Priest Speed Leveling Guide

If you're looking for some speed leveling tips for your priest, then this guide was written for you. Specifically, we're going to give you some general information on the class, which talent builds are suited for each different role, and some tips for leveling quicker. By the time you've finished reading this guide, you're going to be able to level faster than ever before.

So let's start with some general information on the class. As you may already know by now, the priest is primarily a healing class. However, they have a powerful offensive magic spec in the shadow tree. They also offer many useful stamina and spirit buffs to their party. They also have crowd control in the form of fears and shackle. This can be useful for taking a mob “out of action” for awhile, when you're killing something else.

Now let's talk about talent builds. The holy tree primarily turns you into a powerful healer. You will be greatly desired in instances and raids if you're holy spec. However, this one is very slow to level with, and you'll find yourself having to regen mana frequently.

A better tree for leveling is shadow. This one excels at damage output, and it has much better mana conservation. The end skill can be useful for PVP. It's called dispersion, and it will reduce incoming damage by 90%, and you'll regenerate 6% mana every second for 6 seconds. However, you can't cast of attack during this time.

If you're serious about PVP, you may want to try out the discipline talent tree. This tree is focused on preventing damage rather than healing through it (although it offers formidable healing, too). It increases the power of your buffs, makes you more resilient to silences and interupts, and gives you powerful shields to negate damage. One of the key talents is “pain supression”, which reduces damage taken and increases resistance to dispels for 8 seconds. Using this at the right time can be a game winner in PVP situations.

So what tips do with have for you to level faster with your priest? First, make sure you're specced into shadow. This is the only real DPS spec the priest has to offer, and it will be the spec which helps you to level fastest if you're playing solo.

You will want to gear for spell power, spirit, intellect and some stamina. A priest has no use for strength or agility.

Some basic attacking rotations  you will need to be familiar with for leveling are pulling with your longest cast, biggest hitting spell, applying a DOT (damage of time) and then using Mind Flay to to extra damage and slowing the mob down so it doesn't reach you so quickly. You'll also want to keep a Power Word:Shield on you as often as possible to reduce damage and reduce casting pushback.

In conclusion, this guide has shown you how to level quicker with your priest. We covered some general info about the class, what each talent build is for, and some tips for leveling faster.