Not taking 5/5 wand spec is just a huge mistake. You spend more time using your wand then all your skills combined.

Everyone knows jumping while walking to destinations increases you movement speed by x99999999

You've earned my sub, i am like 90% positive that i will be maining a priest when classic launches, and just started researching in advance so i can be effective. Can't wait for Classic, thanks for the videos!

SO glad I found this channel as I'm also going to main Spriest. I played Spriest in Vanilla back in the day but only really did BG's at 60. Would love a raiding tutorial for when guilds allows a Shadow to be in the mix. Keep up the great work dude.

You're so helpful! I never played a clothie in vanilla and wasn't sure what the easiest/fastest way to get a wand was... thank you.

Sweet; thanks for the video Kala! I’m excited to be a priest in upcoming classic!

I was a mage and warrior during vanilla and I have dedicated myself to be a priest this time around. Been looking at guides for months now to get ready for Classic 👍🏿

thank you kala, i played shadow from wrath till now. fav class

Been looking at a lot of priest oriented leveling guides and your advice about picking up tailoring and enchanting and actually making a wand is super useful. Thanks for the tip!

Priceless information. Seriously considering rolling priest after watching your vids. Any pvp tip videos would be amazing.

Dude tysm for that quick chat about picking the right race and it not mattering. - been thinking about all that shit too much

I'm glad to see your comment about healing groups as shadow. The guild I was in back in live classic had shadow priest healers when we first started raiding because no one had enough gold to respec. Not going (insert preferred healing spec here) wasn't that big a deal back then. Balance druids and elemental shaman were healers too lol.

I've been watching you on Twitch since you've been playing the beta. I'm glad I found you! I have heard so much BS about shadow, I'm glad to find someone who knows what they are talking about!

great one! Please do more in depth content for the shadow priest both pve and pvp, especially at 60! i will also play a shadow UD priest as a main! Subbed and i'll wait for more, please!

Hey thats my name above you head! Thanks for the video man! Hoping I can do something similar with Shamans if I ever get access.

One of the best priest information videos out there, well done.

This is awesome mate well done 👍

so is the idea here to spec untill 30 and respec? or why are your points not in the skills you said they should be?

Great video, super excited for classic to come out! By the way, do you ever look at how many sponsor logos you've got in that tiny picture of yourself and think "man I look like a goober"?

Great vid. Never played a priest, makes me want to run a priest for Classic launch now.

“Wholesome as Frigg,” is my new catch phrase.

we didnt have this kinda guide back in the day. this is amazing

What professions do you recommand to learn ? You start with tailoring and enchanting. But by what do you replace it or them ? My intuition tells me to take a gathering profession (dont know which) in replacement of enchanting after the wand in order to make money. Then when you have money and made yourself the truefaith vestments, you pick up mining and eng for pvp for example ? thanks

The macros to helpful spells can be shorter, like /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] (mind the open,close bracket thing with no space that mens target or myself)

thanks this has helped me alot, smite, smite, dot, shield and wand, not dying now :)

Ty for the tip, going to roll a spriest for classic

Hi thanks for the video. I used to play Vanilla WoW up until the end of TBC and then I left wow until now that they introduced Classic. I will be back and would like to play my original class which is of course Priest. I was Horde and Undead and although just like you I always preferred the Undead animations, but in pvp I was always envious to Trolls for the Shadowguard because of the Blackout procs. In pvp of course I was spamming rank 1 SW:P to the Blackout proc as Undead, but Trolls also have the Shadowguard which was a nightmare for melees. On the other hand the Undead's DP is also very powerful although on a 3 mins CD and uses a boat load of mana or will waste your Inner Focus (which can be used with MB otherwise). I was away from the game for more than a decade so my question is, for pvp (animations and aesthetics aside) why would you pick Undead? WoTF is not that useful as there would not be many locks on the alliance side anyway (again due to the WoTF) and the pvp trinket for priest also dispels fear anyway. DP being a hybrid dmg/heal spell does not really scale well with shadow damage while Shadowguard will scale crazy good as far as I can remember and with BIS gears it does crazy amount of damage per hit (600+ per hit). I guess DP is good for solo world-pvp but Shadowguard is better for group pvp? Also we should not forget that many people know DP is powerful and will dispel it right away. All Dwarves will Stoneform out of it, priests cure it, Paladins will cleanse it away on spam.... So I don't know! Which one would you choose and why? Cheers!

