Priest – Shadow and Holy Powers

Some people that play World of Warcraft consider priests as the best healing class. It must be said however, that priests can also dish out a lot of damage. If you choose to play this class you will have a choice between different 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. Depending on the race you choose you will have different passive abilities but the choice will surely depend on you and your game play.

Priests are spell casters and whether they are healers damage dealers that need mana in order to cast these spells they will need a good amount of spirit which will make their mana recover a lot faster, intellect which provides the priest with more mana and spell power which makes their spells more efficient. The priest has three talent trees and depending on what kind of priest you want to make you can choose between the Shadow, Discipline and Holy talent trees. Click here to watch the video: Priest Guide

The First talent tree I would like to discuss is the Holy talent tree which is designed for priests with a PvE healing aspiration. 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. The Shadow talent tree gives the priests the ability to do a lot of damage.

Most of their spells are instant and they are famous for their DoT (Damage Over Time) spell Shadow Word Pain.Some of the spells the Shadow talent tree will provide the priest with make the priest a valuable team member for every group and raid because they restore mana and hitpoints to fellow players. 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.

riests have some of the strongest buffs in the game namely their Stamina, Spirit and Shadow Protection buff. Next to this they also have many other useful spells like fear, resurrect, shackle, dispel, cure disease and more. Threat plays an important role in WoW and luckily the Priests can fade when they get a bit too much agro to reduce their threat. If you would like more information on WoW guides check out one of our popular guides here: Dugi's 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. You will want to get a lot spell power, hit and crit rating, intellect and spirit on your gear.

The same thing actually goes for healing priests but they do not need hit rating and could get some 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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