WoW Holy Priest is the most basic among healing specializations in World of Warcraft: this spec is easy to master, and it’s effective in any content. This WoW The War Within Holy Priest guide will help you master all the intricacies of the spec: which talents and abilities to use, which Holy Priest build WoW to choose, and what buttons to press in order to heal your allies and not die in battle.
4.9Holy Priest Overview
Holy Priest is an influential caster, who uses the power of light to support his allies, provides strong healing, and protects party members with effective shields. Holy Priest WoW is 100% Healer with no chance to be a pair DPS for a team, unlike Discipline spec, for example. Therefore, it’s an excellent choice for players who struggle with sustained DPS, though some experienced players say that Holy spec has nice single target damage potential thanks to the Holy Priest WoW talents when healing is not needed.
WoW Holy Priest utilizes mana to cast their spells, so there are no unfamiliar resources and resource management mechanics to learn. Their abilities and cooldown-based healing allow you to provide regular bursts of healing. However, low-cooldown healing abilities need training to be successfully implemented into your playstyle and rotation.
Holy Priest Strengths and Weaknesses
Being a Healer for the whole Raid or M+ is an uneasy task, and if you choose to play Holy Priest, you should be fully prepared for all the advantages and disadvantages of the spec.
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
|---|---|
| ✅ Strong continuous burst and group healing. | ⛔️ Mediocre group healing in situations where a large spread is needed. |
| ✅ Group CDs like Divine Hymn, Apotheosis, and Holy Word: Salvation. | ⛔️ Low damage and mobility. |
| ✅ Excellent group utility with Dispel Magic, Mass Dispel, Mind Soothe, Power Infusion, and Leap of Faith. | ⛔️ Zero interrupts. |
Holy Priest Season 3 Changes
WoW The War Within Patch 11.2 slightly adjusts Holy Priest’s mana economy and improves its group healing utility. The Apotheosis rework changes how mana is spent during burst windows, while a Divine Hymn buff makes it a more practical cooldown in smaller group content.
- Holy Words now cost 50% less mana instead of being free.
- Many non–Holy Word spells also have reduced mana costs.
- Prayer of Healing users should watch mana spend to avoid waste.
- Stronger in 5-player content.
- More viable as a cooldown for medium damage situations.
Holy Priest Season 2 Changes
In WoW TWW Season 2 Holy Priest will receive numerous changes intended to boost its position among healers. In Patch 11.1 Holy Priest will see a rework of many talents and abilities, as well as gain a new tier set Confessor’s Unshakable Virtue. This tier set will become available with the release of the new Liberation of Undermine raid in TWW Season 2.
Holy Specialization Ability Changes
Holy Priest in Patch 11.1 has undergone a few specialization ability changes. Here’s the list of what’s been adjusted:
- Holy Fire — increased damage.
- Effectivness of all spells has been decreased on 8%.
Holy Priest Talent Changes
In Patch 11.1 many Holy Priest talents have been reworked. You can see the detailed list below:
- Afterlife — longer grants a resurrection cast during Spirit of Redemption.
- Answered Prayers — Talent position has changed. Maximum rank has changed from 2 to 1.
- Apotheosis — now reduces the cooldown of Holy Words by 200% (was 300%). Talent position has changed.
- Circle of Healing — removed.
- Cosmic Ripple — healing increased by 150%.
- Crisis Management — now also increases the critical strike chance of Power Word: Life. Now 1-point talent.
- New Talent: Dispersing Light — 6% of healing done with Heal, Flash Heal, and Power Word: Life is replicated to 4 injured allies within 40 yards.
- Divine Hymn — channel duration is now 5 seconds (was 8 seconds). Total healing unchanged.
- Divine Word — is no longer on a choice node with Restitution.
- New Talent: Divinity — Your healing is increased by 10% while Apotheosis is active. When you activate Apotheosis, your next 3 Heal or Prayer of Healing casts are instant and heal for 25% more.
