Priest in WoW Forever

Healer
Damage

Priests channel the power of faith to heal, protect and, when they turn to the shadow, destroy. They wear cloth and stand at the back of the fight, but a good Priest keeps a whole group standing. Every Priest can shield a friend from harm and bring the fallen back to life.

Good first class? Yes, if you want to heal. Healing is one of the most wanted roles in any group, and Priests are the classic healer.

Make your Priest character Plan your talents

Discipline

Healer

Discipline heals by preventing damage: shields, buffs and quick reactions before the hit lands. In Forever it gets Penance, which heals a friend or hurts an enemy, and Divine Aegis, which turns critical heals into shields.

Holy

Healer

Holy is the pure healer, with the widest set of healing spells for one friend or the whole group. In Forever it adds Prayer of Mending, a heal that jumps from friend to friend as they take damage, and Holy Binding, which heals you too whenever your Flash Heal heals a friend.

Shadow

Ranged damage

Shadow turns away from the Light and deals damage with dark spells that drain the enemy over time and heal you as they do. In Forever Shadowform lets you cast every spell except heals, and shadow spells cost half the mana in it.

Plan your talents

Try out talents before you spend them in game. You get one point per level from 10 to 60, 51 in all.

Tap a talent to see what it does and add points.

Points left 51 of 51Level needed —

Discipline

0 points

Holy

0 points

Shadow

0 points

The Legacy perk Talented starts your points up to five levels earlier. Plan your Legacy perks

Leveling and groups

Most Priests level as Shadow, because damage that heals you as it ticks makes solo questing far smoother. A shield before every fight keeps the enemies off you.

In a group a Priest is usually the healer, and a good one is never short of invitations. Shadow Priests deal damage at range and help the healers keep their mana up.

What you bring to a group

As in Classic unless Blizzard’s development notes changed them.

Whole raid

Prayer of FortitudeRaises the Stamina of everyone in the raid at once.

Your party

Vampiric Embrace ShadowYour Shadow damage heals your party.
Dark Inspiration ShadowYour Mind Blast and Mind Flay briefly raise your party’s Spirit.

One player per cast

Power Word: FortitudeMore Stamina.
Divine SpiritMore Spirit.
Shadow ProtectionMore Shadow resistance.

New in WoW Forever

From Blizzard’s own announcements.

Fear Ward and Devouring Plague for everyone
In Classic only some races had them. Now every Priest learns both at level 20.
Shadow Word: Death
Every Priest learns it at level 32: an instant shadow spell to finish an enemy off. If the enemy survives, it costs you some of your own health.
Divine Spirit for everyone
Divine Spirit used to be a talent. In Forever every Priest learns it at level 30, so any Priest can give the group more Spirit.
Gnome Priests
Gnomes can be Priests now, with two Priest spells of their own, Confounding Flash and Contingency Plan. The other races’ own Priest spells were reworked too.
Healing across groups
Prayer of Healing now heals the party of the friend you target, not only your own, and Renews from several Priests can be on the same target.
Talents and Dual Specialization
A new milestone at 16 points, such as Vampiric Embrace, joins the ones at 11, 21 and 31. You change talents at a trainer in a major city, and Dual Specialization comes at level 40.