Holy Priest Healing Gear and Best in Slot — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Holy Priest for Midnight. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Holy Priest, including the BiS Gear from all sources, such as Raiding and Mythic+; information on the best Trinkets; Tier Sets; and more. Keep in mind that with Midnight comes a stat squish, meaning each item will provide significantly fewer stats than it once had. Your overall damage and healing will also be lowered as a result.

Due to the wide variety of gear providing secondary stats that are all very close in value for us and augments such as sockets or tertiary stats, there is no certain Best in Slot list. This page aims to guide you toward the best possible items, particularly in trinket slots.

For regular item slots not used by tier or trinket/weapon effects, you will want to focus on item level while keeping the following in mind:

• Socket — Around 6 item levels.
• Leech — Around 6 item levels.
• Avoidance — Around 4 item levels.

Upgrading gear in Midnight continues to use the Crest system which lets you increase the item level of gear along tracks that relate to where you obtained the item, which harder content dropping gear that can be upgraded to higher Item Levels. For more information, read up on our dedicated page on how the gearing system works and what has changed in the Midnight expansion.

OverallMythic+Raid

This list is a good example of the Best in Slot Gear for Holy Priest from all sources in Midnight Season 1.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of HPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. We will list one "BiS" item per slot, sometimes two if we feel there is a significant difference.

TipsWhy does the list include a crafted staff even though it's not Best-In-Slot?

To prevent confusion and to help reduce the number of people accidentally crafting the wrong item early on in your gearing journey, we have included the crafted 2-handed staff in the list. It is not strictly Best-In-Slot, but it is very close and a great choice for being efficient with your Dawncrests. If you are able to get the weapons below at Myth level, it will be a slight upgrade over the crafted one, but the crafted one is still a very good option if you want to save your Dawncrests for other items.

• Weight of Command weapon from Imperator Averzian in The Voidspire.
• Sigil of the Restless Heart off-hand from Windrunner Spire.
• Then craft Martyr's Bindings from Crafted with Tailoring.

TipsWhat If I Don't Want To Use An On-Use Trinket?

Because of the added complexity involved in properly planning and using Litany of Lightblind Wrath, if you want a more passive option, Gaze of the Alnseer and Light of the Cosmic Crescendo are both excellent choices that will require less active management.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 1 as a Holy Priest you want to try and prioritise acquiring the Tier Helm, Shoulders, Chest, and Hand set pieces. Keep in mind that just getting our bonuses is the important thing, regardless of slots. If you need to use Legs to get your 2 or 4-piece bonus, that is still better than waiting for optimal slots. Long term just focus on dropping the Legs.

Holy Priest

1.1.

Overall Best in Slot

Blind Oath's Winged Crest Helm

Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Hex of Leeching

Blind Oath's Touch Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn Neck

Midnight Falls

Arcanoweave Cord Waist

Crafted by Tailoring

Blind Oath's Seraphguards Shoulders

Fallen-King Salhadaar Silvermoon's Mending

Leggings of the Devouring Advance Legs

Catalyst or Imperator Averzian Arcanoweave Spellthread

Blind Oath's Shroud Cloak

Catalyst

Nightprey Stalkers Feet

Maisara Caverns Shaladrassil's Roots

Blind Oath's Raiment Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Sin'dorei Band of Hope Ring

Belo'ren Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Signet of the Starved Beast Ring

Vorasius Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Locus-Walker's Ribbon Trinket

Crown of the Cosmos

Blind Oath's Wraps Bracers

Catalyst

Litany of Lightblind Wrath Trinket

Lightblinded Vanguard

Aln'hara Cane Main Hand

Crafted by Inscription Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Off Hand

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Holy Priest from Midnight Season 1 Mythic+ dungeons.

Note that this BiS List is for items from dungeons. We are separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is the list you can chase when you want to improve your gear for raiding by collecting gear from dungeons only.

There is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of HPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. We will list one "BiS" item per slot, sometimes two if we feel there is a significant difference, but ultimately, BiS will continue to change as more content becomes available to you.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend focusing on the following dungeons for high value items such as weapons, trinkets and rings:

• Windrunner Spire: A good trinket, weapon and necklace option.
• Seat of the Triumvirate: Many good items including weapons and rings.
• Algeth'ar Academy: A good trinket, ring and a decent 2-hand staff.

TipsWhy Does the List Include a Crafted Staff Despite Not Being Best-In-Slot?