- New Talent: Empowered Renew — Renew reduces the cooldown of Sanctify by an additional 6 seconds and heals for 60% more when cast, but has a 12 second cooldown.
- Epiphany — now 1-point talent.
- New Talent: Eternal Sanctity — Your Holy Words extend the duration of Apotheosis by 1.5 seconds.
- Gales of Song — While channeling Divine Hymn, place 2 stacks of Prayer of Mending on up to 3 allies within its range every 1
- Healing Chorus — removed.
- New Talent: Holy Celerity — Reduces the cooldown of your Holy Words by 15 seconds.
- Holy Word: Salvation — removed.
- New Talent: Lasting Words — Holy Word: Serenity applies 12 seconds of Renew to its target and Holy Word: Sanctify applies 4 seconds of Renew to allies it heals.
- New Talent: Light in the Darkness — Increases the healing done by Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify by 20%/40%. Increases the radius of Holy Word: Sanctify by 15%/30%.
- Lightweaver — can now also be consumed by Prayer of Healing in addition to Heal and now accumulates up to 4 charges (was 2).
- Lightwell — Talent position has changed.
- Miracle Worker — Talent position has changed.
- Orison — removed
- Pontifex — removed
- Prayer Circle — Talent position has changed
- Prayer of Healing — healing increased by 40%, mana cost increased by 25%, cast time is now 2.5 seconds (was 2 seconds). Now prioritizes nearby injured targets instead of the closest targets.
- Prayerful Litany — Now causes the primary target of Prayer of Healing to be healed for 75% more.
- Prayers of the Virtuous — now 1-point talent.
- Prismatic Echoes — now also increases the healing of Renew by 15%/30% and increases the healing of Mastery: Echo of Light by 5%/10% (was 6%/12%). Talent position has changed.
- Renewed Faith — Talent position has changed.
- Resonant Words — now also affects Power Word: Life. Talent position has changed.
- Restitution — is now a choice node against Guardian Angel. Talent position has changed.
- Revitalizing Prayers — Removed
- Trail of Light — healing replication is now 35% (was 25%). Talent position has changed.
- Voice of Harmony — now 1-point Talent and position has changed.
Holy Priest Hero Talents Changes
In Patch 11.1 Holy Priest received a few adjustments to Hero Talents.
Archon:
- Perfected Form — now your healing done is increased by 10% while Apotheosis is active.
Oracle:
- Preemptive Care — now increases the duration of Renew by 25% (was 6 seconds).
- Premonition — now has 2 charges baseline.
- Divine Providence — has been removed.
Holy Priest Changes In The War Within
In The War Within, the Holy Priest has seen a few minor changes to its baseline abilities and talents, with the possibility of more significant updates hinted at by Blizzard.
Among the most notable changes, Hero Talent Trees can be mentioned. You can read more about this feature in our Hero Talents guide, and the information about Holy Priest’s Hero Trees can be found below in this detailed guide.
Then, the Warbands were finally added. Now you can transfer currency between your Holy Priest and alts, or share the warbound gear. To start using this feature, you need to complete a chain of quests. Or, you can ask our team and we will unlock the Warband Bank for you in no time.
Also, the new tier set brings a fresh 2-piece bonus and 4-piece bonus for Holy Priest. We share the details below in this comprehensive guide.
Holy Priest Hero Talents
So, you can choose between two Hero trees while playing Holy spec: Archon and Oracle.
- Archon: This tree allows the practical interaction of Halo and Surge of Light. Being mostly a passive tree, it adds a lot of advantages to your gameplay via increased healing with Power Infusion, Holy Word: Salvation, and Apotheosis;
- Oracle: This tree’s core ability is Premonition, and the whole tree revolves around it. This talent is active and it also increases your healing in some way thanks to Premonition of Piety and Premonition of Solace (excellent for Single Target healing situations).
Changes to The Existing Abilities And Talents
Notable adjustments include a rework in the Priest class talent tree, a substantial 400% increase in Divine Hymn‘s healing — though it now diminishes beyond five targets — and a 15% boost in Power Word: Life healing.
