Holy Priest Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Dragonflight 10.2.5

By heading into Torghast, you will be able to create gear with Legendary Powers through the new Runecarving system. These powers boost your abilities in a unique way, but you can only wear one of them at a time. This guide will list, explain, and rank each power, so that you can understand which are the best ones to use on any given situation.

Bolded slots are preferable due to being the highest stat slots available in slots where Domination Shards are not available. You can check which Shards are available in Patch 9.1, and what their powers are in our gear page linked below. Due to some of the Domination Shard sockets being in slots we previously had our preferred Legendaries, the recommended slot has changed for some of them. If you do re-craft your Legendary in an alternate slot, be sure to keep your old one in the bank in case the slot preference changes back in Patch 9.2 and beyond.

A Legendary item can have sockets, as long it is a Head, Bracer, Neck, Ring, or Belt. If it was crafted after Patch 9.1 it will have a socket in it by default, but you can also upgrade one to make a socket appear!

Using our normal stat priority, you will want to craft your Legendary with Mastery and Critical Strike for raiding, replacing Mastery with Versatility for a more well-rounded choice that includes Mythic+ and PvP content.

Focus	Legendary	Slots	Source
All Content	Unity	Belt	Provided as a campaign reward in Zereth Mortis
Raiding (optimal*)	Flash Concentration	Neck or Wrist	Grand Proctor Beryllia in Sanguine Depths
Raiding (easier to use)	Harmonious Apparatus	Shoulder or Finger	Sire Denathrius in Castle Nathria
Mythic+	Flash Concentration	Neck or Wrist	Grand Proctor Beryllia in Sanguine Depths

* Note: While we will be going into more detail later in the guide, we recommend Flash Concentration for Raiding as the highest potential healing output. It does require maintaining the buff by casting Flash Heal every 20-seconds, and this maintenance can make the Legendary awkward to get maximum benefit from as dropping your 5 stacks regularly takes away from the power of the Legendary. Harmonious Apparatus is much easier to use, as it passively provides you with more Holy Words just by playing correctly, casting Prayer of Mending and Circle of Healing as regularly as possible.

In Patch 9.2 we received Memory of Unity which is a legendary power that morphs your item to have the covenant power associated with your current Covenant. You are also able to wear the Unity Legendary alongside another Legendary.

• Spheres' Harmony — This has great potential in Mythic+, particularly for contributing more damage. Having Boon of the Ascended up frequently is a significant damage and burst healing increase.
• Pallid Command — Provides a passive amount of extra healing for a short duration after your cast Unholy Nova that quickly ramps up in power.
• Bwonsamdi's Pact — This Legendary tooltip is rather unclear; after you cast Fae Guardians you can then cast this on a target that has any of your faeries to duplicate the power of that faerie. For example, casting it on someone who has the Benevolent Faerie will grant them additional cooldown reduction.
• Shadow Word: Manipulation — This Legendary rewards you for having the Mindgames debuff removed quickly by granting you an amount of extra Critical Strike dependent on how much time Mindgames had left on your target.

The only Legendary that has a noticeable gameplay impact is the Venthyr Shadow Word: Manipulation which you should aim to line up prior to large amounts of burst healing being required, with abilities like Divine Hymn or Holy Word: Salvation.

We suggest you craft Flash Concentration alongside Memory of Unity as it provides the most healing throughput in both Dungeons and Raid. Flash Concentration comes at the cost of having to keep track of and maintain a 20-second buff at 5 stacks for optimal usage. Harmonious Apparatus is also an option in Mythic+ as it provides a bit of extra damage, at the loss of healing throughput.

You should craft Memory of Unity on waist as it leaves the tier slots free to pick up 4-set without needing to re-craft your legendary, and does not clash with Legendaries for other specs. If you like to play with Divine Image you can instead craft Unity on feet, however if you play Discipline this means you will need to craft The Penitent One on cloak.

Raiding has a heavy focus on single-target damage and area of effect healing on a large group of players, many of which are likely to be far away from you.

