WoW Forever Priest guide: leveling 1-60, talents and level 60

WOW FOREVER · CLASS GUIDE

Updated November 3, 2026

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Overview

The Forever Priest is still the cloth healer with the best buffs in the game, but it now has more tools: Penance, Prayer of Mending, Holy Binding and Shadow Word: Death. Every race now learns Fear Ward and Devouring Plague. Pick it if you want to heal groups and raids, or play Shadow, which is very self-sufficient solo and has a real place in PvP.

Strengths

Great solo sustain: Power Word: Shield, Spirit Tap, the self-heal on Devouring Plague and Vampiric Embrace let you chain pulls with little downtime.
The best buffs: Power Word: Fortitude lasts 1 hour, Divine Spirit is no longer a talent (everyone learns it at 30) and the Prayer versions cover the whole raid.
Very flexible: you can heal dungeons in any spec while leveling, and groups always need healers.
Fear Ward for everyone: you no longer need to be a Dwarf to keep your tank safe from fears.
Shadow gets a new finisher: Shadow Word: Death plus the Early Demise talent close out enemies below 20% health.

Weaknesses

Very mana-hungry: running dry with the enemy still alive is the most common way to die.
Slow start: until you have a decent wand and Mind Flay, your damage is low.
No mobility tools: no charge, no blink. In PvP, melee classes will stay on top of you.
You cannot heal in Shadowform: dropping it to heal and going back in costs 40% of your base mana. Since November 2 Blizzard confirms you can remove diseases without leaving it (Cure Disease and Abolish Disease).
Holy damage was cut: Smite and Holy Fire deal roughly half their Classic damage from level 30 on, so Holy and Discipline kill slowly.

The specs

Discipline	Healer and support · Healing dungeons and raids with shields and Penance Almost fully rebuilt. Penance (a 2 sec channel that heals or deals damage), Soul Warding, Renewed Hope and Divine Aegis make it the shield spec. Its capstone, Power Infusion, gives an ally 20% more damage and healing for 15 sec.
Holy	Healer · Healing whole groups The pure healing spec. It gains Holy Binding (it replaced Binding Heal on November 2: when you Flash Heal someone else, you get half of that healing too), Litany of Light (mana back when you alternate heals) and Prayer of Mending as the capstone, replacing Lightwell. Spiritual Guidance turns your Spirit into healing power.
Shadow	Ranged DPS · Leveling, solo play and PvP Shadow damage built on DoTs and channels. Mind Flay and its upgrade open at 20, Vampiric Embrace at 25 and Shadowform at 40 (it halves the cost of Shadow spells). It is the most popular leveling spec.

Recommended races

Human (Alliance)	Ruthless (+1% crit) and The Human Spirit (+10% Spirit) help both healing and Shadow. Will to Survive breaks stuns in PvP. Its priest spell, Divine Grace, is an instant heal that also clears Weakened Soul.
Dwarf (Alliance)	Artisan's Precision gives +1% hit, very handy for Shadow. Stoneform clears bleeds, poisons and diseases. It keeps Desperate Prayer and gains Chastise (damage plus a root on humanoids).
Gnome (Alliance)	New to the Priest in Forever. Expansive Mind (+5% mana) and Eureka! (cheaper, stronger spells for 8 sec) are good for healers. Contingency Plan is a safety net for the tank and Escape Artist helps in PvP.
Night Elf (Alliance)	Elune's Light gives +10% crit for 15 sec, a strong Shadow burst window. Shadowmeld helps you skip fights, and Starshards hits almost twice as hard as in Classic, though it now has a 30 sec cooldown.
Undead (Horde)	The best Horde pick for almost everything. Will of the Forsaken breaks fears and charms, Touch of the Grave drains health and Dark Sacrifice trades health for mana, great for healers.
Troll (Horde)	Berserking gives 10% more casting speed for 15 sec and Beast Slaying adds 5% damage against beasts. Shadowguard punishes whoever hits you and Rapid Regeneration restores health between fights.

