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Build Venomancer Vizier Ascension CoA
Vizier
Mending Mist Shadra's Vigil Mycelial stacking 8-ally HoT

The full talent tree confirms it: Mending Mist covers up to 8 allies in periodic healing, Shadra's Vigil rides every Serpent's Fang cast, and Mycelial Healing stacks that periodic output ever higher. Where Venom transmutes poison, Vizier simply soothes — the purest HoT healer in Conquest of Azeroth.

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Share your opinion on this spec: rate it across 4 game situations. Once enough votes come in, the community score influences the tier shown in the build rankings.
📊 Build
🏰 Dungeon
4.5
S
🐉 Raid
4.3
S
🥊 Arena
3.7
A
🌍 BG & Open World
3.6
A
WEIGHTED TIER A
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Dungeon
Raid
Arena
BG & Open World
Signature Spell
Shadra's Vigil

Serpent's Fang healing now applies Shadra's Vigil to the target: the next 5 instances of periodic healing on them are boosted by 10% of their value.

Retail Feel

Vizier is closest to a HoT-and-cooldown healer like Restoration Druid or Preservation Evoker. Serpent's Fang blankets the group with Shadra's Vigil the way those specs blanket a group with HoTs, and the rest of the kit spreads rolling heals (Shadra's Prayer, Shadra's Balm, Green Salve) plus targeted charge heals (Alkahest) and a single-ally save (Shadra's Aid). Like Preservation, its power sits almost entirely in HoT timing and target selection rather than raw throughput, and it's weak on personal damage since its one offensive cast, Serpent's Fang, exists to heal allies rather than threaten anyone.

Role, tiers & resource
B
Dungeon
Not measuredInstanced small-group content
A
Raid
MeasuredAcross 3394 fights (Zul'Gurub, Molten Core, Onyxia's Lair, all difficulties, phase 2) · index 1.57
A
Arena
Community voteAverage of 12 player ratings
A
World Battlegrounds
Community voteAverage of 12 player ratings
RoleHealer
Primary statIntellect
ResourceMANA

How is this number calculated?

Measured scope: Zul'Gurub, Molten Core, Onyxia's Lair, all difficulties — High Priest Venoxis, High Priestess Jeklik, High Priestess Mar'li, Bloodlord Mandokir, High Priest Thekal, High Priestess Arlokk, Jin'do the Hexxer, Hakkar, Gri'lek, Gahz'ranka, Lucifron, Magmadar, Gehennas, Baron Geddon, Garr, Shazzrah, Golemagg the Incinerator, Sulfuron Harbinger, Majordomo Executus, Ragnaros, Basalthane, Onyxia.

These numbers come from Ascension Logs’ public combat logs, not an in-house guess.

The index compares each spec to the median player — the one sitting exactly in the middle of the ranking — on the same boss and the same group format: 1.00 matches that median player, 1.40 means 40% more damage than them. Only each player’s best fight counts, never their average — otherwise a player posting fifty fights would count as much as fifty different players, and averaging would mostly reward beginners still learning the spec rather than those who’ve mastered it. The comparison always happens on the same boss and the same format: a two-minute fight and a seven-minute one aren’t comparable, and a flex raid doesn’t give the same support as a 25-man.

Tiers (S, A, B…) aren’t picked by hand: the cutoffs are calculated from the real spread of every measured spec. A spec under 15 distinct players or 30 fights isn't ranked at all, rather than given a made-up grade. For healing specs, only fights where the player actually healed are counted — several healing specs are often played for damage, and counting those would unfairly drag their score down.

Ranking updated on August 29, 2026

The tree the best players actually run. Read from the top 10 Vizier Venomancers in our player rankings for raids, of whom 1 has since switched specialisation, leaving 9. 33 of its 51 talents are identical across all 9, so they agree on the bulk of it and part ways on the rest. This exact tree is run by the 9th ranked player. Recorded on 18 August 2026.

The 56 points are a fixed budget, so no tree can take everything. The most common picks left out of this one: Soothing Venoms 67 %, Blightcap Ingestion 56 %, Blight Antidote 56 %.

These talents are a PvE configuration. The Arena and Battleground grades shown above rate the specialisation’s PvP potential, not this tree.

Stat Priority
PvE
Haste (Vizier Form explicitly lets its HoT effects benefit from spell haste — faster ticks mean more allies topped off per GCD) Spell Power Intellect (mana pool and scales heals like Venomcult Blessing/Serpent Lord's Amulet) Spirit/MP5 (heavy mana costs — Unity 25%, Shadra's Aid 19%, Ritual Healing 17% of base mana) Critical Strike Stamina
PvP
Resilience Stamina Haste Spell Power Intellect Spirit/MP5

Every ability targets allies rather than enemies, and Vizier Form directly benefits its HoTs from spell haste — haste-driven tick throughput plus mana sustain for a very expensive kit outweigh raw spell power or crit.

Build Abilities
Class Tree
Burrow Acute Senses Adrenal Venom Fury of Shadra Fury of Anub'Rekhan Weakening Venom Genesis Tranquil Essence Surprise Strategy Venomancy Expert Venomizer Tome of Ahn'kahet Hallucinogenic Venom Mamba Mentality Master of Venoms Skin Shedder Shadra's Balm Spindlebind Green Salve Relentless Lifeblood Empowering Pheromones Envenomed Weapons Playing With Poison
Specialization
Mycelial Healing Soothing Venoms Spirit of the Jungle Advisor's Perfidy Bountiful Gifts Ophidian Renewal Shadra's Presence Melioration Shadra's Gift Worship Fangbinder Book of Shadra Venom Glands Cycle of Rebirth Good Venom Extraction Fang Blessing Mending Mist Alkahest Shadra's Aid

See also: all Ascension builds · the talent tree builder

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