Discipline
Shields, Penance and mana efficiency. The best five-player healing tree.
- Improved Power Word: Shield and Inner Focus
- Penance at 21 points
- Renewed Hope for faster re-shielding
- Mental Agility for cheap instants
Light & Shadow · Class guide
Priest in WoW: Forever
Priests received 34 new abilities and 148 changed ones, the most of any class. Fear Ward and Devouring Plague belong to everyone now, Penance and Prayer of Mending are talents, and Gnomes can finally take the cloth.
Best levelingShadow
Dungeon roleHealer
Raid roleHealer / Shadow
DifficultyMedium
What changed for Priests in Forever
- Fear Ward and Devouring Plague at level 20 for all Priests. Divine Spirit is baseline at 30, Shadow Word: Death at 32, Lightwell at 40.
- Racial priest spells are refreshed: Human Divine Grace (heal plus Weakened Soul removal), Dwarf Chastise (damage and 2-second root), Gnome Confounding Flash (confuse 5 enemies for 3 seconds) and Contingency Plan, Undead Dark Sacrifice (health to mana), Night Elf Starshards, Troll Hex of Weakness and Shadowguard.
- Discipline: Penance at 21 points heals allies or damages enemies, Renewed Hope shortens Weakened Soul so you can re-shield sooner.
- Holy: Prayer of Mending at 31 points bounces between raid members, Holy Binding (replacing Binding Heal) heals you and a target, Litany of Light refunds mana when you alternate heals.
- Shadow: Shadow Focus adds hit, Improved Mind Flay adds range and damage, Devouring Plague talents cut its cost and let it spread on death.
- Spirit of Redemption now lasts 15 seconds.
Specs and builds
Shadow to level, Discipline or Holy to heal. The Outfit wants healers more than anything, and Priests are the best there are.
Holy
Raid healing with Prayer of Mending, Holy Binding and Circle of Healing style tools.
- Spiritual Guidance and Improved Renew
- Holy Binding
- Litany of Light to sustain mana
- Prayer of Mending capstone
Shadow
Spirit Tap, Mind Flay and Shadowform at 40. Shadow Word: Death at 32 is a new finisher.
- Spirit Tap first, then Improved Shadow Word: Pain
- Shadow Focus for hit
- Improved Mind Flay
- Shadowform at 40
Leveling 1–60
- Shadow with Spirit Tap. Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Blast, wand. Power Word: Shield before every pull.
- Devouring Plague at 20 and Shadow Word: Death at 32 are big spikes. Shadowform at 40 changes everything.
- Undead Priests: Dark Sacrifice turns health into mana and no longer breaks crowd control. Use it between every pull.
- Gnome Priests: Confounding Flash is a 3-second AoE confuse on a 2-minute cooldown. It saves bad pulls.
Dungeon role
- Discipline or Holy. Shield the tank before the pull, Renew on everyone taking chip damage, Flash Heal for spikes.
- Fear Ward is baseline now: put it on the tank before fear-casting bosses like the ones in Ruins of Lordaeron.
- Shadow Priests are welcome as DPS; Vampiric Embrace heals the group and Mind Control solves a few pulls outright.
Raid prep for December 9
- Holy for Barrow Deeps and Hyjal Summit raid healing. Spirit, Intellect, healing power, and mana per five.
- Dwarf Priests still have Fear Ward for everyone, and Chastise for roots. Onyxia's fear in phase three wants multiple Fear Wards on tanks.
- Shadow Priests bring Shadow Weaving for the Warlocks. One per raid is welcome.
Professions
Tailoring and Enchanting from level 1: you make your own cloth and disenchant what you do not need. Alchemy and Herbalism at endgame.
Guild note
Healers set the pace of our dungeon nights. Priests get priority on cloth drops in Outfit groups.
Sources
Sources & further reading
Talent names and values reflect Blizzard's deep dives and the launch build and may change with hotfixes. Builds are The Outfit's recommendations, not official Blizzard guidance.
Recruitment open
Looking for Priests.
The Outfit needs every role for dungeons and the December 9 raids. Bring your Priest and we will find you a group tonight.
- All classes, all roles, all skill levels
- Dungeon groups from Hall of Thanes to Shaper's Terrace
- Raid core forming for Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit and Onyxia
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