Best Covenants for Holy Priest

Holy Priest is generally not hyper-sensitive to their covenant selection, meaning you have some solid competition between your options. Each offers its own special abilities, soulbinds, conduits, transmoggable armor sets, and other perks, so check out our Covenant pages for more information to help you decide which covenant to pledge to. Keep in mind, the choice also is not final and can be periodically changed.

Best Holy Priest Legendaries

Flash Concentration shines in Mythic+ and Raiding with providing heavy tank support and single target support to allies. This call also be leveraged in a raid environment where increased single target can be helpful for supporting tanks or allies with lengthy bleed debuffs or on the Sun King Salvation boss fight which requires intense single target healing.

X'anshi, Return of Archbishop Benedictus can have some situational value when learning new encounters but is not as powerful when it comes to raw output as the other options.

Detailed Holy Priest Builds

Note: There are currently no talent variations depending on your covenant selection but there is variation depending on your Legendary selection. For a deeper look at each talent and more specialized builds for specific activities, see the Holy Priest Talent Guide.

Stat Priority for Holy Priests in Shadowlands

Holy Priests primarily favor higher Item Level gains, along with Mastery, although secondary stats are generally close in value. Find out more about how stats work in the Stats Guide, or get an overview of gear to look for from dungeons and raids in the Holy Priest Gear Guide.

Gear in Battle for Azeroth heavily focused on pursuing item level upgrades and Shadowlands continues this trend as well. While mastery will be a primary focus to prepare for raids, if you find a non-mastery item that is 10 item levels higher than the Mastery piece, it is quite likely that the higher ilvl piece will be better. Some exceptions to item level can be rings and some trinkets. For further detail, check the gear guide.

Many gear slots can be enchanted in Shadowlands power enhancing enchants: weapons, rings, bracers, chest, gloves and boots. Some of these will be utility based for gathering or reducing fall damage.

Recommended Holy Priest enchants:

• Ring: Enchant Ring - Tenet of Mastery
• Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Celestial Guidance
• Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Fortified Leech
• Chest: Enchant Chest - Eternal Stats
• Bracers: Enchant Bracers - Eternal Intellect

• Gloves: Enchant Gloves - Shadowlands Gathering
• Boots: Enchant Boots - Speed of Soul

Potions and Flasks for Holy Priests

• Flask:Eternal Cauldron or Spectral Flask of Power
• Potions:Spiritual Healing Potion, Spiritual Mana Potion or Potion of Sacrificial Anima.
• In dungeons Potion of Soul Purity can be very useful for removing debuffs that you cannot dispel.

Weapon Oils for Holy Priests

• Healing:Embalmer's Oil: This does very little healing at all. Opt for the damage oil instead.
• Damage:Shadowcore Oil: While this does not give you any extra healing it actually does something unlike Embalmer's Oil.

The optimal individual food is Iridescent Ravioli with Apple Sauce with Meaty Apple Dumplings being cheaper but weaker.

Feast of Gluttonous Hedonism is the highest quality feast in Shadowlands and should be prioritized over individual food.

Recommended Holy Priest gems is Masterful Jewel Cluster with Masterful Jewel Doublet being the cheaper version.

Rotation for Holy Priests in Shadowlands

Healing and dealing damage differ greatly, as healing does not follow a rotation, but instead prioritizes spells depending on the situation. This section gives a general overview. Optimizations, talent variations, and advanced tips can be found in the Holy Priest Rotation Guide.