Holy Priest Healing Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

You will have two categories of gems to choose from: Rare or Epic. The Rare gems are either just a single stat or a combination of two secondary stats on one gem. The Epic gems are significantly stronger, but you can only use one at a time for your entire character.

As a Holy Priest, you should utilise the Indecipherable Eversong Diamond as your Epic gem of choice and stack Flawless Versatile Garnet in all other gem sockets.

Stat Priority and Additional Information

Find out more about your stat priority and how all the stats interact with your spec!

Stats

For your temporary weapon oil, you should use Thalassian Phoenix Oil for all content.

Slot	Best	Alternative
Helm	Enchant Helm - Empowered Hex of Leeching	Enchant Helm - Hex of Leeching
Shoulders	Enchant Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending	Enchant Shoulders - Thalassian Recovery
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister
Legs	Arcanoweave Spellthread	Sunfire Silk Spellthread
Boots	Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots	Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
Rings	Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle	Enchant Ring - Nature's Fury
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei	Enchant Weapon - Jan'alai's Precision

While our suggested tertiary stat enchants for maximum throughput are Leech, using Speed enchants is also a good option given Holy Priest's limited mobility.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

Consumables substantially increase the power of your character for a limited time. Any time you are challenging yourself with difficult content, it is advisable that you buff yourself with Flasks, Food, Potions, and Weapon Oils.

For Season 1, you should use one of the following, depending on which stat you need more of.

• Flask of the Shattered Sun - Critical Strike (More Healing)
• Flask of Thalassian Resistance - Versatility (Defensive Option)

Light's Potential is your default potion and should be paired with Apotheosis or Divine Hymn to get the most out of it. Potion of Recklessness is another competitive throughput option, and you can use it instead if it is cheaper to craft or buy. While the Mana potions Lightfused Mana Potion and Potion of Devoured Dreams are available alternatives, they do not restore enough mana to be worth using over the stat potions.

Silvermoon Health Potion is our healing potion of choice, and where possible you should also be using a Warlock's Healthstones.

As a Holy Priest you can use any Feast or Master-level food to get the most optimal results. This includes any of the highest secondary or primary stat food buffs. Below are some examples:

• Harandar Celebration - Intellect Feast
• Silvermoon Parade - Intellect Feast
• Royal Roast - Intellect Personal Food
• Impossibly Royal Roast - Intellect Personal Food

If you want cheaper food, you can also use Sun-Seared Lumifin or Arcano Cutlets.

Depending on the level of progression content, you can also choose to craft Hearty versions of most food, which gives the exact same effect, but the buff now persists through death. This costs 5 normal food to produce 1 hearty version.

You should aim to use an Augment Rune to get a boost of Intellect during any progression content. For Season 1 the following Augment Runes are available:

• Void-Touched Augment Rune (Consumable version)

In addition to the above items, you should also always have the following in your bags for Raiding and Mythic+ environments as a Holy Priest.

• Gateway Control Shard - Reusable item that will auto-click a nearby Warlock Gateway.
• Void-Touched Drums - Provides a weaker Bloodlust effect for the group that can be useful in Mythic+ dungeons without a class to provide it naturally.
• Emergency Soul Link - Castable Battle Resurrection item that can be used in combat, even as a non-engineer.
• Void-Shrouded Tincture - Invisibility potion that can be used instead of a Tempered Potion to skip trash in certain Mythic+ dungeon routes.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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