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Priest Class Guide — Class Guides · WoW Forever

A cloth-wearing healer who also deals Shadow damage. Priests heal single targets and groups, shield allies with Power Word: Shield and fight with Shadow Word: Pain and Mind Blast.

Roles
Healer, Damage
Specializations
3
Popular builds
5
Version
WoW Forever

How the priest plays

Priests in WoW Forever gain tools from later expansions: Penance for Discipline, Prayer of Mending and Binding Heal for Holy, Devouring Plague and Shadow Word: Death for every priest. Fear Ward is trained at level 20.

Discipline is now a full healing spec built on shields and critical heals, Holy heals groups, and Shadow deals damage while its Dark Inspiration lifts the party's Spirit.

Mana is still the long game: Spirit, Meditation and Inner Focus stretch your pool.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • Three distinct specs: shields, group healing and shadow damage.
  • Penance, Prayer of Mending and Binding Heal broaden the healing kit.
  • Fortitude, Fear Ward and Dispel Magic for the group.

Weaknesses

  • Cloth armour: fragile.
  • Healers have little damage for solo play.
  • Mana-hungry if you heal carelessly.

Specializations

The specs compared

Each spec rated from 1 to 5 at what it does in WoW Forever. Single and several targets mean damage for damage specs, healing for healers and threat for tanks; a spec's own guide names its ratings for its role.

RatingDisciplineHolyShadow
Single target
Several targets
Survivability
Utility
Solo and leveling
Ease of play
  • Discipline

    Healer · 2 builds

    Mana efficiency, stronger shields and buffs, and Power Infusion: healing that wastes little.

    Top talent:Power Infusion

    Discipline guide
  • Holy

    Healer · 1 build

    Pure healing: stronger and cheaper heals and group healing.

    Top talent:Prayer of Mending

    Holy guide
  • Shadow

    Damage · 2 builds

    Damage with Shadow spells, damage over time and Mind Flay, and Shadowform. The usual leveling tree.

    Top talent:Shadowform

    Shadow guide

Gear

  • Cloth with +Healing, Intellect and Spirit for healing.
  • Spell damage, hit and Stamina for Shadow.
  • A wand for leveling.

Each spec guide ranks its stats and says what to look for on its gear.

What WoW Forever changed

Against Classic Era, the priest in WoW Forever has these changes. New spells: 6. Changed spells: 20. Spells no longer trained: 0. Talents that Classic Era doesn't have: 15. Each spec guide lists its own. The spell list shows every change.

Priest class quests

The quests that unlock class abilities, by the level each route starts at.

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