Talent Builds
Raid (Archon)
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Raid (Oracle)
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Mythic+ (Archon)
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Mythic+ (Oracle)
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Class Talents
A strong addition to the Class Talent tree is the new Phantom Reach talent, increasing the range of your spells by 15%, which is good in a lot of raid encounters where there is a lot of distance between you and your raid members.
Translucent Image will be a mandatory pick, giving you a defensive tool with a very low cooldown, especially when paired with Improved Fade to reduce the cooldown to 20 seconds.
Protective Light will be another mandatory pick, giving you an additional 10% damage reduction without any cooldown, just after you Flash Heal someone. This also works with Binding Heal.
Halo has a lot of synergies with talents within the Archon Hero Talents, and will act as an additional raid CD now. The benefits of the new hero talents are being discussed more in-depth in the Playstyle in raids section.
Spec Talents
The spec tree has a lot of different talents with synergies in different areas of Holy’s kit. There are a lot of synergies around Prayer of Mending with Answered Prayers and Prayers of the Virtuous and the addition of the hero talents.
There is a lot of synergy with your holy words in Light of the Naaru, Apotheosis, and Miracle Worker.
The spec talent that has been most relevant so far is Lightweaver. You can play this capstone talent in both raid(only if you need even more spothealing) and Mythic+. It’s seeing a lot of play in Mythic+ as it’s very good at helping out with spot healing.
Hero Talents
Archon
The Archon Hero Talents are currently lacking behind Oracle in both M+ and Raiding, due to the new tier set bonuses. Archon can be played if you wanna do a bit more damage, but right now Oracle out performs Archon in both M+ and Raiding environments.The playstyle with Archon focuses around Halo and additional Surge of Light procs
This tree is quite straightforward to use, and will add a bit of survivability for your priest, with an additional 5% stamina.
Oracle
The Oracle Hero Talents are currently the best choice for both M+ and Raiding. With the new tier set bonuses, Oracle has constant healing on the raid with Prayer of Mending flying around and it offers Power Word: Shields as a small bonus on every prayer of Mending cast.Oracle is more difficult to play than Archon, but I strongly recommend putting in the extra effort to play this Hero Talent, as you will see your healing be more stable and stronger. The playstyle with Oracle focuses around Prayer of Mending cast, and will be explained more in-depth in the “Playstyle in Raids and Playstyle in Mythic+”” part of this guide.