Leveling 1-60

Leveling spec: Shadow

We recommend Shadow because it is a single route from 10 to 60 with no paid respec, and it is what most guides and players use. Spirit Tap refunds mana on kills, Mind Flay comes at 22 and Shadowform at 42. Until then your wand does a lot of the work. If you would rather wand things down and heal plenty of dungeons, Discipline with Penance (level 30) also works, but it kills more slowly.

Talents, point by point

10-11	2/2 Wand Specialization 25% more wand damage for just 2 points. Before Mind Flay, the wand finishes almost everything.
12-16	5/5 Spirit Tap The key leveling talent: on a kill, double Spirit and 50% regen while casting for 15 sec.
17-21	2/2 Improved Shadow Word: Pain, 3/5 Shadow Focus Shadow Word: Pain lasts 6 sec longer; Shadow Focus cuts Shadow spell misses.
22-24	1/1 Mind Flay, 2/2 Improved Mind Flay Your new main spell. With the upgrade, each tick hits 20% harder than the one before: always finish the channel.
25-27	5/5 Shadow Focus, 1/1 Vampiric Embrace Vampiric Embrace heals your party from your Shadow damage, and Spirit Tap also triggers when an affected enemy dies.
28-30	3/3 Shadow Weaving Up to 10% more Shadow damage on the target; in Forever it can no longer fail to apply.
31-35	5/5 Dark Inspiration Mind Blast and a full Mind Flay give you (and your party) 15% more Spirit: less time drinking.
36-41	2/2 Devouring Contagion, 4/5 Darkness Devouring Plague costs half and jumps to 2 nearby enemies if the target dies. Darkness raises Shadow damage.
42	1/1 Shadowform The big jump: +10% Shadow damage, half the mana cost and 15% less physical damage taken.
43-45	5/5 Darkness, 2/2 Early Demise Early Demise gives Shadow Word: Death +30% crit when the enemy is below 20%.
46-50	5/5 Twin Disciplines 5% more damage and healing on instant spells; it also covers Mind Flay and Shadow Word: Death.
51-55	5/5 Mental Strength 10% more Intellect: more mana and more crit.
56-60	3/3 Meditation, 1/1 Inner Focus, 1/3 Mental Agility Mana regen while casting and a free spell every 3 min. Total: 17/0/34.

Leveling as Healer · Discipline (33/18/0)

For players who want to heal dungeons on the way up and quest in between with wand, shields and Penance. It kills slower than Shadow, but rarely dies and hits 60 ready to heal.

10-14	5/5 Twin Disciplines 5% more damage and healing on instant spells: Shadow Word: Pain, Renew and Power Word: Shield all get better from the start.
15-16	2/2 Wand Specialization Your wand deals 25% more damage. Between dungeons, it finishes off almost everything.
17-19	3/5 Mental Strength More Intellect, which means more mana to last a whole dungeon.
20-22	3/3 Improved Power Word: Shield Your shield absorbs 20% more. It is your main healing tool and also keeps you safe when solo.
23-26	3/3 Meditation, 1/1 Soul Warding Half your mana regen keeps going while casting: fewer drink breaks mid-dungeon. Power Word: Shield comes back 4 sec sooner and costs 15% less. You can now shield the tank on nearly every pull.
27-30	3/3 Mental Agility, 1/1 Penance Smite, Holy Fire and your instant spells cost 10% less mana. The key spell of the tree: a big heal on an ally or damage on an enemy over 2 sec. Use it whenever it is ready.
31-35	5/5 Renewed Hope More crit on your direct heals on targets with Weakened Soul, and healing them shortens the wait before you can shield them again.
36-38	3/3 Divine Aegis Every critical heal also leaves a shield on the target. With Renewed Hope, they happen often.
39-42	1/1 Inner Focus, 1/1 Power Infusion, 5/5 Mental Strength A free spell with extra crit every so often: save it for a Greater Heal in a pinch. Final talent: 20% more damage and healing for an ally for 15 sec. Give it to your best player at the key moment of the fight. You finish the 10% Intellect bonus. This completes Discipline with 33 points.
43-47	5/5 Holy Specialization In Holy: 5% more crit on Holy spells, so more Divine Aegis shields.
48-52	5/5 Divine Fury Heal and Greater Heal cast half a second faster (and so does Smite).
53-54	2/3 Improved Renew Renew heals 10% more.
55-57	3/3 Inspiration Your critical heals raise the target's armor by 25% for 15 sec: great on the tank.
58-60	3/3 Improved Healing Your big heals and Penance cost 15% less. Total: 33/18/0.

