The game describes the Priest as: “Light and Shadow. Shields and heals keep you alive while pain spreads through the horde.” It fights at range, starts every run with Smite, and has the second lowest base health of the nine classes at 170.
Priest at a glance
| Base health | 170 (second lowest of nine) |
|---|---|
| Fights | At range |
| Starting spell | Smite |
| Spell pool | 11 spells |
| Talent trees | Discipline, Holy, Shadow |
| Death-save talent | None in the data |
Race changes the final number: Orc adds 10% maximum health and Tauren 15%. See the class tier list for every race trait and how the nine classes compare.
Spell pool
Level-up cards offer spells from this pool. Smite is the one you start with.
- Smite · starting spell
- Shadow Word: Pain
- Mind Blast
- Holy Nova
- Power Word: Shield
- Renew
- Holy Fire
- Mind Flay
- Psychic Scream
- Devouring Plague
- Lightwell
Talent trees
Talent points come from talent experience earned in runs and stay with the class. A row opens for every 5 points spent in its tree. The single-rank talents at 10, 20 and 30 points are milestones and capstones that change how your spells behave:
- Discipline: 10 points · Divine Aegis, 20 points · Rapture, 30 points · Penance
- Holy: 10 points · Radiance, 20 points · Purifying Flame, 30 points · Chastise
- Shadow: 10 points · Shadow Weaving, 20 points · Shadowy Apparitions, 30 points · Shadowform
Discipline
| Talent | Needs | Ranks | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unbreakable Will | Open | 5 | Reduces all damage taken by 0.8%. |
| Wand Specialization | Open | 5 | Smite deals 4% more damage. |
| Improved Power Word: Shield | 5 pts | 3 | Power Word: Shield absorbs 20% more. |
| Martyrdom | 5 pts | 5 | Increases your maximum health by 1.5%. |
| Divine Aegis | 10 pts | 1 | Milestone. You start every run with Power Word: Shield, and a shield on you that breaks bursts in holy light: X% of what it absorbed strikes every enemy within 10 yd. |
| Mental Agility | 10 pts | 5 | Your cooldowns recover 1.5% faster. |
| Meditation | 15 pts | 3 | Regenerate 0.4 more health per second. |
| Mental Strength | 15 pts | 5 | Increases all damage by 2%. |
| Rapture | 20 pts | 1 | Milestone. A broken Power Word: Shield is raised again at once, at most once every 15 sec. |
| Force of Will | 20 pts | 5 | Increases your critical strike chance by 0.8%. |
| Silent Resolve | 25 pts | 3 | Increases your luck by 8%. |
| Improved Inner Fire | 25 pts | 3 | Power Word: Shield’s cooldown is 10% shorter. |
| Penance | 30 pts | 1 | Capstone. You strike out on your own: a free Penance about every 3 sec, three bolts of holy light at the nearest enemies. |
Holy
| Talent | Needs | Ranks | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Specialization | Open | 5 | Increases your critical strike chance by 0.8%. |
| Improved Renew | Open | 5 | Renew heals 10% more. |
| Divine Fury | 5 pts | 5 | Smite and Holy Fire cooldowns are 3% shorter. |
| Holy Reach | 5 pts | 3 | Holy Nova reaches 10% farther. |
| Radiance | 10 pts | 1 | Milestone. A Holy Nova bursts from you on its own every 24 sec. |
| Inspiration | 10 pts | 3 | Your Holy critical strikes heal you for 0.2% of your maximum health, at most once a second. |
| Searing Light | 15 pts | 3 | Smite and Holy Fire deal 5% more damage. |
| Spiritual Guidance | 15 pts | 5 | Increases all damage by 1.5%. |
| Purifying Flame | 20 pts | 1 | Milestone. Smite and Holy Fire critical strikes set their target alight for X% of the hit over 6 sec. |
| Spiritual Healing | 20 pts | 3 | Your heals and shields are 12% stronger. |
| Blessed Recovery | 25 pts | 3 | Increases your maximum health by 2%. |
| Holy Concentration | 25 pts | 3 | Holy spells deal 2% more damage. |
| Chastise | 30 pts | 1 | Capstone. Smite strikes 1 more enemy, and every Smite cast that critically strikes sets off a free Holy Nova. |
Shadow
| Talent | Needs | Ranks | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Tap | Open | 5 | Every kill heals you for 0.5 health. |
| Blackout | Open | 5 | Your Shadow spells have a X% chance to stun what they hit for 1.5 sec. |
| Improved Shadow Word: Pain | 5 pts | 2 | Shadow Word: Pain lasts 15% longer. |
| Shadow Focus | 5 pts | 5 | Increases your critical strike chance by 1%. |
| Shadow Weaving | 10 pts | 1 | Milestone. Your Shadow spells also strike what they hit for X% of its maximum health. |
| Improved Mind Blast | 10 pts | 5 | Mind Blast’s cooldown is 6% shorter. |
| Darkness | 15 pts | 5 | Shadow spells deal 2% more damage. |
| Improved Psychic Scream | 15 pts | 2 | Psychic Scream’s cooldown is 12% shorter. |
| Shadowy Apparitions | 20 pts | 1 | Milestone. You start every run with Shadow Word: Pain instead of Smite, and its ticks have a X% chance to loose a shadowy apparition: a free Mind Blast, at most twice a second. |
| Shadow Reach | 20 pts | 3 | Mind Flay reaches 10% farther. |
| Shadow Power | 25 pts | 3 | Your damage-over-time effects deal 6% more damage. |
| Improved Vampiric Embrace | 25 pts | 3 | 0.5% of all the damage you deal heals you. |
| Shadowform | 30 pts | 1 | Capstone. You take on Shadowform for the whole run, and when an enemy dies with Shadow Word: Pain on it, it bursts for X% of its maximum health on everything within 6 yd and the pain jumps to the enemy nearest it. |
Staying alive as a Priest
The Priest has no talent that prevents a killing blow, so health, healing and keeping distance matter more.
Other defensive talents: Improved Power Word: Shield (Discipline), Divine Aegis (Discipline), Meditation (Discipline), Rapture (Discipline), Improved Inner Fire (Discipline), Inspiration (Holy).
Where to go next
Start in Elwynn Forest and follow the zone unlock order. Before a long session, back up your save: talent points and collected gear are stored per class.
Questions
What is the Priest’s starting spell?
Smite. The Priest starts every run with it; other spells from its 11-spell pool appear as level-up choices.
How much health does the Priest have?
170 base health in the v0.103.1 game data, the second lowest of the nine classes, before race, talent and equipment bonuses.
What talent trees does the Priest have?
Discipline, Holy, Shadow. Each tree has 13, 13, 13 talents respectively, with milestones at 10, 20 and 30 points spent.
Sources & scope
Read from the original game’s v0.103.1 (671c6f5e) WebAssembly build on 2026-10-20: the class record (health, starting spell, spell pool, colour) and the talent records (tree, row, ranks, text and stored number). Health is the class base before race, talent and equipment modifiers. A bold number in a talent is the value stored for it; we have not confirmed in a run whether the in-game tooltip shows it per rank or in total, and “X” marks a number we could not read reliably. Nothing here is a measured clear rate.
