Priest Leveling Guide: The Basics

priest Priest Leveling Guide: The Basics

Priests are considered the masters when it comes to healing and preservation. They can restore wounded allies, resurrecting their dead comrades and even shielding them in battle. Much more they also have a wide variety of spells that can boost their allies and damage their enemies. It is of no wonder that priest in the World of Warcraft is one important role. Thus, a priest leveling guide would be perfect if you want to become one.

A priest is one diverse class. Much more it is also very powerful. Most of the gamers in the World of Warcraft always implored help of any priest. After all they are one desirable class that can be able to fulfill multiple roles.

However, if we are to evaluate thoroughly there are somehow some pros and cons of being a priest. The good thing about this class is that you can be able to heal your party and guild members. Aside from healing, you can also resurrect other players right after battle. As stated before, you can even shield some players from the damage. Hence, incurring no harm at all. In addition you also have powerful buffs that will prove really useful. As a priest, you can even charm humanoids as well as fear the enemies. Another good thing about being a priest is that you can cast holy spells and shadow spells.

There are however some downside of being a priest. One you are restricted to only wear your cloth armor. Going beyond that is unlikely and impossible. Much more you have poor melee skills and low hit points. Thus, you are not one good damager to begin with. Furthermore, being one requires concentration as well as quick reflexes if you to heal other party members.

Yet, being a priest is still important in a group most especially in a party or a raid. Thus, you must always pay attention to your members. This is in order for you to immediately remedy those who are in need. Make sure you also include keyboard shortcuts so you can heal people faster. It is important that you get to familiarize your healing process so you know how long it will take for you to complete one. In addition, preserve your mana at all cost. You must be able to use timely healing so you won’t waste mana in the process. Much more overhealing is a big no. Thus be aware. And the biggest tip there is, is to learn from expert healers and in the process as well.

These are just a few of the basics with regards to the functions of a priest in the World of Warcraft. In addition, the tips presented are just a few of the things you can surely get when you play as a priest. Thus, it would still be recommended to get a few priest leveling guide for your reference.


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Cataclysm: Shadow Priest

Blizzard has been generous in teasing us information on their new expansion which is the Cataclysm. Nonetheless they have been feeding us with various updates and just recently about the different talent builds in Cataclysm. And today we would be talking about the shadow priests.

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Shadow priests are specialization of the priest main class. However they have put majority of their talents in the Shadow tree. The down side of being a shadow priest is the lack of healing abilities unlike the Holy and the Discipline ones. But they are considered formidable opponents with regards to PvP with high DPS. They have many skills like silencing, misery debuff and reducing enemy’s healing. Thus they can be a good support as well other than being one of the damagers.

Cataclysm will definitely bring some changes with regards to the shadow priest talent. One of which is phasing out the spirit tap ability. Nonetheless the improved spirit tap is still unchanged. This won’t affect your spell power but will have a great impact on your hit. This in addition also increases your spell hit rating by 4/8/12/16/20% of your spirit. Dark thoughts would be the replacement of the Spirit Tap. This talent will reduce the pushback effects caused by damaging attacks up to 35/70%. You can utilize its benefit when a shadow priest is in it improved shadow form. Pushback prevention is also a part of the improved shadow form’s new tooltip.

Shadow form will be simplified to its fullest. You can actually get up to 15% damage buff yet still keep your mitigation buff. However we are still not allowed to cast holy spells. Cure disease and abolish desease will no longer be exempted as well. DoT spells will become standardized and can still crit whether you are in your shadowform.

Over all the new update would emphasize the shadow priests’ ability to drop down Shadow form as well as heal spread around the party. Another thing to note regardless of class is the Blizzard will be pushing more players to do PvP. Thus, it would be pretty obvious that shadow priests must use more their non-DPS support talents like Mass Dispel and Mind Control.

Though some of these changes might not be to your liking while some may just welcome it, Blizzard assures us that as a shadow priest owner you can still enjoy and reap the benefits of the new expansion. Thus, still be prepared and adjust to the changes Cataclysm will provide us.


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Priest Guides

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With 127 pages, Killler Guide’s World of Warcraft Priest Guide covers various tactics for mastering your Priest character.

This guide is guarantee to be accurate and can be trusted since this was completely rewritten for Wotlk and the author knows well what he’s talking about and that can be proved ny most players who have used this guide. This guide was mostly used to beginner and intermediate priests. Which means that you won’t be able to find many tips in this guide if you’re using this character at level 80 or doing high-end arena.

As Priest, healing in groups is your responsibilty. It’s also important for to know which ability to use when it’s  in bad situation. This is the chapter that focus on priest spells is very useful as it describes every spell that are available to you and how to use it.

The other class defining chapter on talents is equally detailed and the pupose of each talent are shown. You’re also getting premade talent builds for any aspect of the game; raiding, leveling, PvP, etc. Also, they even added glyphs that go well with each build. It’s important to get this right because it greatly affects your efficiency as a priest.

A big plus is how the guide shows you how to place every single talent point up to level 80 while leveling. Great for new players as it takes all the guesswork out, and saves you from expensive respec costs.

Because this guide covers so many things, I’m not gonna comment on them all. Let’s just say that it takes you by the hand and teaches you what you need to know from the very basics of the priest, how to get it up to 80, and become a capable healer or damage dealer that will be added to many people’s friends lists, and invited to many groups.

It does this by teaching you (among other things):

  • The right race to choose
  • How to PvP vs any other class
  • Lots of specific gear to collect at level 80
  • Powerful combinations of trade skills for priests
  • General leveling and gold tips
  • Addons and macros for priests

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