Holy Priest Healing Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Holy Priest for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.0).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Holy Priests and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Holy Priest
Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Holy Priest
Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Holy Priest
Defensive Tips
Desperate Prayer or
Fade are best used when targeted by
Incendiary Fire.
- Use both
Desperate Prayer and
Fade together if you get low from
Exhaust Fumes and need to stabilise your health.
Cooldown Usage
Apotheosis on the pull allows you to heal through the first couple of
Exhaust Fumes.
- You should pair
Halo up with
Apotheosis and then aim to use
Halo shortly after it is off cooldown, so it is ready for the next
Apotheosis.
Apotheosis should be used at the start of the first
Backfire intermission, then each intermission afterwards.
Divine Hymn can either be used to to cover damage from either
Exhaust Fumes if your raid falls behind, or for
Backfire during intermission as it is available.
Mechanical Tips
- You can use
Leap of Faith to quickly pull allies with low mobility from the
Oil Slick.
Guardian Spirit is good to coordinate with your tanks to help mitigate
Tank Buster damage.
Psychic Scream works well to help control the Pit Mechanics.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Holy Priest
Defensive Tips
Blistering Spite and
Galvanized Spite are both stacking DoTs that are applied to players depending on where they are in the arena. These stacks will reset at the end of intermission when the bosses swap positions. You will want to save
Desperate Prayer and
Fade for the end of intermission, where the stacks will be highest.
Cooldown Usage
- Intermission deals heavy damage through
Colossal Clash from both bosses. This is the perfect time for
Apotheosis as it will be active for the entire intermission.
Divine Hymn should typically be used during the end of intermission as the
Colossal Clash damage ramps up.
- Spatial Paradox or Rescue from an Evoker are very helpful to ensure your
Divine Hymn or
Symbol of Hope casts go off without being interrupted by forced movement.
Mechanical Tips
Guardian Spirit is good to coordinate with your tanks to help mitigate
Eruption Stomp damage.
Psychic Scream and
Holy Word: Chastise can both be used to help stop
Voltaic Image.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rik Reverb for Holy Priest
Defensive Tips
- Use
Fade or
Desperate Prayer for either
Static Jolt or
Sound Cannon casts, or to stay healthy if you have to drain a pillar.
Cooldown Usage
Apotheosis should be used for the first
Sound Cannon and each one afterwards as it is available.
- You should pair
Halo up with
Apotheosis and then aim to use
Halo shortly after it is off cooldown, so it is ready for the next
Apotheosis.
Divine Hymn can be used for a
Static Jolt or
Sound Cannon that
Apotheosis is not available.
Mechanical Tips
- Keep your
Angelic Feathers ready to run to the knockup spots for
Blaring Drop, as well as moving out of an Amplifier spawn.
- Good spot healing will be needed on players who are draining the pillars.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Holy Priest
Defensive Tips
- If you receive
Prototype Powercoil, use
Fade when available and if in danger of death,
Desperate Prayer.
Fade or
Desperate Prayer can also be used if you get low during
Electromagnetic Sorting.
Cooldown Usage
Apotheosis should be used early on
Electromagnetic Sorting, then counter future casts with
Divine Hymn and
Apotheosis as available.
- You should pair
Halo up with
Apotheosis and then aim to use
Halo shortly after it is off cooldown, so it is ready for the next
Apotheosis.
Mechanical Tips
- Good spot healing will be needed on players who affected by
Prototype Powercoil. If someone with it looks in danger of death, this is the perfect time for
Guardian Spirit.
- You can use
Psychic Scream or
Holy Word: Chastise on the Scrapmasters to interrupt their Scrap Rocket casts.
Purify off stacks of
Infected Bite, particularly from tanks if they have multiple stacks.
Best Talents
Note that this build differs from the usual build to include Improved Purify.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Holy Priest
Defensive Tips
Fade and
Desperate Prayer are best used for the
Pyro Party Pack and
Sonic Ba-Boom overlaps. These overlaps will happen on the second and third
Pyro Party Pack casts.
- If really needed,
Desperate Prayer will help clear your
Voidsplosion if your health gets low.
Cooldown Usage
- Using
Apotheosis at the start of the encounter to help heal through the
Sonic Ba-Booms will allow you to have it up for the first
Voidsplosion. Continue to use
Apotheosis to heal the
Sonic Ba-Boom just before each
Voidsplosion.
- You should pair
Halo up with
Apotheosis and then aim to use
Halo shortly after it is off cooldown, so it is ready for the next
Apotheosis.
