Holy Priest Shadowlands 9.1.5 guide

This guide was written by Heregellas.

Heregellas, or Alisza on his priest, was a resto druid main, before switching to a priest main in Crucible of Storms. He previously raided in From Scratch, and in Impact as an officer & raid leader before joining Method.

Holy Priest's strength comes from its immense amounts of healing throughput. Holy Priest is also easy to pick up and start learning.

Their weakness is that they are a jack-of-all-trades, master of none kind of spec, and they bring no damage reduction to the table, unlike the other priest healing spec: Discipline.

9.1.5 Holy Priest Changes

• Festering Transfusion- Festering Transfusion (Necrolord Conduit) damage and healing effect increased by 100%
• Divine Star- Divine Star (Talent) damage increased by 40%. It now deals reduced healing beyond 6 targets, and the heal cap is now independent on the outgoing and return trips. The reduced healing was already a thing, but with another, more complicated formula. Healing-wise these changes are overall a buff for this talent on large number of targets and a flat buff  in term of DPS
• Halo- Halo (Talent) healing reduced by 20%, and now deals reduced healing beyond 6 targets, with the same new formula as for Divine Star. Even with the healing reduction, it’s a buff on large number of targets.

9.1 Holy Priest Changes

Only one change was made for 9.1 so far:

Symbol of Hope now gives 18% of missing mana (was 12%), and recovers 60 seconds of cooldown on a major defensive ability for every player in the effect. The channel must be fully completed to get the full 60 secs CDR, otherwise it will recover ~12 seconds per tick channeled.

Here is the list of every spell currently affected: