Classic WoW Priest Leveling Guide - [7 Relevant Tips]

Many people think that Priest is just a healing class, a weak spell caster, so leveling up must be a real challenge. Yeah, this can be true, but with the right tips and tricks, you can increase leveling speed, either solo leveling or being part of a team. This Classic WoW Priest Leveling Guide will address the best way to go from early levels to 60. 

Table of Contents

What Is the WoW Classic Priest Class?

Priest  Spells to Buy While Leveling 

Stats Priority

Talent Allocation Order for Leveling Classic Wow Priest 1-60

Best Professions for Priest Leveling 

Priest Enchanting Wands for Leveling

Unique Priest Racial Spell Quests 

Tips and Tricks for Priest Leveling

Season of Mastery Priest Leveling Guide Conclusions

What Is the WoW Classic Priest Class?

The Priest is the master of the art of preservation and healing. They heal wounds, shield allies, and finish mobs through more mana-efficient spells, such as Holy Fire and Holy Light. Like no other classes, they can resurrect allies from death. Their play style is silent and protective, providing solo damage from a distance.    

Priests have three talent trees, each with unique talents and abilities for different purposes. Shadow provides solid damage, but it's recommendable to use it from level 40. Discipline is the talent tree you want to choose if you want to mitigate large amounts of damage. Healing is the right choice for PvP and healing dungeons.

Smite Priest

Discipline Priests are tanks that use the spell power to shield allies from enemy attacks and heal wounds. They are a fundamental part of any dungeon quest, providing reasonable damage control and decent Wand damage to enemies. 

Holy Priest

Healing Spec Priests are mainly healers whose mission is to reverse damage to groups and individuals. A healer can even bring back characters beyond the grave. Holy Priest is a good choice for healing group content if you want spam Smite Priest.

Shadow Priest

The Shadow Spec Priest is a dark sorcerer who uses sinister Shadow Magic and Void Magic to deal shadow damage and eradicate enemies from the battlefield. Shadow Priests are great for level 40+ players. 

Priest  Spells to Buy While Leveling 

Some common mistake is to believe that you need to buy all the abilities you find in the game as you can train them. The best is to buy only specific spells at certain levels. This way, you save money to buy your first mount at level 40.  

• Smite (Lvl 1). Your basic Holy damage spell.

• Mind Blast (Lvl 5). Blast the target mind with a useful damage spell.

• Shadow Word: Pain (Lvl 4). It’s one of the most mana-efficient spells.

• Power Word: Shield (Lvl 6). It provides an instant absorb shield, which is great for emergency and healing situations. 

• Inner Fire (Lvl 9). This spell will provide you with solid armor gain. It also helps you to take a lot of melee damage.

• Lesser Heal (Lvl 10). It provides good healing from 143 to 165.

• Renew (Lvl 14). A spell that heals you over time.

• Heal (Lvl 16 ). Heal is your primary healing spell.

• Holy Fire (Lvl 20). A great opener for any Smite Priest. It delivers a massive amount of Holy Damage.

• Power Word: Fortitude (Lvl 60). This spell is a great buff that enhances you and your party members.

• Greater Heal (Lvl 60). This spell is going to be another of your primary healing spells. You’ll be able to heal a single target from 1966 to 2194. 

• Divine Spirit (Lvl 60). You’ll increase the Spirit of you and your party members.  

Stats Priority

• Spirit. It is the most crucial statistic since it dramatically increases mana and health regeneration. Besides, you can synergize it with Spirit Tap to double the Spirit for 15 seconds after dealing a killing blow.

• Intellect. It increases the maximum mana pool and raises the Spell's Critical Hit chance. It also increases the learning weapon skills rate.

• Stamina. It increases your Health pool.

• Agility. It provides additional Dodge chance and increases Armor and Weapon Critical Hit chance. It will also improve your defenses a bit.

• Strength. Priests do not use Off-Hand Shields, and they're fragile bashing mobs heads, so Strength is irrelevant to them.   

Talent Allocation Order for Leveling Classic Wow Priest 1-60

Talent allocation is an essential part of the Priest leveling process. Next, we mention the best leveling spec for smooth leveling and lead you through Discipline Tree and Shadow Tree level by level.

Tallent Allocation for Levels 10-39 – Discipline Tree and Shadow Tree

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• 5/5 Wand Specialization. This primary talent increases the damage you deal with Wands by 5/10/15/20/25%. You can alternatively start with a 5/5 Spirit Tap.  

• 5/5 Spirit Tap. You have a chance of getting a 100% to your Spirit after defeating the target. Your mana will be regenerated while casting.

• 2/2 Improved Shadow Word: Pain. You'll increase the damage of this spell by 3/6%.

