What you have done to the holy priest in midnight is a disgrace.
2 button spam monkey with some fluff. WTF were you thinking??
Put renew back for a specs
Put bubble back for all specs
What idiot thought putting everything onto pom was a good idea?!?!?!
Press, target gets shield pom and renew - Shield stops pom from bouncing - Shield makes Renew and Echo be just completely wasted as over heal until the bubble brakes.
This is incompetence, WTF!
I couldn’t agree more.
I’ve mained Holy Priest since Vanilla, through every expansion, and this is the most gutted, boring, and frustrating version of the spec I’ve ever played. Blizzard took away core tools that gave the spec any rhythm or decision-making — and replaced them with… what? Flash Heal spam and hoping for procs?
The gameplay loop is now brain-dead: Prayer of Mending does its passive thing, you fish for Lightweaver/Surge of Light, then you just hammer Flash Heal until your Holy Words come off cooldown. That’s it. No more weaving efficient Heals into the rotation. No more smart Renew management. It feels like you turned Holy into a budget Discipline without the atonement gameplay or the satisfaction.
Mana is still a nightmare in longer fights and Mythic+ routes. Our mobility is dogshi* — we’re the wheelchair healer in an expansion full of movement-heavy mechanics. No kick, terrible defensives compared to everyone else, and we rely on Spirit of Redemption / Restitution just to not die like chumps.
The pruning is insane. Talents removed, core buttons gone, hero talents that feel half-baked. This used to be one of the most flexible, reactive healers in the game. Now it feels like the “tutorial healer” Blizzard keeps forcing us into — except even new players are bored. We’re not asking to be S-tier gods. We just want the spec to feel fun and complete again instead of like a half-finished beta rework that got shipped anyway. Buff the throughput properly, give us back some of the removed depth, or at least add mobility/defensives so we’re not the worst healer to play in high keys.
Holy Priest mains are exhausted.
Im happy to see im not the only one thinking like this, im trying to get 3500 mm+ score and even with a good Item level i struggle when i shouldn’t .
I feel forced to make a druid or a shaman just to play the game TT
Also i dont know if its me but holy priest take me so much mana that i need to stop after almost every pull to drink (I think its just me because i tend to overheal)
Blizzard should really buff priest…
I’m leveling a holy priest (through lfg’s), currently at level 84, and I do also think it is a boring spec. The talents seems to be more focused on group healing than single target healing. Even the group healing is bad, unless you are coordinated, rather than playing in pug.
Edit: Only two spells are bad for group healing that needs coordination.
Other than that it works very well.
about making 3 specs so incompletely bad this season.
M+11, rio 2400, 250 ilevel.
It is still the same. Single target (ST) is in general very weak.
I have a lot of mastery on my gear, which would be better if I used Oracle instead of Archon, but Oracle sucks bigtime, at least in PUGs. So mastery sucks for my build.
Icy veins and wowhead suggests versatility, which I don’t understand.
I thought I needed crit and haste.
For once I can give credits to Blizzard for making Prayer of Healing (PoH) much better at least, a spell I never used for many years. I am a veteran player btw.
However Holy Word: Sanctify is the AoE spell that sucks bigtime now.
I miss in rpg (wow) a possibility to alter stats on my gear, somehow. It could be done before, but Blizzard listened to the few who complained.
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