Leveling as Healer · Holy (19/32/0)

For players who plan to spend most of the leveling inside dungeons as the healer. It is the slowest of the three for solo questing, so it pays off if you have a regular group or queue up often.

10-14	5/5 Holy Specialization 5% more crit on Holy spells: it helps Smite when solo and your heals in groups.
15-19	5/5 Divine Fury Heal, Greater Heal, Smite and Holy Fire cast half a second faster. The talent you will feel most.
20-22	3/3 Improved Renew Renew heals 15% more. It is cheap and you will use it on every pull.
23-25	3/3 Inspiration Your critical heals give the target 25% more armor for 15 sec. Your tank will thank you.
26-28	3/3 Improved Healing Big heals cost 15% less: more pulls before you need to drink.
29-32	1/1 Holy Binding, 2/2 Litany of Light, 1/1 Spirit of Redemption Holy Binding took Binding Heal's slot on November 2: every Flash Heal on someone else heals you for half, with no threat. Perfect when a mob slips past the tank and hits you. If you alternate between different heals, you get mana back on each one. When you die you keep healing for a few seconds: Spirit of Redemption is required for Prayer of Mending.
33-37	5/5 Spiritual Guidance Your Spirit adds to your healing (and a bit to damage). From here, Spirit on gear is worth much more.
38-39	2/3 Spiritual Healing Your heals heal more.
40-41	1/1 Prayer of Mending, 3/3 Spiritual Healing Final talent: a heal that bounces on its own between party members as they take damage. Put it on the tank every pull. You finish the 10% healing bonus. Holy ends at 32 points.
42-46	5/5 Twin Disciplines (Discipline) In Discipline: 5% more on Renew, Power Word: Shield and Prayer of Mending, which are instant.
47-51	5/5 Mental Strength 10% more Intellect: more mana for long fights.
52-55	3/3 Meditation, 1/1 Inner Focus You keep half your mana regen while casting. A free spell with extra crit: save it for an emergency Greater Heal.
56-58	3/3 Improved Power Word: Shield Your shield absorbs 20% more for the hits you can't heal in time.
59-60	2/3 Silent Resolve Your heals generate less threat, so fewer mobs come after you. Total: 19/32/0.

