The current state of Holy Priest is extremely underwhelming. In fact, all Priest specs need a full rework of their talents and hero talents.
Starting with Holy, the spec I enjoy the most due to the class fantasy, Holy needs a full talent rework to provide additional utility and better healing cooldowns. Holy Words need to be reworked—they are either too weak or mediocre. Chastise does little damage compared to Holy Fire, which is insane to me. Holy Word: Sanctify does no healing, and it costs an insane amount of mana to spam Prayer of Healing, which also does not heal effectively. The same goes for Circle of Healing, which has become a useless talent choice.
The whole Renew trigger talents need to go—either get rid of Renew or make it so your Holy Words trigger Renew/Holy Fire depending on whether it’s a healing or Chastise Holy Word. Divine Image should be baseline, and talents should be created to empower it because right now, even Divine Image is underwhelming with its healing and damage. There are so many useless talents for AoE, and too many Prayer of Mending talents that don’t even empower it well. How about making talents that actually empower it and feel good to spec into? How about creating talents to empower your Holy Words instead?
Honestly, how about a mastery revamp? Maybe Echo of Light could empower Holy Words or something. How about changing Symbol of Hope to Hymn of Hope, which triggers a 15% damage reduction for 10 seconds and restores mana without being a channel cast? Divine Hymn needs to either be buffed or reworked as well—it is too long to channel and does not provide any type of immunity while casting, which is useless since M+ content requires constant movement to avoid ground attacks/effects.
How about combining Afterlife and Reinstitution and making them available sooner in the tree? Why are they two separate talents? No one will take that talent ever since it competes with another talent that empowers your Holy Words. Divine Word needs to be removed or reworked. Lightwell should just be removed at this point; it’s a sad talent choice. Increase Holy Priest damage if you’re going to keep forcing us to focus on healer DPS as well.
I’ve been playing Discipline in M+ and it’s night and day. I’m at a 3255 score, but Holy cannot seem to handle burst heal checks, which almost every dungeon has. City of Threads is impossible for Holy to do since all bosses trigger some insane burst that Discipline can easily heal through. While Discipline can be “META,” it needs talent revamps as well. There is one talent build for Discipline for all content—half of its talents need to be removed or reworked. Oracle should just be deleted or reworked to have Premonition trigger from specific spells rather than its specific cycle. Or maybe focus on being a Holy-themed hero talent and come up with a whole new concept that doesn’t involve cycling through cooldowns to do any meaningful healing or damage.
Shadow used to be my go-to spec from Legion to BFA. After that, it became so clunky and awful with the gameplay. Shadow needs a complete rework. Idols just need to empower certain key abilities instead of spawning useless RNG abilities that may or may not do damage.
We need changes to the Priest tree ASAP. Get rid of Twin Suns and add actual utility to the class tree. Dispels that allow you to dispel either a curse/poison or all at an increased cooldown rate or something. Make Halo instant cast—why is there a cast time on it? Give us mobility. Also, bring back Mind Bomb or the light knockback spell from Legion (I can’t remember the name). Dominate Mind should be a 1-minute duration at least, or equal to the DK one.
You have so much feedback from Priests to better the class, and you refuse to do so! I do not want to play another class, but this is insane how we keep getting ignored.