found throughout the Holy Talents
This page contains details on Holy Priest talents and how they work.
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Row 1
Holy Word: Serenity
Scaling: Mastery ✓Crit ✓Haste ?Vers ✓- Cooldown reduced by the baseline Serendipity passive. See the Serendipity page where you can view all of the cooldown reduction sources and their amounts.
Row 2
Holy Word: Sanctify
Scaling: Mastery ✓Crit ✓Haste ?Vers ✓- When talented into Ultimate Serenity, Sanctify can no longer be cast.
Guardian Spirit
Scaling: Mastery ✗Crit ✗Haste ✗Vers ✗Guardian Spirit aka. GS, Angel, Wings
- "Massive Damage amounts will kill the target despite this effect" – The threshold for this is 200% of the target’s maximum HP in overkill. This means if the target is at full HP they can take up to 300% of their maximum HP in damage before dying.
- The spell that does the healing if triggered is Guardian Spirit Heal.
- This effect works by providing the target with a special absorb once their HP hits 1. This special absorb doesn’t absorb damage before the health pool like regular absorbs, instead absorbing damage once the health pool of the target has been reduced to 1.
- Example: Target has 10% HP left and takes a hit for 30% of their maximum HP. The first 10% of the incoming hit reduces HP to 1, and the remaining 20% of the incoming hit is absorbed by Guardian Spirit which then heals the target for 40% of their maximum HP.
- This heal is capped at 200% of the casting priests maximum health. This doesn’t affect normal usage and was introduced to prevent it from being abused on NPCs with high health pools.
- GS can only heal for a maximum of 200% of the casting Priest's maximum hitpoints
- The increased healing effect increases all incoming healing on the target, not just healing from the casting priest.
- Taking damage that causes the life-saving effect to proc causes Guardian Spirit to be removed from the target immediately, including the increased healing received buff it provides.
- See Guardian Angel for the GS interactions with GA.
Holy Word: Chastise
Scaling: Mastery ✗Crit ✓Haste ?Vers ✓- The disorient debuff is 200196 (200196).
- It is not broken by:
- It is broken by most other damage, including:
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Prayer of Healing
Scaling: Mastery ✓Crit ✓Haste ✓Vers ✓Prayer of Healing aka. PoH
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Prayer of Healing prefers injured nearby targets, but not the most injured, making it a semi-smart heal.
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You can click here to view the PoH interactions with Holy Word: Sanctify
Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel aka. GA
- Cooldown of Guardian Spirit is set to 60 seconds if Guardian Spirit expires on a target without the life-saving portion coming into effect.
- Multiple Guardian Spirits on a target will not stack the healing increase.
Restitution
- Archbishop Benedictus' Restitution - Debuff
Censure
- Talenting into Censure replaces the incapacitate effect that Holy Word: Chastise usually has with a stun.
- The stun shares stun DR with other stun effects.
Empyreal Blaze
- Resets the cooldown of Holy Fire when cast.
- When queued after Holy Fire, the previously cast Holy Fire will consume a charge.
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Prayerful Litany
Prayerful Litany aka. PL
- Nothing of note.
Cosmic Ripple
Scaling: Mastery ✓Crit ✓Haste ✗Vers ✓Cosmic Ripple aka. CR, Ripple
- Behaves like a smart heal, preferring injured health allies within 39.5 yards when triggered.
Afterlife
- Increases the duration of Spirit of Redemption from 15 seconds to 22.5 seconds.
- Increases the range only of healing spells during Spirit of Redemption.
Voice of Harmony
Voice of Harmony aka. VoH
- See Serendipity for more details on the CDR this talent provides different Holy Words.
Burning Vehemence
- Does not deal cleave damage if the target dies from the initial Holy Fire hit.
Row 5
Uplifting Words
- Nothing of note.
Cosmic Wave
- Nothing of note.
Divine Hymn
Scaling: Mastery ✓Crit ✓Haste ✓Vers ✓Divine Hymn aka. Hymn, DH
- Hymn buff increases all healing received from all healers, not just the casting Priest.
- This includes effects like trinkets, potions, and other healing sources.