• 3/5 Shadow Focus. Thanks to this, you’ll have a better chance of hitting the shadow spells at equal-level mobs. It also minimizes the mana cost of the same spells.

• 3/3 Improved Power Word: Shield. This spell gives you the critical chance of receiving less damage by reducing it by 10/20%.  

• 5/5 Improved Power Word: Fortitude. This talent is essential since you’ll increase your total stamina by 2/4%.

• 1/1   Inner Focus. Inner Focus is primordial among new talents since you get immunity to Interruption and Silence for 5 sec. You'll also increase the critical effect chance of some spells, such as Heal and Holy Fire. 

• 3/3 Meditation. This talent is fundamental for the highest DPS since you’ll regenerate your mana from Spirit con continue with rotation. 

• 1/2 Martyrdom. It allows you to cast spells without being interrupted by melee or ranged strikes. This talent also will decrease the duration of Interrupt by 10/20%.

• 5/5 Mental Agility. You’ll reduce the mana cost for your instant-cast spells.

Tallent Allocation for Levels 10-39 - Holy Tree

An excellent alternative to the above that considers Holy Talents will follow the subsequent distribution:

• 5/5 Spirit Tap. The best leveling talent that we describe above.

• 5/5 Wand Spec.

• 5/5 Holy Specialization. Increases the critical effect chance of your Holy spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.

• 5/5 Divine Fury. Increases your chance to hit with Penance, Smite, Power Word: Solace, Cascade, Divine Star, Halo, and Holy Fire by 15%

• 3/3 Inspiration. Reduces the target's physical damage for 15 sec after getting a critical effect from specific spells. 

• 2/2 Searing Light. Increases the damage of your Smite and Holy Fire spells by 5/10%.

Respecing Tallent Allocation When Reaching Level 40

Upon reaching level 40, you should reset your talent points with a Class Trainer. Now, you should allocate points in the following way:

• 5/5 Spirit Tap.

• 2/5 Blackout. Gives your Shadow damage spells a 2/4/6/8/10% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.

• 2/2 Improved Shadow Word: Pain.

• 3/5 Shadow Focus.

• 2/2 Improved Psychic Scream. Reduces the cooldown of this base spell by 2/4 sec.

• 1/1 Mind Flay. It causes Shadow damage over 4.5 sec and slows the movement speed of the target by 50%.

• 3/3 Shadow Reach. Increases the range of your offensive Shadow spells by 10/20%

• 5/5 Shadow Weaving. Your Shadow damage spells have a 33/66/100% chance to increase the Shadow damage you deal by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

• 1/1 Silence. Silences the target for 5 sec. It also interrupts spellcasting from non-players and prevents any spell from being cast for 3 sec.

• 1/1 Vampiric Embrace. It causes you to heal a nearby ally for 85% of any single-target Shadow spell. 

• 5/5 Darkness. Increases your Shadow spell damage by 2/4/6/8/10%.

• 1/1 Shadowform. Assume a Shadow form, increasing your spell damage dealt by 10%.

Tallent Allocation for Levels 40-59

From level 41 to 60, you should allocate your points in the following way for a fast classic leveling process.

• Levels 41-45 - 5/5 Wand Spec. 

• Levels 46-48 - 3/3 Improved Power Word: Shield.

• Levels 49-50 - 2/2 Improved Power Word: Fortitude.

• Level 51 - 1/5 Shadow Focus.

• Levels 52-54 - 3/3 Meditation.

• Level 55 - 1/2 Martyrdom.

• Levels 56-59 - ⅘ Mental Agility.

Best Professions for Priest Leveling 

As you may know, some professions fit better with each other. Some of them will help you to craft valuable items for Priest, some objects that will promote the mana efficiency, and more. 

• Tailoring. Some of the best professions combinations are Tailoring + Enchanting or some reason: Wands. Tailoring will let you have some uncommon items for disenchanting. It will also provide you with your first Wand.

• Enchanting. This profession also will provide you with the Greater Magic Wand if you level it to 70. At this point, feel free to respec your points if you need more points for other professions. 

Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning are excellent for making extra money while solo questing or wandering, especially when your character is in earlier levels.

Priest Enchanting Wands for Leveling

Weapons for Priests are essential to provide a massive amount of stats and enhance their basic abilities through talent. Thanks to weapons, you can increase your Healing Power, Intellect, and Stamina, among others. 

However, Wands are even more critical since you can deal damage without consuming mana. Wands are even more relevant for Priests since this class deals minor damage in the early stages, at least until they reach Shadow talents. Wands are fundamental for Priest alliance races as they can use them to regenerate mana in particular conditions.

That said, it’s recommendable you get a Wand as soon as possible to advance while leveling up. Then, it would help if you kept it updated while leveling to provide a reasonable level range damage at your Lvl.

