Holy Priest Dragonflight Class Guide

General Information

Welcome to our Holy Priest Guide for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. We will help you to learn and master Holy Priest in either Raids or Mythic Keystone Dungeons.

Last Update: 16-03-2023

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Basics of Holy Priest

With their unique Holy Word’s, Holy Priests have many interesting abilities in their toolkit that they can utilize to quickly heal their party- or raidgroup. Mistiming your cooldowns might be very punishing.

Stat Choice for Holy Priest

General Stat Priority for Holy Priest with our Build is:

Intellect
Mastery = Critical Strike
Versatility
Haste

Basic Rotation

Please read our Rotation and Cooldown section for further information.

Use and maintain Shadow Word: Pain
Use and maintain Holy Fire
Use Smite as filler
Apply Renew to your primary target
Use Flash Heal if immediat heal is needed
Use Heal
Use Prayer of Mending
Use Holy Word: Serenity

Builds and Talents

General Talent Tree

Most Notable Talents

Your bottom row Talents are Mindgames and Power Word: Life. These have the biggest impact in your rotation and playstyle. Divine Star or Halo can be talented aswell, which offers you an additional Heal/Damage ability.

Other Damage Talents

Shadow Word: Death and Shadowfiend are granting you additional abilities to deal damage with. Holy Nova also offers a strong AoE ability. Throes of Pain and Twist of Fate will grant passive boost in damage.

Crowd Control & Utility

Shackle Undead, Void Tendrils and Sheer Terror, Mind Control and Psychic Voice are your Crowd Control Talents. Power Infusion and Void Shift are your biggest Utility cooldown. Vampiric Embrace, Angelic Feather, Leap of Faith, Mass Dispel, Purify Disease and Dispel Magic are your other Utility Talents.

Defensive Talents

Angelic Bulwark, Light’s Insipration and Crystalline Reflection are located in the bottom row of the Talent Tree, and increase your own Survivability.

Specialization Talent Tree

Single Target Talents

Divine Image grants a chance to summon a Naaru, mirroring your healing spells.
Holy Word: Salvation heals all allies within 40 yards and applies Renew to them.
Divine Hymn is a strong 3-minute cooldown, healing all allies within 40 yards over 7 seconds.
Benediction boosts your Prayer of Mending, granting it additional effects.
Restitution grants Holy Priests a Cheat-Death mechanic.
Afterlife grants you the ability to combat rezz an ally when you are a Spirit of Redemption.

Multi Target Talents

Holy Word: Chastice deals damage against one enemy
Empyreal Blaze refreshes the cooldown
on Holy Fire, and makes the next 3 Holy Fire free and instant cast.
Holy Word: Sanctify and Circle of Heal are strong Healing abilities for multiple targets.
Apotheosis grants a 2-minute cooldown which resets all Holy Word spells.
Divine Word empowers your next Holy Word for the next 15 seconds
Searing Light increases the damage of Smite and Holy Nova.

Mythic+ Talents For Holy Priest

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Aberrus, The Shadowed Crucible

Kazzara, the Hellforged

Molgoth

The Forgotten Experiments

Assault of the Zaqali

Rashok, the Elder

The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn

Magmorax

Echo of Neltharion

Scalecommander Sarkareth

Aberrus, The Shadowed Crucible

Kazzara, the Hellforged

Molgoth

The Forgotten Experiments

Assault of the Zaqali

Rashok, the Elder

The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn

Magmorax

Echo of Neltharion

Scalecommander Sarkareth

Rotation and Cooldowns

Basic Rotation for Holy Priest in Single Target

Use and maintain Shadow Word: Pain
Use Mindgame
Use Power Infusion
Use Shadow Word: Death
Use and maintain Holy Fire
Use Divine Star
Use Smite as filler

Apply Renew to your primary target
Use Flash Heal if immediat heal is needed
Use Heal
Use Prayer of Mending
Use Power Word: Life
Use Holy Word: Serenity

Basic Rotation for Holy Priest in Single Target

Use and maintain Shadow Word: Pain
Use Mindgame
Use Holy Fire
Use Empyreal Blaze
Use Holy Fire 3 times on different targets
Use Power Infusion
Use Divine Word
Use Holy Word: Chastise
Use Shadow Word: Death
Use Divine Star
Use Holy Nova as filler

Apply Renew to your primary target

Use Flash Heal if immediat heal is needed
Use Prayer of Mending
Use Holy Word: Sanctify
Use Power Word: Life
Use Holy Word: Serenity

Stat Priority

Stat Choice for Holy Priest

General Stat Priority for Holy Priest with our Build is:

Intellect
Mastery = Critical Strike
Versatility
Haste

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Intellect is your primary stat, meaning that Itemlevel is superior in most cases. Higher Itemlevel will also increase your Stamina and Armor that you gain.

Critical Strike increases the chance for your abilities and spells to deal double damage.

Haste reduces your global cooldown, your time to cast spells, and reduces the cooldown of many abilities.

Versatility grants you a flat damage increase, but also a damage decrease for half of its value.

Mastery causes your direct healing spells to heal for an additional amount over 6 seconds.

The further we are getting into the expansion, the effects of diminishing returns start to limit your effective gain of your secondary stats. After reaching 30% (by rating) of any given stat, you will start to receive a penalty that reduces the gain from more of the same stat over this treshold.

Stat priority can differ on every character. Make sure to simulate yourself on Raidbots get the perfect results for you.

Gear and Trinkets

Best In Slot Gear for Holy Priest

This List shows the current Best-In-Slot Gear for Dragonflight Season 1. Many Items can be potentially substituted with any Profession Gear, especially early on into the Season.

Additionally, there is the option for Profession Gear to be crafted with additional Buffs/Perks, which can benefit your character in certain situations.

Slot	Item
Head	Draconic Hierophant’s Archcowl
Necklace	Eye of the Vengeful Hurricane
Shoulders	Draconic Hierophant’s Wisdom
Cloak	Acid-Proof Webbing
Chest	Draconic Hierophant’s Vestment
Wrists	Chilled Silken Restraints
Hands	Draconic Hierophant’s Grips
Belt	Magatha’s Spiritual Sash
Legs	Draconic Hierophant’s Britches
Boots	Sandals of the Wild Sovereign
Ring 1	Seal of Diurna’s Chosen
Ring 2	Seal of Filial Duty
Weapon 1	Stormlash’s Last Resort
Weapon 2	Icewrath’s Channeling Conduit