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On this page, you will find out the best talents for your Holy Priest in World of Warcraft Patch 12.1. We also have default talent builds for various types of content, such as raiding or Mythic+. If you play with Warmode on, we have your PvP talents covered as well.
Best Midnight Talents for Holy Priest
Holy Priest has two Hero talents that have completely different points of focus.
Archon adds the spell 
Halo to your arsenal which brings
with it an increase in 
Surge of Light procs to react to, along with
Spiritwell to give you another spell to consume them with.
Oracle is a simpler choice, centered around increasing the healing from
the passive sources of healing like 
Renew and 
Prayer of Mending,
while also adding some spot-healing capability through 
Prompt Prognosis.
- Raid Healing -
Oracle is currently the stronger choice as it provides more constant healing
capability. 
Archon is competitive but has much more of its healing inside the 
Apotheosis and
Halo windows which can lead to higher overheal. - Dungeon Healing - Archon and Oracle are both
viable options for dungeon healing. While Archon has improved burst healing,
doing so in a 5-man environment can consume a lot more Mana. The sustained healing
throughput from Oracle makes it a strong choice, especially as Oracle also excels
at dealing more damage itself, which is quite useful to help beat the Mythic+ timer.
Aside from Hero talents, the other major differentiator between builds is which
Holy tree capstone talents are taken. 
Ultimate Serenity is popular as it
has great synergy with the rest of the tree and simplifies the healing rotation
while providing similar output to the other options. Lasting Words is a solid
passive healing increase. 
Divine Image is not a strong increase, but is
readily accessible if you are taking one of the other two previously mentioned capstones.
Lightweaver is the other capstone worth mentioning as it changes your
gameplay to bolster the cycle of Prayer of Healing getting buffed by your
single-target spells. Currently Lightweaver is tuned to do a similar amount of healing
as other options, but requires more mana and is less forgiving of mistakes,
so it is generally avoided.
Quick Start Import Codes:
Holy Priest Raid - Oracle Easy Mode
Holy Priest Raid - Archon
Holy Priest Delves & M+ - Oracle
Oracle Raid Build
The Oracle Raid Build focuses on a lot of passive healing from Prayer of Mending talents and direct
healing from Prompt Prognosis. You then fill in the gaps between all your 
Holy Word: Serenity and
Prayer of Mending casts with 
Flash Heal and it's buffed version, Benediction whenever it
triggers. Combined with the healing from Renew, 
Echo of Light and 
Piety, Oracle
provides a significant amount of consistent raid-wide healing with low overheal. This build is more mana efficient than
a Lightweaver build.
Oracle Mythic+ Talents
This is a viable alternative to Archon but with reduced burst healing potential. The main reason for
going Oracle is a combination of personal defence, damage output and consistent healing.
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 this build.
The most worthwhile change is for Delves, where you should drop 
Everlasting Light, or if solo,
Leap of Faith, and then talent into 
Dominate Mind. Dominate Mind can be exceptionally useful in
Delves to take control of an enemy to not only deal additional damage but also to absorb damage that would otherwise
hit you and your allies.
Archon Raid Build
The Raid Archon Build is centered around large Surge of Light-buffed
Prayer of Healing casts thanks to Spiritwell, alongside the consistent healing from
Holy Word: Serenity, and Benediction. Halo should be paired up with 
Apotheosis or
Divine Hymn for powerful raid healing whenever possible.
Archon Mythic+ Lasting Words Talents
The Archon Lasting Words build provides an alternative to the Oracle builds with slightly weaker overall
throughput. It provides consistent bursts of healing with each Halo cast and the additional
Surge of Light procs are great for party triage and contribute to even more Holy Word: Serenity casts.
Flexible Talents
The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:
Seraphic Crescendo should be your default choice over 
Gales of Song going into every encounter.
The only time Gales of Song is worth taking is if for some reason you have planned every single one of your
casts more than 3 minutes apart.- It is a healing loss to swap out
Dispersing Light for either 
Divine Image or 
Say Your Prayers.