Now, we’re given to you the unique wands you should acquire, with the source from where you get them.

• Lvl 5 – Lesser Magic Wand – Arcana Damage – Lvl 10 Enchanting.

• Lvl 9 – Spark of the People’s Militia – Arcane Damage – The People’s Militia quest from level 9 NPC Gryan Stoutmantle located in Westfall.

• Lvl 13 – Greater Magic Wand – Arcane Damage – Lvl 70 Enchanting.

• Lvl 15 – Smoldering Wand – Fire Damage – Vendors in Capital Cities.

• Lvl 25 – Dusk Wand –  Shadow Damage – Vendors in Capital Cities.

• Lvl 29 – Gravestone Scepter – Shadow Damage – Backfathom Villainy from NPC Argent Guard located in Thaelrid. 

• Lvl 30 – Consecrated Wand – Nature Damage – Worgen in the Woods quest from NPC Calor located in Duskwood.

• Lvl 32 – Excavation Rod – Fire Damage – Omer’s Revenge from NPC Omer Ironbraid in Wetlands. 

• Lvl 46 – Blackbone Wand – Shadow Damage – Vendors in Capital Cities.

• (A) Lvl 50 – Cairstone Silves – Arcane Damage – The Morrow Stone from NPC Equinex Monolith located in Feralas.

• (H) Lvl 50 – Nature’s Breath – Nature Damage – Dark Vessels from NPC Primal Torntusk located in the Hinterlands.

• Level 56 – Rod of Corrosion – Nature Damage – Hade of Eranikus Boss in the Sunken Temple.

• Lvl 60 – Smokey’s Fireshooter – Fire Damage – hen Smokey Sings, I Get Violent from NPC Smokey LaRue located in Eastern Plaguelands.

Unique Priest Racial Spell Quests 

Each priest race has race-specific spells that you can unlock by completing a unique racial spell quest. You unlock these spells at level 10 and level 20. Then, if you reach these levels, head to the quests as soon as possible as they will reward you with unique abilities.

Human Priest Quests

• Desperate Prayer Quest (level 10). As a quest reward, you’ll get Desperate Prayer, a spell cast that grants Human Priests the ability to heal themselves for a significant amount.

• Arcane Feedback Quest (level 20). Completing this quest rewards you with Feedback, which allows you to create anti-magic energy surrounding you burning attacking mana. 

Troll Priest Quests

• Hex of Weakness (level 10). This spell of the same name grants you a reduction of the damage that enemies provide and the effectiveness of healing.

• Shadowguard (level 20). Shadowguard provides your character with a buff which does a small account of damage back to attackers.

Dwarf Priest Quests

• Desperate Prayer Quest (level 10). It is the same quest as Human Priest Quests.

• A Lack of Fear (level 20). Fear Ward grants a spell that protects an ally from the next Fear effect cast for 10 minutes. 

Undead Priest Quests

• Touch of Weakness (level 10). It grants a buff that does a small amount of damage to the attacker, reducing the damage they do for 2 minutes.  

• Devouring Plague (level 20).  Devouring Plague provides an ability that damages an enemy over 24 seconds and heals the casting Priest.

Night Elf Priest Quests

• Returning Home (level 10). Starshards spell grants an ability that damages the target over 6 seconds.  

• Elune’s Grace (level 20). The ability provided by this quest reduce ranged damage and increases the chance to dodge for 15 seconds.

Tips and Tricks for Priest Leveling

• Leverage your Spirit Tap talent. Finish off mobs with your Wand to maximize the mana regeneration. Remember that mana starts to generate 5 seconds after you cast a spell. 

• Maintain your buffs. Keep Inner Fire and Power Word: Fortitude. These spells will enhance your mana efficiency by saving mana that you can use in healing.

• Stack Spirit since it is your more important stat. It is the key to quick mana regeneration and smooth leveling.

• Keep your Gold. Just learn the essential skills from Class Trainers. Avoid purchasing in the Auction House to use your Gold for more essential purposes.

• Keep your Wand updated. Follow the Wand progression route. Keep in mind that most of your damage comes from your Wand.

• Dowrank your spells. Try not to use the most potent Healing Ability because it costs too much mana and is overkill.

• Get a ton of Spirit Gear. Prioritize Spirit to get high mana and to increase health. 

Season of Mastery Priest Leveling Guide Conclusions

Thanks for reading this short World of Warcraft Classic Priest Leveling Guide. The pieces of advice we've given you here are the cornerstone to take your Priest from lower levels to the highest ones. 

We believe this is one of the best classes; if you know how to use it or which Wands and talents you must boast to provide more damage and damage reduction. 

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