Flash Concentration is your default choice. It has great synergy with the Trail of Light and Surge of Light talents, allowing for the majority of the Flash Heal casts required to keep the Legendary buff up be instant-cast and cost no Mana. It also improves the throughput of the buffed Heal casts by cleaving it onto previously cast targets through Trail of Light. Maintaining 5 stacks of this buff can be difficult depending on the encounter, but the throughput increase provided to Heal is worth the extra effort in almost every situation.

Other potential options include:

1. Harmonious Apparatus increases the number of powerful Holy Words we can cast just by continuing our normal playstyle of casting Prayer of Mending and Circle of Healing as regularly as practical. Harmonious Apparatus does not have as much potential as Flash Concentration but is significantly easier to use well over a wide range of encounters and situations.
2. Divine Image causes your Holy Word: Serenity, Holy Word: Sanctify, and Holy Word: Chastise casts to have a chance to summon an image of a Naaru. This image will replicate versions of spells you cast, both damage and healing, and prioritise injured allies where possible. This Legendary provides competitive healing and some additional damage, however, the random design of the Divine Image appearing can make the actual healing contribution unreliable.
3. X'anshi, Return of Archbishop Benedictus is the return of the popular Legion Legendary cloak. This cheat-death style effect allows you to soak or ignore specific mechanics to aid your group, and it can also help with your Mana management on fights where using Spirit of Redemption toward the end of an encounter is not optimal or difficult to do.

Mythic+ emphasizes priority target and burst healing. Here, Flash Concentration is also your default choice. It has great synergy with the Trail of Light and Surge of Light talents, allowing for the majority of the Flash Heal casts required to keep the Legendary buff up be instant-cast and cost no Mana. It also improves the throughput of the buffed Heal casts by cleaving it onto previously cast targets through Trail of Light. Maintaining 5 stacks of this buff can be difficult depending on the encounter, but the throughput increase provided to Heal is worth the extra effort in almost every situation.

Other potential options include:

1. Harmonious Apparatus grants additional Holy Word cooldown reduction (4 seconds) when casting some of our normal rotational spells. In addition to the healing benefits it also helps contribute towards some extra damage and crowd control through Holy Word: Chastise and pairs well with the Censure talent.
2. Twins of the Sun Priestess is great at both providing a damage increase to one of your party members, while also increasing your own damage and healing. This has more overall potential than Flash Concentration but requires coordination with a DPS in your group to get the most out of it.
3. Divine Image will replicate versions of spells you cast, both damage and healing, and prioritise injured allies where possible. You can use this to contribute both damage and healing, depending on the situation.

X'anshi, Return of Archbishop Benedictus is not on the list above as it is a very hard one to properly evaluate and rank compared to the other Legendary powers, due to the unique effect it provides. Some people love it and rate it very highly, some people hate it and consider it a crutch. This cheat-death style effect allows you to soak or ignore specific mechanics to aid your group, and can also help save your group if you make a mistake that would ordinarily kill you. It can also be used to "death-skip" parts of dungeons by having your whole group run past the trash you want to skip, and then after everyone dies, the mobs have reset, and you come back to life. You can then Mass Resurrection your group and continue the run.

If you plan on running Torghast with a group of people, consider referring to the Mythic+ recommendations if your group is large enough that you have to heal for most of the time.

Otherwise, the recommendations below assume you are running solo or with only 1 or 2 extra players, in which case improving your own (area of effect) damage is the most important consideration.

1. Stable Phantasma Lure is a special Legendary that increases the Torghast-only currency you get by a significant amount. While the value of this currency can vary wildly between runs, depending on your build and what is available from the vendors, buying powers is still one of the best ways to complete a synergistic build on a Torghast run, and this Legendary will help you get there faster.
2. Twins of the Sun Priestess is great at both providing a damage increase to one of your party members, while also increasing your own damage and healing.
3. Divine Image will replicate versions of spells you cast, both damage and healing, and prioritise injured allies where possible. You can use this to contribute both damage and healing, depending on the situation.