About Priest Leveling

[varth]

Most of this advice is unbelievably terrible. I've leveled with shadow + wand spec and almost never ever have to drink. I'm not even using great gear, I'm still using the lvl 20 WC staff at lvl 34 ffs. Just prioritize spirit on your gear and make sure you get wand upgrades and you level very fast. You just mind blast swp and wand them down, heal yourself once and you are at full hp and 95% mana.

I've solo healed every single dungeon with full shadow, even sometimes under leveled like lvl 27 for RFD, lvl 10 for RFC. You absolutely don't need holy or disc to heal.

[Garfunkel]

RFC you could get through with bandages and I kinda doubt you went to Razorfen Downs at level 27, buddy.

[varth]

Whoops you are right, I meant RFK

[Crichton]

Switched to Shadowform at 40 and definitely worth it. You'll feel a little off for a few levels while you adjust and regain Wand Spec, but at 45 when you do, it's a hell of a lot of fun.

By the time I MB, SW:P, and MF an enemy their already at or below 50% health.

[Zotose]

i went 5/5 imp wand and 3/3 imp shield. the imp shield is nice for dungeons when the tank has enough aggro and doesnt make you waste mana on heals. plus its nice to not have to double shield when in combat which saves on mana again. then 5/5 spirit tap makes you gain mana like crazy while leveling. i find that MF is a waste of a talent point at low levels. it does "decent" damage over 3 seconds, but if you get imp wand, you do about the same damage as 1 MF ever 1.5 seconds, so technically you get 2 MF worth of damage in the same amount of time it takes to cast 1 MF. so technically you are doing double the dmg MF does in the same amount of time.

I find it nice to get imp wand. imp shield, then go into shadow. get spirit tap, imp SW:P, then go black out 3/5 then get imp mindblast, then 2 more into blackout then you can go down the shadow tree. I find myself NEVER using MF. Im currently 29 and fastly approaching the low 30's. maybe when i can get MF r2 it will be worth it to put a point into MF, but right now its just not serving me any purposing wasting a point at such low levels.

this is just IMO.

[DrKvothe]

What about something like this for leveling: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bV0GsZfxtIc0VZxM

Any thoughts?

[varth]

Unless you are constantly doing dungeons that build is not good, you are much weaker in killing things. You are doing 40% less damage than a shadow priest, that is an incredibly significant difference.

[Zaft]

What about something like this for leveling: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bV0GsZfxtIc0VZxM

Any thoughts?

I would recommend something like this: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bVZZtMTzcto until 40 then respec for shadow form. That's what I used at least and got to 60 in 6 days and 3 hours.

Get 5/5 spirit tap then 5/5 wand, then follow the shadow tree. 1 in blackout is because the stun in itself is so nice so enabling it is really good, but more is not worth it early on.

[Cody121]

What about something like this for leveling: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bV0GsZfxtIc0VZxM

Any thoughts?

I would recommend something like this: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bVZZtMTzcto until 40 then respec for shadow form. That's what I used at least and got to 60 in 6 days and 3 hours.

Get 5/5 spirit tap then 5/5 wand, then follow the shadow tree. 1 in blackout is because the stun in itself is so nice so enabling it is really good, but more is not worth it early on.

imp fear and silence over imp MB? JW what your reasoning behind this is?

[Zaft]

What about something like this for leveling: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bV0GsZfxtIc0VZxM

Any thoughts?

I would recommend something like this: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bVZZtMTzcto until 40 then respec for shadow form. That's what I used at least and got to 60 in 6 days and 3 hours.

Get 5/5 spirit tap then 5/5 wand, then follow the shadow tree. 1 in blackout is because the stun in itself is so nice so enabling it is really good, but more is not worth it early on.

imp fear and silence over imp MB? JW what your reasoning behind this is?

Well you need the silence if you ever want to survive in PvP.
This is a PvP server and hence you're gimping yourself hard if you're not taking the silence.

Imp MB is also completely useless while leveling as you are limited by mana and not what CDs you have. So don't ever take imp mb until 60 for PvP.