New talents such as Phantom Reach, which extends the range of most pre-existing spells by 15%, and Cauterizing Shadows, which provides healing when Shadow Word: Pain expires, add fresh dynamics to gameplay. Additionally, Mindgames has been shifted to a PvP talent.
Basics of Holy Priest Gameplay
Holy Priest gameplay revolves around being a reactive healer, responding to the incoming damage with the appropriate spells from your toolkit. As a Holy Priest, your primary role is to manage group healing, particularly in raid settings, by using your AoE spells like Holy Word: Sanctify and Prayer of Healing. For single-target healing, Holy Word: Serenity and Flash Heal are your go-to spells.
You will often need to juggle these abilities, prioritizing them based on the situation while avoiding excessive overhealing. We should avoid overhealing just for the sake of mana economy, or you’ll run out of it in the most important moment. Though relatively straightforward, mastering Holy Priest requires understanding when to use your cooldowns and managing your resources during encounters.
Holy Priest Rotation
As a healer, you should be able to track the HP of the raid or party and react when solo players need your support and when the whole party is endangered. To avoid critical situations, you can just stick to Raid or M+ priority and keep an eye on the players who lack HP.
But, you shouldn’t blame yourself if the player constantly takes all the unnecessary damage and has 20% HP, and no emergency healing can help them. Some people are just the way they are. Here we offer you to inspect each WoW Holy Priest rotation to understand how to act and what to use in this or that situation.
| Raid Priority | Mythic+ Priority | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lightwell | Prayer of Mending on CD |
| 2 | Prayer of Mending | Holy Word: Sanctify on CD for AoE healing |
| 3 | Divine Word | Apotheosis |
| 4 | Holy Word: Sanctify on CD for AoE healing | Divine Star on CD |
| 5 | Circle of Healing on CD | Power Word: Life |
| 6 | Halo and/or Holy Nova | Symbol of Hope when Desperate Prayer on CD |
| 7 | Prayer of Healing | |
| 8 | Divine Hymn | |
| 9 | Symbol of Hope when Desperate Prayer on CD |
As already mentioned, Holy Priests are awful DPSers. Yet, their damage can be helpful just to support your team and allow faster boss kills. Therefore, you can use this DPS Priority to assist your party even more:
- Holy Fire whenever possible;
- Holy Word: Chastise to activate Empyreal Blaze;
- Holy Fire x2;
- Divine Star (M+) or Halo (Raids) on CD;
- Holy Nova at max stacks or >5 targets;
- Multi-DoT with Shadow Word: Pain if <5 targets.
Major Cooldowns
There are a number of major cooldowns that you will frequently use while playing Holy Priest. Here we share the most significant ones and explain how they work.
| Spell | Cooldown | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Divine Hymn | 3 min | One of your primary cooldowns, which heals all party or raid members for a massive amount of your spell power over 8 sec. Each heal increases all targets’ healing taken by 4% for 15 sec. This effect stacks. |
| Holy Word: Salvation | 12 min | This one heals all allies and applies Renew and 2 stacks of Prayer of Mending to each of the healed allies. |
| Apotheosis | 2 min | Resets the CD of your Holy Words and allows you to enter a pure Holy form for 20 sec, which reduces your Holy Words’ cooldown even more. |
| Guardian Spirit | 3 min | This spell summons a spirit to guard upon the friendly target, in case of the target’s death it revives it with 40% HP. You would often cast it on a tank. |
| Desperate Prayer | 1.5 min | A defensive CD, which increases your max HP and heals for that amount. |
| Fade | 30 sec | Fade out to remove the threat from yourself. |
| Power Word: Shield | 7.5 sec | A shield can be applied to the ally for 15 sec. |
Symbol of Hope
We would also like to put Symbol of Hope aside from other WoW Holy Priest talents, as this one bolsters the morale of raid members, and each of them recovers 30 sec of CD of a major defensive ability, regaining 10% of mana. This spell is so useful, especially in long intensive encounters where the boss fights phases require defensive usage.
