LEGION: A Priests Discipline
Priest - What Makes a
Priest The Best Healer?
The Priest is a caster class and
is considered by most to be the best all-round healer in WoW. His spells are
Holy and Shadow based. A Priest can also do quite a bit of damage but is mainly
known for his great healing capabilities in both PvE and PvP.
One of the downsides of playing a
Priest is the leveling. Even though the Shadow talent tree is available, which
greatly increases a Priest’s damage done, it can still be time taking because
the spells cost a lot of mana. Once you get to the higher levels though, you
can always count on a spot in any kind of party or raid wherever they are going
because a Priest is just great and everybody knows it.
All the Priests are able to cast
a Stamina buff on themselves and party and raid members. If a few points in the
Discipline tree are spent another buff called Divine Spirit becomes available.
This buff boosts the Spirit of players. A Priest’s healing spells are based on
Holy power and one has a variety of instant, small, big, HoT and AoE heals to
choose from which make the priest the best overall healer. If a Priest prefers
to do damage he is pretty much stuck on the Shadow spells if he wants to get
the best out of his Priest.
You can choose from quite a few
races if you want to play a Priest. The Human Spirit and Blood Elf’s Arcane
Spirit racials make them nice choices. Other races you can choose from are
Dwarves, Night Elves, Draenei, Trolls, and Undead.
A Priest can choose to go for a
full Discipline build if he likes to heal and likes to play PvP. There are some
great talents in the tree that make the Priest tougher, his heals more
effective and the Priest will also gain some new abilities like Pain
Suppression and Power Infusion. The
Discipline Priests are great single target healers. This, together with
abilities like the ones mentioned above make the Discipline Priests great for
PvP as well.
The Holy tree is also great for
healing. It’s probably a bit better when it comes to raw healing then the
Discipline tree. Some other healing spells like Circle of Healing are learned
which make the Priest even a better healer. The Holy build gives more bonus
healing and is normally considered to be better for PvE purposes when it comes
to healing.
Finally, the Shadow build. Priests
make great healers but they sure can do good damage as well. His damage is
based on Damage over Time (DoT), and fast spells like Mind Blast and Mind Flay.
The great thing about a Shadow Priest is that he can also support his group by
placing some debuffs on a target like Vampiric Embrace and Vampiric Touch which
will convert some damage done to mana and hitpoints for both the Priest and his
group members.
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