Holy Priest Baseline Spells

This page contains all of the baseline Holy Priest spells.

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Desperate Prayer

Desperate Prayer

• Heals the casting Priest for 25% of their health prior to the health increase being applied.
• Can not Crit, does not scale with Vers.
• Triggers Echo of Light
• Increases the casting Priest's hitpoints by 25% for the entire duration.

Echo of Light

Echo of Light

• Triggered by almost every possible direct heal, including effects from gear and enchants.
• Is not triggered by any Heal over Time healing.
• For how mastery works, see Mastery on the stats page.

Fade

Fade

• Fade does not trigger the GCD and can be activated between casts
• Fade reduces your threat to below 0 when cast, but does not remove you from the threat table
• Fade reduces the distances enemies will attack you by around 7-8 yards.

Flash Heal

Flash Heal aka FH, Flash

• Nothing of note to mention about FH.
  • Can Crit, scales with Vers, Haste reduces cast time, triggers Mastery & Leech.
• See Trail of Light for the FH interactions.
• See Serendipity for the FH interactions with Holy Word: Serenity .

Focused Will

Focused Will (passive) aka FW

• FW stacks are only generated by direct melee attacks.
  • FW stacks are not generated by most physical AoE attacks.
  • Some AoE attacks are flagged as a kind of melee attack, and will trigger FW. These are fairly rare unfortunately.
• Gaining a stack of FW refreshes the duration back to 20-seconds.

Heal

Heal

• Nothing of note to mention about Heal.
  • Can Crit, scales with Vers, Haste reduces cast time, triggers Mastery.
• See Trail of Light for the Heal interactions.
• See Serendipity for the FH interactions with Holy Word: Serenity .

Holy Fire

Holy Fire aka HF

• Replaces Mind Blast at level 12.
• HFs ticks scale with Haste like a normal DoT.

Holy Priest Spec Aura

Holy Priest Spec Aura (hidden)

• Contains increases and reductions to the damage/healing some of our spells do

• The Priest Spec Aura is also hidden.

  • This contains the flags for some spells having hasted cooldowns.

Serendipity

Serendipity aka Holy Words, HW CDR

• Serendipity grants Cooldown Reduction to the relevant Holy Word when specific spells are cast.
• Cooldown reduction is granted only to Holy Word: Sanctify, Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Chastise.
• Cooldown reduction increased by various talents:
  • The Light of the Naaru talent increases all cooldown reduction gained by Serendipity by 10 or 20% depending on rank.
  • The talent Voice of Harmony grants the Serendipity passive to additional spells 4 seconds depending on rank.
  • Apotheosis when active further increases the Holy Word's cooldown reduction by 200%.
• Click here for the cooldown reduction by spell for Holy Word: Sanctify.
• Click here for the cooldown reduction by spell for Holy Word: Serenity.
• Click here for the cooldown reduction by spell for Holy Word: Chastise.

Holy Word: Serenity

Below is a breakdown of the cooldown reduction applied to Holy Word: Serenity from various sources.

CDR By Spell	Baseline	Apotheosis	Light of the Naaru Rank 1	Light of the Naaru Rank 2	Light of the Naaru Rank 1 + Apotheosis	Light of the Naaru Rank 2 + Apotheosis
Flash Heal	6 secs	18 secs	6.6 secs	7.2 secs	19.8 secs	21.6 secs
Heal	6 secs	18 secs	6.6 secs	7.2 secs	19.8 secs	21.6 secs
Prayer of Mending**	4 secs	12 secs	4.4 secs	4.8 secs	13.2 secs	14.4 secs
Power Word: Life**	4 secs	12 secs	4.4 secs	4.8 secs	13.2 secs	14.4 secs

• ** With Voice of Harmony talented.

Holy Word: Sanctify

Below is a breakdown of the cooldown reduction applied to Holy Word: Sanctify from various sources.

CDR By Spell	Baseline	Apotheosis	Light of the Naaru Rank 1	Light of the Naaru Rank 2	Light of the Naaru Rank 1 + Apotheosis	Light of the Naaru Rank 2 + Apotheosis
Prayer of Healing	6 secs	18 secs	6.6 secs	7.2 secs	19.8 secs	21.6 secs
Renew	2 secs	6 secs	2.2 secs	2.4 secs	6.6 secs	7.2 secs
Empowered Renew	8 secs	24 secs	8.8 secs	9.6 secs	26.4 secs	28.8 secs
Halo**	4 secs	12 secs	4.4 secs	4.8 secs	13.2 secs	14.4 secs
Divine Star**	4 secs	12 secs	4.4 secs	4.8 secs	13.2 secs	14.4 secs
Flash Heal***	4 secs	12 secs	4.4 secs	4.8 secs	13.2 secs	14.4 secs

• ** With Voice of Harmony talented.
• *** When cast with the Surge of Light buff, and Energy Cycle talented.

