Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Best Talents for Holy Priest in PvP in Dragonflight 10.2.6
To make it easier to navigate, we’ve divided the guide into the corresponding sections, covering everything from race and talents to gear and macros. These will give you a good idea about what to expect from Holy Priest in PvP in Dragonflight, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to get your character ready to conquer the arena. In this section, we will cover the most important change that came with Dragonflight – talents. We will go over the class and spec trees, as well as the best PvP talents for Holy Priest in Dragonflight.
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Holy Priest Talents Overview
Since the talent system received a huge revamp going into Dragonflight, we will cover both the class and the spec tree. They both have some mandatory and some optional talents. Those will depend on the situation and the comp you are playing. The Core talents will be the ones you pick almost all the time either because they are that good on their own, or simply better than all other options.
Priest Class Talents
The most important talents in our class tree are located at the bottom left. This is where we get Surge of Light, which is needed for those instant Flash Heal procs.
We also get our must-have heal in Power Word: Life. This gives us an extremely strong recovery tool.
As you can see, we also make our way down towards bottom right to pick up Mindgames. This is familiar ability from Shadowlands that offers us additional damage. Priests are known as the perfect healer for assisting with burst damage, which is where this ability shines.
Then we also get Void Shift, which is just too good to pass up due to how strong it is. You can use it to save both your teammates, and yourself, if you use it well.
And finally, you can’t overlook the power Phantasm. This gives us a much-needed freedom effect to help us kite or chase enemies together with Angelic Feather.
Your main flexible talents on the class tree include Move with Grace, Mind Control, and Improved Mass Dispel. These are all strong, but can be situationally dropped, especially when you are the kill target, since Move with Grace and Mind Control lose a lot of value. In cases where you might be the kill target these talents can be dropped for Light’s Inspiration, Spellwarding, and Protective Light.
You should avoid Body and Soul since, unlike Discipline, you rarely press Power Word: Shield.
Holy Spec Talents
With the core of the build, our goal is to get to the bottom of the tree and get two capstone talents on both sides. We never want to be without either of them as they are just way too important for our overall healing.
Miracle Worker provides us with two charges of Serenity and Sanctify. It is a must-have as it essentially gives us twice the amount of Holy Words and healing.
Another very strong talent we have to get when picking these up is Resonant Words. It is exactly the same as the old conduit, offering you a 25% increase to your next Heal after using a Holy Word.
We also have a lot of familiar must-have abilities here like Guardian Angel for the shorter cooldown on Guardian Spirit, Apotheosis for increased throughput, burst healing and Mana efficiency and Symbol of Hope to get Mana and important defensives back.
Holy Priest PvP Talents
Your only true hardlocked PvP talent is Spirit of the Redeemer. This ability is great because it gives you temporary interrupt and CC immunity while making your spells free to cast. Overall great in the Dragonflight meta since you need to spam cast often.
Phase Shift is a great default talent as this is a versatile talent that can be used to not only avoid CC such as polymorph, fear, and freezing trap but can also help you to push into the enemy team to get your own fear. This talent also synergizes well with several talents in the Priest tree such as Phantasm which removes movement impairing effects and Improved Fade which reduces the cooldown on Fade.
You will usually rotate the talents in the remaining slot. The first strong option is Holy Ward. It’s a must-have against any setup or CC-based comp, giving you an additional way to avoid incoming crowd control for both yourself and your team.
Divine Ascension is another option, giving you the ability to fly up into the air. This functions as a tool to avoid damage. You can still be hit by spells, while in the air, so you want to pick it when you need to survive against melees.
Ray of Hope is a strong pickup when you are struggling with healing throughput. This ability can be combined with Serenity and Power Word: Life for massive healing to help you deal with that. In Solo Shuffle, this is a must have.
As for some more niche options, if you want more damage output in 2v2 or matchups where you are being trained, Catharsis is a great offensive pick.
When playing against Mages or even Resto Druids, you could look to get Thoughtsteal, removing their ability to use Polymorph of Rejuvenation, while granting you these abilties for a short time.
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