Soloing Possiblities...

[Yoyopa]

are Priests good at soloing? I was a cleric on EverQuest and they sucked at soloing... I want to try out Priest but I havent because I dont want to have to look for a group all day just to do lil quests

[Frohgurt]

With the exception of instances and one quest, I've soloed my Priest all the way to 28 (BFD kicked me up to 29.5) ;D

Questing and fighting was a bit rough for the first 10-15 levels. "Yellow" quests presented a challenge and required a lot of time to finish as I couldn't take (or dish out) much damage.

TO make it easier, I rotated quests in all the "newbie" starting areas until I hit Yellow quests. So, for example, I'd finish quests in Durotar until I began dying too much. Then I'd switch to Bloodhoof, etc. Actually it worked out well as I upped my reputation.

Still, is was little rough for me until I hit 20ish. I setup my talents with mainly Shadow and I was able to get Mind Flay which made things *much* easier for me. Outside of the Shadow talent tree, you'll want the Shadow Tap talent which boots your Spirit by 100% after a kill. Great for mana and health regeneration.

After Mindflay, you work in to a pattern of attack (Nuke, DoT, Shield, Mindflay, Mindflay, Nuke).

The Priest really doesn't begin to shine until about 20 so you'd want to give it at least that long. Anyhow, its a great class and I highly recommend you try it! Good luck!

-Frohgurt

[New Admin]

Also to help with soloing you must use the right Talent tree.

Soloing = Shadow

Grouping = Holy

You can mix up the talents any way u want but to solo you need damage. Shadow really lets you pump out damage. I know with Derricka I can cut a monsters life in half before it even gets to me. Priest is a great class and the ONLY class that has Race special spells. Depending on your race you get special spells that other races cant get. Its very cool So pick the race that best fits your kind of priest

[Derricka]

PRIESTS RULES!

I solo most of the time... I can kill things 2-3 lvls higher no problem... this is the order of how I normally do things...

1-Mind Blast (pull monster to you with very high damage)
2-Shadow Word: Pain (instant DOT cast while monster running towards you)
3-Mind Flay (3sec Channel spell, does good dmg w/o using massive MP, slow monster to 50% moving speed allowing less chance for interrupting the channeling)
4-Power Word: Shield on self (absorbs all dmg for 30s or a curtain amount of dmgs, spell will not be interrupted)
5-Mind Blast
6-Attack with weapon and wand and Renew on self (HP regen spell)
7-Mind Blast if needed, new shadow word pain? Flash heal for self? all depends on what you are fighting... But normally by this point the thing is pretty much dead...
8-Mind Flay if they wanted to run away... muhahaha
9-Loot the body for... hopefully blue items ^^ ok not greedy, green will do too...

I think both Frohgurt and I are shadow Priests, that's why we both have Mind Flay, it's a spell that you can only get by investing in Shadow Talents, meaning most of our talent points are in the Shadow Tree talents... This makes Priests good at soloing... we all know Shadow Word: Pain is a great spell... in talent tree, you get to make it last 6 seconds longer... in my DPS records, SWP does over 30% of my overall damage, that thing HURTS... But shadow priests pull a lot of hate... but a good shadow priest would know not to use mind blast so much ... Fade is a great ability to loose some of the hate in a group...

btw... Froh is a great priest...

I found that priest are also easy to find groups... people always looking for healers... but one of my best experience for soloing is with a mage of same lvl... yes none of us can actually do the tanking... but... mage would freeze to the ground and we back up, and NUKE the heck out of it... and then of course PW: Shield whoever's getting attacked... and for the massive cost of MP... mages can conju food ^^ yeah... well we might not be the best team together, but it was FUN! and we walked through things...

anyway, just some of things that I do with my priest... if you like to do dmg as a priest be a shadow priest...MUHAHA..... if you like the more peaceful side... be holy priest... Meow.... all your choice...

PS, A word on the race special spells... Night Elf Priests get Starshards, it's a channelling spell and does constant arcane dmg over secs and dmg increases as + ranks and the channelling time is longer also... looks pretty cool star like drops fall from the sky bang the monster on the head... I use it more often when I'm in a group... it acts like a DOT, and not much hate, but still good dmg...

[Yoyopa]

ok... so where does it explain these racial priest ablilities? ive never heard about them or seen anything about them. what races get what spells as priests? i wanna know people! ...cause I miss having an alt healer... (34 cleric on EQ was my alt to my 48gnome warrior)

[Yoyopa]

...or i might just go Druid... but I dont know about those big Tauren fellas...

[Derricka]

for the Race special spells for Priests here is the Link for it... it's on the WOW official website

www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/priest.html

[Derricka]

I just got Vampiric Embrace at lvl 30, IT'S AWSOME!! getting healed while doing damage... For those of you that don't know, it's a shadow talent spell that's low cost in mana and it's an spell on the target that any of your shadow damage done to the mob, your whole group/party will be healed for 20% of your damage, great thing is that even the pets in the party get healed, 20% isn't much, but when you got Shadow word: Pain on that mob, the little healing ticks are none stop...

if you read my way of using priest for soloing, add Vampiric Embrace in the beginning since I mostly use shadow spells... and it's fun to see that you don't really have to heal yourself that much while soloing... just a renew or so will do

[Yoyopa]

made my Troll Priest and for some reason, unknown to me, i like it better than an Undead Priest. ive tried both and i like the trollies best. well im only lvl 10 right now so we'll see once Yoyora gets going