Holy Priest Midnight 12.0.5 Guide

Hi, I’m Grafe. I’m a Method analyst and have mained Healer Priest for the past 7 years. I’ve raided at different levels during that time, including Hall of Fame, but I especially enjoy teaching and helping players.

Holy Priest Overview

Holy is a simple and easy-to-learn healer. It excels at having a ton of passive healing via Prayer Of Mending and Mastery: Echo Of Light, while still having strong and short cooldown, Holy Words, to help during high-damage windows.

Strengths:

• Easy to pick up and play.
• Has a great healing profile with solid spot-healing tools and consistent throughput.
• Not the best defensively, but has an incredible cheat death with Restitution, making it one of the lowest-death specs during progression.

Weaknesses:

• Very weak burst mobility, making it easy to get caught out by mechanics.
• Since it is a pure throughput healer, it is very dependent on tuning. It needs high numbers to compete with specs that bring more utility.

6th of May Changes

Holy received another 6% flat buff

Patch 12.0.5 Changes

Holy received a massive 8% flat buff. There were no changes to how the spec actually plays, with zero tweaks to talents or abilities.

Midnight Changes

Holy received a major overhaul in the pre-patch. Here are the most important changes you need to know:

• Tuning: Prayer Of Mending has been nerfed, but we received significant buffs to Prayer Of Healing and Flash Heal.
• Ultimate Serenity: This is a powerful new talent that combines the effects of Holy Word: Sanctify into Holy Word: Serenity, making it a massive single-button heal.
• Archon: With the addition of Spiritwell, you can now use Surge Of Light procs on Prayer Of Healing. You also gain an extra Halo thanks to Energy Conservation.
• Oracle: Premonition is gone. It’s been replaced by passive talents that provide more constant value, like Prompt Prognosis, Guiding Light, Piety and Prophet's Insight.

We’ve also gained a new apex talent: Benediction. Check out the Talents section for a full breakdown of how it works.

Notable removed Spells and Talents:

• Heal (Removed)
• Power Word: Shield (Removed)
• Symbol Of Hope (Removed)
• Divine Word & Lightwell (Removed)
• Renew (No longer a button; only applied through talents)
• Divine Star & Halo (Now exclusive to the Archon tree)
• Power Word: Life (Removed)
• Shadowfiend (Removed)
• Shadow Word: Pain (Now replaced by Holy Fire if talented)