PvE Holy Priest Healer Talents, Builds & Glyphs

Author: Amery
Date: August 23, 2022
Updated: January 24, 2023
Expansion: WotLK Classic

Holy Priest PvE

Talents, Builds & Glyphs

Stat Priority

Best Races

Gems, Enchants & Consumables

Rotation & Cooldowns

Best Professions

Best in Slot (BiS) & Pre-Raid Gear

Addons & Macros

When it comes to the Holy Priest talents, there are a few possible builds which can fill different rolls within a group/raid, but only a few glyphs that are useful.

Talent Builds

(13/58/0)

This spec can cover all rolls easily while also providing easy mana regen.

(14/57/0)

This build is all about hard-casting spells. It is a very versatile spec and can fill nearly every role. The roles it can fill are “Raid HoTs”, “Tank Heals,” and “Raid/Group Bulk Healing”. The role it is best at is nuke heals on large numbers of people for short periods of time.

(18/53/0)

This build is all about instant-cast spells. It is a spec that fills only a single niche, and that is blanketing a raid with Renew and using a few other instant-cast spells.

Notable Talents

Twin Disciplines – essential. Boosts Instant heals done by you by 5% including Divine Aegis and Power Word: Shield.
Improved Inner Fire – essential. Extra SP as a discipline, making out heals even stronger!
Improved Power Word: Fortitude – essential. Stamina buff for the raid or group!
Inner Focus – up to your decision. Really handy for Holy, can be macroed with Divine Hymn or with a healing spell when you need a huge crit.
Meditation – essential. As you are constantly casting heals, you won’t be outside the 5-second rule for mana regen often.

Healing Focus – essential. In this expansion there are many raid-wide damage-dealing bosses, so you must get something to reduce the constant pushback you’ll encounter!
Improved Renew – essential. Holy Priests will cast Renew a lot more often making this talent really good.
Holy Specialization – essential. The best talent that increases your heals by adding 5% crit to holy spells.
Divine Fury – essential. This talent reduces your cast time on several spells, with the one we’re wanting being Greater Heal.
Desperate Prayer – up to your decision. Instant cast self-heal that can save you.
Inspiration – essential. Applies a buff that reduces physical damage by 10%.
Improved Healing – essential. Reduces the mana cost of Greater Heal by 15%.
Healing Prayers – essential. Reduces the mana cost of Prayer of Healing and Prayer of Mending by 20%.
Spirit of Redemption – essential. Turns you into a Ghost after you die so you can keep on healing!
Spiritual Guidance – essential. Your spell power is increased by 25% of your spirit! (100 spirit becomes 25 spell power).
Surge of Light – essential. Spell criticals have a 50% chance to make Flash Heal instant cast and cost no mana, sounds like a no brainer to me!
Spiritual Healing – essential. Increases your healing spells by 10%.
Holy Concentration – essential. Your mana regeneration from spirit is increased by 50% after you critically heal with Flash Heal, Greater Heal, Binding Heal or Empowered Renew.
Body and Soul – up to your decision. Increase target’s movement speed by 60% after they receive your Power Word: Shield, as well as remove 1 Poison and Disease effect.
Empowered Healing – essential. Greater Heal Gains an additional 40% healing power and your Flash Heal and Binding Heal gain 20%.
Serendipity – essential. When you cast Binding Heal or Flash Heal the cast time of your Next Greater Heal and Prayer of Healing is reduced by 12% and stacks 3 times.
Empowered Renew – essential. Renew gains 15% bonus healing and instantly heal for 15% of the total Periodic Effect.
Circle of Healing – essential. Instantly Heal 5 people or 6 with Glyph!
Divine Providence – essential. Increases the amount healed by Circle of Healing, Binding Heal, Holy Nova, Prayer of Healing, Divine Hymn, and Prayer of Mending by 10% and reduces cooldown of Prayer of Mending by 30%.
Guardian Spirit – essential. Calls a spirit to watch over a friendly target preventing them from dying, Sounds very good to me!

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

These are some recommended combinations of glyphs, suited for specific types of PvE content:

Circle of Healing now heals 6 people instead of 5!

A very good glyph if you regularly don’t consume the death-prevention part of the spell.

Pretty Straight forward, this glyph makes one of our most used heals cost 10% less.

Minor Glyphs

Even if your Shadowfiend dies from damage, you’ll receive 5% of your maximum mana.

This glyph allows you to cast Levitate without the need for a reagent!

This glyph increases the duration of Shadow Protection and Greater Shadow Protection by 10 minutes. The glyph itself is self-explanatory and it’s good on its own for convenience reasons.

Glyph of Fortitude reduces the mana cost for Prayer of Fortitude and Power Word: Fortitude by 50%.

About the Author

Amery

Hey guys! My name is Amery and here is a little something about me: I've been playing WoW for about 15 years now. With that experience, I wanted to share all the things I have learned over the years.