Holy Priest Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — 12.0.5

The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:

• Eternal Sanctity can be swapped for Divinity if you are unable to make use of the extra Apotheosis duration.
• Energy Compression gives roughly the same benefit as Sustained Potency and can be freely swapped depending on your preference, provided you can make use of the extended Apotheosis duration.
• Word of Supremacy can be swapped for Heightened Alteration if you can find a way to exploit the added duration with Restitution. If you do this, you should also consider taking Afterlife by dropping either Efficient Prayers or Renewed Faith.
• Seraphic Crescendo should be your default choice over Gales of Song going into every encounter. The only time Gales of Song is worth taking is if for some reason you have planned every single one of your casts more than 3 minutes apart.
• Holy Word: Chastise can be swapped for Prayers of the Virtuous to simplify your rotation and increase Benediction procs.

The Class Tree has some flexibility, and there are multiple different talents you can change around depending on the encounter and your personal preference. The following are all great candidates to be situationally removed without altering your playstyle:

• Improved Purify can be dropped if there are no diseases to dispel.
• Dispel Magic can also be dropped if there are no diseases to dispel and no magic debuffs to purge.
• Mental Agility can be dropped if the encounter doesn't have anything for Purify or Mass Dispel.
• Inspiration can be dropped if you really need another point, as it's the lowest value throughput talent.
• Angelic Bulwark or a point in Spell Warding are the lowest impact talents to drop if you need an extra point in the bottom third of the tree.

In place of them, there are several talents that are situationally useful and can be taken:

• Body and Soul can be taken for extra mobility and survivability on movement-heavy encounters.
• Phantasm to remove snares.
• Phantom Reach for more range.
• Psychic Scream for extra crowd control.

In general it is not a good idea to talent into Lightburst as it removes Holy Nova as a spammable filler spell.

The Class Tree has limited flexibility without dropping important defensive and throughput talents.

The Holy Tree doesn't have many potential talent change options that don't affect your overall healing output and playstyle.

For Delves, we highly suggest you do them as Shadow instead of Holy due to the increased damage output as Shadow. If you still choose to do them alone as Holy, or are doing them in a group as Holy, then use this build. The most worthwhile change is for Delves, where you should drop Everlasting Light, or if solo, Leap of Faith, and then talent into Dominate Mind. Dominate Mind can be exceptionally useful in Delves to take control of an enemy to not only deal additional damage but also to absorb damage that would otherwise hit you and your allies.

The Class Tree has limited flexibility without dropping important defensive and throughput talents.

The Holy Tree doesn't have many potential talent change options that don't affect your overall healing output and playstyle.

For Delves, we highly suggest you do them as Shadow instead of Holy due to the increased damage output as Shadow. If you still choose to do them alone as Holy, or are doing them in a group as Holy, then use this build. The most worthwhile change is for Delves, where you should drop Everlasting Light, or if solo, Leap of Faith, and then talent into Dominate Mind. Dominate Mind can be exceptionally useful in Delves to take control of an enemy to not only deal additional damage but also to absorb damage that would otherwise hit you and your allies.

The Holy Priest tree has several talent points or groups of talent points that can be moved around without affecting the core playstyle:

• Eternal Sanctity can be swapped for Divinity if you are unable to make use of the extra Apotheosis duration.
• Seraphic Crescendo should be your default choice over Gales of Song going into every encounter. The only time Gales of Song is worth taking is if for some reason you have planned every single one of your casts more than 3 minutes apart.

The Class Tree has some flexibility, and there are multiple different talents you can change around depending on the encounter and your personal preference. The following are all great candidates to be situationally removed without altering your playstyle:

• Improved Purify can be dropped if there are no diseases to dispel.
• Dispel Magic can also be dropped if there are no diseases to dispel and no magic debuffs to purge.
• Mental Agility can be dropped if the encounter doesn't have anything for Purify or Mass Dispel.
• Inspiration can be dropped if you really need another point, as it's the lowest value throughput talent.
• Angelic Bulwark or a point in Spell Warding are the lowest impact talents to drop if you need an extra point in the bottom third of the tree.

In place of them, there are several talents that are situationally useful and can be taken:

• Body and Soul can be taken for extra mobility and survivability on movement-heavy encounters.
• Phantasm to remove snares.
• Phantom Reach for more range.
• Psychic Scream for extra crowd control.

In general it is not a good idea to talent into Lightburst as it removes Holy Nova as a spammable filler spell.