User Dracolich has created a full list of CDs of different specs that are affected by your Symbol of Hope:
| Class | Specialization | Spell |
|---|---|---|
| Warrior | Fury | Enraged Regeneration |
| Arms | Die by the Sword | |
| Protection | Shield Wall | |
| Paladin | Retribution | Shield of Vengeance |
| Holy | Divine Protection | |
| Protection | Ardent Defender | |
| Hunter | All specializations | Exhilaration |
| Rogue | All specializations | Crimson Vial |
| Priest | All specializations | Desperate Prayer |
| Death Knight | All specializations | Icebound Fortitude |
| Shaman | All specializations | Astral Shift |
| Mage | All specializations | Mirror Image |
| Warlock | All specializations | Unending Resolve |
| Monk | All specializations | Fortifying Brew |
| Druid | All specializations | Barkskin |
| Demon Hunter | Vengeance | Fiery Brand |
| Havoc | Blur | |
| Evoker | All specializations | Obsidian Scales |
Holy Priest Build
There are several WoW The War Within Holy Priest talent build options: 2 for raid and 1 for Mythic+ dungeons.
For raid, you can choose between Lightwell-oriented and Divine Word-focused builds. The first one is easier and revolves around Resonant Words procs on Circle of Healing. The second one requires the understanding of how Holy Words work, especially Holy Word: Sanctify. Your allies gotta take damage first before you use Words on them, so these WoW Holy Priest builds need more attention.
Holy Priest Raid Lightwell Build
Holy Priest Raid Divine Word Build
Holy Priest Mythic+ Build
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Raid Lightwell Build
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Holy Priest Stats
In WoW Stats are basically your characteristics that have an impact on your performance. For every character, there’s a primary stat, that can always be found on your gear slots, and secondary WoW Holy Priest stats, which may vary from item to item, and their combination and priority affect how you play and perform.
WoW Holy Priest stat priority goes as follows:
- Intellect;
- Critical Strike;
- Haste;
- Mastery;
- Versatility.
While many players are used to the fact that Critical Strike is a chance to double your damage, it also applies to the healing, that’s why we prioritize it over other secondary stats.
Haste is essential to reduce the spell-casting time, which helps to heal more effectively.
Mastery only affects our Mastery: Echo of Light HoT effect, which is good, but not our priority in most of the situations. However, the priority of Mastery rises when it comes to Raiding.
Versatility is just a healing and damage increase which is too low to focus on.
Holy Priest Leveling
The War Within Holy Priest leveling is the most boring part of the game. There are two options to level up:
- Dungeons. A preferable method for healer spec, as there would be Tanks and DPS with enough damage to carry you through the timewalkings. Also, it takes seconds for a healer to find an instant group (unlike DPS, so do not bother to respec).
- Questing. Slightly harder option for a healer, as quests usually involve just tons of mobs to farm. If it’s not the mobs, then bring-me-this or bring-me-that types of quests, which are easy, but boring.
- Overgear Assistance. This is the fastest and easiest option to level up either your main or an alt character, as our Power Leveling team is well-trained and knows the job.
Holy Priest Leveling Tips for The War Within
First of all, if you are looking for fast leveling options, choose the preferable way, described above. This is the basis from where we start and shape the leveling objectives.
If you choose dungeons, you need to queue back-to-back to random ones, or timewalking. As a healer, you’ll find the group fast enough not to bother about doing quests in between the runs.
Yet, you can still pair your dungeons with Draenor or Legion timeline at Chromie and start a campaign there. These two expansions are the easiest for leveling, as the quest density is high and you don’t have to travel back and forth all over the continent.
And you can buy the following consumables to make the process better:
- Gunshoes;
- Light-Step Hoofplates;
- Comfortable Rider’s Barding;
- Bear Tartare;
- Drums of Deathly Ferocity;
- Potion of Phantom Fire;
- Cosmic Healing Potion;
- Potion of Spectral Agility;
- Spectral Flask of Power.
