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Roles: Damage, Healing

Notes for WotLK Expansion

The priest has been the most affected by spell power changes and still remain the most diverse healing class and thereofre the simply the best healers in WotLK.  So essentially, it is business as usual.  With the new Shadow talent tree and buffed abilities they Priests are now much more effective at DPS, so don’t assume the priest is the automatic healer in group situations.

The other major change is the removal of the Priest racial spells.  Desperate Prayer racial ability, which heals the priest instantly, is now available to all races through talents and takes the place where Holy Nova used to be.

Holy Nova has been chaged to be a spell for all party members and is among the baseline abilities along with Hymn of Hope and Devouring Plague.

Mentioning the talent tree the Discipline tree has recieved the most attention with focus on healing as well as shield, spirit and general buffs and effects for party or raid.

WoW Priest Class Overview

Along with the Warrior, Rogue, Mage and Paladin the Priest is a mainstay of MMORPGs.  The great aspect in World of Warcraft however is that they have allowed the Priest to play a more expansive role and is simply not pigeonholed as a healer and has excellent damage capabilities.  In WoW, the Priest has become one of the best leveling characters and faster killing classes around which is great of party situations and can fulfill a unique role instead of simply being lost amongst Paladins and Druids

If rolling a priest the ‘discipline’ tree is your friend as it provides everything required to toughen your character up and complements the defensive tools such as Power Word: Shield, Psychic Scream and the Area of Effect Fear.  Watch out in PVP situations through, as you will often get targetted first as the best healing class in the game, take you out and the longevity of the rest of your group goes down the drain.

If you roll shadow this is not so much of an issue as a shadow priest can’t heal and they move onto the next target, like a Paladin or Druid.  So if you are up against a priest and you see that they throw fear at you, don’t instanty start laying into them, perhaps look for the next best target.

Keep in mind even if you are a shadow priest with death incarnate, stealer of life and the like, you still have holy spells.  Even though shadow form prevents you from casting healing spells, you can always switch out to save a team member and quite possibly save the fight as opposed to continuing to mindlessly DPS like many others.

The most powerful priest, whether they are discipline, holy, or shadow, will be the one who knows when and where to heal, damage, and shield others.  Only by utilizing all your abilities will you find yourself bringing the class to its maximum potential, anything else is a waste of perfectly good spells.  This is what makes the Priest class one of the most difficult, but also rewarding classes to play.

Strengths:

• Able to heal parties members and can resurrect after battle
• Can shield party members from damage
• Has very powerful buffs
• Can charm humanoids and fear enemies
• Can cast both Holy and Shadow spells

Weaknesses:

• Can only wear cloth armour
• Poor melee abilities and has low hit points
• Requires concentration to reflexes to heal party members, not for the faint hearted in the heat of battle

Allowed races: Human, Blood Elf, Draenei, Dwarf, Night Elf, Troll, Undead

Equipment: Cloth

Weapons: One-Handed Maces, Daggers, Staves, Wands
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