Classic Priest Healer Guide (2024)

Last updated on Dec 02, 2020 at 10:24by Niphyr28 comments

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

Although the Season of Mastery brings with it a number ofchanges to how you may experience the content of WoW Classic, these tweaks donot include any adjustments to how you play Priest. As such, this guidewill cover all you need to know regardless of which version of Classic you wishto play.

However, due to certain pieces of content from later Phases now being availableat an earlier date, gearing recommendations for Priest will be different.Because of this, we have created additional pages detailing your best in slotitems for both pre-raid gear and the current raids available.

• 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

• 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.

There are 5 races that can be a Priest in WoW Classic: Human,Dwarf, and Night Elf if you are Alliance,Undead and Troll if you are Horde. In additionto the standard racials, Priests also get two abilities that are unique to therace you are playing. You get the first at Level 10 and the second at Level 20.The only thing you need to do is complete short quests each time that involveyou having to talk to certain NPCs. In the table below, you will find an overviewof the benefits each Priest race gets, including the aforementioned abilitiesunique to each race.

Race	Racial	Level 10	Level 20
Human	Perception	Desperate Prayer	Feedback
Dwarf	Stoneform	Desperate Prayer	Fear Ward
Night Elf	Shadowmeld	Starshards	Elune's Grace
Undead	Will of the Forsaken	Touch of Weakness	Devouring Plague
Troll	Berserking	Hex of Weakness	Shadowguard

Dwarf is considered to be the best PvE and PvP race for Alliance. This isprimarily due to the strength of Fear Ward, but Desperate Prayerand Stoneform are also very useful in their own right. The Human andNight Elf racials do not match up to this, though this certainly doesnot mean that you have to be a Dwarf for groups or raids to take you.

Neither Troll nor Undead has particularly amazing racials for PvE, butUndead has a great racial for PvP in the form of Will of the Forsaken.The self-healing that Devouring Plague provides every 3 minutes is alsonot bad, and it gives you a little extra damage. As a Troll, you get Berserking, which is decent in its own right, but the output increaseoverall is not that big of a deal. The utility and superior PvP racial thatUndead offers is, therefore, more highly valued most of the time.

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 onPickup item crafted using a recipe that drops from Balnazzar inStratholme. This is a very powerful item that you will not replace for sometime, some people choose to drop Tailoring once this item has been crafted.Tailoring pairs up well with Enchanting as you can Disenchant yourcrafted 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 tobe a bit more self-sufficient.

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

Priests are very sought after in all content, and your playstyle can varywildly depending on what your group needs you to do. In WoW Classic, you canhardly ever stick to only playing one role, and this is true for Priests aswell. As a healing Priest, you are very useful for both PvE and PvPcontent, 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 damageof your Warlocks through Shadow Weaving, so you never needed more thanone Shadow Priest in your raid. Your raw damage was not as good as what aWarlock could do, even when we take away the inhibitions of threat and Mana, ontop of taking up too many debuff slots in the process. For raiding, you wouldgenerally be much more useful if you could heal instead.