Priest – Shadows and Light

Priests are known to be very capable healers in WoW. Priests however, can also deal nice amounts of damage as well. When you want to make a Priest character you will be able to choose between a certain amount of races. If you role horde the choice of races when it comes to the Priest class will fall on Trolls, Undead and Blood Elves. On the Alliance side you can pick either a Dwarf, Human, Draenei or Night Elf priest. All races have their own racial abilities so besides the looks you should also look into these when you want to make your priest.

Priests use mana to cast both their offensive and healing spells and in order to be efficient at what they do they need to generate mana so a lot of spirit is needed, intellect is needed to give them a mana pool and spell power is needed to make their spells more powerful. As each other class the priest has three talent trees available to him and these are Discipline, Holy and Shadow. Click here to watch the video: Priest Leveling Guide

The Holy tree is perfect for a typical healer. Spells like Guardian Spirit and Circle of Healing will become available to the priest through this talent tree and together with the spells every priest has and the other great talents that can be found in this talent tree, a Holy priest is one of the better healers in the game. Shadow is the talent tree that gives the priest the ability to take on a Shadow Form and dish out a lot of damage.

Shadow Priests have several damage over time spells like Devouring Plague and Shadow Word Pain which are very effective.Because they also have spells that restore mana and health for party and raid member they are a good asset to every raid. Priests who are more into the PvP game play will definitely choose the Discipline tree. They are really tough because they have protective spells which make the priest and his allies really hard to kill.

Priests are also famous for their buffs: Power Word Fortitude, Spirit buff and Shadow Protection buff. They can also resurrect, dispel magic and disease, mass dispel, shackle undead, fear targets, mana burn etc. What is nice when it comes to resetting agro is the ability to fade but in general a Priest shouldn’t get much agro since he is always in the back whether he is a healer or a damage dealer In case you get a bit high on the threat meter you can always fade which heavily reduces your threat for an amount of time. If you would like more information on WoW guides check out one of our popular guides here: Ultimate WoW Guide Review

Priests can only wear cloth armor. Priests have a lot of mana and do not have a lot of hitpoints because they are not meant to take a lot of hits. If you decide to become a Shadow priest you will have to have particular stats on your gear. You will want to get a lot spell power, hit and crit rating, intellect and spirit on your gear.

Healing priests should aim for the same stats but they can leave out the hit rating and take haste rating instead. The most annoying part of a priest is leveling it even though the Shadow talent tree makes it a bit easier. As you hit level 40 and get Shadow Form it will be a lot easier though and once you hit the level cap you can count on many dungeon and raid spots as either a healer or damage dealer.

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