Holy Priest Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — The War Within (11.1.0)

The Raid Archon Apotheosis Extension focuses on maximising the uptime of Apotheosis both from casting Apotheosis itself, but also from Answered Prayers procs. Talents that help increase your Apotheosis uptime include Answered Prayers, Gales of Song and Archon's Sustained Potency. Halo can be paired up with Apotheosis or Divine Hymn for powerful raid healing.

You can easily import the talent tree below by clicking 'Export Talents' and then importing it in-game.

The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:

• Enlightenment can be swapped for Empyreal Blaze to trade Mana and healing for additional damage.
• Gales of Song can be swapped for Seraphic Crescendo so long as you can cast Divine Hymn often enough to take advantage of the reduced cooldown.
• Sustained Potency can be swapped for Energy Compression if you aren't making good use of the Apotheosis procs.
• Word of Supremacy can be swapped for Heightened Alteration if you can find a way to exploit the added duration with Restitution.

The Class Tree has some flexibility, and there are multiple different talents you can change around depending on the encounter and your personal preference. The following are all great candidates to be situationally removed without altering your playstyle:

• Mass Dispel, particularly in raid encounters, can have limited usage. If Mass Dispel does not fit well with the boss you will be fighting, swapping it out will save you one point.
• Dispel Magic can be taken instead of Mass Dispel for encounters where having an additional purge is important.
• Essence Devourer or Phantom Reach can be swapped out for Angelic Bulwark for a survivability boost if needed.

The Raid Archon Lightweaver Build focuses on utilising the additional Surge of Light procs alongside Lightweaver to vastly improve spot-healing capability. While this build is not the optimal build, it can be much easier to play than the Archon Apotheosis Extension build. This simplicity may benefit you while you are progressing particularly challenging encounters.

You can easily import the talent tree below by clicking 'Export Talents' and then importing it in-game.

The Class Tree has some flexibility, and there are multiple different talents you can change around depending on the encounter and your personal preference. The following are all great candidates to be situationally removed without altering your playstyle:

• Mass Dispel, particularly in raid encounters, can have limited usage. If Mass Dispel does not fit well with the boss you will be fighting, swapping it out will save you one point.
• Dispel Magic can be taken instead of Mass Dispel for encounters where having an additional purge is important.
• Essence Devourer or Phantom Reach can be swapped out for Angelic Bulwark for a survivability boost if needed.

Archon represents a more simple, and arguably more fun, playstyle for Mythic+ than Oracle. The different talent choices are primarily to make use of Halo for both damage and healing. The additional Surge of Light procs are great for party triage and contributes to even more Holy Word: Serenity casts.

Overall, this build provides slightly reduced flexibility with burst damage and healing, and instead has a more reliable output without the complication of Oracle's Premonition.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

For delves, we highly suggest you do them as Shadow instead of Holy due to the increased damage output as Shadow. If you still choose to do them alone, as Holy or are doing them in a group as Holy, then use the build below.

This is a viable alternative primarily for High Mythic+ Pushing where the added defensive utility is required to survive specific mechanics. High Mythic+ is defined as any level of Mythic+ that you are actually pushing, where the timer is a relevant concern, and the content is difficult. For one player, this may be Mythic+20, for another, it may be Mythic+12.

The reason for going Oracle is a combination of personal defense, damage output and burst healing.

There are a few changes to the suggested talent build that you could make to suit your personal preferences. These decisions are around the utility you wish to provide to your group and can be dungeon dependent.

• Desperate Measures can be taken over Prophet's Will to survive larger damage spikes.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!