WoW Priest Guide
Overview:
Priests are healers that can also do a high amounts of damage. This class is very sought after since they are extremely useful as the main healers in raids. They can shield, heal and even resurrect their allies, while seeking vengeance from their enemies. They work best in groups since they are one of the casting classes that are only allowed to wear cloth armor. They can use daggers, one-handed maces, staves, and wands for weapons. Races that can be priests include blood elf, draenei, dwarf, human, night elf, troll, and undead.
Priests are very mana dependent, and can be difficult to play, especially in the early levels before they get all of their talents. However, if you stick with this character until the higher levels you end up with a lot of powers and plenty of invitations to join groups.
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Special Abilities:
There are a number of special abilities available to a priest. These include healing, holy magic, shadow magic and a limited amount of crowd control ability. In terms of healing, priests have the most flexibility of any class and are the best healers in the game. They have the ability to do group heals, heals over time, single target heals, and even resurrections. Holy magic options include buffs, cures and dispels, and direct damage spells. Shadow magic can be used to cause a lot of damage through aggro control, damage over time, direct damage, mana drains and mind control spells. The overall versatility of a priest is what leads them to be some of the most sought after characters.
Talents: Discipline, Holy, and Shadow
Discipline Priest
The discipline priest works on getting his buffs stronger and conserving his mana. He is very good as a single target healer as well. This is the hardest talent tree to use for leveling up, so it might be a good idea to respec to this talent tree after leveling up. For those who like PvP this is the best option. Useful spells include power word:shield, reflective shield, divine fury, holy specialization, penance, divine aegis, inner fire, improved power word: fortitude, pain suppression, and power infusion.
Holy Priest
The holy priest works on getting stronger healing powers and increasing chances of survival. These priests work very well in large groups and raids since they are good at healing large number of allies with area of effect spells. Some of the useful holy spells include circle of healing, improved renew, improved healing, guardian spirit, divine providence, and spirit of redemption.
Shadow Priest
The shadow priest mainly causes as much damage as possible. This is the best option for those who want to play solo rather than joining groups, though there is a trade off in healing ability if you go this route. This is the easiest type of priest to level up and is by far the best priest leveling spec. Good talents in this tree include mind flay, spirit tap, shadow word: pain, vampiric embrace, silence, psychic scream, shadow form, vampiric touch, misery, dispersion, and mind sear.
Leveling Tips:
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Most people who start playing a priest intend on going into the healing talent tree. While priests do a fair amount of damage in the shadow spec they tend to not be nearly as good as mages for spell damage.
You will need to make sure you have the best add-ons for healing before you start to use the random dungeon generator. Healing add-ons will make your job much less difficult and insure the safety of your group through any dungeon. Even experienced players tend to use add-ons to help them heal.
Your wait times as priest will not be very long on the random dungeon finder. This is great because it will mean that you will level quickly and get some much needed party experience for raiding latter in the game.
A good priest can find a spot in just about any guild they choose. Priests tend to be very scarce in World of Warcraft and good one is worth its weight in gold. If you are thinking about making a priest you should be warned. People will never leave you alone.
When gearing up your priest you will need to keep spell power in mind. Spell power for healing priests actually increase the amount of healing done by spells. This means that for the same mana cost your heals will do more healing than they do without it. When you start raiding you will need to keep this in mind.
Many priests also look for spell critical strike gear. The higher a priests spell critical strike is the more likely they will hit a critical heal. Critical heals can do twice the healing at the same cost of mana. A balance of spell critical strike, spell power bonus, and mana regeneration gear is needed for the best of priests.
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