Cataclysm Classic Holy Priest Talent Builds (2024)

Last updated on May 17, 2024 at 00:00by Abide

On this page, you will find out the best PvE talent choices and builds for yourHoly Priest in Cataclysm Classic, as well as advised glyphs.

Holy Priest has one ofthe most restrictive specs in all of Cataclysm, with 39 out of your 41 talentpoints being required in mandatory talents. Below you'll find our recommendedtalent build for all PvE content as a HolyPriest.

The only options you have for talents is swapping a point into Spirit of Redemption, taking it out of either Desperate Prayeror 1 point out of Test of Faith.

In this section we will go over some of the key talents you will use when youare playing a Holy Priest. Besure to understand your most important talents as they are vital to play thebuild to its fullest strength.

• Desperate Prayer — Instantly heals you for 30% of yourmaximum health. Use this in emergencies if you are about to die.

• Surge of Light — Gives your spells a 6% chance to causeyour next Flash Heal to be instant cast and have no Mana cost.

• Inspiration — Whenever you critically heal, the target willreceive 10% reduced Physical damage taken for 15 seconds. Try to keepthis buff active on tanks as much as possible.

• Lightwell — Places a Lightwell at the targetlocation. Group members can click on this Lightwell to receive a strong HoT. With Glyph of Lightwell, this will have 15 charges instead of 10.

• Serendipity — Grants 1 stack, up to 2 stacks total, wheneveryou cast Flash Heal or Binding Heal. This makes your next Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing cast 20% faster andcost 10% less Mana per stack. Gaining and spending these stacks often arean important part of your rotation.

• Chakra — Causes you to enter a Chakra statedepending on what spell you cast next. Casting Heal, Flash Heal, Greater Heal, or Binding Heal will causeyou to enter Chakra: Serenity, increasing the crit chance of your directsingle-target healing spells by 10%. Casting Prayer of Healing or Prayer of Mending causes you to enter Chakra: Sanctuary,increasing your AoE and Renew healing by 15%, and reducesthe cooldown of Circle of Healing by 2 seconds. As Holy,you should be using Chakra: Sanctuary majority of the time.

• Revelations — While you are in Chakra: Sanctuary,your Holy Word: Chastise will be upgraded into Holy Word: Sanctuary.This is a powerful AoE heal that you place on a targeted area, healing alltargets in the area with reduced effectiveness when more than 6 players are inthe AoE.

• Heavenly Voice — Doubles the healing done by Divine Hymn and reduces its cooldown by 5 minutes. This makes Divine Hymn an extremely powerful AoE heal; try to use it at leasttwice in fights if possible with its reduced cooldown.

• Circle of Healing — Heals your target and up to 4 other nearbyallies instantly. With Glyph of Circle of Healing this will heal 6 targetsinstead of 5. Use this to quickly heal up groups of low health allies.

• Guardian Spirit — A "cheat death" on demand button, this spellis very unique with how it can be used. In addition to preventing someone fromdying to fatal damage, while Guardian Spirit is active on a target,they will receive 60% additional healing from all sources. Oftentimes,this 60% increased healing received is enough to prevent the target fromdying, making Glyph of Guardian Spirit a great "defensive" cooldown evenwhen the cheat death is unlikely to be needed.

Prime glyphs are new to Cataclysm, giving you a third "row" of glyphs you canuse on your character. You don't really have many options when it comes toprime glyphs as there are very limited options, usually only three avaiable for eachspecialization.

• Glyph of Renew — Holy has three talent buffing Renew, making this a mandatory glyph.
• Glyph of Lightwell — Gives your Lightwell 5additional charges.
• Glyph of Prayer of Healing — Holy mostly focuseson AoE healing and Prayer of Healing is one of your main AoE healingabilities. You can swap this out on fights with minimal AoE healing needed.
• Glyph of Guardian Spirit — Reduces the cooldown of your Guardian Spirit by 30 seconds. This can be useful on specific fights,making this is a decent option to swap in sometimes.

Unlike most other classes and specializations, Holy has twomajor glyphs that improve your combat spells. Your third glyph will typically be Glyph of Mass Dispel to reduce the cast time of Mass Dispel, butcan be swapped with Glyph of Dispel Magic on fights where Mass Dispel isn't needed.

• Glyph of Circle of Healing — Increases the number of targets that Circle of Healing hits from 5 to 6, increasing its healing by20%.
• Glyph of Prayer of Mending — Increases the healing of the firstcharge of Prayer of Mending by 100%. Try to use this first chargeon the tank.
• Glyph of Mass Dispel — Reduces the cast time of Mass Dispel by 1 second. Use this one on trash or bosses where you needto AoE dispel your group or certain enemies.
• Glyph of Dispel Magic — Heals the target for 3% of theirmax health if you Dispel Magic a debuff off them. Swap this one in onfights where you need to Dispel Magic a large amount of single targetdebuffs.

Minor glyphs typically provide very minor benefits. Priest does notreally have many options when it comes to minor glyphs, limiting your choicesdown to these three for almost all PvE content.

• Glyph of Fortitude — Reduces the Mana cost of Power Word: Fortitude by 50%. This is mostly useful when rebuffinga player in combat.
• Glyph of Shadowfiend — Grants 5% max Mana if your Shadowfiend dies early. Usually your Shadowfiend won't die,but you don't have many other options.
• Glyph of Levitate — Removes the reagent cost of Levitate, allowing you to cast it for free.