- Hymn channel time is decreased with haste.
- Hymn ticks 5 times, spaced evenly throughout the channel with the first tick happening immediately
- The Hymn buff that increases healing received stacks up every time it ticks
- Gaining a stack refreshes the duration back to 15-seconds
- This means the healing buff will last for 15-seconds after the last tick refreshes the buff
- Divine Hymn - Heal/Buff
Enlightenment
Enlightenment aka. Enl
- Enlightenment at 90 adds 1,000 mp5 or 200 Mana per second.
- This brings the total to 11,000 mp5 or 2,200 Mana per second.
Light's Resurgence
- Renew placed by Light's Resurgence do not count as a cast, and therefore don't generate cooldown reduction for Holy Word: Sanctify through Serendipity, or count as a cast on WCL.
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Efficient Prayers
- Nothing of note.
Healing Focus
- Nothing of note.
Seraphic Crescendo
Seraphic Crescendo aka. SC
- Nothing of note.
Gales of Song
Gales of Song aka. Gales.
- Nothing of note.
Divine Service
- Nothing of note.
Renewed Faith
Renewed Faith aka. RF
- Only affects your own healing on targets affected by your own Renew.
Row 7
Angelic Touch
- Increases the critical strike effect for spells in its whitelist, which at time of writing includes all relevant Holy Priest spells.
- This does not affect enchants, trinkets and other cantrip effects as they are not in the above whitelist.
Apotheosis
Apotheosis aka. Apoth
- Casting Apoth triggers the GCD.
- Activating Apoth will immediately reset the cooldown on all 3 holy words:
- The Holy Word reset will trigger Cosmic Ripple if talented for each relevant Holy Word reset.
- Apoth increases all cooldown reduction gained by Serendipity by 200% (triple). See Serendipity for more details on amounts.
Prayers of the Virtuous
- Increases the maximum stack size of Prayer of Mending as well.
Row 8
Dispersing Light
Scaling: Mastery ✗Crit ✓Haste ✗Vers ✓- Bug? Does not proc Echo of Light.
Trail of Light
Scaling: Mastery ✗Crit ✗Haste ✗Vers ✗Trail of Light aka. ToL, Trail
- Heal amount of Trail is a percentage of Flash Heal or Benediction, including when it critical strikes.
- Does not scale with healing increases or versatility itself, and it can not critical strike.
- The additional heal provided by Trail of Light is its own healing spell Trail of Light.
- Bug? Does not proc Echo of Light.
- Always heals the previous target, it will not heal your Flash Heal target:
- Flash Heal Player A, ToL heals the previous target
- Flash Heal Player B, ToL heals Player A
- Flash Heal Player B again, ToL heals Player A again
Miracle Worker
- Nothing of note.
Divinity
- Nothing of note.
Eternal Sanctity
- Nothing of note.
Holy Celerity
- Nothing of note.
Say Your Prayers
- Nothing of note.
Row 9
Crisis Management
- Nothing of note.
Light of the Naaru
Light of the Naaru aka. LotN
- For a complete list, see Serendipity .
Light in the Darkness
Light in the Darkness aka. LitD
- Nothing of note.
Prismatic Echoes
- Additional healing is multiplicative, not additive.
Desperate Times
- Nothing of note.
Radiant Plea
- Nothing of note.
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Lightweaver
- Each Prayer of Healing cast consumes a stack.
- The cast time reduction effect reduces the cast time by a multiplicative amount.
- Grants the Lightweaver buff for 20-seconds or until consumed.
Ultimate Serenity
Scaling: Mastery ✓Crit ✓Haste ✗Vers ✓Ultimate Serenity aka. US
- Talenting into this disables the ability to cast Holy Word: Sanctify.
- It also causes your Holy Word: Serenity casts to cleave nearby targets.
- The cleave heal is Ultimate Serenity Cleave.
- Effects that apply to both Serenity and Sanctify do not double-dip when talented into Ultimate Serenity. This include but is not limited to:
- Light in the Darkness - Serenity doesn't get double the value from the healing increase.
- Uplifting Words - Serenity only gains 10% increased Critical Strike chance, not 20%.
