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The Priest in WoW Forever deals damage or heals. Level as Shadow, run dungeons as Holy and fight in PvP as Discipline. Humans, Dwarves, Night Elves and Gnomes play it for the Alliance, Undead and Trolls for the Horde. You wear Cloth and use wands, daggers, one-handed maces and staves. 14 of the 52 talents are new.
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.
Drag to your level: the talent to take now, your newest abilities and the dungeons that fit.
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Class quests5In Favor of the Light → Priest robe: Friar's Robes of the Light or Acolyte's Sacrificial Robes
These races can play a Priest. Hover a racial icon for the details.
HumanTop PvP pick
Alliance
Will to Survive breaks any stun the moment you need to shield or heal, and Ruthless adds 1% crit to all your spells. 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, Artisan's Precision adds 1% hit to all your spells, 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.
GnomeTop Alliance pick
Alliance
For 8 sec Eureka! makes your spells 10% cheaper and 10% stronger, heals, Power Word: Shield and channels like Mind Flay included, but not periodic effects like Renew. 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.
UndeadTop Horde pick
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.
The Priest can use wands, daggers, one-handed maces and staves. Weapon skills you do not have yet you buy from a Weapon Master in a capital, and the skill goes up as you fight with the weapon. Your class trainer teaches new abilities and ranks and resets your talents, and a second talent set opens at level 40.
Gnome priests, new in Forever, train with High Priestess Mims in Ironforge. Horde priests find trainers in Orgrimmar, Undercity and Thunder Bluff.
Class trainersBeta
Weapon MastersBeta
All Priest trainers on the World Map
As of Oct 10, 2026. NPCs and places from the beta database, we check them again in the live game.
Your trainer teaches 154 abilities and ranks from level 1 to 60. In the beta that came to 244g 15s, at launch the whole training from 1 to 60 costs about 206–207 gold for every class. New ranks come on every even level, so drop by every two levels. Of these, 9 are new in Forever. 1 was a talent in Classic.
| Level | What you learn | Cost | Total so far |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
| 10c | 10c |
| 4 |
| 2s | 2s 10c |
| 6 |
| 2s | 4s 10c |
| 8 | 4s | 8s 10c | |
| 10 |
| 12s | 20s 10c |
| 12 |
| 24s | 44s 10c |
| 14 |
| 48s | 92s 10c |
| 16 |
| 32s | 1g 24s |
| 18 |
| 60s | 1g 84s |
| 20 |
| 2g 16s | 4g |
| Level | What you learn | Cost | Total so far |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 |
| 2g | 6g |
| 24 |
| 2g | 8g |
| 26 |
| 1g 80s | 9g 80s |
| 28 |
| 2g 52s | 12g 32s |
| 30 |
| 9g | 21g 32s |
| 32 |
| 5g 50s | 26g 82s |
| 34 |
| 6g | 32g 82s |
| 36 |
| 7g 21s | 40g 3s |
| 38 |
| 4g 80s | 44g 83s |
| 40 |
| 16g 9s | 60g 92s |
| Level | What you learn | Cost | Total so far |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 |
| 11g | 71g 92s |
| 44 |
| 9g 96s | 81g 88s |
| 46 |
| 10g 40s | 92g 28s |
| 48 |
| 14g | 106g 28s |
| 50 |
| 24g 15s | 130g 43s |
| 52 |
| 11g 97s | 142g 40s |
| 54 |
| 12g | 154g 40s |
| 56 |
| 25g 20s | 179g 60s |
| 58 |
| 22g | 201g 60s |
| 60 |
| 42g 55s | 244g 15s |
Beta dataFrom the trainer lists of the Forever beta, as of Oct 24, 2026. The prices per rank are still the beta ones, the launch evened them out.
Every class quest that brings you an ability, a form or a class item, quest by quest: who gives it and where, what you need and what you get.