How to Gear Up Holy Priest
When it comes to gearing your Holy Priest, we should keep in mind the stat priority: Intellect, Critical Strike, and Haste. These stats enhance your healing output and efficiency. If you are looking for good Raid healing gear, then instead of Haste prioritize Mastery for a healing over time effect.
Best Gear for Holy Priest
For WoW Holy Priest BiS gear, prioritize raid drops and items with high Haste and Mastery. Keep an eye on trinkets and special effects that can further enhance your healing capabilities.
| Slot | Item | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Head |  Dying Star’s Veil | Catalyst | Manaforge Omega | Vault |
| Neck |  Salhadaar’s Folly | Nexus-King Salhadaar |
| Shoulders |  Dying Star’s Pyrelights | Catalyst | Manaforge Omega | Vault |
| Cloak |  Reshii Wraps | Patch 11.2 Questline |
| Chest |  Dying Star’s Cassock | Catalyst | Manaforge Omega | Vault |
| Wrist |  Consecrated Cuffs | Crafting |
| Gloves |  Bloodwrath’s Gnarled Claws | Manaforge Omega |
| Belt |  Pan-Dimensional Packing Cord | Tazavesh (Streets of Wonder) |
| Legs |  Dying Star’s Leggings | Catalyst | Manaforge Omega | Vault |
| Boots |  Interloper’s Silken Striders | Manaforge Omega |
| Ring 1 |  Logic Gate: Alpha | Plexus Sentinel |
| Ring 2 |  Band of the Shattered Soul | Dimensius |
| Trinket 1 |  Astral Antenna | Loom’ithar |
| Trinket 2 |  Diamantine Voidcore | Fractillus |
| Main Hand |  Voidglass Kris | Fractillus |
| Off Hand |  Vagabond’s Torch | Crafted |
Best Holy Priest Trinkets
A trinket is probably the most important item in your gear build. Trinkets offer such powerful bonuses. that even those with lower ilvl are often worth fighting (and raiding) for.
- Astral Antenna;
- So’leah’s Secret Technique;
- Diamantine Voidcore;
- Loom’ithar’s Living Silk;
- Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj;
However, there’s a limited amount of raid trinkets, the groups in the raid can consist of 10+ people, and generally, they cannot be the BiS option. Thus, we offer you to reach out to our tea and get the Dungeon Trinket that you need. It’s faster and easier than farming it all by yourself.
Tier Set Bonuses for Holy Priest
Holy Priest Season 3 Tier Set Elite
Holy Priest Season 3 Tier Set Gladiator
Holy Priest Season 3 Tier Set Heroic
Holy Priest Season 3 Tier Set Mythic
Holy Priest Season 3 Tier Set Normal
Holy Priest Season 3 Tier Set Raid Finder
Eulogy to a Dying Star is a new Season 3 tier set for Holy Priests in WoW The War Within.
Holy Priest Archon Tier Set Bonuses:
| 2-piece | Halos reduce the cooldown of your Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify by 5 sec and Resonant Energy additionally increases the healing of your Holy Words by 5.0%. |
|---|---|
| 4-piece | While Power Surge is active, every 2 casts of Holy Word: Serenity or Holy Word: Sancitify adds another Halo to the effect at 100% effectiveness, up to 2 times. |
Holy Priest Oracle Tier Set Bonuses:
| 2-piece | Casting Prayer of Mending heals your target for (1400% Of Spell Power). |
|---|---|
| 4-piece | Casting Premonition of Piety or Premonition of Solace grants 2 stack of Premonition of Insight at 100% effectiveness. Consuming a stack of Premonition of Insight increases your Haste by 1.0% for 10 sec. Multiple applications may overlap. |
Holy Priest Season 2 Tier Set Bonuses
Holy Priest PvP 2 Tier Set
Holy Priest PvP 1 Tier Set
Holy Priest Mythic Tier Set
Holy Priest Heroic Tier Set
Holy Priest Normal Tier Set
Holy Priest LFG Tier Set
The new Confessor’s Unshakable Virtue tier set for Holy Priest can be obtained from the new Liberation of Undermine raid.