Key abilities by level

1	Smite Your first attack. Use it until you have Mind Blast and a wand.
1	Power Word: Fortitude Stamina for you and your party for 1 hour; keep it up at all times.
4	Shadow Word: Pain Shadow damage over time. Being instant, it is great for tagging mobs first.
6	Power Word: Shield Absorbs damage and stops spell pushback. Put it on before every pull.
8	Renew Cheap heal over time; in Forever it can now crit.
8	Fade Drops threat for 10 sec. In Forever it sheds about five times more than in Classic.
10	Mind Blast Big Shadow hit every 8 sec. Open with it from range.
12	Inner Fire Lots of armor for a cloth wearer. Always keep it on.
14	Psychic Scream Makes 2 nearby enemies flee. Careful: they can pull more mobs.
16	Heal Your main heal until Greater Heal.
18	Dispel Magic Removes a harmful magic effect from an ally or a beneficial one from an enemy.
20	Devouring Plague Every Priest learns it now. Damage over time that heals you; 24 sec cooldown.
20	Fear Ward Now for every race. Blocks the target's next fear.
20	Flash Heal Fast 1.5 sec heal for emergencies.
22	Mind Flay Shadow talent (row 3). A channel that damages and slows the target; only 20 yards of range.
25	Holy Binding New Passive Holy talent that replaced Binding Heal on November 2. When you Flash Heal someone else, you are healed for 50% of it, with no threat.
27	Vampiric Embrace Shadow talent. Your Shadow damage heals the party for 30 sec; now on a 30 sec cooldown. Since November 2 that healing can no longer crit.
30	Divine Spirit It used to be a talent; now everyone learns it. Spirit for you and your allies for 1 hour.
30	Penance New Discipline talent. A 2 sec channel that heals an ally or hurts an enemy; 12 sec cooldown.
30	Prayer of Healing Now cast on a target, healing that target's party.
30	Mind Control Take control of a humanoid. Useful in dungeons and PvP.
32	Shadow Word: Death New Instant Shadow finisher on an 18 sec cooldown. Since November 2, if the target survives you lose 30% of your max health (was 10%); if the spell misses, you take nothing.
34	Levitate Slow fall and walk on water (needs a Light Feather).
40	Greater Heal The big, slow heal for heavy hits.
40	Prayer of Mending New Holy capstone. Heals when the target takes damage, then jumps up to 5 times around the group.
42	Shadowform Shadow capstone (level 42 on this route). More damage, half the cost and less physical damage taken; no healing. It does allow Cure Disease and Abolish Disease (confirmed by Blizzard on November 2).
48	Prayer of Fortitude Fortitude for the whole raid at once (needs a Holy Candle).

How to kill while leveling

First things first: Power Word: Fortitude and Inner Fire up.
Power Word: Shield before pulling so you are not pushed back (Weakened Soul then lasts 15 sec).
Open with Mind Blast from range, then apply Shadow Word: Pain.
From level 20, Devouring Plague on tough enemies: it deals damage and heals you.
Full Mind Flay channels as filler (the last tick hits hardest) and Mind Blast whenever it is ready.
From level 32, Shadow Word: Death only to finish: if it does not kill, it costs you 30% of your max health.
When low on mana, let the wand and your DoTs finish the enemy and make use of Spirit Tap on the kill.

Wands for leveling

Lesser Magic Wand (level 5): crafted with Enchanting; almost everyone's first wand.
Greater Magic Wand (level 13): also from Enchanting, much more damage than the first one.
Sizzle Stick: quest reward from Wailing Caverns.
Gravestone Scepter: quest reward from Blackfathom Deeps; people often keep it into their late 30s.
Wand of Eventide (level 27): bind-on-equip world drop; check the auction house.
Rule of thumb: swap wands as soon as you find a better one. Until Mind Flay and Shadowform, your wand is your biggest damage source.

Tips

A wand from level 1 (about 15 minutes): sell what you start with until you have about 2 silver, learn Enchanting from your city trainer and buy a Copper Rod, two Mote of Magic and a Simple Wood. Craft the Runed Copper Rod (Copper Rod + Mote of Magic) and then the Novice's Practice Wand (Simple Wood + Mote of Magic), usable from level 1. Finishing with a wand saves mana from the very first minute. If you don't want Enchanting later, you can unlearn it.
Do not buy every rank of every spell: save gold for your level 40 mount (around 120 gold for training and the mount). Prioritize what you actually use.
With the Legacy perk Talented maxed, talents start at level 5: move the whole table 5 levels earlier.
Want Shadowform right at 40? Skip Wand Specialization for now: with every point in Shadow you reach the 30 needed at level 40.
You cannot heal in Shadowform. If you need health, lean on Power Word: Shield and Devouring Plague before leaving the form. Diseases are a different story: Cure Disease and Abolish Disease work in the form (confirmed by Blizzard on November 2).
In Forever, DoTs and HoTs update while they run: a buff that lands mid-way boosts the remaining ticks.
You can heal dungeons as Shadow while leveling. Bring water for your level before you go in.
Very low spell ranks get less from your spell power (the game says so on the character sheet). Use ranks close to your level.
Eat for Well Fed: in Forever it gives 5% more experience per kill for 15 min.
Weapons you can learn: daggers, one-handed maces and staves; wands are built in and need no training. No swords. Your race already knows some; the rest come from a weapon master. Each skill costs 10 silver from a capital-city weapon master and can be learned from level 1; polearms cost 1 gold and need level 20. Learn staves (and daggers) early so you can wear any Intellect or spell power weapon that drops: the weapon gives stats and the wand does the damage.

