Holy Priest Raid Guide

• Oracle grants you a new Ability that cycles through 4 different versions after each use:
  1. Premonition of Insight
     • Decreases the cooldown of the next 3 spells you cast by 7 seconds.
  2. Premonition of Piety
     • Increases your healing done by a large amount and causes 70% of your overhealing to be redistributed.
  3. Premonition of Solace
     • Your next Flash Heal, Heal, Holy Word: Serenity or Renew apply a massive absorb and a dr to your target.
  4. Premonition of Clairvoyance
     • Gain the effects of all the other Premonitions.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Ensure to have Protective Light and Fade active when soaking Gruesome Disgorge.
• Externals
  • Use Guardian Spirit as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Other healers make better use of it in this encounter.
• General
  • When soaking Gruesome Disgorge use Leap of Faith on a teammate that is late for their assigned soak.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Ensure to have Protective Light and Fade active when targeted by Decimate.
• Externals
  • Use Guardian Spirit as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Other healers make better use of it in this boss encounter.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Rotate your defensives when targeted by multiple Infested Spawn.
• Externals
  • Use your Guardian Spirit on people targeted by multiple Infested Spawn without their own defensive cooldown.
• Paradox
  • Other healers make better use of it in this boss encounter.
• General
  • When Rasha'nan repositions ask for a Rescue to then Leap of Faith the other slower classes towards the boss.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Ensure to have Protective Light active when targeted with Experimental Dosage.
• Externals
  • Use your Guardian Spirit on people with multiple stacks of Experimental Dosage.
• Paradox
  • Use it if you are assigned to Divine Hymn while the boss has Ingest Black Blood active to dodge the constant swirlies.
• General
  • Always try to top the tank afflicted by Volatile Concoction when the debuff is about to run out to reduce raid damage.
  • Focus on having a proper spread for the Sticky Web mechanic to be able to instantly Fade it, as this mechanic will be the cause for most of your ranged player deaths.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • When affected by Queensbane ensure to have Protective Light and Fade active.
  • Use Desperate Prayer when targeted by Twilight Massacre.
• Externals
  • If an ally does not have any defensive cooldown left while affected by Queensbane use Guardian Spirit on them, otherwise keep it as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Combine it with your Divine Hymn, another good place to use it is during the intermission.
• General
  • Angle your camera so you can see the people with Shadows of Doubt to be able to dodge their orbs easily when removed.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

Boss Tips

Phase 1

• Defensives
  • Ensure to have Protective Light and Fade active and use Desperate Prayer when Reckless Eruption and Venomous Rain overlap.
• Externals
  • Use your Guardian Spirit on Binding Webs targets without strong defensive cooldowns as those are the people most likely to die.
• Paradox
  • Combine it with your Divine Hymn.
• General
  • The people in danger in this phase are the ones playing Binding Webs. Ensure you keep them healthy so they can fully focus on the mechanic without having to worry about other things.

Phase 2

• Defensives
  • Ensure to have Protective Light and Fade active when Web Vortex happens.
• Externals
  • Use your Guardian Spirit on targets who accidentally received multiple stacks of Stinging Swarm.
• Paradox
  • Save it for the second intermission.
• General
  • In phase 2, failing the dispel mechanic Stinging Swarm is the most common wipe reason. Always keep these people healthy so they don't have to worry about anything but playing the mechanic.
  • Dispel your tank as often as possible whenever he has multiple stacks of Void Bolt, as this mechanic easily kills your tank if ignored.

Phase 3

• Defensives
  • Ensure to have Protective Light and Fade active when Web Vortex happens.
• Externals
  • Use your Guardian Spirit on Binding Webs targets without strong defensive cooldowns as those are the people most likely to die.
• General
  • The People in danger in this phase are the people playing Binding Webs. Keep them healthy so they can fully focus on the mechanic without having to worry about other things.
  • Dispel your tank as often as possible whenever they have multiple stacks of Void Bolt as this mechanic easily kills your tank if ignored.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

• These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

Phase 1

• Defensives
  • Always have both Fade and Protective Light up for each Silken Tomb.
  • Use Desperate Prayer on either the first or second Frothy Toxin depending on where you have more Raid CDs assigned.
• Externals
  • Use Guardian Spirit as your own tool in this phase! Use it on yourself when you think you might get hit by Web Blades.
• Paradox
  • If your raid composition allows for Spatial Paradox, save them for the intermission.
• General
  • Always ensure to have at least one charge of Holy Word: Serenity available before Reactive Toxin gets applied, as the spot healing in this phase is your main priority!

Intermission

• Defensives
  • Use your Desperate Prayer to survive the second Wrest cast.
  • Ensure to have both Fade and Protective Light active for each Wrest.
• Externals
  • Use Guardian Spirit if you had to use Desperate Prayer to survive other mechanics and you don't have it ready for the second Wrest. Otherwise, use it on someone who is not full health and does not immune the second Wrest.
• Paradox
  • Use it to cast while dodging waves to keep people healthy before the second Wrest.
• General
  • Feel free to use Algari Healing Potion and Healthstone in this Phase.

Phase 2

• Defensives
  • Use Desperate Prayer on the second platform as there will be 2 dispels and a Wrest in short succession. Especially if you are targeted with Gloom Touch this is very lethal.
• Externals
  • Use Guardian Spirit on Gloom Touch targets without defensives, otherwise use it as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Save it for Phase 3.
• General
  • Your main priority is to keep the targets affected by Gloom Touch alive. Make sure to have a charge of Holy Word: Serenity ready before one spawns.

Phase 3

• Defensives
  • When targeted by Royal Condemnation you need to have all your defensive cooldowns active to survive the hit. If you do not request an external!
  • When targeted by Abyssal Infusion, use your Desperate Prayer and Algari Healing Potion as you will have to move to the correct spot and cant cast on yourself.
• Externals
  • Use Guardian Spirit on yourself when you think you might get hit by Web Blades.
  • Use Guardian Spirit when requested by Royal Condemnation targets.
  • Be ready to save an Abyssal Infusion target with Guardian Spirit as they can easily die if they do not properly spread for the mechanic.
• Paradox
  • Combine it with your Divine Hymn.
• General
  • Always ensure to have at least one charge of Holy Word: Serenity available before Abyssal Infusion gets applied.

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