| 2-piece | Your healing spells have a chance to apply Insurance! to their targets that heals them for (1828% of Spell power) over 15 sec. Insurance! is consumed if an ally drops below 40% health to heal them for (877.5% of Spell power). |
|---|---|
| 4-piece | Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify apply Insurance! for 10 sec to one target while Apotheosis is active. Your healing is increased by 1% for each Insurance! active on allies. |
Holy Priest Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses
Holy Priest Normal Set
Holy Priest Heroic Set
Holy Priest Mythic Set
Holy Priest PvP 1 Set
Holy Priest PvP 2 Set
Holy Priest Raid Finder Set
Shards of Living Luster is the Holy Priest Tier Set for Season 1 in the War Within.
| 2-piece | Serendipity is 10% more effective. |
|---|---|
| 4-piece | Heal, Flash Heal, and Prayer of Healing have a 50% chance to cast again at 35% effectiveness. |
Many players crave the Tier Set bonuses. But gathering all the pieces together takes a long time and lots of effort. If you still want to become the Tier Set owner, try our Heroic Battle Pass, where our pro players will take care of running raids for you with a high chance of obtaining all the items.
Best Crafted Gear for Holy Priest
The best thing you can craft is a gear piece with a lower ilvl or a weapon. However, sometimes there are crafted items that are literally the best in all aspects.
- Binding of Binding;
- Any Suitable Gear with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension;
- Any Low Lvl Item with Spark of Omens.
Crafted gear changes from season to season and can be improved with the help of powerful embellishments for the Holy Priest. As soon as WoW TWW embellishments will appear, we will update this section of our handy guide.
Best Consumables for Holy Priest
To reach the top in the healer tier lists, you should show your skill and high HPS. This is impossible without consumables like potions, flasks, vials, etc. Here we offer the full list of the best The War Within WoW Holy Priest Consumables.
| Type | Best |
|---|---|
| Flask |  Flask of Tempered Aggression |
| Combat Potion |  Algari Mana Potion |
| Health Potion |  Invigorating Healing Potion |
| Weapon Buff |  Algari Mana Oil |
| Augment Rune |  Crystallized Augment Rune |
| Food |  Feast of the Midnight Masquerade |
| Diamond |  Elusive Blasphemite |
| Other Gems |  Masterful Ruby |
Best Holy Priest Enchants
| Slot | Best Enchant |
|---|---|
| Weapon |  Enchant Weapon – Council’s Guile |
| Cloak | Enchant Cloak – Chant of Leeching Fangs |
| Chest | Enchant Chest – Crystalline Radiance |
| Bracers | Enchant Bracer – Chant of Armored Leech |
| Legs |  Sunset Spellthread |
| Boots | Enchant Boots – Defender’s March |
| Ring | Enchant Ring – Radiant Critical Strike |
Holy Priest End-Game
In The War Within WoW endgame, Holy Priests engage in various activities. Usually, it’s high-level dungeons, raids, the new Delves system, world quests, and local quests. You can also farm reputation, which is now also available to your alts with the Warbands system. You can read our TWW Overview Guide for more information about this feature.
To the key end-game content, we can add:
- Mythic+ Dungeons: Focus on mastering your healing cooldowns and adapting to the increasing difficulty of higher keystones.
- Raids: Coordinate with your team to manage large-scale healing, using your powerful AoE spells effectively in The Nerub’ar Palace Raid.
- Delves: Explore this new feature for tailored, progressively challenging solo or group content, where efficient healing and resource management are essential.
- WoW Holy Priest transmog collecting. Most of the old raids are soloable and you can clear it in half an hour to try to get rare items. Shadowlands and DF are still tough, so you’ll need to queue for a T-mog run group.
All in all, there are plenty of things to try and a lot more to enjoy.
Best Races for Holy Priests
Both Horde and Alliance Holy Priests can be of any race. Yet, there are some options that most players prefer to choose due to their powerful racial abilities. In this section of our guide, you’ll find the information about the best race for Holy Priest WoW The War Within.
