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As a priest, you can choose whether to go with the Holy path or the Shadow path. Each path offer different talent build and playing sytle. In this guide, the main focus is the Holy Priest path, so I will describe the talent build for that path.

As a priest, you can choose whether to go with the Holy path or the Shadow path. Both path have very different talent build and role in the game. This guide will talking mainly about Holy priest talent build.

If this is your first time playing a priest, know that there are few type of Priest: "Holy Priest" which is your conservative healing-focused Priest and " Shadow Priest" which is focus on deadly skills.

Priest Talent Builds

To begin with, you will need to invest on Healing Focus and Improved Renew. Put two points in Healing Focus and 3 in Improved Renew; it is crucial that you could heal more without being interrupted.

The next things to do is maxed Spell Warding and Divine Fury to prolong your life. Put 1 point to Desperate Player, it will heal you instantly, also one more skill to extend your life.

Maxing Holy Reach will provide you with 20% extra range for 6 different spells, keep you in secure range while maintaining the survivability of your group members. Improved Healing is must be maxed too as it will decrease the mana cost for five different spells.

Conserve your mana with Healing Prayers; at max, you can get 20% mana cost reduction for two spells. As for Spirit of Redemption, you don't want to use this often since it will make you die, but one point in this talent can save your group from a chaotic situation, so take this one as a reserve.

Obviously, you will not be the damage dealer when you are in a group, but adding 5 points to Spiritual Guidance is not a bad idea since it will give you fighting ability for unpredictable situations.

Different Priest Leveling Guide suggest different approach for Surge of Light; if you are planning to use Smite and Flash Heal a lot at higher level, take this talent, otherwise just leave it. For Spiritual Healing, you definitely want this as a Holy Priest because it will increase your healing spells by 10%.

A Lightwell will benefit the entire group during a raid; it heal anyone in your group that click it. It is not instant healing, but it is a good way to keep your mana for more demanding situation.

Spend five points: two in Empowered Healing as it will make your greater healing better and three for Serendipity as this one will cut your next spell mana cost; by doing so you have opened the next talents.

These next three talents are very important for a Holy Priest; I suggest that you maxed all of them. Empowered Renew can make your Renew heal the target instantly; Circle of Healing enabling you to heal up to five friendly party or raid members within range; Test of Faith enhance healing rate on a party members whose health below 50%; this will increase the possibility to save him/her.

There are many different opinions regarding the last two talents: Divine Providence and Guardian Spirit; other priest guides may suggest you to leave it and dump your remaining points in the Discipline tree, but recommend that you take both of them. Put three points in Divine Providence to gain access to the next talent; three points will give you 6% boost in some healing spells. The last in the holy tree, Guardian Spirit, can make your tank even harder, thus make it easier for you to keep him/her alive during unpredictable situation.

Being a Holy Priest, you need to have better survival rate yourself, so put the last 20 points in the Discipline tree. Keeping yourself alive comes first before maintain the others health and a group will be in a very disadvantage situation when their healer dies, so these are how to spend the rest of your points:

1. Unbreakable Will; reduce the duration of several negative effects, allow you to back to battle faster.

2. Silent Resolve; make your helpfull spells and DoT spells become harder to dispelled.

3. Improved Power Word: Fortitude; improve Fortitude and Prayer Fortitude by 30%.

4. Martyrdom; gain Focused Casting effect for six seconds after getting hit by critical range or melee attack.

5. Meditation; allow your 50% of your mana regeneration continue even as you casting spells.

6. Inner Focus; reduce mana cost for the next spell by 100% and increase its critical rate by 25%.

7. Improved Power Word: Shield; boost Shield word by 15%.

This priest guide is mainly about holy priest talent build; for leveling method, you can find a group to visit instances dungeon or doing quests all the way to level 80. Quests is far better because you will get your gears as rewards, so don't have to spend gold for it; it also a lot faster way to reach maximum level (IF you are do it in the correct order).