown that heals your party members within
20 yards if they fall below 50% health. The Lightwell lasts for 2 minutes or when
it healed for 15 times.
Censure converts your
Holy Word: Chastise into a Stun. A helpful
talent in case your team is lacking stuns for the enemy.
Answered Prayers gives you the effect of
Apotheosis for 8 seconds
after your
Prayer of Mending has bounced a total of 50 times. You want to
keep track of your stacks of
Answered Prayers to estimate when it will proc
to prepare your healing and not to waste the talent
Apotheosis itself.
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.
PvP Talents for Holy Priests
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.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Cardinal Mending increases Prayer of Mendings healing by 50% and increases
its jump range by 10 yards. This is a must-have pick in every matchup you play.
Situational PvP Talents
Ray of Hope is a powerful defensive cooldown which
Holy Priest lacks in the core toolkit. For 6 seconds, Ray of Hope delays all incoming
damage and healing taken to the target. While active, the healing is increased by 50%.
Spirit of the Redeemer puts you into a spirit form which allows you to
free-cast heals on your team for 8 seconds. You cannot heal yourself while in spirit
form; if you die, you will not enter spirit form.
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.
Catharsis is an interesting choice if you want to trade survivability
for a damage talent. Once you have stored enough damage with the initial application of
Shadow Word: Pain, you can deal a high amount of instant damage to the enemy.
Though, if you know that you will barely take any damage, you will not get any value
from this talent. So, be careful with this talent choice.
Purification gives
Purify a maximum of 2 charges.
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.
Thoughtsteal is an exciting talent that steals an ability
from an enemy. This gives you access to the ability, and the enemy cannot use it
for 20 seconds. 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
This PvP talent is especially powerful against Mages as you will deny them their primary crowd-control ability. Without it, they will not be able to peel for their team, and they will not be able to land offensive crowd control either. However, in the current patch, you will usually not have a slot for it.
Precognition gives you 15% haste and makes you immune to interrupts and
Crowd Control for 4 seconds in case you fake an interrupt. If you feel comfortable
enough to reliably fake interrupts, this talent is a solid choice.
Changelog
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated 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: Updated for Patch 9.2.
- Updated Best PvP Talents.
- 26 Nov. 2021: Updated PvP Talent Choices.
- 02 Jul. 2021: Updated PvP Talent Choices.
- 08 Mar. 2021: Updated PvP Talent Choices.
- 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 Proxs, a Rank 1 Priest who has achieved over 3000 rating. He also plays a variety of other classes above 2400 rating. You can check out his stream on Twitch.
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