As a priest, you can choose whether to go with the Holy path or the Shadow path. Both path have very different talent build and role in the game. In this guide, the main focus is the Holy Priest path, so I will describe the talent build for that path.

Basically, there are two big ‘major’ for those who play priest: the “Holy Priest”, which is your typical healing-support priest and “Shadow Priest” which is focus on killing skills. Note that while I can provide you with the talent build, the best ways to cover the other aspects of the game such as fast leveling and gold making is still by using a guide. Why? See the answer at World of Warcraft Strategy Guide.

Priest Talent Builds
First, you will want to invest on Healing Focus and Improved Renew. Put two points in Healing Focus and 3 in Improved Renew; it is important that you can heal more without interruption.

The next things to do is maxed Spell Warding and Divine Fury to prolong your life. Add one point to Desperate Player, it will heal you instantly,  also another skill to prolong your life.

Maxing Holy Reach will give you 20% extra range for six different spells, keep you in safe distance while maintaining the survivability of your group members. Improved Healing is need to be maxed as well since it will reduce the mana cost for five different spells.

Conserve your mana with Healing Prayers; at max, you can get 20% mana cost reduction for two spells. As for Spirit of Redemption, you don’t want to use this often since it will make you die, but one point in this talent can save your group from a chaotic situation, so take this one as a reserve.

No one in your group will expect you to contribute significant damage, but 5 points in Spiritual Guidance can comes in handy when the situation demands.

You might have read other recommendation about Surge of Light; in my opinion, take this talent only if you are going to use Smite and Flash Heal repeatedly later at higher level. As for Spiritual Healing, you definitely want this as a Holy Priest since it will increase your healing spells by 10%.

A Lightwell will benefit the entire group during a raid; it heal anyone in your group that click it. It is not instant healing, but it is a good way to keep your mana for more demanding situation.

Spend five points: two in Empowered Healing as it will make your greater healing better and three for Serendipity as this one will cut your next spell mana cost; by doing so you have opened the next talents.

These next three talents are very important for a Holy Priest; I suggest that you maxed all of them. Empowered Renew will make your Renew heal the target instantly; Circle of Healing allowing you to heal up to five friendly party or raid members within range; Test of Faith increase healing rate on a party members whose health below 50%, increase the probability to save him/her.

There are many different opinions regarding the last two talents: Divine Providence and Guardian Spirit; other priest guides may suggest you to leave it and dump your remaining points in the Discipline tree, but recommend that you take both of them. Put three points in Divine Providence to gain access to the next talent; three points will give you 6% boost in some healing spells. As for the last talent, Guardian Spirit; it will increase your tank’s survivability and make it easier for you to keep him/her alive during chaotic situation.

As a Holy Priest, you will want to spend the last 20 points on the Discipline Tree to increase your survivability. Keeping yourself alive comes first before maintain the others health and a group will be in a very disadvantage when their healer dies, so these are how to spend the rest of your points:

1. Unbreakable Will; reduce the duration of various side effects, enable you to back into battle faster.
2. Silent Resolve; reduce the chance to dispell your helpful spells and damage over time spells.
3. Improved Power Word: Fortitude; increase Fortitude and Prayer Fortitude by 30%.
4. Martyrdom; gain Focused Casting effect for six seconds after getting hit by critical range or melee attack.
5. Meditation; when you casting spells (which probably something that you will do at all time in battle), you still have 50% of your mana regeneration continues.
6. Inner Focus; cut down the mana cost for your next spell by 100% and raising its critical rate by 25%.
7. Improved Power Word: Shield; boost Shield word by 15%.

This priest guide is mainly about holy priest talent build; for leveling method, you can find a group to visit instances dungeon or doing quests all the way to level 80. Quests is far better because you will get your gears as rewards, so don’t have to spend gold for it; it also a lot faster way to reach maximum level (IF you are do it in the correct order). Check the easy ways to do this at world of warcraft leveling guide.

Note: if healing and support is your favorite role, you may interested to play a Holy Paladin in PvP arena. This class has tremendous impact on the tide of the battle in the right hand. Check the build at Paladin PvP Guide.

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