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Introduction


Holy is a different spec than discipline priests. This is obvious, but is important to remember. It is not necessarily better or worse, but different. I would relate holy priests closer to resto druids or resto shamans depending on the playstyle. They are a throughput healing class that can dish out big healing numbers once the raid has been damaged. It is a very different model than the preventative healing of the discipline spec.




Recommended Races

Alliance


Human

  • Every Man for Himself - removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. This effect shares a cooldown with other similar effects.
  • The Human SpiritIncreases Spirit by 3%.

Worgen
  • Darkflight - increasing current movement speed by an additional 40% for 10 seconds.
  • Viciousness - Increases Crit by 1%.

Draenei
  • Gift of the Naaru - Heals the target for 20% of their total health over 15 seconds. 3 minute cooldown.

Pandaren
  • Epicurean - Allows you to receive double the stats from Well Fed effects.

Horde


Blood Elf
  • Arcane Torrent - Silence all enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds and restore 2% of your Mana. Non-player victim spellcasting is also interrupted for 3 seconds.

Troll
  • Berserking - Increases your melee, ranged, and spell haste by 20% for 10 seconds.

Goblin
Pandaren
  • Epicurean - Allows you to receive double the stats from Well Fed effects.



Stat priority

Intellect -> Spirit -> Mastery -> Haste -> Critical Strike



Understanding the stats better


  • Intellect is your primary stat. You should look for this stat in all of your upgrades. It provides you with Spell Power, which increases the power of your heals.
  • Spirit increases your Mana regeneration. You should always aim to have items with Spirit. Once you are comfortable with your Mana regeneration, you can start prioritising other statistics.
  • Mastery increases the amount of healing done by your Mastery: Echo of Light. This causes each one of your direct heals to place a HoT on the target, healing for a percentage of the initial heal over 6 seconds.
  • Haste reduces our cast time, and increases the speed at which Heal over Time spells tick. With enough haste, you can add additional ticks.
  • Heals when they crit, heal for an additional 100%. However, crits can be RNG and consistency can be important to a healer.For Holy, crit is generally the least sought after secondary stat.




Rotation



Healing as a Holy Priest, is for the most part, all about using the correct spells for the specific circumstances in which you find yourself, particularly with regard to how many raid members are taking damage, and how much damage they are taking.
Below, I will provide you with the best actions to take in each situation.

Single Target Healing

Change your Chakra stance to the single-target heal Chakra: Serenity. This state changes your Holy Word: Chastise spell into Holy Word: Serenity a single target healing spell. While in this Chakra state single-target healing spells will refresh Renew (keep in mind! while in this state Cascade will refresh your Renew duration).


Raid Healing.

Change your Chakra stance to the more multiple-target-friendly based state Chakra: Sanctuary. This state changes your Holy Word: Chastise spell into Holy Word: Sanctuary: a floor based multiple target healing spell.

Low Raid Wide Damage

  • Circle of Healing on cooldown, provided 3+ targets are in need of healing and are in range of the target.
  • Prayer of Mending on CD, provided it will be able to bounce to multiple targets
  • Renew on targets who may need additional healing, particularly if you are in Chakra: Serenity
  • Prayer of Healing on groups, if necessary, and if Prayer of Healing will heal 3+ targets with minimal overheal


Moderate Raid Wide Damage



High Raid Wide Damage





Talents



Tier 1 talents offer you a choice between 3 crowd-control abilities.

  • Void Tendrils roots up to 5 enemies in place for up to 20 seconds. Killing the tendrils cancels the effects. The targets must be in the 8-yard proximity of the main target of the spell.
  • Psyfiend spawns a friendly NPC that casts fears on nearby enemies.
  • Dominate Mind takes control of an enemy player or NPC.



Tire 2 talents offer you a choice between 3 movement speed abilities.

