I’ve been wanting to go into m+ with my good ol’ holy priest, but keep reading everywhere how they are not viable?
Me personally I love the playstyle of holy. Are they really that bad?
I just started trying to play my own Holy Priest in M+ (due to the “do 4 Mythic dungeons” quest), and well … I struggled a lot, mostly because I did not know about the “Healbot Continued” addon, and the glaring fact that I leveled that character to 70 by doing Daily and Weekly quests solo.
It’s quite different from what I knew, and if you’re in PUGhell, adapting to the group (I cannot genuinely say “team”) on top of learning a new spec left me stressed and trembling.
From my very limited experience, I was not there to do damage, just healing and boosting, and my positionning was severely lacking.
I would really like to also read the answers of more knowledgable Holy Priest players.
Since you’re asking this kind of question I assume you don’t care about pushing keys that are above 20? In that case, holy is fine as a healer, though remember that it’s hard to deal damage without sacrificing a major part of the healing, which is what people usually expect healers to do.
Also, note that disc not only does more damage, but has access to the same utility as holy, power infusion and damage reduction
I did my first four keys with my Holy Priest, three in +2 and one in +4.
I’m perfectly fine being a “heal and support only” with that character, with a tiny bit of damage on Bosses on the side, but I think I’ll have to learn the ropes in Normal/Heroic first.
The character I want to get into higher keys in my main (the one I post with), currently doing +16/+17 and slowly upgrading my gear (lots of pieces still at Champion 8/8 iLVL 437), and I also still have things to learn 
I havent played any holy this season, but played a bit last season. The dmg feels surprisingly good, and the healing was quite alright overall. The main issue it felt like was burst aoe healing. A lot of the boss fights now require good burst aoe healing, and holy might be lacking a bit there. However, now that augmentation is so good and makes it so much easier to heal m+, I imagine holy could work well in the right comps.
Like someone else said it’s more than fine if you don’t push +20 keys. I started playing on this priest at the start of this season (was a Hpala before) and wanted to try a traditional caster healer. I got KSM week 3 without a problem so it’s defo decent enough.
But yes you’re squishy and have to stop and cast to heal.
You can easily push keys till 25 , i have done a +21 and pretty sure i can go to +25. I dont know why people say its not possible because it is.
Viable is a word that means different things to different people.
They can do anything up to 20 with ease if piloted somewhat decently. Take “viable” with a pinch of salt, its normally people who are talking about the bleeding edge, or alternatively just idiots that think “not best” means the same thing.
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