Alliance
Alliance players prefer the Human race thanks to their Will to Survive and The Human Spirit abilities, which are quite helpful in terms of defense and empowerment. Night Elf is also a nice choice, as you can blend with the shadows in case of danger with Shadowmeld, and feel the impact from the Touch of Elune passive buff.
Horde
If playing for Horde, Blood Elf is WoW best race for Holy Priest due to their Arcane racials: Arcane Torrent, Arcane Acuity, and Arcane Resistance. Or, you can pick the Undead race, as the Forsaken grant you Cannibalize, Shadow Resistance and Will of the Forsaken.
Best Profession for Holy Priest
The choice of profession is a matter of taste nowadays. In The War Within the new system of crafting orders allows you to master the profession of your choice even faster, so you can choose what you really like and start earning money on it. And to start even sooner, get some extra profession knowledge items from the Hallowfall Arathi Renown, which our team can obtain for you. This will boost your character and allow you to start crafting better gear.
Holy Priests wear cloth gear, so it’s convenient to pick Tailoring as your first profession. However, there are no gathering professions to pair it up with. Thus, you can pick the second one of your choice, e.g., Herbalism or Mining just to sell the gathered resources on Auction House.
Improving as Holy Priest
To improve as a Holy Priest in The War Within and provide the most effective healing, you can consider these tips from our team:
- Track Cooldowns Efficiently: Use add-ons like WeakAuras to monitor the cooldowns of your key abilities, ensuring you use them at optimal times during fights;
- Optimize Mana Usage: Practice using your most mana-efficient spells and prioritize them during encounters to maintain your healing throughput without running out of mana;
- Positioning and Awareness: Always position yourself strategically to maximize the range of your AoE heals and avoid unnecessary damage, which can help you maintain focus on healing your allies;
- Read Guides: Information is your best tool, as staying informed about the latest changes and nuances in the game is really important. For instance, you can read some of our latest guides and learn about the essential aspects of the game. Start with these:
Holy Priest Macros
If you want to improve even more in your button-spamming technique, try to use WoW Holy Priest Macros. This is the easiest way to enhance your performance with almost zero effort. Here we gathered the best macros, feel free to choose which of them you find the most suitable for you.
Holy Priest Macros
- Leap of Faith Mouseover. Casts Leap of Faith on your mouseover target if it’s a friendly and not dead; otherwise, it casts on your current target.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Leap of Faith - Power Infusion Mouseover. Casts Power Infusion on your mouseover target if it’s a friendly and not dead; otherwise, it casts on your current target.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Power Infusion - Self-Casting Angelic Feather. Instantly casts Angelic Feather under your player character without targeting.
#showtooltip
/cast [@player] Angelic Feather
/stopspelltarget - Basic Damage Macro. A simple macro for offensive spells that prioritizes mouseover targets or behaves normally otherwise.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead] [] SPELL - Holy Word: Sanctify Under Cursor. Casts Holy Word: Sanctify at your cursor’s location without requiring a second click.
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Holy Word: Sanctify
/stopspelltarget - Talent Swapping Halo and Divine Star Macro. Automatically switches between Halo and Divine Star depending on your talent choice.
#showtooltip
/cast [known:110744] Divine Star; [known:120517] Halo - Shackle Undead Focus Macro. Sets your target as a focus, casts Shackle Undead on it, and allows clearing focus with Shift or resetting it with Alt.
#showtooltip
/focus [mod:alt,@focus,dead] [mod:alt,@focus,noexists] /clearfocus [@focus,dead] [mod:alt,@focus,noexists] [mod:shift] /cast [mod:alt,@focus,exists] [] Shackle Undead
4.9Thank you for reading our The War Within expansion guide for WoW Holy Priest. We hope you found the information useful and will implement our tips into your gameplay. Best luck with mastering your Holy Paladin, come back for more useful guides covering large-scale PvE content and PvP activities in World of Warcraft!