To prevent confusion and to help reduce the number of people accidentally crafting the wrong item early on, we have included the crafted 2-handed staff in the list. It is not strictly Best-In-Slot, but it is very close and a great choice for being efficient with your Dawncrests early. If you are able to get either a staff, or main-hand/off-hand at Myth level, they will be a slight upgrade over the crafted one, but the crafted one is still a very good option if you want to save your Dawncrests for other items. The optimal weapon choices from Mythic+ are:

• Wand of Saprish's Gaze weapon from Seat of the Triumvirate.
• Sigil of the Restless Heart off-hand from Windrunner Spire.
• Then craft Martyr's Bindings from Crafted with Tailoring.

Holy Priest

1.2.

Best Mythic+ Gear

Blind Oath's Winged Crest Helm

Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Hex of Leeching

Blind Oath's Touch Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Barbed Ymirheim Choker Neck

Pit of Saron

Arcanoweave Cord Waist

Crafted by Tailoring

Blind Oath's Seraphguards Shoulders

Fallen-King Salhadaar Silvermoon's Mending

Leyline Leggings Legs

Catalyst or Nexus-Point Xenas Arcanoweave Spellthread

Blind Oath's Shroud Cloak

Catalyst

Nightprey Stalkers Feet

Maisara Caverns Shaladrassil's Roots

Blind Oath's Raiment Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Platinum Star Band Ring

Algeth'ar Academy Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Eredath Seal of Nobility Ring

Seat of the Triumvirate Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Heart of Wind Trinket

Windrunner Spire

Bracers of Blazing Light Bracers

Skyreach

Emerald Coach's Whistle Trinket

Algeth'ar Academy

Aln'hara Cane Main Hand

Crafted by Inscription Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Off Hand

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Holy Priest from Midnight Season 1 raids.

Note that this BiS List is for items from raid. We are separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is the list you can chase when you want to improve your gear for raiding by collecting gear from Raid only.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of HPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. We will list one "BiS" item per slot, sometimes two if we feel there is a significant difference, but ultimately, BiS will continue to change as more content becomes available to you.

TipsWhich Raid Items Do I Want Most?

If you need to submit a list of highly-important items to your raidleader, or simply want to focus on the most important bosses and items, we got you covered!

• Litany of Lightblind Wrath: Our best active trinket. Drops from Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire.
• Locus-Walker's Ribbon: Another great passive trinket. Drops from Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire.
• Weight of Command: A good weapon with great stats. Drops from Imperator Averzian in The Voidspire.

TipsWhy Does the List Include a Crafted Staff Despite Not Being Best-In-Slot?

To prevent confusion and to help reduce the number of people accidentally crafting the wrong item early on, we have included the crafted 2-handed staff in the list. It is not strictly Best-In-Slot, but it is very close and a great choice for being efficient with your Dawncrests early. If you are able to get the weapons below at Myth level, it will be a slight upgrade over the crafted one, but the crafted one is still a very good option if you want to save your Dawncrests for other items.

• Weight of Command weapon from Imperator Averzian in The Voidspire.
• Grimoire of the Eternal Light off-hand from Vorasius in The Voidspire.
• Then craft Martyr's Bindings with Tailoring.

Holy Priest

1.3.

Best Raid Gear

Blind Oath's Winged Crest Helm

Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Hex of Leeching

Blind Oath's Touch Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn Neck

Midnight Falls

Arcanoweave Cord Waist

Crafted by Tailoring

Blind Oath's Seraphguards Shoulders

Fallen-King Salhadaar Silvermoon's Mending

Leggings of the Devouring Advance Legs

Catalyst or Imperator Averzian Arcanoweave Spellthread

Imperator's Banner Cloak

Imperator Averzian

Slippers of the Midnight Flame Feet

Vaelgor and Ezzorak Shaladrassil's Roots

Blind Oath's Raiment Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Signet of the Starved Beast Ring

Vorasius Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Sin'dorei Band of Hope Ring

Belo'ren Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Litany of Lightblind Wrath Trinket

Lightblinded Vanguard

Blind Oath's Wraps Bracers

Catalyst

Locus-Walker's Ribbon Trinket

Crown of the Cosmos

Aln'hara Cane Main Hand

Crafted by Inscription Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Off Hand

Itemization

Enchants and Stat Priority

Looking to optimize your character? Check out our Enchant and Stat Priority guides for more information!

EnchantsStats

This Trinket Tier List is based on the best attributes to improve your Raid performance, unless otherwise mentioned.

