Wow Priest Guide

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Feeling all religious? Great, cause here is your new job fresh from the job assignment center, Priest!



First off, select your race, this is crucial because each race gets their own special spells later on. The racial spells are as follows:



1. Hex of Weakness at level ten and is only open to the Trolls. This is a basic damage reduction spell, cast it on the target, its damage drops a small amount for a short time.

2. Touch of Weakness at level ten and only open to the Undead. When cast the next attack of the priest will cause extra shadow damage and reduce the damage of the monster by a small amount for a short time.

3. Starshards at level ten and is only open to Night Elf. This is a short Damage Over Time (DOT) spell causing great damage over a few seconds.

4. Desperate Prayer at level ten and only the Dwarf or Human may have. This instantly heals the character for a set amount of life, very nice in times of need.

5. Feedback at level twenty and is only open to the Humans. What this does is enchant your weapon so that it zaps mana out of your target and for every point of mana taken this way the target suffers that amount of damage.

6. Shadowguard at level twenty and is a Troll only spell. Thorns! Ok, so it’s not thorns from Diablo II, but close. What this does is returns a set amount of shadow damage whenever the target is hit but it is limited to ever few seconds and only three times.

7. Elune's Grace at level twenty and is a Night Elf only spell. This nifty spell when cast reduces damage taken from ranged enemies.

8. Devouring Plague at level twenty and is an Undead only spell. An awesome spell, this is a DOT that heals you. After casting it upon the target will suffer damage and you will in turn be healed for the amount it takes.

9. Fear Ward at level twenty and is Dwarf only spell. This is pretty basic, slap it on and the priest cannot be feared for a short time.







Also the higher intellect you have the more mana and more often you crit with magic spells not to mention the more you can heal. Spirit is also nice because it increases your regeneration rate of health and mana.



You can be Human, Night Elf, Dwarf, Undead or Troll but know this, you pick one and the rest of the characters on that server have to be of the same side. After you have gone through the creation of your character you will view a short movie for your race and be loaded at the training grounds, lets get started learning the game.



It’s time to learn how to navigate the game. Arrow keys move you as does clicking down both mouse buttons and the wheel will zoom you from your character. Auto run is Numlock, and space bar is your jump button, one of my favorites. To your top left is your picture with your life and mana bars extending outward from it.



On your far upper right you will see a map, this is very useful for navigating the world. As you travel grey arrows will appear on the map, those point to near by cities, left-click on the arrows to see the city names. An orange arrow points to your corpse when you die and a light yellow arrow points to your team mates should you be teamed but not close to each other. When you team mates are close they will be show as small dots with a yellow ring around them.



On the bottom left you will see three icons, the first is attack, the next is Smite and the third is Lesser Heal. The icon corresponds to the numbers 1-10 and – and +. Pressing one will draw your staff and pressing two will cause you to cast Smite when you have a target.



Next on your right you will see another set of icons, these consist of game settings, quest log and character information, take a peek around. Done poking around? Cool, to your further right you will see an icon on the far bottom right, which is your backpack, right click to open it. In here you will see some heal items and a stone called a hearthstone.



Now the hearthstone is super nifty, just talk to your local Inn keeper and tell him you want to rest. Doing this makes it so that when you right-click the stone you are teleported straight to the last Inn you rested at. This is really nice when you want to return from a quest quickly or just want to skip on the long run from the middle of no where. You can only use it once per hour though so use wisely. There are also four other slots next to the backpack for further bags that you can find or buy later on.



Look around at the people near you, you should see a guy around you with an exclamation point above his head, talk to him, he has a quest for you.



Anyone you see with exclamation points above their heads has quests for you. After you complete the quest an orange question mark will appear over the NPC’s head showing that they are ready to give you a reward. Now, get your first quest and head out to start killing.



After you complete a quest or two you should be two or three and get a quest to see your trainer, let’s go seem him. If you don’t have the quest look around the starting area for someone offering a quest, it should be there. After you have reached your trainer take a look at your skills, pretty straight forward. Here is some of what you should see.



• Smite- You’ve been using this, you should know, just bashes your target beyond recognition.

• Power Word: Fortitude- This increase the targets stamina for a short time, very nice for that extra bit of life.

• Shadow Word: Pain- A nice DOT- you will want this.

• Lesser Heal- It heals target.

• Power Word: Shield- Nice spell, it basically absorbs a set amount of damage, in a sense increasing the priest life. It is also nifty because spell casting cannot be interrupted while this spell is active. It only lasts a short time so make your moves quickly.

• Renew- This is what we call a HOT or Heal Over Time. Cast it on your target, they get healed for so much over a set amount of time. Very useful is cast just before battle.

• Mind Blast- Causes a nice amount of damage with high minimum and maximum. Down side is it makes the monster really really pissed off at you.

• Inner Fire- Nice skill that increases the priest’s damage and armor for short time.

• Psychic Scream- Nice spell to use when you need two enemies off your back, cast it and two nearby enemies will flee. Very nice for when you need to run.

• Mind Flay- This is an awesome skill. This is a DOT but also is slows your target by 50%, very nice to use when you want to pound a target from a distance and keep it there.



Well, there we have your skills, the descriptions in game are pretty straight forward. When you reach level ten you will open up talents which you will want to use. Now be careful, if you are still in open beta then you can reset them, it has been said that after launch you can’t so remember that when launch hits. Your talent points will be best spent on Holy and Discipline since you will be healing most of the time.



Well, there isn’t much more for me to say aside from remind you to stay on top of your quests and remember that intellect and spirit items are good for the mana increase, crit increase, and regain rate. When you get about 10 or so Westfall becomes the best place for alliance, can really say for horde as I haven’t played there yet. Remember, you are the pillar of your team, you keep it together with your heals, be strong and keep onto of your heals.





Good Luck Holy One,