Talent Builds
Raid Lightwell (Archon)
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This raid build is centered around the Lightwell, with the Archon Hero Talents set-up, being quite easy to use, and fulfilling its role in a raid environment without any issue.
Since our new set revolves around CDR & standard spells, and the Archon set-up increases your healing during Holy Word: Salvation AND Apotheosis, while heavily buffing Halo, you’ll indeed use these talents from now on (Halo, Light of the Naaru to help with the CDR, and Answered Prayers to have some Apotheosis procs while you still keep Holy Word: Salvation).
M+ (Oracle)
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This M+ build will still use the single target Lightweaver talent for your spot healing, on top of the powerful Empyreal Blaze & Burning Vehemence to greatly help your DPS.
Oracle will be the Hero Talent set-up used, increasing your damage thanks to Preventive Measures, and granting the new Premonition spell, a great versatile tool (CDR for your Holy Fires, a healing buff, and a single target alternative, granting a strong shield + damage reduction on the target).
Class Talents
A strong addition in the Class Talent tree (and one of the very few changes) in TWW is the new Phantom Reach talent, increasing the range of your spells to 46 yards, which is obviously quite great in a lot of raid encounters.
As during DF, your Translucent Image talent will be a mandatory pick, giving you a new defensive tool with a very low cooldown (even though the damage reduction is very small too), especially paired with Improved Fade if needed to reduce the cooldown to 20 seconds.
Protective Light will be another mandatory pick, giving you an additional 10% damage reduction without any cooldown, just after you Flash Heal anybody (thanks to the Binding Heals talent, you don’t need to target yourself to benefit of this effect).
Halo is having a bit of a special treatment now, being involved in a lot of Archon nodes, and will act as an additional soft-raid CD from now on, healing a lot more during a 10 seconds window, and increasing your healing on allies at the same time.
Spec Talents
Since its rework at the end of DF, the Lightwell is finally seeing some play, being an overall good talent, while a bit boring to use.
Prayer Circle will, once again, see some play, thanks to the new tier set (covered in the following section), increasing the potency of your Prayer of Healing, a must-have in raids.
Other than that, as for the Class Tree, this one is in the vast majority the same as it was during DF, and you won’t bring you a lot of new surprises.
Hero Talents
Archon
The Archon set-up, more suited for raids, puts a big emphasis on the new role of Halo, acting as a new soft raid-wide CD.
This tree is quite straightforward to use, and will add a bit of survivability for your priest, with an additional 5% stamina.
Oracle
The Oracle set-up is quite strong for both raids & M+, even though a bit more tricky to use effectively.
The new Premonition spell will rotate each time you cast it (following the Insight - Piety - Solace - Clairvoyance rotation), and will require you to plan a bit your healing set-up, if you want to blast DPS in M+ with Insight/Clairvoyance, or when you want some healing throughput with Piety/Clairvoyance at any given point.
The Prophet’s Will talent, on top of granting you some additional personal throughput for your own safety, can be used to your advantage for the whole party/raid when paired with Piety/Clairvoyance too, thanks to the overhealing being redistributed, so keep that in mind!