Alliance
In Favor of the LightLevel 4
Garments of the LightLevel 4
Horde
In Favor of DarknessLevel 4
Garments of DarknessLevel 4
Beta dataQuest steps from the Forever beta database, as of Oct 21, 2026. The quest texts you read in the game.
Rotation Trainer
See every button with the reason behind it, your Mana live and all presses on a timeline. Play it on your own keys and compare your damage, or watch it with Autoplay.
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
Shadowform and Devouring Contagion cut your mana problem down to size, Improved Mind Flay makes every tick hit harder than the last, Shadow Weaving makes the target take more Shadow damage from you and Vampiric Embrace keeps healing the group as a side effect.
Healer·Raid and dungeon healing built around shields
Penance, 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
Spiritual Guidance and Spiritual Healing push your throughput, Litany of Light rewards swapping between heals, Prayer of Mending covers split damage, and Holy Binding heals you whenever you Flash Heal someone else.
Healer·Battleground healer that survives focus fire
Martyrdom, 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
Blackout stuns, Improved Psychic Scream, Silence and Shadowform lock a target down, with Martyrdom and Silent Resolve from Discipline to shrug off crowd control.
The beta stopped at level 30, so these level 60 builds are plans from the Forever talent data. Since launch we check them in the live game. Builds as published on wowforeverbuilds.com.
Our pick for every slot at level 60 from the gear the Forever data holds: dungeon drops, dungeon quests, Dungeon Set 2 and crafted items. The raids open on December 9, until then this is the gear to farm.
EditorialThe item stats come from the Forever client. The order is our call by the stats each spec wants, because the beta stopped at level 30 and nobody has tested level 60. Set bonuses are not counted. Stats and hit cap.
What countsHealing first, then Intellect, Spirit and mana per 5 sec., a little crit.
| Slot | Our pick | Where it comes from | Also good |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head |  |  | |
| Shoulder |  | Tailoring 300, pattern from a vendor |   |
| Chest |  | Tailoring 300 |  |
| Wrist |  |   | |
| Hands |  |  | |
| Waist |  | Tailoring 290, pattern from a vendor |   |
| Legs |  |  | |
| Feet |  |  | |
| Ranged |  | Enchanting 320, formula from a vendor |
The Forever data has no item from level 50 for neck, back, finger, trinket, main hand and held in off-hand yet. We add them once the dungeons are run at level 60 in the live game.
What countsSpell power and Shadow damage first, then hit, crit, Intellect and Spirit.
| Slot | Our pick | Where it comes from | Also good |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head |  |  | |
| Shoulder | | Tailoring 300, pattern from a vendor |  |
| Chest |  | Tailoring 285, pattern from Cobalt Mageweaver (Winterspring) |  |
| Wrist | | | |
| Hands | |  | |
| Waist | |  | |
| Legs | |  | |
| Feet |  | | |
| Ranged | | Enchanting 320, formula from a vendor |
The Forever data has no item from level 50 for neck, back, finger, trinket, main hand and held in off-hand yet. We add them once the dungeons are run at level 60 in the live game.
Raid gear, PvP rank gear and battleground rewards are not in this list, PvP has its own page: PvP gear.
Rare and epic armor (Cloth) and weapons you can use, dungeon by dungeon by level. Armor and weapon types as in Classic. Getting to 60 takes many evenings of quests and dungeons. If you would rather spend yours elsewhere, a WoW Forever leveling boost for your Priest takes over those levels.
Seen 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 in the betaHoly gains Holy Binding, which heals you for half of every Flash Heal you cast on someone else, and Prayer of Mending, a heal that jumps from player to player.
Not tested in the betaShadow 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 in the betaHealing 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 in the betaEarly Demise now only boosts Shadow Word: Death on targets at or below 20% health, and Inner Focus no longer adds crit chance to periodic effects. Devouring Plague can land critical hits, and Shadow Weaving no longer fails to apply.
