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Heal your group, shield yourself, or wear enemies down with Shadow.
You are a cloth caster who can heal a whole group, shield allies before damage lands, or deal steady Shadow damage over time. While leveling you fight with a wand, Shadow Word: Pain and Mind Blast, and you can always heal yourself. Groups look for Priests for healing, Power Word: Fortitude and Dispel Magic.
Best to level: ShadowShadow is the smoothest solo spec: your damage over time and wand kill safely, Mind Flay slows from about level 20 and Shadowform halves your Shadow mana costs at 40. Also good: Discipline.
HealerDamage
You stop damage before it lands with Power Word: Shield, and from level 30 Penance heals an ally or hits an enemy. Alone you fight with Shadow Word: Pain, Smite and your wand, which makes Discipline a very safe spec to level.
Healer
You heal damage after it lands with Renew, Heal, Flash Heal and group heals like Prayer of Healing and, from level 40, Prayer of Mending. It is the Priest's best group healer and a friendly first healer, but solo leveling is slow.
Damage
You wear enemies down with Shadow Word: Pain and Mind Blast, then add Mind Flay from about level 20. Shadowform at 40 makes your Shadow spells stronger and half as expensive, but you cannot heal while you are in it.
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These races can play a Priest. Hover a racial icon for the details.
Human
Alliance
Will to Survive breaks any stun the moment you need to shield or heal, and at level 10 you learn Divine Grace, an external instant heal that also clears Weakened Soul so you can shield the same target again right away.
Dwarf
Alliance
Stoneform clears bleeds, poisons and diseases while you heal through the damage, and your class quests add Desperate Prayer at 10 and Chastise at 20 for extra emergency tools.
Night Elf
Alliance
Elune's Light adds crit chance right when Divine Aegis can turn that crit into a shield, and Shadowmeld gets you out of a bad pull. Starshards and Elune's Grace round out your class quest rewards.
Gnome
Alliance
Eureka! is a strong mana-saving cooldown, Expansive Mind and Escape Artist round out a great all-purpose kit, and your class quests add Confounding Flash at 10 and Contingency Plan at 20, a shield-and-heal ward that can save an ally on its own.
Undead
Horde
Cannibalize speeds up downtime while you level, Will of the Forsaken is one of the best PvP racials in the game, and your own Dark Sacrifice class quest spell turns spare health into mana whenever you need it.
Troll
Horde
Berserking and Regeneration keep you moving and topped up between pulls, and your class quests add Hex of Weakness at 10 and Shadowguard at 20 for extra utility.
Rotation Trainer
See every button with the reason behind it, your Mana live and all presses on a timeline. Then take over with keys 1 to 9 and compare your damage.
The builds players plan for level 60, under the names you hear in chat. One click opens the full build in the talent calculator.
Damage·Raid and dungeon Shadow damage
Discipline 18Holy 0Shadow 33
2/2
5/5
2/2
Shadowform, Improved Mind Flay and Devouring Contagion cut your mana problem down to size, Shadow Weaving boosts your own damage and Vampiric Embrace keeps healing the group as a side effect.
Healer·Raid and dungeon healing built around shields
Discipline 33Holy 18Shadow 0
3/3
5/5
5/5Penance, Soul Warding, Renewed Hope and Divine Aegis turn Power Word: Shield into most of your healing, with Power Infusion as a burst cooldown for the group.
Healer·Main raid healer, big group heals
Discipline 18Holy 33Shadow 0
3/3
2/2
5/5
Spiritual Guidance and Spiritual Healing push your throughput, Litany of Light rewards swapping between heals, and Binding Heal plus Prayer of Mending cover split damage.
Healer·Battleground healer that survives focus fire
Discipline 31Holy 20Shadow 0
3/35/5Martyrdom, Soul Warding, Renewed Hope, Divine Aegis and Power Infusion carry your healing, with Spell Warding and Blessed Recovery borrowed from Holy to shrug off burst damage.
Damage·Battlegrounds and world PvP duels
Discipline 18Holy 0Shadow 33
2/25/51/2Blackout stuns, Improved Psychic Scream, Silence and Shadowform lock a target down, with Martyrdom and Silent Resolve from Discipline to shrug off crowd control.
Level 60 is not open in the beta yet, so these builds can still change. Builds as published on wowforeverbuilds.com.
Rare and epic armor (Cloth) and weapons you can use, dungeon by dungeon by level. Armor and weapon types as in Classic.