  • Angelic Feather when used it places a feather on the ground, if allies walk through it, they gain 80% increased movement speed for 6 seconds.
  • Body and Soul its usability is more restricted than that of Angelic Feather (the target you want to give a boost to might already have Weakened Soul, or Leap of Faith might be on cooldown
    Phantasm is more of a PvP talent, with situational uses at best.



Tier 3 talents offer you a choice between 3 performance-enhancing abilities.



Tier 4 talents offer you a choice between 3 abilities that improve your survivability.

  • Desperate Prayer is an instant-cast self-heal that heals you for 30% of your maximum health, with a 2-minute cooldown.
  • Spectral Guise allows you to enter a pseudo-stealth state (you remain in combat), leaving behind an illusion of yourself. The effect lasts for 6 seconds, or until you receive 3 attacks.
  • Angelic Bulwark is a passive ability that grants you a damage absorption shield, for 20% of your maximum health, each time you drop below 30% health. The effect has an internal cooldown of 90 seconds.


Tier 5 talents offer you a choice between 3 performance-enhancing abilities.

  • Twist of Fate passively increases your damage and healing by 15% for 10 seconds, each time you damage or heal a target that is below 20% health.If the encounter you are progressing on is one where raid members are frequently on low health (intense raid damage, progression content, etc.), then Twist of Fate will shine.
  • Power Infusion is a 2-minute cooldown that increases your spell casting speed by 20%, and reduces the mana cost of all your spells by 20%, for 20 seconds.
  • Divine Insight grants you a 40% chance, whenever you cast Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing, that your next Prayer of Mending will not trigger a cooldown, and that it will automatically jump to all of its targets.



Tier 6 talents offer you a choice between 3 abilities that deal damage to and heal multiple targets.

  • Cascade is a sort of "chain heal" or "chain lightning", depending on how you wish to use the spell. The initial bolt heals or deals damage to its first target, after which it splits in two, each bolt jumping to targets that are far away, until it eventually stops.
    Note: While in Chakra: Serenity Cascade refreshes the duration of Renew on all targets it hits.
  • Divine Star resembles a yo-yo, in the sense that the ball of energy travels in a path away from you (in front of you), and after reaching a certain point (24 yards away), it returns. Both on the first, as well as on the second trip, it heals allies in its path, and damages enemies.If your raid is stacked loosely (ideally in a line, although we cannot quite see this happening very often), then Divine Star can shine.
  • Halo causes an effect around you, which expands up to a 30-yard radius. Allies who are inside it are healed, while enemies are damaged. The highest amounts of healing/damage are received by the targets who are around the 25-yard mark.


Enchants,Glyphs and Gems


Enchants


Glyphs

        Major Glyphs



        Minor Glyphs

All Minor Glyphs are of purely cosmetic value, and they do not influence your gameplay at all.


Sockets







Usefull professions


Primary Professions:
  • Leatherworking: Fur Lining (bracers), +500 intellect
  • Engineering: Synapse Springs, 1920 intellect, 10s duration, 1m CD
  • Enchanting: 2x Rings, 160 intellect
  • Jewelcrafting: 2x Brilliant Serpent's Eye, 320 intellect
  • Tailoring: Lightweave Embroidery, 2000 intellect, 15s duration, 1m CD
  • Blacksmithing: 2x Sockets, 160 intellect
  • Inscription: Secret Crane Wing Inscription, 520 intellect, 100 crit
  • Alchemy: Mixology, 320 extra intellect

Secondary Professions
  • Herbalism: Lifeblood, 1920 haste, 20s duration, 2m CD
  • Skinning: Master of Anatomy, 320 crit
  • Mining: Toughness, +480 stamina






Will add: Bis gear/Food buffs/Flask elexir/Usefull adons/Macros
This guide is not finished yet



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It's quite nice indeed. Can't wait to see it finished with some tips on single target/raid healing and priority system.
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Ashcool wrote:
It's quite nice indeed. Can't wait to see it finished with some tips on single target/raid healing and priority system.
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@gRaphhh. Will finish it after 03.07, right now i have some exams.
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