- Holy Celerity - Serenity only gains 15 second cooldown reduction, not 30.
- Miracle Worker - Serenity only gains 1 extra charge, not 2.
- Light of the Naaru - Serenity doesn't gain double the value from LotN.
- Apotheosis - Serenity only gains one charge when Apotheosis is cast, not two.
- Effects that only apply to Holy Word: Sanctify are also applied to Ultimate Serenity. This include but is not limited to:
- Lasting Words applies to the Ultimate Serenity cleave portion, applying short-duration Renew to all cleave targets.
- Cooldown reduction that would ordinarily be applied to Holy Word: Sanctify is instead applied to Holy Word: Serenity.
Divine Image
Scaling: Mastery ✗Crit ✓Vers ✓- The spell that summons the Divine Image is Divine Image Summon.
- Has a 100% chance to be triggered by all 3 holy words:
- You gain a buff Divine Image which has a stack count for the Naaru power level. The duration is how long the newest stack has until it expires.
- You can only have one Naaru out at once from Divine Image.
- Triggering Divine Image while you have an active Naaru out will cause your existing Naaru to move nearer to you if it is further than 15 yards away.
- Triggering Divine Image while you have an active Naaru out will cause you to gain an extra stack of Divine Image.
- The healing and damage amount done by the Naaru depends on the number of stacks of Divine Image you have at the time of the spell cast
- A stack only lasts for 9 seconds.
- Stacks are individual and do not refresh. If you gain a stack, then gain another stack 2 seconds later, you will have 7 seconds of 2 stacks, then 2 seconds at the end from the remaining stack.
- None of the healing or damage spells from Divine Image scale with the Holy Priest aura Holy Priest Spec Aura.
- None of the healing or damage spells have the 5% variance most other spells do.
- All damage and healing spells scale with Intellect (Their base coefficient is spellpower).
There are 6 possible casts from Divine Image, each one happens when you cast the appropriate trigger spell.
| Divine Image Spell | Trigger Spell(s) |
|---|---|
| Healing Light | Flash Heal |
| Dazzling Lights | |
| Searing Light | Holy Fire |
| Light Eruption | Holy Nova |
| Blessed Light | Prayer of Mending |
| Tranquil Light | Used to be Renew. |
| Nothing |
Other notes about each of the Divine Image spells:
- Nothing of note.
- Prefers injured targets.
- Will heal pets.
- Only has a 15-yard radius (Looks like a copy/paste of the Legion smart heal version of PoH).
- Each tick of Divine Hymn will proc Dazzling Lights.
- Nothing of note.
- Nothing of note.
- Only triggers on the initial Prayer of Mending cast.
- Blessed Light heals off of the target the triggering Prayer of Mending cast was on, bouncing to a nearby target up to around 6 yards away.
- Scales with haste.
Lasting Words
- The buff it leaves is a real Renew, just with a different length depending on the Holy Word cast.
- Holy Word: Serenity applies Renew first (before healing with Serenity), resulting in a buff to Serenity from Renewed Faith.
- Holy Word: Sanctify applies Renew second (after healing with Sanc), resulting in NO buff to Sanc from Renewed Faith.
Epiphany
- Triggers from all 3 Holy Words:
Apex
The Apex talent has 3 parts, with the second part having two ranks. This effectively means each point you put into the Apex talent adds another "rank":
- Point 1: Benediction 1
- Points 2 & 3: Benediction 2
- Point 4: Benediction 3
Benediction 1
Scaling: Mastery ✓Crit ✓Haste ✓Vers ✓- The proc rate is a hasted RPPM. Because it can only proc from Prayer of Mending bounces, high cast rates of PoM is required to achieve the maximum proc rate.
- Benediction is the cast & heal spell.
Benediction 2
- Each point put into this stacks, meaning the second point effectively doubles the bonus from the first point.
- Doesn't actually increase all healing done, but increases a whitelist of specific spells. This whitelist at the time of writing includes nearly every relevant healing spell, but will be missing things like healing from enchants, items and other cantrips.
Benediction 3
- Nothing of note.