Holy Priest Gearing Guide

Tier Sets

Season 3 Tier Sets (Manaforge Omega):

Oracle:

• 2-set: Casting Prayer of Mending heals your target for X% spell power.
• 4-set: Casting Premonition of Piety or Premonition of Solace grants 2 stacks of Premonition of Insight at 100% effectiveness. Consuming a stack of Premonition of Insight increases your Haste by 1.0% for 10 sec. Multiple applications may overlap.

Archon:

• 2-set: Casting Halo reduces the cooldown of your Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Sanctify by 5 sec and Resonant Energy additionally increases the healing of your Holy Words by 5.0%.
• 4-set: Casting While Power Surge is active, every 2 casts of Holy Word: Sanctify/ Holy Word: Serenity adds another Halo to the effect at 100% effectiveness, up to 2 times.

• Raiding
• Mythic+

Recommended Holy Priest Trinkets:

The current recommended trinkets are a mix of raid and dungeon trinkets.

1. Astral Antenna: This is a strong passive intellect trinket that also provides crit.
2. Diamantine Voidcore: Mastery trinket with an intellect proc that is especially strong in combination with the set weapon.
3. Nexus-King’s Command: Mastery trinket with a really strong intellect effect. This is a really strong trinket, but it does require you to play around the debuffs on your allies, so you can get the very high intellect buff when needed, it is a good replacement if you do not have the “Diamantine Voidcore set”.
4. Loom'ithar's Living Silk: Trinket that applies a powerful shield. BiS Mythic+ trinket. Decent in raid but not BiS.
5. Signet of the Priory: Good 2 minute on-use trinket to use with cooldowns.
6. So'leah's Secret Technique: Good intellect trinket that grants an ally secondary stats.

Crafted gear comes with the benefit of being big item level upgrades but also embellishments.

Your best embellishment is crafting a two-handed weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. This embellishment grants a lot of stats. If you get lucky with loot and get “Voidglass Kris” and “Diamantine Voidcore” from Fractillus, you can craft “Vagabond's Torch” with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on instead of a two-handed weapon, this will also save you a spark. But in general it is safest to just craft two-handed weapon, to get the biggest power gain early on.

For raids you can combine this embellishment with the Writhing Armor Banding. This will double the power of your weapon embellishment. Don’t craft this without crafting the weapon embellishment.

Another good embellishment, which is arguably better for Mythic+ is Duskthread Lining: An embellishment granting you Versatility while above 80% health. A good effect, even though not very exciting, but still quite valuable (especially as a healer, since you’ll want to keep your health up as much as possible in any case).

The other pieces of crafted gear will mostly function to even out gaps for your stats and item level, with the addition of “Reshii Wraps” and the boots from Soul Hunters that empowers “Reshii Wraps”, your secondary craft should be wrist, if possible (but aim to get the biggest upgrade from your craft). Regarding the stats you want to have on your crafted off-pieces:

• For any raid craft, you’ll want to choose Crit & Mastery as secondary stats.
• For any M+ craft, you’ll mostly want to choose Haste & Versatility.

Reshii Wraps for Holy Priest

11.2 brought the addition of a new artifact cloak. This item is the only existing cloak this season and comes with a Fiber socket for extra stats. For Holy Priest I recommend using the Pure Precise Fiber (Crit). An alternative option is the mastery fiber. These fibers need to be crafted by a tailor or you can put in a work order to get it crafted.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

Season 3 brings back Puzzling Cartel Chips, which allows you to buy 3 selected items from either the raid Manaforge Omega or from the season’s M+ dungeons. You can purchase Heroic track items from the vendor, and if you want to be able to purchase Mythic track items, you will need to kill the boss that drops the item you want on Mythic. If you want to buy Mythic track items from the season dungeons, you will need to complete all dungeons within the time limit on +12.

Focused on raiding: With Mythic track items available, your priority should be either “Voidglass Kris” or “Voidglass Spire” weapon and pair it with “Diamantine Voidcore” trinket. You also want to purchase “Interloper’s Silken Striders” boots. If you already have 1, 2 or all 3 of these items. You should look to purchase “So’leah’s Secret Technique”.

Focused on raiding: Without Mythic track items available, your priority changes somewhat. You want to have your crafted weapon using Gilded Crest. Skip purchasing “Diamantine Voidcore”. Focus on picking up the “Interloper’s Silken Striders” boots, and “So’leah’s Secret Technique”, “Astral Antenna” or “Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj”.

Focused on Mythic +: You want to look to purchase Loom’ithar’s Living SIlk as this is the strongest M+ healer trinket available. Depending on if you have Heroic or Mythic track available see above what to purchase.