WoW Priest Guide

The Priest class is an extremely popular character choice among many who elect to play World of Warcraft. The Priest is a very powerful caster but does take a lot of attention and forethought to be played correctly. You are a cloth wearing caster, and as such you are very squishy. Sure you can buff up, and heal yourself, but you are still soft, and if not very careful, you will wind up running back to your corpse more than you are killing. It is a very demanding class in that you have to watch your companion’s health, and the amount of hate you are generating, at all times.

Priest Race

The race you choose for your Priest, unlike any other class, has a dramatic effect on what you can do. Each race has a different set of race-specific Priest spells that they can cast. Alongside this you get the usual racial traits which can be very powerful. So, picking your race as a Priest is less aesthetic and more practical than for other classes.

When it comes to either faction of Horde or Alliance you can select from the following races:

Alliance

• Humans
• Night Elves
• Draenei
• Dwarves

Horde

• Blood Elf
• Undead
• Troll

Priest Abilities & Talent Build

There are 3 different specs related with the Priest Talent Tree these are Discipline, Holy and Shadow.

Discipline Priest – Discipline will allow you to have increases when it comes to the amount of damage that you do with the spells that you cast, and will also prove effective when it comes to increasing the “Buff” options that you have during game play.

Holy Priest – Holy will allow the Priest to rule in relation to healing themselves and other characters. When focused on this talent you can increase your popularity in relation to Raids, Instances and PvP. Considered the most basic talent build, you can gain enough points through Discipline, although the core build is through Holy.

Shadow Priests are famous for their Shadow form which not only looks interesting it also gives a Shadow Priest more spell power. Most of their spells are instant and they are famous for their DoT (Damage Over Time) spell Shadow Word Pain. They are also greatly valued in raids and groups not only because they can be good damage dealers but also because of their ability to heal and give mana back to the party members.

Priest Strengths

• Great healing, of course.
• Highly desired in groups and raids.
• Great healers and can take on the role of DPS

Priest Weaknesses

• Difficult to play (and stay alive) particularly at the early levels.
• Mana dependent.
• Gear dependent too.

Priest Stats & Gear

When you are getting gear for your priest you are limited to wearing only cloth which is a disadvantage you will want a lot of intellect and spirit as well as some stamina. You’ll want a lot of spell power and crit strike rating as well. If you are DPS you are going to want to be hit capped as you would want to be with any other DPS class and if you are healing you will want to focus more on the other mentioned stats. And if you choose to PvP you will want resillience of course as well as stamina and intellent and also spell power and crit rating. You will also want to get some mp5 on your items which is mana regained per 5 seconds.

If a Priest chooses to become Shadow, he will need to have a certain stats on his gear. He needs to have a lot of spell power, spirit, intellect, hit rating and critical strike rating. For holy priests it is similar but they for them haste rating is much more important than the hit or crit rating.

Priest PvP

Priests are the secret champions of PvP, be it in the battlegrounds or arenas, regardless of their build. Find out how your own Priest can lay down a breathtaking performance in duels on the spot.

Competing in WoW PvP combat as a Priest requires a lot of forethought and planning. With an impressive amount of mana and a wide variety of healing spells, a Priest can be a strong PvP combatant. However, since they have a low health level and no armor, if an opponent can get past your Priest’s defenses, it’s all over. If you’re going to do well in Priest PvP combat, you have to have a smart plan. If you don’t, your Priest will be dying an awful lot.

This is why a quality Priest PvP Guide is crucial for getting the best possible results. A great guide will not only show you strategies and tactics your Priest can use against each class, but will give the Priest a good idea about how other classes will approach the fight too. A good Priest PvP Guide will also give you more than just a few standard strategies for Priests. It will show you exactly how to take on each of the other classes in one on one combat.

Priest Professions

As a priest or with any other class the profession selection is totally up to you and won’t make too much of an impact. Two professions I like to use as a priest are tailoring which I know a lot of other people who play priests like to pick up as well. Also one that I and a few other priests I know use is enchanting. These are two useful professions to have a priest because of the ability to make your own gear and enchant it.

Priest Leveling

The first thing you need to do is check your talent tree. One of the biggest reasons players can’t level up faster is because they don’t have the right build on their toon. You can either be the greatest healer in the game or one of the best PvP classes. It depends what you want to do in the end game. As far as leveling, you won’t have any problems going Shadowpriest. It’s not as fast as a hunter, but definitely is up there among some of the fastest classes.

A Shadow Priest is typicially feared in PvP by a lot of classes. You will notice if you can play a Shadow Priest semi-efficiently that you won’t have to worry about getting killed on a PvP server by anyone around your level. Shadow is definitely the best way to go if you’re going to be soloing.

Zygor’s Guide is the one we use and recommend. The guide acts as an in-game addon. The install is quick and simple, just drag and drop the files into your Addons directory. When you log in, enable it the same way you would any other addon. Once you get into the game, the addon will be on your screen. From that point, it will literally walk you through every single thing you need to do to get from your current level straight to the cap.

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