Priests
are the primary healers in the Warcraft game for both
Horde and Alliance, but they are also one of the most fun
classes to play for damage as shadow. The holy priest is one
of the most desired healers in parties and in raids. Priests
are fun classes that can take on any class even though they
are limited to cloth armor.
Priests
can be dps or healer. If you plan to raid, then
you will likely be asked to spec holy although shadow
priests with their increase in mana for all party members
has become a more popular class for dungeons and
raids. Holy
priests have a variety of heal spells including large health
renewal or heal over time spells and they even have group
heals which are invaluable to parties and
raids.
Shadow priests have shadow form that disallows the use of
any holy spells (no healing) but they can do a ton of
damage while bringing mana back to other
players.
The
spec trees for priests are holy, discipline, and
shadow. Shadow
is the dps version of a priest, and holy priests provide
enhanced heals.
Discipline is the tree that most players choose as the
secondary skill point sets to enhance their
defense.
Defense provides a lot of defense and upgrades to mana and
spells to help make the priest a powerful
fighter.
Professions
for priests can vary. Most cloth wearers,
including priests, prefer tailoring since the armor you can
make enhances spells and healing. A great secondary
profession for tailoring is enchanting since the leveling
can be done from the products made from leveling
tailoring.
Other options for a priest are gathering professions such as
herbalism or even mining. This would purely be for
making money since it brings little value to the tailoring
profession.
WoW Priest Guide – Priest Buffs
There
are two major priest buffs for party members. If you plan to play a
priest, get ready for people to randomly whisper you for
buffs. The
first buff gives the player added health. Power of Fortitude brings
more health to players and it can be upgraded with tree
talent points.
Spirit is another common buff although to be able to cast
spirit on members you need to put points in the discipline
tree. Spirit
will help increase mana and health regen for party members
and it brings a small amount of crit chance which dps
players will appreciate.
Shadow
protection is another less popular buff, but it can be
essential for certain boss fights. Shadow protection is also
good for PVP since most warlock spells are shadow magic and
it will protect against other shadow priests.
WoW Priest Guide – Priest Abilities
There
are several different spells that benefit
priests. Most
of the priest abilities are beneficial to entire parties or
raids, which is why they are so useful during dungeon
raids. Not only
do priest bring buffs, but they also debuff to keep certain
harmful spells on party members.
Dispel
is a popular debuff spell that not only removes harmful
spells from friendly party members, but it can remove
beneficial buffs from enemy targets. Dispel can mean a win or
loss for arenas as the priest can mass dispel at level 70
removing the beneficial spells on many
players.
Mind
control is probably one of the most popularly fun spells
that is unique to the priest. Priests can control an
enemy player and use their spells for a little
fun. It’s
especially useful in PVP to move players away from the
playing field and you can even cause players to jump into
lava or drown from swimming to low under the
water.
WoW Priest Build
This
WoW Priest build is recommended for solo
leveling.
Shadow
Level
10:Spirit Tap (1/3)
Level
11:Spirit Tap (2/3)
Level
12:Spirit Tap (3/3)
Level
13:Improved Spirit Tap
(1/2)
Level
14:Improved Spirit Tap
(2/2)
Level
15:Improved Shadow Word:
Pain (1/2)
Level
16:Improved Shadow Word:
Pain (2/2)
Level
17:Shadow Focus
(1/3)
Level
18:Shadow Focus
(2/3)
Level
19:Shadow Focus
(3/3)
Level
20:Improved Psychic Scream
(1/2)
Level
21:Improved Psychic Scream
(2/2)
Level
22:Improved Mind Blast
(1/4)
Level
23:Improved Mind Blast
(2/4)
Level
24:Improved Mind Blast
(3/4)
Level
25:Improved Mind Blast
(4/4)
Level
26:Mind Flay (1/1)
Level
27:Shadow Reach
(1/2)
Level
28:Shadow Reach
(2/2)
Level
29:Shadow Weaving
(1/3)
Level
30:Shadow Weaving
(2/3)
Level
31:Shadow Weaving
(3/3)
Level
32:Silence (1/1)
Level
33:Vampiric Embrace
(1/1)
Level
34:Improved Vampiric Embrace
(1/2)
Level
35:Improved Vampiric Embrace
(2/2)
Level
36:Focused Mind
(1/3)
Level
37:Focused Mind
(2/3)
Level
38:Focused Mind
(3/3)
Level
39:Mind Melt (1/2)
Level
40:Mind Melt (2/2)
Level
41:Darkness (1/5)
Level
42:Darkness (2/5)
Level
43:Darkness (3/5)
Level
44:Darkness(4/5)
Level
45:Darkness (5/5)
Level
46:Shadowform (1/1)
Level
47:Shadow Power
(1/5)
Level
48:Shadow Power
(2/5)
Level
49:Shadow Power
(3/5)
Level
50:Shadow Power
(4/5)
Level
51:Shadow Power
(5/5)
Level
52:Improved Shadowform
(1/2)
Level
53:Improved Shadowform
(2/2)
Level
54:Misery (1/3)
Level
55:Misery (2/3)
Level
56:Misery (3/3)
Level
57:Vampiric Touch
(1/1)
Level
58:Pain and Suffering
(1/3)
Level
59:Pain and Suffering
(2/3)
Level
60:Pain and Suffering
(3/3)
Level
61:Twisted Faith
(1/5)
Level
62:Twisted Faith
(2/5)
Level
63:Twisted Faith
(3/5)
Level
64:Twisted Faith
(4/5)
Level
65:Twisted Faith
(5/5)
Level
66:Dispersion (1/1)
Discipline
Level
67:Twin Disciplines
(1/5)
Level
68:Twin Disciplines
(2/5)
Level
69:Twin Disciplines
(3/5)
Level
70:Twin Disciplines
(4/5)
Level
71:Twin Disciplines
(5/5)
Level
72:Improved Inner Fire
(2/3)
Level
73:Improved Inner
Fire(3/3)
Level
74:Improved Inner Fire
(1/2)
Level
75:Improved Power Word:
Fortitude (2/2)
Level
76:Improved Power Word:
Fortitude(1/5)
Level
77:Inner Focus (2/5)
Level
78:Meditation (3/5)
Level
79:Meditation (4/5)
Level
80:Meditation (5/5)
The WoW Priest build listed above is highly recommended and
is sure to get you the most out of your priests talents.
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