Holy Priest Healing Gems, Enchants, and Consumables - The War Within Pre-Patch (2024)

Last updated on Jul 23, 2024 at 22:00by Niphyr47 comments

The gems you will use depend on the content you are primarily focusingon.

You should socket Sensei's Neltharite or Sensei's Alexstraszitein all of your sockets. Both gems are roughly equal in value. You should alsoequip one Skillful Illimited Diamond or Inscribed Illimited Diamond.

You should socket Crafty Alexstraszite or Crafty Ysemeraldin all of your sockets. Both gems are roughly equal in value. You should alsoequip one Fierce Illimited Diamond or Inscribed Illimited Diamond.

If you find yourself swapping between both dungeons and raids regularly andwant to optimize for both with the same set of gear, we suggest going with Sensei's Alexstraszite or Crafty Ysemeraldin all of your sockets. You should also equip one Inscribed Illimited Diamond.

The optimal enchants are listed in the table below. You can also use theappropriate writ version of an enchant as a cheaper alternative.

Slot	Enchantment
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion
Helm	Incandescent Essence
Cloak	Enchant Cloak - Regenerative Leech
Chest	Enchant Chest - Waking Stats
Bracers	Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Leech
Legs	Temporal Spellthread
Belt	Shadowed Belt Clasp
Boots	Enchant Boots - Watcher's Loam Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze
Rings	Enchant Ring - Devotion of Critical Strike

As a Holy Priest, stats are so close together for healing that youare largely free to use other stat enchants on rings if you prefer them. Masteryfor Raiding and Haste for Dungeons are also good alternatives. Meanwhile, forweapon enchants, Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion is the recommended choicefor your weapon, but Enchant Weapon: Dreaming Devotion can outperform it insituations the raid can be stacked for most of the encounter.

In situations where you want some additional survivability, such as difficultraid encounters or high Mythic+, you can opt for defensive-orientated enchantssuch as Frozen Spellthread on legs, Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Avoidance on Wrist, Enchant Boots - Watcher's Loam on Boots and Enchant Cloak - Graceful Avoidance onCloak.

Should you find a specific encounter or dungeon has hefty movementrequirements, you can also opt for numerous Speed enchants to assist. Theseinclude Enchant Cloak - Homebound Speed to Cloak, Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Speed to Wrist and Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze to Boots.

Phial of Tepid Versatility should be used in raid and mythic+. Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage is a close second but is a much less reliablethroughput increase and can also deal damage to you at bad times.

For Mana return, Aerated Mana Potion and Potion of Frozen Focusshould both be kept available depending on the situation. While Potion of Frozen Focus is preferred; there are situations where you cannotspend 10 seconds channeling and should instead use an Aerated Mana Potion.

Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power (or its lesser Elemental Potion of Power variant) is your recommended potion for bursthealing throughput. These potions can also be obtained from a Potion Cauldron of Ultimate Power/ Potion Cauldron of Power.

Dreamwalker's Healing Potion acts as your healing potion. Each use willincur a 5-minute cooldown, but multiple can be consumed in an extended bossfight. In addition, a Warlock's Healthstones do not share acooldown with other healing consumables.

Finally, Alchemy offers several utility potions,includingthose that can be used while you are dead! While not every potion will belisted,you should at least keep a small number of Residual Neural Channeling Agenton you to use while you have an available potion and are waiting for a battleresurrection.

If available, Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak / Hoard of Draconic Delicacies is your food of choice for some additionalIntellect. If a feast is unavailable, you should buff yourself with Filet of Fangs.

While they are not as necessary for success in areas of content as phials,potions and food, there are some additional consumables available for asmall amount of extra temporary power for your character.

Weapon Runes function similarly to Weapon Oils of previous expansions,applyinga temporary buff to your weapon that is not removed on death. InDragonflight,you will want to apply a Buzzing Rune to your weapons for someadditionalCritical Strike.

If you find yourself in need of a Bloodlust-effect, drums are auseful tool to provide a similar, but weaker, form of the buff. At Level 70, theonly drums that can be used are Feral Hide Drums.

Note that in Dragonflight, you can freely change your talents at anytimeoutside of combat or a mythic+ dungeon. Because of this, there are notomeconsumables to worry about!

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Draconic Augment Runes toincrease your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of the consumablerunes available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on themfor when you need them.

Through the Patch 10.2 Emerald Dream Zone and its Dream WardensFaction, you can also obtain the Dreambound Augment Rune, which ispermanent!