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:
Improved Purify can be dropped if there are no diseases to dispel.
Dispel Magic can also be dropped if there are no diseases to dispel and no magic debuffs to purge.
Mental Agility can be dropped if the encounter doesn't have anything for Purify or
Mass Dispel.
Inspiration can be dropped if you really need another point, as it's the lowest value throughput
talent.
Angelic Bulwark or a point in 
Spell Warding are the lowest impact talents to drop if you need
an extra point in the bottom third of the tree.
In place of them, there are several talents that are situationally useful and can be taken:
Body and Soul can be taken for extra mobility and survivability on movement-heavy encounters.
Phantasm to remove snares.
Angel's Mercy for more survivability.
Psychic Scream for extra crowd control.
In general it is not a good idea to talent into 
Lightburst as it removes 
Holy Nova as a
spammable filler spell.
Flexible Talents
The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:
Eternal Sanctity can be swapped for 
Divinity if you are unable to make use of the extra
Apotheosis duration.
Energy Compression gives roughly the same benefit as Sustained Potency and can be freely
swapped depending on your preference, provided you can make use of the extended Apotheosis duration.
Word of Supremacy can be swapped for 
Heightened Alteration if you can find a way to exploit the
added duration with 
Restitution. If you do this, you should also consider taking 
Afterlife by
dropping either 
Prayers of the Virtuous or 
Healing Focus.- Seraphic Crescendo should be your default choice over Gales of Song going into every encounter.
The only time Gales of Song is worth taking is if for some reason you have planned every single one of your
casts more than 3 minutes apart.
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:
- Improved Purify can be dropped if there are no diseases to dispel.
- Dispel Magic can also be dropped if there are no diseases to dispel and no magic debuffs to purge.
- Mental Agility can be dropped if the encounter doesn't have anything for Purify or
Mass Dispel.
- Inspiration can be dropped if you really need another point, as it's the lowest value throughput
talent.
- Angelic Bulwark or a point in Spell Warding are the lowest impact talents to drop if you need
an extra point in the bottom third of the tree.
In place of them, there are several talents that are situationally useful and can be taken:
- Body and Soul can be taken for extra mobility and survivability on movement-heavy encounters.
- Phantasm to remove snares.
Phantom Reach for more range.- Psychic Scream for extra crowd control.
In general it is not a good idea to talent into Lightburst as it removes Holy Nova as a
spammable filler spell.
Flexible Talents
The Class Tree has limited flexibility without dropping important defensive and throughput talents.
The Holy Tree doesn't have many potential talent change options that don't affect your overall healing output and playstyle.
For Delves, we highly suggest doing them as Shadow. If you are choosing to stay Holy, you should do them as
Oracle.
The builds listed above are popular recommendations, covering various different loadouts suited to each style of endgame content. Each Talent Build will have it's own rotation, and can also be manipulated further for specific types of content and to better benefit your group.
Omnium Folio
The Omnium Folio is a new system introduced in Midnight's Patch 12.0.7, and offers some minor performance-enhancing customization options after a multi-week quest series. Some of these bonuses affect your output, while others are more defensive in nature.
We recommend you pick the following bonuses, but as you can freely switch between them at any time, feel free to experiment with other options yourself if you feel you do not get enough mileage out of the recommended options:
- Tier 1:
Rune of Unleashed Fire - Tier 2:
Rune of Self-Mending - Tier 3:
Rune of Lingering - Tier 4:
Rune of Critical Power - Tier 5:
Rune of Overload
Rune of Unleashed Fire is a better choice than 
Rune of Void-Touched Orbs. For the defensive node, you
should choose either 
Rune of Self-Mending or 
Rune of Void-Tainted Shell. For the final node, while we suggest
Rune of Overload as it provides a bit more reliable healing, they all provide approximately the same amount of
value so it is largely personal preference which one you run with.
Apex Talent: 
Benediction
The Holy Priest apex talent is Benediction, which provides the following benefits as you put points into
it.
