Dragonflight Season 4 Holy Priest Guide

By AutomaticJak Updated: 2024/07/23

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10.2.6 Changes

Empyreal Blaze has been redesigned – Holy Word: Chastise causes your next 2 casts of Holy Fire to be instant, cost no mana, and incur no cooldown. Refreshing Holy Fire on a target now extends its duration by 7 seconds.
Pontifex has been redesigned – Flash Heal, Heal, Prayer of Healing, and Circle of Healing increase the healing done by your next Holy Word spell by 6% stacking up to 5 times. Lasts 30 seconds.
Lightwell has been redesigned – Creates a Holy Lightwell. Every second the Lightwell will attempt to heal a nearby party or raid member within 40 yards that is lower than 50% health and apply a Renew to them for 6 seconds. Lightwell lasts for 2 minutes or until it heals 15 times. Cooldown reduced by 3 seconds when you cast Holy Word: Serenity or Holy Word: Sanctify.
All healing done reduced by 7%.
Holy Fire mana cost reduced to 0.4% of base mana (was 1%).
Holy Word: Chastise mana cost reduced to 0.6% of base mana (was 2%).
Resonant Words now causes Holy Words to increase the healing done by your next Flash Heal, Heal, Prayer of Healing, or Circle of Healing by 20%/40%. Lasts 30 seconds.
Divine Word now increases the effectiveness of your next Holy Word spell by 30% (was 50%).
Casting Holy Word: Chastise with Divine Word active now increases damage dealt by 20% and refunds 15 seconds from the cooldown of Holy Word: Chastise instead of its previous effect.
Casting Holy Word: Sanctify with Divine Word active now blesses the target area and heals 5 targets (was 6). Healing done increased by 25%.
Casting Holy Word: Serenity with Divine Word active no longer increases the critical strike chance of Flash Heal, Heal, and Renew.
Healing Chorus now increases the healing of Circle of Healing by 5% stacking up to 20 times (was 2% stacking up to 50 times).
Prayerful Litany now heals for 100% more to the most injured ally it affects (was 30%).
Harmonious Apparatus has been renamed to Voice of Harmony and its icon has changed.
Voice of Harmony now causes Holy Nova to reduce the cooldown of Chastise in addition to Holy Fire.
Gales of Song is now a 1-point talent with the values of the previous 2-point version.
Orison now has a connection to Pontifex.
Divine Service now has a connection to Say Your Prayers.
Empowered Renew and Rapid Recovery have been removed.
The final 3 rows of the tree have been reorganized.

As a result of the 10.2.6 changesLightwellDivine WordPontifexGales of SongHealing ChorusPrayer of HealingPrayer CircleHealing ChorusPrayer of HealingApotheosisHoly Word: SanctifyDivine WordHoly Word: SanctifyLightwellHoly Word: SanctifyRestitutionHoly Word: ChastiseHoly FireDivine WordHoly Word: ChastiseApotheosisDivine WordHoly Word: SanctifyHoly Word: SerenityHoly Word: ChastiseMiracle WorkerHow Good is Holy Priest in Dragonflight Season 4?Miracle WorkerDivine ImageSymbol of HopeHoly Word: SalvationSymbol of HopeHoly Priest Raid ViabilityDivine HymnHoly Word: SalvationSymbol of HopePrayer of MendingSymbol of HopeHoly Word: SerenityPower Word: LifeHoly Priest Mythic+ ViabilityHoly Word: SerenityFlash HealHoly Word: SerenityApotheosisBest Holy Priest Talent Builds for Dragonflight Season 4

Import Build Directly In-Game

Preview Build

Lightwell Raid Build

Mythic+ Build

Impact of Dragonflight Season 4 Tier Set for Holy Priests

Priest Holy 10.2 Class Set 2pc is Holy's 2pc in Season 4 providing Renews on targets healed by your Holy Words. The 4pc Priest Holy 10.2 Class Set 4pc causes all Renew to proc Holy Words that do not incur a charge cost and cost 50% less mana. This set bonus is very powerful for raiding and mythic+, resulting in a huge amount of extra Holy Words. It is important to note that you should not be directly casting Renews with this tier set. The 2pc itself provides plenty of uptime, in addition to your other talents, in providing sufficient Renews to proc this tier set and you will continue not casting Renew.

In dungeon testing about half of my Holy Word: Serenity casts came from the new 4pc bonus, making for an incredibly potent boost to our burst single-target output. In raids, this does not entirely make up for the Holy Word: Salvation nerf to its cooldown reduction, but it does help quite a lot. Thankfully these procs seem to have an internal cooldown so they do not overstack when you cast Holy Word: Salvation, giving you plenty of time to use each stack before another is generated.

Often you will spend these charges on Holy Word: Serenity in Mythic+ and Holy Word: Sanctify in raid but they are very flexible in how they can be used.

Holy Priest Tier Set Guide

Best Gear to Spend Bullions for Holy Priests

Depending on your goals as a Raider or Mythic+er, your choices may vary for purchasing items with Dinars. If you already have a trinket at max item level from S3, you may want to acquire a "new/returning" item earlier like the Ward trinket. Damage trinkets like ] are excellent on boss fights like the Decaytriarch where killing the totem faster reduces healing required.

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Holy Priest Gear Guide

Best Holy Priest Consumables for Dragonflight Season 4

Dragonflight adds many different consumables that can be used by Holy Priests. Below we highlight the best ones to use in Season 4 Dungeons and Amidrassil.

Holy Priest Raid Consumables

Phial: Phial of Tepid Versatility
Combat Potion: Aerated Mana Potion or Potion of Frozen Focus
Health Potion: Dreamwalker's Healing Potion
Food: Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak / Deviously Deviled Eggs
Weapon Buff: Buzzing Rune

Holy Priest Mythic+ Consumables

Phial: Phial of Tepid Versatility
Combat Potion: Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power or Potion of the Hushed Zephyr for skips.
Health Potion: Dreamwalker's Healing Potion
Food: Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak
Weapon Buff: Howling Rune

Holy Priest Consumables Guide

Dragonflight Season 4 Holy Priest Guide

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