WoW Classic Priest Guide: Weapon Skills, Abilities, Trainers, & Gear

Priests in WoW Classic are masters of light and shadow, offering the strongest healing capabilities in the game as well as a viable damage specialization. They also bring plenty of useful utility in the form of dispels, buffs, and crowd control. Priest healers are always in demand in group content of any kind, and most raids will want to bring at least one Shadow Priest, especially if they have Warlocks in the group who can benefit from Shadow Weaving.

While Priests are considered one of the weakest classes for solo play, they bring an exceptional healing toolkit, with the most varied and powerful healing spells in the game. On the Horde side, they are the only class who can Dispel Magic, and one of only two classes on each faction who can use Resurrection. They tend to be very busy in group content healing, buffing, dispelling, and resurrecting other characters. They also have some fun niche abilities such as Mind Vision, Levitate, Mind Control, and Mind Soothe that can be extremely valuable in certain situations.

Holy Priest Healing

Shadow Priest DPS

Smite Priest DPS

Priest Talent Calculator

Priest Leveling Guide

Benediction Quest Guide

Priest Pre-Raid & Best in Slot (BiS)

19 Priest Twink

29 Priest Twink

39 Holy Priest Twink

39 Shadow Priest Twink

Roles and Specializations

The three talent trees for Priests are Discipline, Holy, and Shadow.

• Discipline
  • Focuses on utility talents and buffs.
  • Discipline is a little weaker as a healer than Holy, but offers the Divine Spirit and Power Infusion buffs, which may be more useful than added healing, depending on the content and your group.
• Holy
  • Offers primarily healing talents.
  • The strongest healing specialization in the game and always in demand for group content.
• Shadow
  • Contains talents that improve your damage with shadow spells.
  • Deals less damage than pure damage dealing classes, but still sometimes brought to raids for Shadow Weaving as well as its utility and passive healing capabilities.

View the complete Priest talent tree in our Priest Talent Calculator.

Class Feature: Unique Racial Abilities

Priests are the only class who get special racial abilities based on their race. This makes your choice of race much more significant as a Priest.

On the Alliance side, Dwarves are considered the essential race for Priests due to their extremely useful Fear Ward ability. Horde have a little more flexibility to choose, however.

Resources

Priests use Mana as their main ability resource.

Races

Priests have a couple of Race options for each faction. Priests are unique in that they also obtain special priest abilities based on their race, which are marked with an asterisk (*) below.

Racial Abilities

Starting Stats

Alliance

Stat	Dwarf	Human	Night Elf
Stamina	23	20	19
Strength	22	20	17
Agility	16	20	25
Intellect	21	22	22
Spirit	22	24	23

Horde

Stat	Troll	Undead
Stamina	21	21
Strength	21	19
Agility	22	18
Intellect	18	20
Spirit	24	28

Weapon Skills and Armor Proficiencies

Priests can only equip Cloth armor and can never learn any other armor proficiencies.

Below is a table of weapon types that Priests can use and where the initial skill can be trained. Priests have very few options for weapons compared to other classes.

Weapon Type	Where to Learn
Daggers	Ilyenia Moonfire in Darnassus Bixi Wobblebonk in Ironforge Woo Ping in Stormwind Sayoc in Orgrimmar Archibald in Undercity
One-Handed Maces	Default Default
Staves	Ilyenia Moonfire in Darnassus Woo Ping in Stormwind Hanashi in Orgrimmar Sayoc in Orgrimmar Ansekhwa in Thunder Bluff
Wands	Default Default

Notable Abilities

Priests have a lot of useful abilities that will make them a welcome addition to any group.

Utility

• Mind Vision
• Mana Burn
• Resurrection

Movement

• Levitate

Dispels

• Abolish Disease
• Cure Disease
• Dispel Magic

Crowd Control

• Mind Control
• Psychic Scream
• Shackle Undead
• Silence (Shadow talent)

Threat

• Fade
• Mind Soothe

Buffs

• Fear Ward (Dwarf)
• Divine Spirit (Discipline talent)
• Power Infusion (Discipline talent)
• Power Word: Fortitude
• Prayer of Fortitude
• Prayer of Shadow Protection
• Prayer of Spirit
• Shadow Protection

Debuffs

• Hex of Weakness (Troll)
• Shadow Weaving (Shadow talent)
• Touch of Weakness (Undead)
• Vampiric Embrace (Shadow talent)

Priest Trainer Locations

Priest class trainers can be found in starting zones and major cities.