what about going for holy damage (smite, holy fire) until lvl 40 (i.e. before getting shadow form) with wand damage and spirit tap talented ? there are not really all that many good shadow damage spells and talents until lvl 40 ? not to mention that wop:pain usually never runs it full duration on most mobs, meaning it is often a waste of mana ?

What do you think about dropping enchantment to get mining (to 60 then swap to engineering) should I grind to 70 enchantment for greater magic wand? or just stick with the lesser one? I really want tailoring till 60 for BoP robes and bags but might consider dropping tailoring late late game for alchemy not sure about cost or efficiency of dual production game. Fishing with alchemy IS nice.

I was also wondering how you got shadow gear from raids when you were healing? Or if you were raiding for the shadow gear how did you keep your healing gear current?

Thanks for the guide!

Really awesome vid mate, thanks : )

Hi Kala, You recommend shadow but don't mention what talents to spend points in. I'm a pretty dedicated Holy priest. I love group healing yet I also damage output and pvp. You have talked me into shadow yet I don't know the first thing. What talent build do you recommend, what gear do you recommend?

Pretty good video. Thanks for the info!

Awesome video! While waiting for Classic, I was thinking whether I should play Disc or Shadow, and this helped me choose my spec!

POG 😱

Hey Kala ! How good is Shadow focus ? And how many points should I typically go for when I'm raiding as a Shadow priest exactly... don't really understand the spell resist concept fully yet

Great video and great spirit. The greatest one is to not let people make you play something you don't want. At that time I was a teenager playing nightelf priest and they made me switch into heal spec for dungeon, I didn't have enough money to respec sp so I ended leveling in heal spec, I finally quit !. So enjoy the game as you want it and by this way you'll become a great player.

I really needed to hear that opening thank you. Played Human in Vanilla then switched to Blood Elf. Been going back and forth on Undead and Troll. Seems Troll getting a lot of hype because of Shadowguard but at the end of the day I like Undead look better.

Hey man, i enjoy your content, and you inspired me to do a shadow priest for classic. What talent path do you recommend for leveling?

If you have some spare time and you're willing to level another priest, I'd really suggest leveling as something other than shadowpriest until you hit 40. I see that you're very experienced playing that tree but you've never tried others. I as well thought that leveling as something else would be crazy just like you said until I once tried it. Shadow tree offers the best talents in last few rows except spirit tap. You don't gain anything extraordinary until much later so speccing in shadow is waste of talent points in early leveling. All you need is spirit tap and wand specialization as you said but you can dump rest points for holy if you want even easier time while healing and better crit chance for holy spells (holy fire into SWP + wanding felt great). Disc tree is fine as well but I would only pick improved SWP in shadow. Everything changes at 40. You respec into full shadow and you destroy healthbars in seconds and wand rest remaining health. I once more seriously recommend this over rank 1 mind flaying. It only costs so much more (in money) to keep your holy fire up until 40 but it has some nice QoL in dungeon healing and you kill things just as fast as with Mind Blast if not a bit faster with some nice crits.

Only ever saw undead or Dwarf priests! I was a Nelf...again lol worthy. But I can’t wait to start weapon leveling again!!!! Buff sharing spreads the vanilla/classic love! I can’t wait! So exciting!

Is it worth it to grab greater magic wand in enchanting or should I just do questing for some other wands?

cool content man! I am wondering how you deal with Paladins/Shamans and which one you think is a stronger counter to a holy/disc priest.

This is a great video!!

Are u going for R14? When ranked pvp system comes out?

thanks for making this video, i was thinking about playing a priest, but you made me 100% want to play a priest i appreciate it mate 😄

been looking for my spriest hero... looking forward to more content. Would be interested to hear you talking about pvp tactics i.e. fishing for blackout procs w/ swp r1, mind control, mana burn

What's the addon you're using for that party frame?

