Holy Priest Gearing Guide

Patch 11.1 Last Updated: 22nd Feb, 2025
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Tier Sets

Season 2 Tier Set (Liberation of the Undermine):

  • 2-set: Your healing spells have a chance to apply Insurance! to their targets that heals them for (1023.68% of Spell power) over 15 sec. Insurance! is consumed if an ally drops below 40% health to heal them for (614.25% of Spell power).
  • 4-set: 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.

The 2 set bonus revolves around the new Insurance! effect. This bonus is the same for all healing specs.

The 4 set is a pretty strong bonus, for both single target & raid-wide healing.

holy priest Best in Slot Gear

Raiding Best in Slot Gear

This list will provide the Best in Slot gear for healing inside a raid environment. This list will be a mix of healing and damage to have a balanced gearset.

Slot Item Source
Head Cleanup Crew's Wastemask Stix Bunkjunker
Neck Flickering Glowtorc Darkflame Cleft
Shoulders Confessor's Unshakable Radiance (tier) Rik Reverb (Raid) / Catalyst / Vault
Cloak Consecrated Cloak Crafted
Chest Confessor's Unshakable Vestment (tier) Sprocketmonger Lockenstock (Raid) / Catalyst / Vault
Wrist Gleamwax Shackles Darkflame Cleft
Gloves Confessor's Unshakable Mitts (tier) Cauldron of Carnage (Raid) / Catalyst / Vault
Belt Honorbound Retainer's Sash Priory of the Sacred Flame
Legs Confessor's Unshakable Leggings (tier) Stix Bunkjumper (Raid) / Catalyst / Vault
Boots Hotstep Heel-Turners Cauldron of Carnage
Ring The Jastor Diamond Gallywix
Ring Miniature Roulette Wheel One-Armed Bandit
Trinket Eye of Kezan Gallywix
Trinket Mug's Moxie Jug Mug'zee
Main Hand Big Earner's Bludgeon Mug'zee
Off Hand Vagabond's Torch Crafted

Best Gear from Mythic+

This list will provide the Best in Slot gear that drops from Mythic+.

Slot Item Source
Head Cinderbrew-Soaked Cowl Cinderbrew Meadery
Neck Flickering Glowtorc Darkflame Cleft
Shoulders Confessor's Unshakable Radiance (tier) Raid / Catalyst / Vault
Cloak Chef Chewie's Towel Cinderbrew Meadery
Chest Confessor's Unshakable Vestment (tier) Raid / Catalyst / Vault
Wrist Gleamwax Shackles Darkflame Cleft
Gloves Confessor's Unshakable Mitts (tier) Raid / Catalyst / Vault
Belt Honorbound Retainer's Sash Priory of the Sacred Flame
Legs Confessor's Unshakable Leggings (tier) Raid / Catalyst / Vault
Boots Hyperthread Boots Operation: Mechagon Workshop
Ring 85-Year Tenure Ring Cinderbrew Meadery
Ring Ring of Perpetual Conflict Theater of Pain
Trinket Carved Blazikon Wax Darkflame Cleft
Trinket Entropic Skardyn Core The Rookery
Main Hand G3T-00t The Motherlode
Off Hand Arcane Scuttle Darkflame Cleft

Trinkets

Recommended Holy Priest Trinkets:

This can change depending on tuning and will be updated and elaborated on later.

  1. Mug's Moxie Jug
  2. Eye of Kezan
  3. Mister Pick-Me-Up
  4. House of Cards

Embellishments

Crafted gear comes with the benefit of being big item level upgrades but also embellishments.

Your best embellishment is crafting a two-handed weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. This embellishment grants a lot of stats.

For raids you can combine this embellishment with the Writhing Armor Banding. This will double the power of your weapon embellishment. Don’t craft this without crafting the weapon embellishment.

Another good embellishment, which is arguably better for Mythic+ is Duskthread Lining: An embellishment granting you Versatility while above 80% health. A good effect, even though not very exciting, but still quite valuable (especially as a healer, since you’ll want to keep your health up as much as possible in any case).

The other pieces of crafted gear will mostly function to even out gaps for your stats and item level. Regarding the stats you want to have on your crafted off-pieces:

  • For any raid craft, you’ll want to choose Crit & Mastery as secondary stats.
  • For any M+ craft, you’ll mostly want to choose Haste & Versatility.

Cyrce’s Circlet

In patch 11.1, this ring is still going to be worn due to its high item level and throughput effects. Until it sees nerfs it will still be used. There are no changes to the bis gems for Holy Priest.

Patch 11.0.7 brought a new ring, Cyrce's Circlet. It is a ring with no secondary stats but extremely high item level (658 item level) when it is fully upgraded after 6 weeks. This makes it a really big upgrade for everyone. The ring comes with 3 slots for special gems that have different effects on them.

For Holy we’ll be looking at using the following gems: