A Priest is a genuine mana consumer whether he chooses to play a healer or a dps caster and therefore he will need a lot of spirit which will help him regenerate mana much faster, intellect which will give him a greater amount of mana and of course, a lot of spell power. 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: WoW Priest Guide

The  Holy talent tree is used for players that want to heal in PvE scenarios. As a Holy priest you will have different types of spells to choose from, like Renew which is a typical HoT (Heal Over Time) spell, Prayer of Mending which is an instant protective and healing spell, Prayer of Healing which heals the whole party, Circle of Healing which is a typical AoE healing spell and of course, Flash and Greater heals. The Shadow talent tree gives the priests the ability to do a lot of damage.

As a Shadow Priest you will have a few dot spells which deal a nice amount of damage over time.Because they also have spells that restore mana and health for party and raid member they are a good asset to every raid. The Discipline talent tree is usually chosen by Priests that want to heal in battlegrounds and in arenas. Because the discipline tree makes the priest a tough cookie with damage absorbing talents and nice new spells, it’s a nice choice.

Besides a nice amount of healing and damaging spells the priests also have some great buffs like Spirit buff, Stamina buff and Shadow Protection buffs. Next to this they also have many other useful spells like fear, resurrect, shackle, dispel, cure disease and more. 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

Priests can only wear cloth armor. A priest normally doesn’t have a lot of hitpoints unless he gets a lot of high tier PvP gear but they do however have a nice mana pool. If you decide to become a Shadow priest you will have to have particular stats on your gear. A Priest 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. One downside of a priest is leveling it because it takes quite a bit of time, even if you decide to level it as a Shadow priest. When you get the Shadow Form somewhere around level 40 it will all start to go a lot faster and at higher levels even if you choose to become a full healer be assured you will be needed in any instance group or a raid, since healers have always been a necessity in the World of Warcraft.

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