Great video. Props for saying you'd play a night elf on Ally. I always do. However, rolling undead spriest as of this week. Thanks for this video well done.

You said first to put 5 points in the wand specialization but later you said stay pure in shadow. So should i use 5 points for the wand or skip it and put all in shadow ?

Can you recommend me a tree progression for solo pve no respec?

Thanks kala I'm gonna be looking for a competitive pvp guild. Are classic recruiting?

Hey kala, if you are duo leveling with a warrior should the priest run improved barrier?

Dwarves are the only race Ally side I will play. Well, unless I'm rolling warlock then Gnome.

Does all of this still work for WoW SoD? Thanks for the video. I appreciate it.

can anyone link me a completed shadow priest talent tree? Btw first time playing wow play so maybe a recommendation on point order as well

I played WoW religiously from TBC - Cata, and not once did I ever consider playing a priest. I'd always think what class to make/main, and I'd instantly make it an 8 class (7* for Vanilla ofc), because I'd bin the idea of playing a priest. However, some many years later I'm looking at having that missed Vanilla Wow experience, and I have to say, Being more open-minded, I'm liking the idea of playing a priest!

Nice guide!

great content mate. cheers. subbed and will for sure join you on twitch soon

100% true you can and should level as shadow. I was able to heal all dungeons up to BRD with 31 shadow and the other points in Disc. But you definitely start to feel the need for better throughput once you reach those dungeons. So, expect to want to respec around 56 or 57 if you want to keep up with healing on higher level dungeons. Currently running a 33/18/0 build and was able to heal UBRS and even MC (yes MC) at level 57.

Hey man, I really love your idea that playing a character that you like as the difference is minute. This is easily one the most wholesome youtube videos I have watched and I'm 100% subscribing BECAUSE you're hella wholesome.

after you get the wand, what professions is best to get as a priest as I'm rolling priest, mining eng? or herb alchemy?

You convinced me played every character to max besides monk and priest but the fact I could heal pve in shadow sells it for me :D

Awesome!!

In shadow buold can i heal all dungeon in levelling

I'm leveling 21/25/5 with with enchant tailor. I'll go to divine spirit, grab spirit tap, then finish it off with damage oriented holy talents. I think a holy fire and whatever instant cast dots I have at the given level, plus wanding, is plenty of damage. In doing so you barely use any mana and rarely have to drink. And, you can heal the occasional instance or elite quest no problem. Limiting downtime is way more important than damage output during leveling if you ask me, and having enchanting makes you always have a nice wand for free damage. May your blade never dull! see you guys out there on release

Sorry, this might be a dumb question or might have been asked before. I'm really having a hard time getting ready for classic because all my friends want to play on alliance on a pve server, but I've been wanting to play horde on a pvp server. If I were to play horde I'd definitely go undead shadow priest or warlock. If I went alliance I'd probably just go human warrior for the weapon specialization because I don't know if it's worth it to pvp on an alliance shadow priest. Any suggestions?

Yo can you release a talent video? Talk about what its like to play Spriest in pvp bgs, is it fun? do you get perma trained? how do i choose between this and lock. thanks

Found your macros interesting ... was wondering if you know how I might use macros to make it so right click shoots my wand ?

Is it very important to go for ench/tail? Because i want to play lot of PvP and there is eng required for bombs

Awesome vid.

Can you comment on builds that take shadow weaving, but don't go full shadow? how much does one lose from not going full healer, and how significant would the contribution of a full shadow priest be instead of having another healer that just dots the boss instead for shadow weaving stacks, I feel versatility is under appreciated and people just min max because "muh meters" but maybe I'm wrong so I'd like your expert opinion.

@Kala, the statements on picking race I couldn't agree more with. Thanks sharing your thoughts with the community on that. Secondly, the content you shared on leveling guide was insanely valuable for someone who has no idea how to get ahead of the curve. If you have more content on 11-20, 21-30 (expecting significant player drop off past that point within first 2 days) to keep ahead of curve as shadow priest I think we would all highly appreciate it. Subbed.

