Holy Priest guide

Healer. Holy is the raw throughput healer. Forever adds Prayer of Mending (Holy's final talent, a bouncing heal on a 10 sec cooldown) and Holy Binding (a tier 4 talent: your Flash Heals on others also heal you for 50% as much), and Humans get Divine Grace (instant emergency heal). Litany of Light, a new tier 5 talent, refunds mana when you alternate between different heal spells, and Spiritual Guidance turns Spirit into healing power.

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Stat priority

1. Healing Power
2. Spirit
3. Intellect
4. Mana per 5 sec
5. Critical Strike
6. Stamina

Single target

1. Prayer of Mending: On cooldown on the tank
2. Renew: Keep on the tank
3. Greater Heal: Main tank heal, downrank to control mana
4. Flash Heal: Fast spot heal; with Holy Binding it also heals you for 50% as much
5. Heal: Cheaper, smaller filler than Greater Heal

Several targets

1. Prayer of Healing: Main group heal
2. Prayer of Mending: Bounces between damaged players
3. Holy Nova: Instant, no threat group heal while moving
4. Renew: On each player taking steady damage

Cooldowns

1. Divine Grace: Human only: 10 min instant heal on a target below 50% health, cannot target self
2. Lightwell: Place before heavy AoE phases
3. Spirit of Redemption: Passive: keep healing after death
4. Dark Sacrifice: Undead only: health to mana when damage is light

Key talents

• Prayer of Mending
• Holy Binding
• Litany of Light
• Spiritual Guidance
• Spiritual Healing
• Holy Specialization
• Improved Healing
• Divine Fury
• Improved Renew
• Inspiration
• Spirit of Redemption
• Twilight Focus

What Forever changed

Prayer of Mending is new and a talent: the talent teaches rank 1 and trainers sell the higher ranks. Holy Binding replaced Binding Heal in the 4 November build: it isn't a spell you cast but a passive that heals you for 50% of each Flash Heal you cast on someone else. Humans get the new Divine Grace, and Improved Healing now also discounts Penance and Prayer of Mending. Litany of Light is a new tier 5 talent that rewards weaving different heals rather than spamming one spell, and Lightwell is now a trainer spell at 40 rather than a talent.

Tips

• Litany of Light refunds mana when your heal differs from the previous one, so alternate heals such as Heal then Flash Heal.
• Keep Prayer of Mending on the tank so the first bounce always happens.
• Twilight Focus gives a 70% chance to avoid interruption from damage on all spells with all three ranks, making Greater Heal reliable.

Other Priest specs: Discipline, Shadow

Data from the WoW Forever client, build 1.60.1.70938, extracted 2026-11-13.