Level faster with the 5 experience boosts (food, sleeping bag, tent, inn and Legacy).

Key levels

4	Shadow Word: Pain: you can now tag mobs with an instant spell.
5	First wand (Lesser Magic Wand). The pace changes a lot.
10	First talent, Mind Blast and your race's own priest spells.
20	Devouring Plague, Fear Ward and Flash Heal for everyone.
22	Mind Flay: finally a Shadow filler that is not your wand.
30	Divine Spirit, Prayer of Healing and Mind Control. Discipline would have Penance by now.
32	Shadow Word: Death: an instant finisher.
40	Mount and Greater Heal.
42	Shadowform: the biggest power spike of the whole climb.
60	Level cap. Decide whether to stay Shadow or switch to Discipline or Holy for dungeons and raids.

How to play

In PvP

Baiting the interrupt

Juke / fake cast

Rogues (Kick), warriors (Pummel), mages (Counterspell) and shamans (Earth Shock) wait for you to start a cast so they can interrupt it and lock that spell school for a few seconds. Start a Flash Heal or Mind Blast and cancel it halfway by taking a step or with a /stopcasting macro. If they burn the interrupt on the fake, you get a window to cast for real. Don't be predictable: sometimes cancel early, sometimes late, sometimes not at all. A cancelled cast costs no mana.

Breaking line of sight

Line of sight (LoS) / pillar play

Almost everything that hurts you at range needs to see you. Put a pillar, rock or corner between you and a mage, warlock or hunter and their spell won't go off or gets cut. Against another priest it's your best answer to Mana Burn (3 sec cast). Fight near obstacles, make the enemy walk around them to see you, and hit them with instants (Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, Shadow Word: Death) as they come around. When healing, check that you can still see your ally: the corner that protects you can hide them too.

Kiting a melee player

Kiting / strafing

Against a warrior or rogue, the plan is to deal damage without letting them hit you. Shield up with Power Word: Shield before they arrive and get Shadow Word: Pain and Devouring Plague ticking. When they reach you, Psychic Scream, then back off and cast Mind Blast while they run. When they come back, Mind Flay slows them by 50%, but it only reaches 20 yards and roots you in place while you channel. Move sideways (strafe) and turn with the mouse so you never show them your back. In Forever wands need you to stand still for 0.5 sec before shooting, so they're no good for finishing someone on the run.

Timing your fear

Fear timing / fearbomb

Psychic Scream sends up to 5 enemies within 8 yards running for 8 sec, on a 30 sec cooldown (26 with Improved Psychic Scream). Don't use it on the first hit: save it for when two melee players are on you, when a nearby healer is casting (the fear interrupts the cast), or after the enemy has used their fear break (Will of the Forsaken, Berserker Rage...). Damage can break the fear early, so don't chase the runner with spells: use those seconds to heal, shield or get away. In battlegrounds, running into an enemy group and casting it (a fearbomb) buys your team several seconds.

Pre-warding against fear

Pre-ward (Fear Ward)

In Forever every race learns Fear Ward: it lasts 3 minutes on a 3 minute cooldown. Put it up before fighting a warlock, another priest or a warrior, not once you're already running in terror: you can't cast while feared. In a group, give it to whoever hurts the team most by running off (your healer or your main damage dealer). A sharp opponent will try to pop it with a lesser fear (for example Intimidating Shout) before the one that matters: if you see it drop, the next fear will land.