On October 8 Penance was toned down. It paid out like a 3 sec channel instead of its real 2 sec, so it now deals and heals less, with extra healing on ranks 2 and 4, and rank 1 costs 150 Mana instead of 100. The low ranks of Smite, Lesser Heal and Heal were evened out too, so every new rank you train is an upgrade.
Since October 16 Devouring Plague has a 24 sec cooldown (was 1 min) and Vampiric Embrace 30 sec (was 1 min), while Shadow Word: Death waits 18 sec (was 12). Shadow gets Dark Inspiration, a new row 4 talent that raises your Spirit and your party's by up to 15% for 10 sec after Mind Blast or a full Mind Flay, and Improved Mind Flay makes every tick hit harder than the last.
Holy Fire rank 1, which you learn at 20, hits for 53 to 65 now (was 57 to 70) and still burns for 20 more over 10 sec. The higher ranks did not change.
At launch Shadow Word: Death hits you for 30% of your maximum health when the target survives (was 10%) and does nothing to you when it misses. Binding Heal is gone, Holy Binding takes its slot and makes no threat, Vampiric Embrace healing can no longer crit, and Power Word: Shield can be replaced by one of the same or a higher rank.
14 of 52 talents are new
Every change from Classic Era, for each class and beyond the talents, is in WoW Forever vs Classic, and what Blizzard's patches changed for the Priest in the patch notes.
For your class
Sets18
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.
Holy. Holy brings the big Priest heals and a Renew that can crit since September 24, plus Cure Disease for dungeons with diseases such as the Excavation Site. One public list puts it in S, both from late October in A.
Discipline. Discipline heals through almost any opener: Penance heals or hits on a 12 sec cooldown and comes at level 30, Power Word: Shield soaks the opener, Psychic Scream peels melee, and Silent Resolve shortens stuns, fears and silences. On October 8 Penance was toned down: it had paid out like a 3 sec channel instead of 2 sec. Overall it sits in A, where ConquestCapped and wowforevertierlist agree.
Until the raids open on December 9, your best gear comes from the level 60 dungeons, their quests, Dungeon Set 2 and crafting. For Discipline and Holy: Virtuous Crown (Dungeon Set 2) and Truefaith Vestments (Tailoring). Every pick is our call until level 60 is tested.
Gnome for the Alliance, Undead for the Horde, Human for PvP. Gnome: For 8 sec Eureka! makes your spells 10% cheaper and 10% stronger, heals, Power Word: Shield and channels like Mind Flay included, but not periodic effects like Renew. 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. Races that can play it: Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Undead and Troll.
Wands, Daggers, One-Handed Maces, Staves. You buy the weapon skills you do not have yet from a Weapon Master in the capitals. In the beta they stood in Stormwind, Ironforge and Darnassus for the Alliance and Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff and Undercity for the Horde. Your skill with a weapon goes up as you fight with it.
Gnome priests, new in Forever, train with High Priestess Mims in Ironforge. Horde priests find trainers in Orgrimmar, Undercity and Thunder Bluff.
About 206 to 207 gold at launch: that is what the full training from 1 to 60 costs for every class. The trainer lists of the Forever beta added up to 244g 15s for the 154 abilities and ranks every Priest learns there, with the priciest visit at level 60 (42g 55s). Ranks that only one race learns come on top.
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.
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.
14 of 52 talents are new and 33 changed. Devouring Plague and Fear Ward are no longer race spells. Every Priest learns both at level 20.
As of Nov 6, 2026. Values from the beta and the launch client, hotfixes can still change them. Talent tree data: talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0)
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Removed spells left the trainer list: Salvation, Blessing of Light, Frost Blast, Lava Burst, Binding Heal.
Training from 1 to 60 costs about 206–207 gold at launch, and the launch class changes are in.
Race notes with the launch racials: Ruthless 1% crit, Dwarves 1% hit, Blood Fury 2 min, Berserking 15 sec.
First published Every change on the guides
