Holy Priest Stat Priority - Midnight

By AutomaticJak Updated: 2026/03/13

Best Stats for Holy PriestRaidArchon Stat Priority

Intellect

Crit

Versatility = Mastery

Haste

Oracle Stat Priority

Intellect

Crit

Versatility = Mastery

Haste

Dungeons/Mythic+Archon Stat Priority

Intellect

Versatility

Critical Strike

Haste

Mastery

Oracle Stat Priority

Intellect

Versatility

Critical Strike

Haste

Mastery

Stats Explained

Critical Strike: Provides a chance to double the healing done of your spells. This synergizes quite well with Mastery and the bigger focus on a direct healing playstyle through heavy Holy Word usage in that Critical direct heals also increases the size of the Echo of Light heal that follows them.

Haste: Haste decreases the cast time of your spells and also adds ticks during the healing over time of Renew. While Haste breakpoints still exist for Renew, they are irrelevant today because when you are in between these breakpoints the HoT receives partial ticks that are added onto the regular tick. Haste also reduces the Global Cooldown (GCD) and the cooldowns of certain spells like Prayer of Mending and others that have a green text when you mouseover their tooltips in game. More often, taking higher ilvl items will give you sufficient Haste to get into a comfortable flow of responding to damage.

Mastery: Increases the effectiveness of Mastery: Echo of Light, leaving HoTs on the targets from our direct heals.

Versatility: Provides a linear gain in outgoing healing and damage, as well as a reduction in damage taken.

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Critical Strike - Above 1380 rating

Haste - Above 1320 rating

Mastery - Above 1380 rating

Versatility - Above 1620 rating

Example
Let's assume you gain 1% Haste for 10 Haste Rating. When above the diminishing return breakpoint, 10 Haste Rating would give you 0.9% Haste instead, resulting in a 10% reduction from what you gained previously.
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Comments

Comment by LittleEllie420

Great guide as always. :)

Curious if there is a mastery cap?

Comment by Kranoz

Is there a chance you could post a Pawn string for the stats?

Comment by ChaosMonkey

If you are new to healing or struggling to keep people alive in general, you should most certainly get a large chunk of mastery in M+. You can't contribute damage when your party is dead.

Holy Priest Stat Priority - Midnight

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