Crystalline CuffsWrist
Robe of EvocationChest
Chanting BladeOne-Hand
Slime-encrusted PadsShoulder
Stinging ViperOne-Hand
Serpent GlovesHands
Living RootTwo-Hand
FirebelcherRanged
Robe of the MoccasinChest
Tail SpikeOne-Hand
Gold-flecked GlovesHands
Emberstone StaffTwo-Hand
Corsair's OvershirtChest
Cookie's Stirring RodRanged
Buzzer BladeMain Hand
Cookie's TenderizerOne-HandFeline MantleShoulder
Robes of ArugalChest
Belt of ArugalWaistMeteor ShardOne-Hand
Baron's ScepterMain Hand
Odo's Ley StaffTwo-HandBloody ApronChest
Eerie Stable LanternHeld In Off-hand
Rod of the SleepwalkerTwo-Hand
Leech PantsLegs
Gaze Dreamer PantsLegs
Bite of Serra'kisOne-Hand
Ghamoo-ra's BindWaist
Prison ShankOne-Hand
Spidertank OilragWrist
Acidic WalkersFeet
HydrocaneTwo-Hand
Toxic RevengerOne-Hand
Swinetusk ShankMain HandBatwing MantleShoulder
Death Speaker ScepterMain HandThornspikeOne-Hand
Death Speaker MantleShoulder
Death Speaker RobesChest
Orb of the Forgotten SeerHeld In Off-handBloodmage MantleShoulder
Necrotic WandRanged
Blighted LeggingsLegs
Embalmed ShroudHead
Ironspine's FistOne-Hand
Torturing PokerOne-Hand
Hypnotic BladeMain HandIllusionary RodTwo-Hand
Loksey's Training StickTwo-Hand
Robes of the LichChest
Coldrage DaggerOne-HandDeathmage SashWaist
Grimlok's Tribal VestmentsChest
Revelosh's GlovesHands
Stoneweaver LeggingsLegsStonevault ShivOne-Hand
The Hand of Antu'sulMain Hand
The Chief's EnforcerTwo-Hand
Bad Mojo MaskHead
Zum'rah's Vexing CaneTwo-HandGahz'rilla FangOne-Hand
Eye of TheradrasHead
Charstone DirkMain Hand
Fist of StoneMain HandRotgrip MantleShoulderNoxious ShooterRangedVinerot SandalsFeet
Nature's EmbraceChestSatyrmane SashWaist
WidowmakerOne-HandOmnicast BootsFeet
Senior Designer's PantaloonsLegsPyric CaduceusRangedKindling StaveTwo-Hand
Magister's CrownHead
Dreadmist MaskHeadDevout CrownHead
Dreadmist MantleShoulder
Magister's MantleShoulderMagister's GlovesHands
Dreadmist WrapsHands
Magister's LeggingsLegs
Devout SkirtLegsDreadmist LeggingsLegsDreadmist SandalsFeetDevout SandalsFeet
Dreadmist RobeChest
Magister's RobesChest
Devout RobeChest
Devout MantleShoulderSeen in the beta, unless it says otherwise.
Devouring Plague and Fear Ward are no longer race spells. Every Priest learns both at level 20.
Each race gets two race-only Priest spells from class quests at 10 and 20, like Chastise for Dwarves or Contingency Plan for Gnomes.
Discipline gets Penance, a short channel that heals an ally or hits an enemy, and Divine Aegis shields on your critical heals. Divine Spirit is now a trained spell instead of a talent.
Not tested yetHoly gains Binding Heal, which heals you and your target at once, and Prayer of Mending, a heal that jumps from player to player.
Not tested yetShadow gets Shadow Word: Death at 32 to finish low enemies, and Shadowform now halves the mana cost of your Shadow spells. Shadow Weaving only boosts your own damage now.
Not tested yetHealing Power now also adds a third as much spell damage, and caster weapons carry spell power, so healing gear still helps while you quest.
Not tested yet13 of 53 talents are new
Discipline7 new, 10 changed, 18 in total
Holy3 new, 9 changed, 17 in total
Shadow3 new, 10 changed, 18 in total
Shadow. Shadow is the smoothest solo spec: your damage over time and wand kill safely, Mind Flay slows from about level 20 and Shadowform halves your Shadow mana costs at 40. Also good: Discipline.
. Races that can play it: Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Undead and Troll.
Healer and damage. Discipline: healer, damage. Holy: healer. Shadow: damage.
Holy and Shadow. Holy keeps the whole kit, direct heals, Renew, Power Word: Shield, Prayer of Healing, plus the new Binding Heal and Prayer of Mending, making it the Priest's best group healer.
Discipline. You stop damage before it lands with Power Word: Shield, and from level 30 Penance heals an ally or hits an enemy. Alone you fight with Shadow Word: Pain, Smite and your wand, which makes Discipline a very safe spec to level.
For example Shadow at level 60: open with Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Blast, Devouring Plague, Mind Flay. Then your main buttons are Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, Shadow Word: Death and Mind Blast. The Rotation Trainer shows every button with the reason behind it and lets you play it yourself.
Shadow Raid, Discipline Raid, Holy Raid, Discipline PvP and Shadow PvP. Each one opens in the talent calculator with one click. Level 60 is not open in the beta yet, so these builds can still change.
The Priest is easy to start with. Wand leveling is forgiving and you can shield and heal yourself, but cloth armor means every extra mob hurts.
Cloth. Armor types as in Classic.
Wands, Daggers, One-Handed Maces, Staves.
As of Sep 23, 2026. Beta values, things can still change until launch. Talent tree data: talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0)
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Hand of Righteousness
Inquisitor's Shawl
Kilt of the Atal'ai Prophet
Fist of the Damned
Dawnspire Cord
Devout Gloves
Magister's Boots