So on the line between priest or rogue. Any advice to just back to classic played it like 6 months months ago

I prefer leveling as holy. Dmg isnt really different, atleast before shadowform. U still use spirit tap and wand, miss out on blackout but doesnt really matter. I level faster as it, but might be that im used to it. Specially later, having to drop shadowform just to get health up costs a lot of mana. Think I'll go lock in classic tho

The best part about these classic videos is that they never lose value. Classic will always be there.

so if you can heal good going shadow, whats the point of discipline or holy then? serious question because i always main healer. what are the benefits of discipline and holy? does it just take less resources to keep heals up or something?

I need purge and shock mouseover, how to do that? :D

I also am doing a shadow priest and want to roll on your and Sony's guild. Hope you have room for one more!

Shadow priest is still pretty much top dps for pvp ya? I still wanna heal but since I can’t be paladin on horde I’m a little worried healing as priest for the pvp side.. especially with how strong rogues and wars seem in classic?

Hi, I would like to meka a macro for self Renew but for end game. So i would like to cancel Shadowform get a Renew up, same for flash heal. Do you if its possible?

so i tried that macro with the shield but it types it out in chat without casting. what am i doing wrong?

Hi Kala. What do you think about Kronos private server ???

I cant wait for my shadow priest to return to classic

Love this tutorial :-). I have 52 holy priest. Love healing dungeons, but questing and drinking after every couple of mobs is not fun. I am now considering crating one more priest for shadow. Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to respec shadow and try healing if needed.

I've leveled as holy dps before and it's absolutely fine. You still have spirit tap and wand specialization, you're just continuing to cast smite instead of switching to mind flay and taking the talents that buff holy damage. You miss out on the slow from mind flay but that's about it pre-40. If being the first priest to hit 60 on the server is not a priority to you I would suggest you play it however you like. From 40 onward I think Shadow has a clear advantage just from the physical damage reduction alone, but Holy DPS is still surprisingly competitive and can even pull fairly average dps in raids under the right conditions, though not in cutting edge play. They synergize with ret paladins similar to how shadow synergizes with warlocks. For instance, it's top dps for Twin Emperors because the magic resistant boss lacks holy resistance thus eliminating the need for movement in an extremely movement intensive fight.

can you lvl up as shadow but still be effective a healer in dungs?

I really, really, really appreciate what you say at the beginning about playing what you want. I am going to play on alliance as a priest. I'm still torn between a human and night elf. I agree that dwarfs look silly, and I really could not stand to play one. I've tried, and I hate it. Ultimately, I want to enjoy the game and love my character. I'm not going to roll something I don't like just to be more viable. However, I'm scared that this "dwarf or nothing" mindset could affect my time on wow, and maybe even make finding a raid spot hard. Almost wish my heart wasn't set on priest so I wouldn't have to worry about it!

Thanks bud!

Dude... that guide is so good that made me want to play a priest hahaahah. Thank you very much!

Just tried a Priest for first time on private server (only class I never played). It's crazy how efficient they are at leveling. I had to drink like 10 times from 1-40.

in what server are you guys playing on?

i want a macro for shadow pain mind blast wand attack how i write it?

Great video, I’m Meonseasonthree on twitch and I’ve been in your chat a couple times. The whole wand part is super important and I’ll make sure to do that when Classic does release. Thanks for the video!

ooohhhh that mind flay macro is juicy. I might have to use that one.

Very nice video, I'm still in the decision phase for what I'll be playing in classic. Apart of me is thinking priest / paladin due to the fact I really can't stand warrior, mage, hunter, and rogues. I have always loved shadow though, maybe I'll make the dive with classic since I'll only be doing pvp, gold farming, and crafting. I know it may not be the best spec for gold farming but like I said, I can't stand the other classes that are good for it so I won't be playing them. +1 sub :)

Anybody have any idea what his Talent build is? I've got a new undead shadow priest and I don't want to mess them up.

Is Heirloom armor nixed?

hey bro you play in Blizzard servers or you are like as us and play in private servers like Warmane?