Class Guide

PRIEST

The Priest class is known for its many healing abilities. Races that can play as Priests include Night Elves, Dwarves, Humans and Draenei for the Alliance and Undead, Trolls and Blood Elves for the Horde.

In addition to their role as healers, priests get offensive spells. Most of their offensive spells cause shadow damage, some will cause holy damage, and some racial spells will instead cause Arcane damage. Priests that focus on the Shadow talent tree can cause large amounts of shadow damage and are particularly effective in PVP. Recent Talent changes in preparation for The Burning Crusade expansion pack have made them a viable PvE class as well, allowing for increased mana efficiency and the ability to convert a percentage of their damage into mana for the party.

Priests have several spells which affect the mind or otherwise control their opponents. They can shackle undead, preventing a single undead foe from taking any action for a period of time or until damaged. Priests can cause several foes around them to run away in fear. They can even control the actions of a single humanoid opponent for a period of time. In addition, priests can temporarily make themselves appear less threatening to opponents and make foes less prone to attack.

All priests have the ability to buff allies by increasing their health. Discipline specialized priests can also increase the spirit of allies.

Priests, unlike other classes, get two special spells based on their race:

Night Elves - Starshards and Elune's Grace.

Dwarves - Desperate Prayer and Fear Ward.

Humans - Desperate Prayer and Feedback.

Draenei - Symbol of Hope and Fear Ward.

Undead - Touch of Weakness and Devouring Plague.

Trolls - Hex of Weakness and Shadowguard.

Blood Elves - Touch of Weakness and Consume Magic.

The Priest talent trees are: Holy (improved healing and holy damage spells), Shadow (improved shadow spells), and Discipline (improved support abilities such as buff and mana efficiency).

Priests can only wear Cloth armor. They may use maces, staves, daggers and wands as weapons.