Trainer	Faction	Location	Coordinates
Jandria	Alliance	Darnassus – Temple of the Moon	38.6, 82.0
Lariia	Alliance	Darnassus – Temple of the Moon	41.0, 89.6
Astarii Starseeker	Alliance	Darnassus – Temple of the Moon	38.6, 80.8
Priestess Alathea	Alliance	Darnassus – Temple of the Moon	40.0, 80.0
Branstock Khalder*	Alliance	Dun Morogh – Coldridge Valley	28.6, 66.4
Maxan Anvol	Alliance	Dun Morogh – Kharanos	47.2, 52.2
Ken’jai*	Horde	Durotar – Valley of Trials	42.4, 68.8
Tai’jin	Horde	Durotar – Razor Hill	54.2, 42.8
Priestess Anetta*	Alliance	Elwynn Forest – Northshire	49.8, 39.6
Priestess Josetta	Alliance	Elwynn Forest – Goldshire	43.4, 65.6
Braenna Flintcrag	Alliance	Ironforge – Mystic Ward	25.4, 8.4
High Priest Rohan	Alliance	Ironforge – Mystic Ward	25.6, 9.0
Theodrus Frostbeard	Alliance	Ironforge – Mystic Ward	24.0, 10.2
Toldren Deepiron	Alliance	Ironforge – Mystic Ward	25.6, 10.2
Ur’kyo	Horde	Orgrimmar – Valley of Spirits	35.6, 87.6
X’yera	Horde	Orgrimmar – Valley of Spirits	35.8, 87.6
Brother Benjamin	Alliance	Stormwind – Cathedral of Light	41.8, 29.6
Brother Joshua	Alliance	Stormwind – Cathedral of Light	38.8, 26.8
High Priestess Laurena	Alliance	Stormwind – Cathedral of Light	38.8, 26.6
Nara Meideros	Alliance	Stormwind – The Park	21.2, 50.6
Shanda*	Alliance	Teldrassil – Shadowglen	59.2, 40.6
Laurna Morninglight	Alliance	Teldrassil – Dolanaar	55.6, 56.8
Father Cobb	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Spirit Rise	25.8, 22.0
Malakai Cross	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Spirit Rise	24.8, 22.6
Miles Welsh	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Spirit Rise	25.6, 15.6
Dark Cleric Duesten*	Horde	Tirisfal Glades – Deathknell	31.0, 66.0
Dark Cleric Beryl	Horde	Tirisfal Glades – Brill	61.6, 52.2
Aelthalyste	Horde	Undercity – War Quarter	49.6, 17.2
Father Lankester	Horde	Undercity – War Quarter	49.6, 15.6
Father Lazarus	Horde	Undercity – War Quarter	47.6, 19.2

Gear Sets

Here are all of the equipment sets for Priests in Classic WoW, including dungeon sets, raid tier sets, and PvP sets.

• Vestments of the Devout (Dungeon Set 1 or Tier 0)
• Vestments of the Virtuous (Dungeon Set 2 or Tier 0.5)
• Vestments of Prophecy (Tier 1 – Molten Core)
• Confessor’s Raiment (Tier 1.5 – Zul’Gurub)
• Vestments of Transcendence (Tier 2 – Blackwing Lair)
• Finery of Infinite Wisdom (Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj)
• Garments of the Oracle (Tier 2.5 – Temple of Ahn’Qiraj)
• Vestments of Faith (Tier 3 – Naxxramas)
• The Highlander’s Intent/ The Defiler’s Intent (Arathi Basin)
• Lieutenant Commander’s Raiment/ Champion’s Raiment (Rare PvP)
• Field Marshal’s Raiment/ Warlord’s Raiment (Epic PvP)

Notable Items

• Benediction/Anathema: This two-in-one epic staff is earned through a challenging quest that begins with a drop from Molten Core. (Benediction Guide)

Skill Books

Below are all of the skill books that are available for Priests in WoW Classic. These books teach new abilities or ability ranks that cannot be learned from trainers. The books are not Soulbound and can therefore be traded or purchased from the Auction House.