The Best Shadow Priest Leveling Build
Leveling up a Priest in World of Warcraft is no easy task. Just like other casters, you’ve got to balance your damage and downtime between fights. You’ve got to balance your mana and efficiency. Burst and Sustained DPS, and a host of other things. Well, I’m here to tell you that I’ve leveled up two priests with two entirely different priest builds. Today, I’m going to show you the most efficiency priest leveling build in WoW so you can get to level 80 and start raiding with your friends and not lag behind! Here we go!
Now, granted, you can place your talents however you want to, but this is just what I did. I’ll run over the really important talents in the article, but keep in mind that no build is perfect. How well a build functions is also incredibly reliant on your current gear and spell rotation as well. However, for the most part, when you’re leveling up, you’ll want to stick as closely as possible to the build above.
This build focuses mainly on Shadow and then jumps over into Discipline. It’s highly recommended that you place your Shadow Points first while leveling your Priest in World of Warcraft.
First off, Spirit Tap is a must. This allows you to regenerate mana at a much greater speed than if you were to just fight untalented. This means two things. First of all, you regenerate mana while fighting, allowing you to kill one mob, gain the effect, and more efficiently take down the second mob due to your mana regen. Secondly, you won’t spend near as much time sitting and drinking after a fight. Spread out this 10 second savings over every single fight in the game from level 10 to level 80 and you’ve got yourself more than a few hours saved from this talent. Improved Spirit Tap just adds to this effect, get that bad boy too.
Shadow Word: Pain is your most efficient damage spell in your arsenal (it does more damage per point of mana). Taking Improved Shadow Word: Pain would be wise. Improved Psychic Scream is always nice because it’s really your only crowd control spell as a priest leveling up. Use it and love it. Vampiric Embrace and Improved Vampiric Embrace will allow you to siphon health from your opponent, making you less likely to need heals during or after a fight. Again, more efficiency.
Shadowform, Twisted Faith, Misery and Shadow Power are all essential here because they give you an incredible boost to your overall damage. Mind Melt is great for this too. Done with Shadow, and moving on into Discipline.
Ok, right off the bat, we’ve taken Twin Disciplines. This isn’t only important for your spell damage, but let’s face it – there’s going to be a time when you need to heal yourself to get out of a sticky situation. I don’t care what any Shadow Priest tells you, even they heal when needed while leveling up in World of Warcraft. Since you’re going to be soloing and taking damage, Improved Inner Fire is an essential boost to your armor class and make you less likely to be obligated to use your heals (we never want to use our heals if we don’t have to. They take mana, thus taking away from our speed and damage).
Improved Power Word: Fortitude gives us a little bit more Stamina. This talent really isn’t that essential, but it is nice to have. We just took it here because frankly, it’s the best talent in the tear for priest leveling in wow. Inner Focus comes in handy in two ways. Primarily, it can be used as an “Oh, Shit” button when you’re out of mana and you need a heal or just one last damage spell. Secondly, if you use it BEFORE you’re out of mana, it just saves on downtime.
The rest of the talents can be shifted around a bit, so tweak it and have fun with it. See you Priests in World of Warcraft! World of Warcraft PvP
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