Casting through pushback

Spell pushback

Every hit you take pushes back the spell you're casting (spell pushback). While Power Word: Shield holds, damage won't delay you: cast your heals or Mind Blast with the shield up. Afterwards you get 15 sec of Weakened Soul, so pick your moment. As Discipline, Soul Warding removes its 4 sec cooldown and Renewed Hope trims Weakened Soul by 5 sec when you heal that target with Flash Heal or Penance. Martyrdom gives you 6 sec of pushback-free casting after taking a critical hit.

Dispelling both ways

Dispel / purge war

Dispel Magic is instant and removes 2 magic effects: harmful ones from an ally (a warlock's fear, Polymorph, magic roots) or helpful ones from an enemy (Power Word: Shield, Blessing of Freedom, Ice Barrier...). Strip the enemy's shield before your burst; if an ally is polymorphed or feared, free them right away. It costs 18% of base mana, so remove whatever changes the fight most first. Against healers and casters, Mana Burn (30 yards) wins long duels: cast it when they can't interrupt you.

In dungeons and raids

The five-second rule

Five-second rule (5SR)

Spirit only regenerates mana once you've gone 5 seconds without spending any (instants count too); mana per 5 sec from gear always ticks. In Forever Meditation keeps 50% of it going while you cast, as does Spirit Tap after a kill. Don't heal for the sake of it: if the tank is fine, let a few seconds pass and let Renew or Prayer of Mending do the work. While leveling, finishing with your wand instead of another spell gets your regen back sooner.

Pre-casting and cancelling

Pre-casting / cast cancelling

For hits you know are coming, start a Heal or Greater Heal on the tank before the hit so it lands right after. If the tank is still nearly full as the cast finishes, cancel it by moving or with /stopcasting: you spend no mana and don't restart the five-second rule. That cuts overhealing and makes your mana last much longer. For big scheduled hits, Inner Focus makes the Greater Heal free and adds crit chance.

Threat: keeping mobs off you

Threat

Healing generates threat on every enemy in the fight. At the start, let the tank land a few hits before your first big heal. If something comes for you, use Fade (30 sec cooldown; in Forever it drops far more threat than in Classic) and move toward the tank so they can pick it up without chasing. As Shadow, Mind Blast causes a lot of threat: don't open with it before the tank does. Silent Resolve cuts the threat of all your spells by 30%.

Where to stand on a boss

Positioning

Stay far from the boss but within healing range (40 yards), somewhere you can see the tank and the rest of the group. Never stand in front of the boss (cone attacks and breaths) or right behind a dragon (tail swipes). If the boss fears, put Fear Ward on the tank before the pull and keep empty space behind you so you don't run into other mobs. Holy Nova only reaches 10 yards and Prayer of Mending jumps 20, so the group has to be stacked to get value from them.

Crowd control in dungeons

Crowd control (CC)

Shackle Undead holds one undead in place for up to 50 sec (one at a time, and any damage frees it): mark it and tell the group not to hit it. Mind Control (20 yards, 3 sec cast) takes over a humanoid for up to a minute; use it to pull one out of a pack or to turn it on its friends. Psychic Scream is a last resort in dungeons: fleeing mobs can bring more back with them.

Don't clip Mind Flay

Channel clipping

With Improved Mind Flay every tick hits 20% harder than the last, and Dark Inspiration only triggers on a full channel, so don't clip it to cast something else. If Mind Blast comes off cooldown mid-channel, press it just before the channel ends and the game queues it up to fire right after. Keep Shadow Word: Pain and Devouring Plague up so Shadow Weaving doesn't fall off.