Holy Priest Trinkets

Best-In-Slot - Litany of Lightblind Wrath or Locus-Walker's Ribbon
Runner Up - Light of the Cosmic Crescendo or Gaze of the Alnseer

There are lots of other competitive options out there, be sure to see the full rankings below.

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Ranking	Trinket
S Tier	Litany of Lightblind Wrath Locus-Walker's Ribbon Light of the Cosmic Crescendo
A Tier	Gaze of the Alnseer Emerald Coach's Whistle Heart of Wind
B Tier	Crucible of Erratic Energies Vaelgor's Final Stare Volatile Void Suffuser Whisper of the Duskwraith
C Tier	Emberwing Feather Glorious Crusader's Keepsake Drum of Renewed Bonds Refueling Orb
D Tier	Echo of L'ura Radiant Sunstone Nevermelting Ice Crystal

Due to the large number of trinkets available, if you do not see a trinket listed above, you can presume it is D-tier or lower.

TipsHow Should I Most Effectively Use Litany of Lightblind Wrath?

Litany of Lightblind Wrath is a very strong trinket that provides a significant HPS effect when used well. You should aim to be using it as close to on-cooldown as possible, preferably 5-10 seconds before an upcoming damage event. This is so your additional damage casts to trigger the shields aren't taking the place of valuable healing spell casts. Not doing this will result in a loss of healing.

You can view a complete list of trinket rankings on the QE Live tool.

Patch 12.0.5 introduced two powerful voidcore systems designed to enhance your gearing progression:

• Nebulous Voidcore guarantees loot from your target boss or dungeon. While the specific item is random, you'll never receive duplicates, each new voidcore guarantees a different drop until you've collected everything available from that source.
• Ascendant Voidcore elevates some of your best items beyond their normal item level caps. Use these on maxed-out Crafted, Hero and Myth track weapons and trinkets to unlock additional power increases.

Seasonal Mechanics

Voidforge and Voidcores

Check our our guide on the Voidforge to learn how to acquire this powerful upgrades!

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Your Nebulous Voidcores are a valuable resource for targeting gear that would otherwise elude you. Your voidcore strategy should prioritize closing gaps in your current setup, keeping in mind what you have already obtained from the Great Vault and your raid progression tier. Spending voidcores on items you can access through higher difficulty content in the coming weeks is generally inefficient. Here is what you should focus on:

Voidcore Targeting Priority

1. Myth-track weapons
2. Mythic-track trinkets like Locus-Walker's Ribbon
3. High-impact slots from your BiS list

Your Ascendant Voidcores should follow this prioritization order:

1. Weapon
2. Trinkets

Crafting gear yourself or commissioning profession items is a great way to augment your character's power.

As a Holy Priest we highly suggest crafting a weapon early, ideally with saved up Myth Dawncrests from the first few weeks of the season. While this weapon is not strictly best-in-slot, it is very powerful and extremely efficient use of your resources early on. Not only does it provide a huge amount of Intellect, but it also increases your healing output by utilising one of your 2 embellishments on your crafted weapon.

Holy Priest Crafted Gear Priority

• Aln'hara Cane with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt
• Arcanoweave Cord
• Any item you do not have on Myth track yet
• Craft Arcanoweave Lining on either Wrist or Cloak once you have a fully upgraded Myth weapon

For more information about crafting gear you can visit our Professions page.

Even though we cannot craft the most powerful items, we can still craft gear with embellishments, making them more powerful than a typical item of that item level.

As a Holy Priest, you have a few options for your two embellished slots, depending on what gear you currently have. You should use these crafted items to make up for any gaps in your gearing process or slots you need in particular.

You can also stack two of most embellished effects, which doubles the effects but not how often it procs.

The below breaks down your choice into two categories: Progression and End-Game. If you are starting out your progression journey, you should focus on items that are the most efficient when spending Crests. The End-Game setup is ideal for when you are specifically just concerned about crafting the best items possible at end-game availability without taking into account efficiency. Additionally, if you find yourself lucky with weapon drops the End-Game setup might make more sense for you as well. Be sure to sim the options for your character.

Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free. When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items. Additionally, since Crests are a limited resource, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total.

We see many players, even at a high level, mess up their upgrade priorities, and upgrading prematurely. Getting this right will put you far ahead of most players.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.

1. Weapons
2. Trinkets
3. Helm/Chest/Legs
4. Rings and Necks
5. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
6. Cloaks and Bracers

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have more Item Level scaling than their slot would imply.

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

Optimization

Simulations and Tools

For further reading on how to truly maximize your character's potential, check out our guide on Raidbots!

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