Classic Priest Healer Guide

As a Priest, you have the ability to heal yourself and group members as a Holy or Discipline Priest, or do damage as a Shadow Priest. Healing Priests are the typical RPG style reactive healer with many tools to keep your allies healthy. Being a Healing Priest in classic is the desired role in all forms of content.

Strengths

• Can provide some of the best single-target and AoE healing in the game.
• Brings great utility to any group.
• Good for all types of content.

Weaknesses

• Lack of mobility can be punishing if not planned well, with few spells being able to be cast on the move.
• Requires good Mana management to not go out of Mana too quickly.
• Squishy versus physical damage, primarily an issue in PvP.

Priests are very sought after in all content, and your playstyle can vary wildly depending on what your group needs you to do. In WoW Classic, you can hardly ever stick to only playing one role, and this is true for Priests as well. As a healing Priest, you are very useful for both PvE and PvP content, while a Shadow Priest is very good for PvP, but not as good for PvE. For example, Shadow Priests were mostly brought to raids to buff the damage of your Warlocks through Shadow Weaving, so you never needed more than one Shadow Priest in your raid. Your raw damage was not as good as what a Warlock could do, even when we take away the inhibitions of threat and Mana, on top of taking up too many debuff slots in the process. For raiding, you would generally be much more useful if you could heal instead.

Your racial choice matters much more as a Priest than it does for other classes, as you can only get certain Priest spells by being a specific race. Below you will find a list of all of the Priest-specific racial abilities to keep in-mind while deciding which race to choose.

• Level 10 ‒ Desperate Prayer
• Level 20 ‒ Fear Ward
• Level 10 ‒ Desperate Prayer
• Level 20 ‒ Feedback
• Level 10 ‒ Starshards
• Level 20 ‒ Elune's Grace
• Level 10 ‒ Hex of Weakness
• Level 20 ‒ Shadowguard
• Level 10 ‒ Touch of Weakness
• Level 20 ‒ Devouring Plague

Tailoring is a very popular profession, due to the gear that can be crafted. Of particular interest is the Truefaith Vestments which are a Bind on Pickup item crafted using a recipe that drops from Balnazzar in Stratholme. This is a very powerful item that you will not replace for some time, some people choose to drop Tailoring once this item has been crafted. Tailoring pairs up well with Enchanting as you can Disenchant your crafted items, and create enchants which can be sold to other players.

Engineering has many perks that are useful in Dungeons, Raids, and PvP. It can be expensive to level, so taking Mining with it initially is advised to be a bit more self-sufficient.

Another really popular combination, especially for first-time characters, is Alchemy and Herbalism. This combination allows you to level Alchemy, and sell the consumables you create to fund the other aspects of your gameplay.

Find our new guides for Priest in WoW Classic Season of Discovery below! The new game mode will have players find and utilize Runes that can then be engraved onto their gear to provide them special bonuses that augment already existing abilities or allow the class to use entirely new spells.

Priest can function as both a DPS and a Healer, and while that isn't changing, the Season of Discovery will make new builds possible, and increase the power of already existing builds.