PRIEST In CLASSIC WoW: Was It Any Good Though? 

Warlock vid will be late Tuesday next week 13/08. Currently aiming to get 2 vids out a week that I can look at and think - "I would watch that" Thanks all!

"I would recommend either troll or undead for horde" Ah yes, the only two horde races able to be priest.

_"...and then again, not everyone is going to be running around with Benediction, believe me."_ *cough* Except every Priests and their mothers, of course...

I spent a good part of my youth mind controlling alliance into the lava at Blackrock Mountian.

Your whole "Was it any good though" series has been excellent! Nice open minded analysis that is very honest and fair. Keep up the great work!

“Not everyone is going to be running around with benediction” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"not every priest is gonna have benediction" -WillE 2019

Your videos are so informative ans it really makes it easier to choose a class. You don't over hype even for the lower classes like other youtubers do regarding class statistics. Cheers also for not having any ads, Definately subscribed! Keep up the content!

A point regarding the 8 piece prophecy bonus. It had an interaction with the holy talent Inspiration. When our guild was progressing through Naxx40, it became invaluable for learning the patchwerk fight. We would put our 3 main tanks and main healer in the same group with me spamming low rank prayers to keep their armor buffed by 25%. Niche for sure, but super effective.

Haven't played WoW for 2 yrs..sub price and lean times. But Discipline Priest was my first toon back in vanilla days..really miss it. Was always my main and I never had problem leveling or soloing. Pvp was my addiction. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

A note on wands: Pick up tailoring and enchanting. You can disenchant linen green items to get enchanting high enough to make a level 5 wand and a level 13 wand. You don't need to keep tailoring/enchanting if you only want it for the starter wands. Alternatively, there will be a lot of priests doing this and I imagine most will be willing to part with a crafted wand cheap, if not free if you donate some linen cloth (it is just wood + 2 lesser essence, a couple silver worth of materials). Seek out one of these priests to get the wands early without needing the professions yourself. These will hold you over until you can do the Black Fathom Deeps quest for Gravestone Scepter. This wand is amazing for its level and will carry you up to 40 for Shadowform easy. So even the con of "starting out slow and needing to spend gold on the AH" isn't much of a con if you plan around it. The wands in the 40-55 range are not so great, and if you still want to play without the AH, try to hit up Mara or Sunken Temple for wand upgrades. As a healer you can get by squeezing into dungeons at a lower level than you normally should, since your dps against higher level enemies doesn't matter. It also breaks up the monotony of the solo dot/wand grind. Have dps minions kill stuff for you while you trail along and get loot :D

great video! I love getting actual info and examples instead of hype filled nostalgia. can't wait for classic

I like how your videos are formatted; compact, and straight to the point.

Really well made videos in general. Love this serie. Noticed alot of time and effort have gone into research on these. You deserve way more subs!

Can't get enough of your content. Keep it up!

Shadow at 40 was so fun - go for max Hit so you can fight lvls way above you; DoT, slow, stun them to death. (Hmm, dammit, that was TBC, but build looks very alike here.)

Great video! Better than any other highlighting the racials thoroughly and fairly

Just watched the hunter video and was hoping you'd have a priest video. Great timing lol

this is the 3rd video of your series that I've watched and I've got to say... youve done an outstanding job! very engaging :)

There were quite a few cloth items that had higher than normal armor and you could get defense buffs (like the defense shoulder buff from leatherworkers) and that really increased your survivability in PvP.

Mind Blast having higher threat was because, and hear me out here, Priests were supposed to be able to tank. Kinda why Inner Fire exists as well. But thankfully the idea was scrapped very early on and Inner Fire/Mind Blast threat are just the hold overs of that crazy idea.

I played priest all through vanilla, leveling as holy priest for that true masochist experience. The class had big changes throughout the patches so the pre-TBC patch talents that Classic will be launching with massively improved the class. Prayer of healing is a truly incredibly spell, with talents, downranking and set bonus you can top the meters everytime, however I managed to actually pull boss agro from the sheer amount of healing it outputs so need to be careful. Shadow is literally gods of PvP until they run out of mana, they will destroy anyone 1v1 even in garbage gear until people are hitting tier 2, abuse the crap out of mana burn to make healers cry. Priest actually has many more weakness, is incredibly weak to rogue with no way to remove poisons and slows so enjoy the inevitable ganks, the only CC is 30 second cooldown aoe fear which is insanely dangerous for pulling more in dungeons, the lack of an interrupt outside of talented shadow silence is really awful against casters and no slow outside of channelled mindflay hurts against melee, you will be tanking alot of damage so keep inner fire and Pw:shield up at all times. Overall priest is a great class but certainly not the best, you will be competing against mages, warlocks and other healers for that sweet caster and cloth gear, utility is pretty boring and skillcap is low, plus you will be forced to heal in raids and mostly dungeons, so if you like shadow enjoy spending and farming 2x50gold every time you swap. Make sure you have a best friend as a mage as you will need that sweet sweet water, a few stacks to get by everyday else priest life is expensive and slow.