Keybinds and macros

Turn with the right mouse button and move sideways with the strafe keys (Q and E by default). Walking backwards (backpedaling) is slow and is the most common way to lose a PvP fight.
Put Power Word: Shield, Psychic Scream, Fade and Dispel Magic on keys next to your movement keys (1-5, Shift+number), not on a bar you have to click.
Mouseover macros let you heal without changing target: /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Flash Heal. Do the same for Dispel Magic and Power Word: Shield. Add a macro with just /stopcasting for fake casts.
Turn on the Cooldown Manager in Forever's options and keep Psychic Scream, Fear Ward, Shadow Word: Death and Inner Focus in view so you know at a glance what's ready.
Forever has a spell queue and resolves spells in batches (spell batching): press your next spell slightly before the current one ends instead of mashing the key.

Every technique, explained for any class: Gameplay techniques

Level 60

The beta only went to level 30, so everything at 60 is theory: beta client values and the most planned builds. The most popular are Shadow 14/0/37 and 17/0/34, Discipline 32/19/0 and 33/18/0, and Holy 19/32/0. This guide's leveling route (17/0/34) already works as a level 60 Shadow build. Raids arrive on 9 December 2026. Since November 2 every class deals more damage and high-level enemies have more health, and Blizzard doesn't plan big tuning changes until those raids.

Shadow · Ranged DPS

Stats	Spell hit first, up to the cap (the exact Forever cap is not confirmed). Shadow Focus already gives 5%. Then spell power or Shadow damage. Then crit: Shadowform doubles the crit damage bonus of your Shadow spells. Intellect for a bigger mana pool; Spirit only when it comes on an item that is already good.
Rotation	Keep Shadow Word: Pain on the target at all times. Devouring Plague whenever it is ready (24 sec cooldown). Mind Blast on cooldown. Shadow Word: Death on cooldown, especially with the boss below 20% (Early Demise). Watch your health: since November 2, if it doesn't kill, the backlash is 30% of your max health. Keep Vampiric Embrace up almost all the time to heal the group. Mind Flay as filler, without clipping it. On several enemies, spread Shadow Word: Pain and let Devouring Contagion spread the plague.
Consumables	Cooking food for Well Fed, and mana potions. Classic used Elixir of Shadow Power, Greater Arcane Elixir and Brilliant Wizard Oil; still to be confirmed in Forever, which has many new recipes.

Discipline · Healer

Stats	Healing power first. Intellect (more mana, and Mental Strength adds 10%). Mana per 5 sec and Spirit to last through long fights. Crit: it triggers Divine Aegis and Inspiration, so it is worth a bit more than in other specs.
Rotation	Power Word: Shield on the tank and on whoever is about to take damage; with Soul Warding it has no cooldown and costs less. Penance whenever it is ready for a strong heal: it is your most mana-efficient heal. Renew on targets taking steady damage. Flash Heal for quick heals; with Renewed Hope, healing a target with Weakened Soul shortens their shield lockout. Greater Heal with Inner Focus before a known big hit. Power Infusion on a damage caster (or another healer) at the key moment of the fight.
Consumables	Mana potions and Well Fed food. Classic used Brilliant Mana Oil, Mageblood Potion and Flask of Distilled Wisdom; still to be confirmed in Forever.

Holy · Healer

Stats	Healing power first. Intellect and mana per 5 sec. Spirit is worth more than for Discipline: Spiritual Guidance adds 25% of your Spirit to your healing. Crit last.
Rotation	Prayer of Mending every 10 sec on whoever is about to take damage: it bounces around the group on its own. Renew on everyone taking steady damage. Flash Heal for quick heals (with Holy Binding you also get half of it). Alternate spells so Litany of Light refunds mana. Greater Heal with Inner Focus for big hits. Prayer of Healing (cast on someone in that party) or Holy Nova when the whole group is hurting.
Consumables	Same as Discipline: mana potions and Well Fed food. Classic mana consumables (Brilliant Mana Oil, Mageblood Potion) are still to be confirmed in Forever.