Holy Word: Chastise

Below is a breakdown of the cooldown reduction applied to Holy Word: Chastise from various sources.

CDR By Spell	Baseline	Apotheosis	Light of the Naaru Rank 1	Light of the Naaru Rank 2	Light of the Naaru Rank 1 + Apotheosis	Light of the Naaru Rank 2 + Apotheosis
Smite	4 secs	12 secs	4.4 secs	4.8 secs	13.2 secs	14.4 secs
Holy Nova	4 secs	12 secs	4.4 secs	4.8 secs	13.2 secs	14.4 secs
Holy Fire**	4 secs	12 secs	4.4 secs	4.8 secs	13.2 secs	14.4 secs

• ** With Voice of Harmony talented.

Levitate

Levitate

• Levitate is cancelled when damage is taken.
• Levitate can be used to move over some specific ground effects without being affected (debuffs or taking damage), but most will still hit the levitated target.
• Levitate can not be cast on a target that is not in your party or raid.

Mass Resurrection

Mass Resurrection aka. Mass, Mass Res

• Mass Resurrection casts are cancelled if you enter combat during the cast

Mind Soothe

Mind Soothe aka. Soothe

• Can be cast on any Humanoid or Dragonkin, including bosses.
• Does not generate threat or put you in combat when cast.
• Combined with Fade , can be used to move very close to enemies without getting into combat with them.

Mind Vision

Mind Vision

• Can be cast while already channelling Mind Vision on a new target, effectively letting you chain it infinitely. This lets you explore continents or raid/dungeon zones so long as you can target (or /target) new allies/enemies to cast the next Mind Vision on.

Power Word: Fortitude

Power Word: Fortitude

• Nothing of note.

Power Word: Shield

Power Word: Shield aka. pw:s, shield

• Base cooldown of 7.5 which is hasted (reduced by haste).
• PW:S scales with intellect, critical strike and versatility
• Does not scale with the Holy Priest Spec Aura .

Prayer of Mending

Prayer of Mending (default talent) aka. PoM

• Is instant-cast.
• Cooldown is reduced by Haste.
• Stacks to a maximum of 10 stacks.
  • This is increased to 12 stacks when talented into Prayers of the Virtuous
• When bouncing to or cast on a target with PoM already, it increases the stacks up to 10 (or 12) and refreshes the duration to 30 seconds.
• Does not collide with other Holy Priest's PoM, targets can have multiple PoM on them from different priests.
• Heals immediately after the target takes damage.
• Prefers bouncing to injured targets without PoM already.
• Can leave renew when talented into Benediction .

Psychic Scream

Psychic Scream

• Typically does not work on undead enemies, though some exceptions do occur.

Purify

Purify (magic only) aka. Dispel, Cleanse

• Removes all magic effects when cast on a friendly target.
  • When talented into Improved Purify also removes diseases.
• Casting purify on a target that doesn’t dispel any magic or disease debuffs, does not cause Purify to go on cooldown, but still costs mana.
• Confusingly despite being called Purify, it is most commonly referred to as Dispel and sometimes even Dispel Magic (not to be confused with the Holy Priest spell Dispel Magic of the same name), or the Paladin magic dispel Cleanse.

Renew

Renew (default talent)

• The amount of Renew ticks are modified by haste. Haste doesn’t increase the duration of Renew, just increase the number of ticks inside its regular duration.
• Renew scales linearly with haste with no breakpoints, resulting in a micro-tick of Renew to account for additional haste outside of added Renew ticks.
• Due to an effect commonly referred to as Pandemic, if renew is refreshed with less than 3 seconds remaining, that time is added on to the regular 15 seconds.
• Refreshing renew with more than 3 seconds remaining will only increase the remaining duration of Renew to 18 seconds (15 base + 3 extra).

Resurrection

Resurrection aka. Res

• Resurrection casts are cancelled if you enter combat during the cast.

Shadow Word: Pain

Shadow Word: Pain aka. SW:P, Pain

• Nothing of note yet.

Smite

Smite

• See Serendipity for the Smite interactions with Holy Word: Chastise .

Spirit of Redemption

Spirit of Redemption

• Can't be cancelled with a /cancelaura Spirit of Redemption macro, instead use /cancelform Spirit of Redemption.