Overview
The Holy Priest keeps the Classic raid-healing arsenal:
Heal,
Greater Heal,
Flash Heal,
Renew and
Prayer of Healing. WoW Forever adds tools for damage spread over several players.
Three talents leave the tree: Healing Focus, Improved Prayer of Healing and Lightwell. In their place come
Binding Heal,
Prayer of Mending and
Litany of Light. Binding Heal heals your target and yourself, with little threat. Prayer of Mending, the final talent, heals its target when they take damage or receive a direct heal, then jumps to another nearby ally, up to 5 times. You can only have one active. Litany of Light refunds mana when you alternate your heals: repeating the same spell still drains your pool.
Prayer of Healing reaches 40 yards and
Spirit of Redemption lasts 15 sec.
Searing Light now raises all your Holy damage. At level 20 in the beta, Holy sits in A tier among healers, just behind Discipline, thanks in part to
Wand Specialization.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths
- Full arsenalBinding Heal and Prayer of Mending cover spread-out damage.
- Raid buffsFortitude and Divine Spirit.
- UtilityMagic and disease dispels, Fear Ward, Spirit of Redemption.
Weaknesses
- FragileCloth and little health against physical damage.
- Little mobilityOnly Renew and Power Word: Shield can be cast on the move.
- ManaIt melts if you repeat the same spell.
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Your arsenal covers every situation, and Binding Heal and Prayer of Mending handle spread-out damage. You bring Fortitude and
Divine Spirit, you dispel magic and diseases, and Spirit of Redemption lets you keep healing after you die.
On the other hand, you are fragile against physical damage. You move little: only Renew and
Power Word: Shield can be cast on the move. And your mana melts if you repeat the same spell.
Key spells
Key talents
Wand Specialization (Discipline tree)+25% wand damage.
Improved Renew (3 ranks)+15% healing on Renew.
Holy Specialization (5 ranks)+5% crit on your Holy spells.
Divine Fury (5 ranks)Smite, Holy Fire, Heal and Greater Heal 0.5 sec faster.- Damage and healing around you.
- Armor for your target after a crit, cheaper heals.
Binding Heal (level 25),
Litany of Light,
Spirit of Redemption,
Spiritual Guidance and
Spiritual Healing.
Prayer of Mending (level 40) at the bottom of the tree.
Rotation and priorities
Solo:
Power Word: Fortitude and
Inner Fire up, Power Word: Shield before you engage,
Holy Fire to open at level 20 (
Smite before that),
Mind Blast,
Shadow Word: Pain, then your wand to finish.
Healing in dungeons:
Priority 1:
Power Word: ShieldOn the tank; maybe not on a rage tank, to be confirmed.When: Before the pull



Alternate your heals to benefit from Litany of Light. Keep
Fade at hand: your heals generate a lot of threat.
Stats
- 1Spell power
- then 2Intellect
- then 3Spirit
- 1 Spell power
- and bonus healing
Order to be confirmed: the exact priority is not settled yet.
Look for spell power and bonus healing, Intellect and Spirit. No order is established.
Leveling
At level 20:
Wand Specialization 2/2,
Improved Renew 3/3,
Holy Specialization 2/5 and
Divine Fury 4/5. With 5 Legacy points, finish Holy Specialization and Divine Fury, then take
Holy Nova.
You heal from level 1, Renew arrives at level 8 and Flash Heal at level 20, like
Fear Ward: go learn it. Take the best wand at every step, and respect the five-second rule when your mana runs low.
Changes compared to Classic
- New talents.
- New talent, mana refunded when you alternate your heals.
- Healing Focus, Improved Prayer of Healing and LightwellRemoved from the tree.
- Learned at level 20 by every Priest.
- Learned at level 30, one hour.
- 15 sec.
Prayer of Healing: 40 yards. - One hour at max rank.