- Benediction (1 point): Prayer of Mending bounces periodically transform your next cast of
Flash Heal into Benediction, increasing the healing done and triggering a
Cosmic Ripple. - Benediction (2 points): Increases all healing done, and further increases the healing of
Cosmic Ripple.
- Benediction (1 point): Causes each pulse of Divine Hymn to trigger Cosmic Ripple.
After casting
Holy Word: Serenity, your next Flash Heal is upgraded to Benediction.
How it works: The periodic Benediction procs are triggered by regularly casting
Prayer of Mending. When triggered, Flash Heal is replaced with Benediction for your next
cast, doing increased healing and triggering a 
Cosmic Ripple. Due to the added healing,
Benediction is a high value spell to use and should be prioritised as part of your rotation whenever it
triggers.
TCDoes Oracle Trigger Benediction More than Archon Due to More Prayer of Mending?
Benediction triggers at a normalised rate, meaning the procs per minute should not differ between the
two Hero talents. This is true as long as you cast Prayer of Mending regularly. For both Hero talents it is
important to cast Prayer of Mending as often as possible to maximise the number of Benediction procs.
Hero Talents
Starting at level 71, Hero Talents allow players the ability to shape and focus their
gameplay by picking one of two mutually exclusive options. Oracle
and Archon are the options given to Holy Priest.
Archon
Archon has a focus on buffing your Halo casts. The additional stronger Surge of Light
procs are excellent at improving our triage healing capabilities including the ability to bolster our group healing
through Spiritwell enabling Prayer of Healing to consume Surge of Light. Finally, the additional
healing during Apotheosis further improves our ability to react to heavy group damage.
Oracle
Oracle focuses around regular usage of Prayer of Mending to generate constant healing to your group
through increased healing to Prayer of Mending, Renew and Piety. Oracle also provides single-target
triage through Prompt Prognosis.
PvP Talents (War Mode) for Holy Priest
In the open world, you can go into "War Mode." Enabling War Mode provides the following benefits:
- PvP talents enabled in the outdoor world.
- Increase in World Quest rewards at maximum level.
- More experience gained while levelling.
- Earn Conquest Points, which can be spent on PvP gear.
With the benefits of enabling War Mode for levelling and PvE content, it is recommended enabling the feature to maximize your levelling and rewards at maximum level if you are comfortable with PvP. However, you will make yourself available for open-world PvP, and the possibility of being attacked by other players while levelling or doing World Quests exists.
In this section, we will rank the PvP talents best for levelling and doing solo / small group PvE content. Below is a ranking of Holy Priest-specific PvE talents.
Phase Shift can be used to avoid dangerous attacks.- Purification is great for rapidly removing dangerous debuffs.
- The final choice is typically
Sanctified Ground for solo content, or Spirit of the Redeemer if doing
world content with a group.
Changelog
- 25 Aug. 2026: Updated builds with the latest theorycrafting.
- 17 Aug. 2026: Updated builds for upcoming hotfixes.
- 16 Aug. 2026: Fixed broken Archon Lightweaver build.
- 12 Aug. 2026: Fixed broken Archon Lightweaver build.
- 10 Aug. 2026: Updated for Patch 12.1.
- 15 Jun. 2026: Updated for Patch 12.0.7 and Omnium Folio.
- 20 Apr. 2026: Updated for Patch 12.0.5.
- 31 Mar. 2026: Updated flex talents.
- 17 Mar. 2026: Fixed an incorrect talent layout.
- 16 Mar. 2026: Updated for Midnight Season 1.
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight launch.
- 10 Feb. 2026: Updated again for Midnight pre-patch.
- 19 Jan. 2026: Updated for Midnight pre-patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.5.
- 15 Apr. 2025: Updated with latest hotfix information.
- 25 Mar. 2025: Updated with latest hotfix information.
- 15 Mar. 2025: Clarified some Season 2 talent choices.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 29 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6.
- 17 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated with Patch 10.2 changes.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- 08 May 2023: Updated talent trees and explanations for Season 2.
- 07 May 2023: Fixed a talent tree missing a talent.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated for patch 10.0.5 talent changes.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
