Overview

The priest is the best healing class in the game. They're indispensible in groups, and their value only increases at the higher levels. Their ability to heal, avoid aggro from monsters (mobs), dispel buffs on their enemies and debuffs on their allies, and resurrect fallen comrades makes them arguably the most important member of any group, whether it's PvP or PvE. A quick summary of the main things a priest brings to a group:

• Strong, efficient heals.
• Aggro control to make life easier on tanks.
• Dispel both negative spells on allies and positive spells on enemies
• Resurrect

Their primary stats are Intellect for a large mana pool and crits, and Spirit for mana regeneration.

Races

The Priest can be played by:

• Alliance
  • Dwarves
  • Humans
  • Night Elves

• Horde
  • Trolls
  • Undead

Note that Priests get a couple of extra spells according to their race, see the racial spells section for further details.

Weapons and Armor

Priests can only wear cloth armor. They begin with one-handed maces and wands. They can learn daggers and staves.
For details on set items that are useful for Priests, see Priest Sets.

Spells

• Healing
  • Single target heals
  • Group heals
  • Heals over time
  • [Resurrection]
• Holy Magic
  • Buffs
  • Dispells and Cures
  • Direct Damage
• Shadow Magic
  • Direct Damage
  • Damage over Time
  • Mana Drains
  • Aggro Control
  • [Mind Control]
• Miscellaneous
  • Further Buffs & Aggro control
  • Limited crowd control

See the Priest Spells page for further details.

Talents

Priest Talents are split into 3 categories:

• Shadow
• Discipline
• Holy

There is some limited information Priest Talents in Priest Spells.

Talent builders can be found at Official Blizzard site, Classes of Warcraft, WoW Vault, ThottBot.

See Also

See Starting a Priest for some advice when starting out.
See the Priest Category for further information on the Priest class.

Some good info at the official WoW forums:

• Healing mana and threat FAQ

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