Holy Priest The War Within 11.1.7 Guide

Hey, I am Dana, I’m a multi class healer mostly playing Preservation Evoker, Mistweaver Monk and Priest. I am an analyst for Method and GM of the 2-day (strictly 6 hour) guild Drama on Tarren Mill. The guild has seen a steady incline in ranks, since being created in the first tier of Dragonflight, finishing our last tier around wr300.

Holy Priest

Holy Priest brings a lot of sustained healing throughput and can spot heal very well thanks to their Holy Words and Lightweaver. Their DPS is good, with easy-to-maintain spells and Power Infusion. It is slightly behind the other healers when it comes to defensives, but you can make some of this up by respecting mechanics and prepositioning in time. It brings a lot of good raid cd’s in Symbol of Hope and Divine Hymn.

For more information and active theorycrafting, the Priest discord is a really helpful resource and a good platform for information, discussion, and questions:
Priest Discord: https://discord.com/invite/WarcraftPriests

11.1.7 Holy Changes

For 11.1.7 there are no significant class changes for Holy Priest. There is however the addition of the new D.I.S.C belt. To learn more about unlocking the DISC belt, you can read Method's DISC Belt Guide. For Holy Priest specific recommendations you can head to the gearing section in this guide.

11.1.5 Holy Changes

In 11.1.5 Holy Priest had some buffs to its healing and a buff to Holy Nova. The buffs are the following:

• Holy Nova: damage increased by 30%.
• Prayer of Healing: healing increased by 15%.
• Prayerful Litany: causes Prayer of Healing to heal its primary target for 125% more (was 75%).
• Prayer of Healing: mana cost reduced by 10%.
• Prismatic Echoes: increases Echo of Light healing by 8%/15% (was 5%/10%) and Renew: healing changed to 20%/40% (was 15%/30%).
• All healing done increased by 3%. Not applied to PvP combat.
• Oracle: Twinsight now applies 4 stacks of Prayer of Mending (was 2). Not applied to PvP combat.

11.1 Holy Changes

For 11.1 Holy Priest has had some significant changes with Holy Word: Salvation and Circle of Healing both having been removed from the talent tree. Instead, there is more focus on empowering your other Holy Words, Renews, and Apotheosis with new talents like:

• Lasting Words – Holy Word: Serenity applies 12 seconds of Renew to its target and Holy Word: Sanctify applies 4 seconds of Renew to allies it heals.
• Light in the Darkness – Increases the healing done by Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify by 20%/40%. Increases the radius of Holy Word: Sanctify by 15%/30%.
• Dispersing Light – 6% of healing done with Heal, Flash Heal, and Power Word: Life is replicated to 4 injured allies within 40 yards.
• Divinity – Your healing is increased by 10% while Apotheosis is active. When you activate Apotheosis, your next 3 Heal or Prayer of Healing casts are instant and heal for 25% more.
• Eternal Sanctity – Your Holy Words extend the duration of Apotheosis by 1.5 seconds.
• Holy Celerity – Reduces the cooldown of your Holy Words by 15 seconds.
• Empowered Renew – Renew reduces the cooldown of Sanctify by an additional 6 seconds and heals for 60% more when cast, but has a 12 second cooldown.

And some changes to existing talents like:

• Voice of Harmony has been updated – Power Word: Life now also reduces the cooldown of Holy Word: Serenity. Divine Star and Halo now reduce the cooldown of Holy Word: Sanctify.
• Seraphic Crescendo has been redesigned and moved from PvP talents to the Holy tree – Now reduces the cooldown of Divine Hymn by 60 seconds. Choice node against Gales of Song.
• Gales of Song has been redesigned – While channeling Divine Hymn, place 2 stacks of Prayer of Mending on up to 3 allies within its range every 1 second.Prayerful Litany has been redesigned – Now causes the primary target of Prayer of Healing to be healed for 75% more.

Class change patch notes (25 / 03 / 2025):

The class has received a lot of changes around the viability of the Oracle Hero talents and some tuning in regards to weaker spells. The adjustments are as followed:

• Prayer of Healing: healing increased by 25%.
• Prayer of Mending: healing increased by 20%.
• Renew: healing increased by 60%.
• Lightwell: healing increased by 30%.
• Divine Image: healing increased by 20%.
• Divine Image: damage increased by 20%.
• Holy Fire: damage increased by 20%.
• Renewed Faith: now increases healing done to allies with Renew by 10% (was 6%).
• Renews from Empowered Renew now heal for 120% more than a normal Renew (was 60%).
• Oracle: Pre-emptive Care: now increases the duration of Renew by 40% (was 25%).
• Oracle: Preventive Measures: now increases the healing of Prayer of Mending by 40% (was 25%).
• Oracle: Preventive Measures: now increases the damage of Smite, Holy Fire, and Holy Nova by 40% (was 25%).

11.0.7 Holy Changes

There are no notable class changes for 11.0.7 besides the addition of the new ring Cyrce's Circlet. This ring is now BiS for everyone. There is a section under gearing to detail what gems we will be using in the new ring.

11.0.5 Holy Changes

Holy priest has had very little changes in patch 10.0.5. Dracthyr is now a playable race for priest which brings better tools for dealing with fights and better CC tools for mythic plus. There has also been a slight buff to Sustained Potency with it now pausing Apotheosis if you are not in combat.