Gear

There are no best-in-slot lists for Forever yet: dungeon loot has been reworked and the raids (Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit and Onyxia's Lair) open on 9 December. Until then, look for cloth with spell power or Shadow damage (Shadow) or healing power (Discipline and Holy). The new high-level dungeons (Blackmaw Hold and Shaper's Terrace), the classic level 60 dungeons and Tailoring will be your main gear sources. Your weapon is usually the biggest upgrade.

Recommended level 60 builds

Discipline 41% · Holy 20% · Shadow 39%

Priest · level 60

14/3/34 Shadow View build
32/19/0 Discipline View build
19/32/0 Holy View build

Nuevo en Forever: Holy Binding (talento de Holy, sustituye a Binding Heal), Penance (30), Shadow Word: Death (32), Prayer of Mending (40). Fear Ward y Devouring Plague, ahora para todas las razas.

These are the level 60 builds the community plans most with beta data (the percentage is how many players pick each tree); nobody has reached 60 in Forever yet and talents may change before launch.

Plan your own in the calculator

PvP at level 60

For PvP damage, play Shadow. Useful talents: Silence, Blackout, Improved Psychic Scream, Shadow Reach, Martyrdom and Silent Resolve.
Against melee: Power Word: Shield first, Psychic Scream to make space and Shadowform for 15% less physical damage taken.
Use Silence to stop a heal or a big spell, not just because it is ready.
Mana Burn on healers and casters: draining mana also wins long duels.
Dispel Magic strips enemy buffs and cleans your allies; Fear Ward your key ally against Warlocks and Warriors.
Shadow Word: Death only as a finisher: since November 2, if your target survives you lose 30% of your max health. If it misses, nothing happens to you.
In battlegrounds, a Discipline healer with shields and Penance is very hard to kill; stay close to your group.
Racials matter: Will of the Forsaken, Will to Survive, Escape Artist and Stoneform get you out of trouble.

Professions for this class

Tailoring	Cloth gear for leveling and new Forever patterns, like level 10 belts with spell power or healing.
Enchanting	You craft your first wands (10 skill for the Lesser Magic Wand) and enchant your gear. With Tailoring, the classic Priest pairing.
Herbalism and Alchemy	To craft your own mana potions and elixirs at 60, and make gold gathering while you level.
Engineering	Mainly for PvP, with new schematics and trinkets in Forever.

What we don't know yet

Tested level 60 builds: the beta only reached level 30 and numbers may change with launch hotfixes.
The spell hit cap in Forever (in Classic it was 16% against raid bosses).
Best-in-slot gear from Forever dungeons and raids (raids open on 9 December 2026).
Which Classic consumables are unchanged and which are new in Forever.
Exactly how much low spell ranks lose from spell power.
How much damage priest spells now deal: on November 2 Blizzard raised damage for every class without giving priest numbers.

This guide is updated every time Blizzard publishes changes. Whatever is still missing goes in as soon as it is known, and the date at the top tells you when we last touched it.

Sources: Notas de desarrollo de Blizzard (2 de noviembre) · ForeverChanges: cambios sacados de los datos del juego (30-10) · Notas de la beta de Blizzard (foros oficiales) · Talents Forever: cambios del sacerdote (datos del cliente de la beta, CC BY 4.0) · Talents Forever: builds y orden de talentos · Warcraft Tavern: subir de nivel con sacerdote · Warcraft Tavern: sacerdote Sombra · Warcraft Tavern: sacerdote Sagrado · Warcraft Tavern: sacerdote Disciplina · Method: subir de nivel con sacerdote · wow.gg: sacerdote Sombra en la beta · Warcraft Wiki: WoW Forever · Icy Veins: subir de nivel con sacerdote Sombra (WoW Forever) · Icy Veins: guía de JcJ del sacerdote (WoW Classic Era) · Warcraft Tavern: curar mazmorras y bandas (WoW Classic Era) · Icy Veins: Sombra en JcJ, rotación y estilo de juego (Retail) · Engadget: bases del sacerdote Sombra en JcJ (Cataclysm).