Sweet, thanks! Was excited for this one.

Finally the video ive been waiting for! And its 20 mins long awesome.

I love watching your sub numbers grow almost as much as I love your videos!

I've been waiting for this video for like 2 weeks now, thank you!!

First Char i ever created was a Rogue..after we lost every BG at lvl 30~ cause we didnt have heals i was so mad i lvled up a Priest and played it till today.

Hey man, these are some high quality videos, good content, informative, not too long, not too short, funny. Subscribed. Thanks

i was actually leveling faster as a spriest recently then i did was a warlock. The wand and spirit regen is amazing. I've main'ed both for years so pretty familiar with both classes.

You're skyrocketing in subs WillE(y) :D

Another great video! You really know your stuff. Looking forward to the warlock video

Don’t know if this is already been said, but I love the intro you have for this whole series. Great videos dawg!

you are carrying my decisionmaking keep it up

Mindflay uses a Debuffslot. Great Video, as always. Keep up the good work!

Great content man! Been waiting for this one :)

Maining a Priest for Classic. As soon as Classic was announced there wasn't a question in my mind as to what I wanted to play. You could have also mentioned that Priests can solo gold farm really well as well. Phase 1 you can do Mara Princess runs. Phase 2+ you can do DM East Lasher AoE farm. Can't wait, pretty hyped. Can't stop playing the stress test. Great video!

Been waiting for this even tho i know the answer.. YES Thanks for the content my dude :)

this is the one i was waiting for, im going shadow priest OR holy priest, haven't yet decided. but this video helped me! thank you

I know all of this stuff, played both actual Vanilla and some private servers. Still love these videos! Keep up the good work :).

Was waiting for this one!

Man, you are really helping me decide which class to play. This one is so very tempting. But I think Warlock is the way for me.

Great channel and great content. Thank you! Under subscribed channel. Keep it up and you will grow quick!

I have to say, you're really making me want to get back into WoW.

Love your vids, keep it up. Have a nice day!

I love me some priest. But it would be a challenge to play shadow in raids so I probably won't for classic. I'll be all over priest if they ever release TBC realms.

lovin these videos. cant wait for lock

Shadow Guard also works against ranged attacks and most importantly it scales with your shadow Sp and procs all of your abilities not just blackout.

I decided to play priest because well I never played one. Played some on a private server and I really enjoy the game play.

love your vids mate keep it up

i've enjoyed this series, keep pumping out creative content WillE

Shadow word pain is better than warlock dots in pve by far . it ticks harder, last longer and it procs vampiric embrace, which should be improved to heal maintank and warlock(s) lifetap damage which you will be grouped with People treat priests as poor dps, but in reality they are a hybrid healer-dps, and their total output is very respectable. if you are allowed to use shadow word pain you can and will outheal some of your healers if your group takes consistent damage. you can stack warlocks who dont use their imp for buff in a group with a SP and you will cover all lifetap damage . and on vaelastrazs you will also be able to almost singlehandedly keep your own group topped off. I would argue that any free debuff slot the raid has could open up a shadow priest slot, but for fights with low raid damage they do fall off in efficiency. Undead SP with decent spelldamage also becomes a god of grinding. shadow word pain, vampiric embrace and rank 2 touch of weaknes(due to spellpower scaling and mana cost) spam will drop a mob on the move, and you will be able to keep this going almost forever without needing to eat or drink. Any 5 man group with a druid healer also want to bring a shadow priest if possible due to their ress and slight edge over ret paladins and dps shamans

My man! Thanks so much

I’m thinking about going for a healer, just so that I can find groups easier and maybe people will want me.

Even though Nelf Priest isn't ideal, I can't pass up Shadowmeld + MC hahaha.

Great video! Little critique: The tier sets are a little hard to grasp when they're stretched sideways to fit the screen.

You have done some great videos in the build-up to classic. Great information.

Great series! Definitely played a vital role in my main class decision.

Finally! Love your videos

You do a fantastic job pointing out the positive with the different classes and you have great vocal inflection. You're making this very difficult for me!

most underrated wow youtuber!

For me, it's coming down to Warlock or Priest. Your video on the Warlock will really help me decide.

As a warlock main, absolutely non of the warlock dots do anywhere near as much dps as shadow word pain. The thing is locks have alot of dots. Shadow priest at their best will do about 60% as much damage as a warlock of same gear level within a raid setting, the 15% extra shadow damage then adds to this and so if you have any more than 3 locks in a raid, you are always better off bringing a shadow priest over another lock.

