Class field guide

Priest

Healing, protection, and the powers of Light and Shadow.

Role & identity

Priests can focus on healing and support or Shadow damage.

Healer · Ranged DPS

What changed in WoW Forever?

  • Fear Ward and Devouring Plague become available to all Priests at level 20.
  • Divine Spirit is a baseline ability at level 30.
  • Shadow Word: Death joins the baseline toolkit at level 32.

These are selected confirmed changes, rather than a complete patch history. Follow the linked official sources for the full context.

Talent builds

Explore all three trees with rank descriptions, level limits, prerequisites, and a shareable build. Talent data comes from an attributed community beta dataset.

Open Priest calculator

Strengths & tradeoffs

Shared access to Fear Ward and Devouring Plague removes those particular racial ability restrictions. Healing and Shadow builds have different goals, so choose your intended role before distributing points.

Editorial build considerations based on the cited announcements. These are not comparative performance rankings.

Explore the announced new dungeons and sourced beta updates.