Holy Priest Healer Talent Builds and Glyphs - Cataclysm Classic

By Voulk Updated: 2024/10/14

Best Talent Builds for Holy Priest HealerGuardian SpiritPurifyMastery: Echo of LightEcho of Light

allows the Priest to enter in to one of three states providing relevant buffs to each state for single target healing, AoE healing or damage output

is an extension of , allowing the Priest to cast an extra ability dependent on their current state

Your Renew is buffed by , , , and or making it a staple in your kit

Holy Word: Sanctify remains a key ability for Holy Priests, providing excellent AoE healing through smart healing

Serendipity and provide you with single target healing opportunity, by introducing the Priest to reduced cast times and Mana costs

Body and Soul provides your group with a great mobility option, granting them a 60% movement speed buff for 4 seconds after receiving a Power Word: Shield from you. Later in Cataclysm, your Leap of Faith will also grant your target with the same movement speed buff

ShadowfiendBest Glyphs for Holy Priest Healer

- Increases the amount healed by your Renew by 25%. When utilized with , , and /, your Renew becomes exceptionally strong

- Adds an additional HoT to the targets healed by your Prayer of Healing for 20% of it's initial heal over 6 seconds, granting additional power to your AoE healing capabilities

- An optional Glyph for a Holy Priest, reducing the cooldown of Guardian Spirit by 30 seconds, which can be useful if a target in your group needs the additional safety and healing bonus provided from your Guardian Spirit. This will likely be your go-to choice out of the optional Glyph options

- An optional Glyph which increases the critical effect of your Flash Heal by 10% on targets below 25% health. Ideally you should be keeping your friends well above this threshold, however, this can be particularly helpful to run instead of if you're not a fan of Renewing

- An optional Glyph to use when Healing via Dungeons and Raids, giving you 5 extra charges of , further buffing your AoE healing capabilities. Ideally this should be used when you are playing with a guild group, as the caveat of this ability is that requires players to click on it which can easily be forgotten

- Holy Word: Sanctify will heal an additional target at the expense of your Mana, increasing the Mana cost of Holy Word: Sanctify by 20%

- Provides a very welcomed increase to Prayer of Mending, one of your most commonly used healing abilities, buffing the initial charge of Prayer of Mending by an additional 60%

- In addition to removing a Magic effect from a friedly target, this Glyph allows your Purify to also Heal them for a small amount. This can be swapped out for if the encounter requires swift, large group dispels

- An optional Glyph which reduces the base cast time of Mass Dispel from 1.5 seconds to 0.5 seconds. This does not alter your global cooldown, but allows you to react significantly faster anytime you would need to cast Mass Dispel

- Whilst it is a rare occurrence for your Shadowfiend to die in PvE combat, this is still nice Glyph to have in your back pocket to ensure you do gain some Mana from this spell if your Shadowfiend manages to unfortunately die

- Reduces the mana cost of Power Word: Fortitude by 50%, which is nice to have when rebuffing both within and outside of combat

- Removes the need to carry Light Feather at all times. As all Minor Glyphs are generally quality of life changes, this one is probably the preferred third option to ensure you save inventory space and gold

- Reduces the mana cost of Fade by 30%. Not massively impactful, but if you are having to cast Fade, you may as well make it cheaper

- Increases the duration of from 60 minutes to 70 minutes. This desyncs your main two buffs and is not vital however, is optional for anyone who prefers to use this Glyph

Holy Priest Healer Talent Builds and Glyphs - Cataclysm Classic

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