- Use
Divine Hymn whenever Apotheosis isn't up, to help heal through a dangerous
Sonic Ba-Boom.
Mechanical Tips
Wire Transfer requires a lot of movement, be sure to save a
Angelic Feather or two for it, or schedule a Rescue /
Leap of Faith from someone to help you reposition quickly.
Leap of Faith should be coordinated with someone who has low mobility to help them deal with
Wire Transfer. Make sure not to grip people through a drill!
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for One-Armed Bandit for Holy Priest
Defensive Tips
- Use defensives such as
Desperate Prayer and
Fade to stay healthy during
Foul Exhaust or just before
Traveling Flames.
Cooldown Usage
- Use cooldowns such as
Apotheosis and
Divine Hymn for
Foul Exhaust which will deal damage and also place a healing absorb on players that you will need to heal off.
- You should pair
Halo up with
Apotheosis and then aim to use
Halo shortly after it is off cooldown, so it is ready for the next
Apotheosis.
Mechanical Tips
- Allies with
Withering Flames need to be dispelled. These dispels should be coordinated with your group so the resulting flames that shoot out from your dispel target don't cause accidental damage.
- You can use
Psychic Scream or
Holy Word: Chastise on the Reel Assistants to interrupt their
Overload! casts.
Guardian Spirit may be requested by your tanks to help them survive the tankbuster
The Big Hit.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Mug'Zee for Holy Priest
Defensive Tips
Desperate Prayer and
Fade should be used if you have to soak an Unstable Crawler Mine, or when doing the
Goblin-guided Rocket split soak.
Desperate Prayer and
Fade can also be used if you are not healthy going into the
Earthshaker Gaol.
Cooldown Usage
- Healing cooldowns such as
Apotheosis and
Divine Hymn should be used during the
Goblin-guided Rocket soaks, or when Mug'Zee is swapping to the other side of the arena, which will cause damage.
- The longer you stay on one side of the arena the more damage may ramp up. Depending on how long your raid stays on one side, you may need to pop cooldowns during the end of that phase.
Mechanical Tips
- The Unstable Crawler Mines can be crowd controlled, so you can use
Psychic Scream or
Holy Word: Chastise to help keep them away from players.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Holy Priest
Defensive Tips
Desperate Prayer and
Fade should be used during the
Scatterblast Canisters split soak in phase one, during intermission, and during the
Gallybux Finale Blasts in phase three.
Cooldown Usage
- Healing cooldowns such as
Apotheosis and
Divine Hymn can be used in phase one for the
Scatterblast Canisters, a split soak that will also leave a small absorb on the raid.
- You should pair
Halo up with
Apotheosis and then aim to use
Halo shortly after it is off cooldown, so it is ready for the next
Apotheosis.
- Phase two you will focus on the constant raid-wide healing from the
Giga Coils.
- Intermission will have the largest burst healing requirement, and will be a great time for your second
Apotheosis cast to heal the
TOTAL DESTRUCTION!!! damage.
- Phase three you will be back to healing the
Giga Coils similar to phase two, with additional damage from abilities such as
Gallybux Finale Blast.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in later to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Defensive Usage Notes
Holy Priest has several defensive spells that you should plan to use and rotate
throughout mechanics. You should opt to use the smaller cooldown spells often
as needed with incoming mechanics and save bigger cooldowns like Desperate Prayer
for large incoming damage.
Desperate Prayer.
Fade (with
Translucent Image talented).
Flash Heal on yourself (with
Protective Light talented).
Guardian Spirit (if not needed for a specific ally).
General Cooldown Usage
Holy Priest has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Liberation of Undermine:
Apotheosis — Our main, 2-minute raid cooldown.
Divine Hymn — Our secondary strong raid cooldown on either a 3-minute cooldown, or 2-minutes with
Seraphic Crescendo talented.
If you find your cooldowns are not assigned by your raid leader, you should look to use these as often as they will do healing without significant overheal.
Your desired mana potion should be used as soon as the additional mana won't be wasted. This can often be quite early on during an encounter and will help set you up to have plenty of mana for the later portions of the fight.
Changelog
- 25 Mar. 2025: Updated with latest hotfix information.
- 21 Mar. 2025: Updated some tips and talents.
- 10 Mar. 2025: Added and updated boss tips.
- 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Niphyr, a generally knowledgeable, long-time healing Priest and theorycrafter. You can follow him on Twitter.
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