1 thing about the troll curse of weakness, the healing reduction stacks with mortal strike for a total of 70% healing reduction, so its a must on certain bosses imo

Awesome video!

Thank you WIlle for making thse videos I am going to be either priest or a druid in vanilla healing my bros :) your videos help with my final decision

Shadowpriest was my 2nd favorite PvP'er.

Really nice video. What sucks and also what is great about classic is that it's so hard to pick a main and kind of crucial that you do. Not that it isn't casual friendly, things just take longer. I'm currently stuck between a priest, a hunter and a lock. I might just have to do all three, but which first? Hunter or priest?

these are great to show my semi noob friends man keep it up!

You missed that Inner Focus was used to extend time outside the 5 second window, since free spells didn't trigger the 5 second rule.

As a priest main I came into this video hoping you'd mention wands and spirit tap makes leveling for priest extremely fast. I'm not disappointed. +1

My brother got rank 14 just before I did and he played a shadow priest back in the day. We noticed that it wasn't until much later (soo before TBC came out) that SPs became more prolific and were making a mark for themselves in pvp. I don't know whether that was just because of our server, but there weren't any SP high warlords/grand marshals until near the end of vanilla's life.

I remember sitting in 1k needles mind controlling lowbies off the cliff at the top of the elevators :)

You have great videos thanks willE

I think the Troll Priest hex is vastly underrated. Yes, there's the Mortal Strike debuff, but it is not two minutes long.

Great vid! Mic sounds great now too

Ty for the awesome videos. 🙏👌

Hey WillE, can you make a Video about ranking the classes from there overall difficulties? Like the easiest to hardest class to learn and master. Im new to WoW and this would help a lot of new players that want to start classic alot i guess.

Nice, i love your videos dude. When is the warlock one coming out?

Started a lock simply since brother did a priest, my OG vanilla was a rogue and the ganking will return one day but would rather get into a guild asap for raids with utility of a priest or lock.

like and subbed, holy crap this video was awesome!

dude your videos are so good

Fun fact, disc was originally going to be a tank spec.

Happy to hear warlock is on the way. These are the legit best series on classic wow classes.

thanks for vid bro

2021 watching, and remembering my naive 2019 self and how excited I was in anticipation for classic - the first time I binged all these videos - and feeling like a doomer

Inner focus also helps you stay in increased manaregen mode (5second rule).

Decent video, quite informative. I like the series.... only thing I could say is that you could also have had a "quality of life" section in the video including class specific gold farming strats/ease of finding groups. Great series for the newcomers though! Priest4Lyfe

What music did you use! It sound familiar :P - I can't wait to see the Warlock video!

Another quality thicc vid and you’re getting that sub count high! Keep up the good work, very much looking forward to the Lock vid.

Benediction is STILL my pride and joy on my priest. And with Classic out, I will 100% get it again.

Nice video. I'm choosing between Priest and Paladin. Leaning more towards Paladin because they are like fantasy Jedis

Smite spec for levelling was also very good for levelling, completely sustainable

Can't wait for the Death Knight video!

Thx for this, love it:)

It's weird hearing past quality willE

I leveled as a holy priest, taking my time around launch. Took 28 days played, and I loved every second of it

I would say 20-30 is a little rough, but honestly it's hardly a problem. Priests are good levelers all throughout. This will be my main class, then mage. I just love the flavor. Insanely strong class

I'm thinking of playing undead warlock and priest with my friend. SL warlock and shadow priest for PvP to be specific. In theory they should have some nasty synergy in PvP. They have loads of rot damage with multiple curses and other debuffs that boost shadow damage taken by insane amounts. Shadow weaving, +15% with 100% uptime - curse of shadow, +10%. 100% uptime - imp. shadowbolt, 20%, uptime scales with lock's crit (only usable with the shadowburn spec, not when specced 20 in aff for better dots). These specs have insane CC with fears, deathcoil, stun procs, and silences. But the real obnoxious kicker, is what a pair of immortal tanks they can be. SL warlocks are by themselves really tanky with 2 potential voidwalker sacrifices, the shared damage with the tanky blueberry, 10% reduced phys dmg taken, healthstones, and drain life... But add in a SP that has shields, and permanent vamp embrace to leech 30% of her shadow damage dealt to the target, and deliver it to the most injured friend. The SP isn't that squishy either, with 15% reduced physical damage taken, shields, renew, health stones, and the devouring plague heal.

I started a holy priest 1.5 years into vanilla after those first years were spent on a druid. I kept my Benediction in the bank just because. And man...I'm glad I did. I love it for Xmog so incredibly much.

Thank you!