Priest

Light and Shadow in one pair of hands. The group’s main healer or a dark caster.

HealerDamage

Armor: Cloth
Weapons: Daggers, maces, staves, wands
Resource: Mana
Leveling: About 5% slower than average

Pick a race Specializations

Specializations

Healer, shields and absorption

Shields and healing that is stronger in long fights.

TipUsually a support tree for Holy or Shadow.

Power Infusion
A strong buff on an ally, groups value it
Power Word: Shield
Absorbs damage
Inner Focus
A free spell

What is new in Forever

Warcraft Tavern, LFCarry

Compared with Classic. Blizzard may still change the numbers before release.

Fear Ward and Devouring Plague are available to any race from level 20.
Each race has two priest spells of its own.
Divine Spirit is now baseline.
Shadowform was reworked, Shadow damage buffed on 15 October.
New Holy capstone: Prayer of Mending.
Early wands now give spell power.

Races

Tap a race and the picker opens that combination: racial abilities and everything about the class.

Alliance

Horde

TipStrongest: Night Elf for the Alliance and Undead for the Horde. Gnome priest is a new combination.

In a group and while leveling

Group value

Divine Spirit and Power Word: Fortitude for the whole raid
Power Infusion empowers an ally
The group main healer

Leveling

About 5% slower than average

TipTailoring and Enchanting; Alchemy and Herbalism for potions.

Pros and cons

Strengths

Always needed by a group
Healing or shadow damage
Many builds

Weaknesses

Cloth only, fragile
Few ways to move fast
Haste barely helps spells

Other classes

Mage