Class Talents
The Priest Tree provides a lot of specific-utility talents that are easily accessible while swapping one or two points, depending on the encounter.
Let’s take a look at some useful things that can catch our eyes:
- Multiple talents that will help a bit with your tankiness, especially: Protective Light (which can be proc’ed at any time, without any cooldown), Spell Warding, Translucent Image & Improved Fade (acting as a very-short defensive cooldown)...
- Power Infusion, of course,
- Easy access to Twins of the Sun Priestess, granting you the full effect of Power Infusion when used on an ally,
- A new Single Target ability Power Word:Life. Without being OP, it’s still a nice addition for some additional panic healing,
- Mindgames to weave in a bit more DPS than usual without much commitment,
It’s very easy to swap one or two points to catch any situational talent depending of what you’re facing, to either take Mass Dispel, Phantasm if you can cheese some snare-mechanics, Dispel Magic/Improved Purify if needed, or Shackle Undead on some heavy-CC encounters, as some examples.
If no utility is needed, you can still grab some DPS points in the Mindgames’ branch, and with Shadow Word: Death & Death and Madness.
With Patch 10.0.5, one notable thing is the apparition of Sanguine Teachings, increasing our Leech by 3%, and San’layn granting an extra 2% Leech, making this talent interesting for Holy Priest.
Of course, we still have the Holy Tree to cover too, so let’s take a look at some builds in the next section!
Talent Builds
Raid PoH build (AoE) + Assist DPS
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This build is aimed at using Prayer of Healing more heavily (thanks to Prayer Circle & Revitalizing Prayers) while granting a significant DPS assist thanks to Burning Vehemence & Empyreal Blaze.
You can swap Miracle Worker with Restitution during heavy progress encounters if you need a cheat death.
You can swap Benevolence with Power Word: Life if you need an additional panic button for spot healing, depending on the encounter.
As we saw in the previous section, you can swap talents around very easily if you need specific utility picks during any given encounter.
Raid PoH build (AoE) - Heavy Healing
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This build is still centered around Prayer of Healing, but without the assisted DPS that we saw in the previous talent tree. This one is focused more on the heavy healing side.
Revitalizing Prayers can be swapped in the Holy Tree easily, with Sanctified Prayers depending on the encounter.
You can swap Benevolence with Power Word: Life if you need an additional panic button for spot healing, depending on the encounter.
As usual, you can swap Miracle Worker with Restitution during some heavy progress encounters if you need a cheat death.
Lightweaver Build (Single Target) + Assist DPS
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This build will be a bit more specific. It's centered towards Lightweaver and any synergy that comes with it, thanks to Everlasting Light and Crisis Management. It will give you more strength with Single Target healing while emphasizing the assist DPS (Empyreal Blaze).
You can swap Benevolence with Power Word: Life if you need an additional panic button for spot healing, depending on the encounter.
Mythic+ (Classic build, mixing damage/healing)
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This M+ build will be rather classic. It will give you the assist DPS you need with Empyreal Blaze, and help your healing with Miracle Worker and Divine Image.
During Incorporeal weeks, you can pick Dominate Mind and Shackle Undead to be able to control both ghosts at the same time if needed, instead of your points in Light’s Inspiration.
The same applies with Entangling weeks, where you can take Phantasm instead, to help you remove it instantly after pressing Fade.