Stat Priorities
Stat Ranking
Raid: Mastery >= Crit > Versa > Haste
In raids, you will want to prio Mastery, which is one insane source of healing of your kit.
Haste doesn’t scale that much with Holy’s healing (since it won’t affect your mastery per se), so you kinda want to avoid it healing-wise.
Mythic+: Haste > Versa >= Crit > Mastery
The M+ build is aimed at improving your DPS & survivability, which are both very important in this kind of content.
Stat Outline
Intellect: Increases your spell power, which boosts your abilities throughput.
Mastery: Echo of Light - a % of your direct healing is repeated over 6 seconds. Very powerful throughput when it does not overheal. It ticks every 3 seconds, and is NOT affected by haste.
Critical Strike: Increases your chance to crit. Mastery can’t crit by itself, but since the healing is based entirely on the healing done by the spell that proc’ed it, the HoT will be stronger if the initial heal is a crit.
Versatility: Flat out increases damage and healing done, while decreasing damage taken.
Haste: Increases casting speed, reduces the global cooldown and reduces the cooldown of Prayer of Mending and Circle of Healing.
Races
If you’re Horde, it’s highly preferred to pick Goblin, thanks to Rocket Jump. This 1 min 30 cooldown utility is pretty insane, even more, because of priests’ general lack of mobility.
If you’re Alliance, Void Elves have some mobility utility thanks to Spatial Rift that you will want to consider. Throughput will be very close between all races, so those utility picks are highly praised.
Enchants
Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Chant of Leeching Fangs (Raid) / Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace (M+)
Chest: Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance (Raid/M+) / Enchant Chest - Council’s Intellect (Raid)
Bracers: Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Leech (Raid) / Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Avoidance (M+)
Boots: Enchant Boots - Defender’s March
Legs: Daybreak Spellthread (Raid) / Sunset Spellthread (M+)
Rings: Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery (Raid) / Enchant Ring - Radiant Versatility (M+)
Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Authority of Fiery Resolve (Raid) / Enchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power (M+)
Gems
Unique Gems
Insightful Blasphemite (Raid)
Culminating Blasphemite (M+)
Regular Gems
Deadly Onyx (Raid)
Quick Sapphire (M+)
Consumables
Food: Feast of the Divine Day
Phials: Flask of Tempered Mastery (Raid) / Flask of Tempered Versatility (M+)
Potions: Slumbering Soul Serum / Algari Mana Potion
Health Potions: Algari Healing Potion
Weapon Oil: Algari Mana Oil