WoW Forever Priest Talent Calculator & Build Planner

How to use this Priest talent calculator

Use the planner to test a build before you spend gold or commit to a leveling, dungeon, raid or PvP role. You can explore every tree without creating an account.

Is Priest a good fit for you?

Players who want a clear choice between supporting a group and dealing shadow damage from range. Cloth armor and mana management punish careless pulls, especially before your healing toolkit fills out.

What changed from Classic for Priest?

This calculator uses the current Forever beta snapshot rather than assuming the Classic tree is unchanged. For Priest, the current data contains 13 new talents, 29 changed talents and 0 moved talents.

• NEW means the talent was not present in the Classic comparison tree.
• CHANGED means the name or position may look familiar, but its effect or rank wording differs.
• MOVED means the talent is in a different row or location, which can change how quickly you reach it.

Turn on Compare to Classic in the calculator for a quick check, then open the Priest class changes page for the broader explanation.

Inside the Priest trees

Every Priest talent, in tree order. A rank is one level of a talent, and each rank makes the effect stronger. Click any talent for the full rank-by-rank wording, straight from the beta client.

✦ Discipline (18 talents)

Shields and mana tricks that keep the raid standing. Prevention beats healing. Key picks: Inner Focus, Soul Warding, Penance, Power Infusion. New in Forever: Power in Light, Twin Disciplines, Holy Precision, Soul Warding, Penance, Renewed Hope, Divine Aegis.

Talent	Ranks	Row	Effect
✦ Power in Light NEW	5	1	Your Smite and Penance spells deal 10% increased damage to targets afflicted with your Holy Fire.
✦ Wand Specialization CHANGED	2	1	Increases your damage with Wands by 25%.
✦ Twin Disciplines NEW	5	1	Increases the damage and healing of your instant cast spells by 5%.
✦ Silent Resolve CHANGED	3	2	Reduces the threat generated by your Holy spells by 30% and reduces the duration of Stun, Fear, and Silence effects inflicted on you by 15%.
✦ Holy Precision NEW	3	2	Improves your chance to hit with Holy spells by 18%.
✦ Improved Power Word: Shield CHANGED	3	2	Increases the damage absorbed by your Power Word: Shield by 20%.
✦ Martyrdom CHANGED	2	2	Gives you a 100% chance to gain Focused Casting for 6 sec after being the victim of a melee or ranged critical strike. The Focused Casting effect prevents you from losing casting time when taking damage and increases your resistance to Interrupt effects by 20%.
✦ Mental Agility CHANGED	3	3	Reduces the mana cost of your Smite, Holy Fire, and instant cast spells by 10%.
✦ Inner Focus	1	3	When activated, reduces the Mana cost of your next spell by 100% and increases its critical effect chance by 25% if it is capable of a critical effect.
✦ Meditation CHANGED	3	3	Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
✦ Improved Inner Fire CHANGED	3	4	Increases the Armor bonus of your Inner Fire spell by 45% and increases its total charges by 12.
✦ Mental Strength CHANGED	5	4	Increases your total Intellect by 15%.
✦ Soul Warding NEW	1	4	Reduces the cooldown on your Power Word: Shield spell by 4 sec and reduces its mana cost by 15%.
✦ Improved Mana Burn CHANGED	2	4	Reduces the casting time of your Mana Burn spell by 1 sec.
✦ Penance NEW	1	5	Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 81 Holy damage to an enemy, or 184 healing to an ally, instantly and every 1 sec for 2 sec.
✦ Renewed Hope NEW	5	5	Your heals from Flash Heal, Binding Heal, Lesser Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, and Penance gain 10% increased critical strike chance when cast on targets with Weakened Soul, and reduce the remaining duration of Weakened Soul on their target by 5 sec.
✦ Divine Aegis NEW	3	6	Your critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 15% of the amount healed. Lasts 12 sec.
✦ Power Infusion CHANGED	1	7	Infuses the target with power, increasing their spell damage and healing done by 20% for 15 sec.

✦ Holy (17 talents)

Big direct heals for the heaviest raid damage. When the tank is at 10%, this is the tree you want. Key picks: Holy Nova, Binding Heal, Spirit of Redemption, Prayer of Mending. New in Forever: Binding Heal, Litany of Light, Prayer of Mending.

Talent	Ranks	Row	Effect
✦ Twilight Focus CHANGED	3	1	Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting any spell.
✦ Improved Renew	3	1	Increases the amount healed by your Renew spell by 15%.
✦ Holy Specialization	5	1	Increases the critical effect chance of your Holy spells by 5%.
✦ Spell Warding	5	2	Reduces all spell damage taken by 10%.
✦ Divine Fury	5	2	Reduces the casting time of your Smite, Holy Fire, Heal, and Greater Heal spells by 0.5 sec.
✦ Holy Nova CHANGED	1	3	Causes an explosion of holy light around the caster, causing 26 to 30 Holy damage to all enemy targets within 10 yards and healing all party members within 10 yards for 49 to 57. These effects cause no threat.
✦ Blessed Recovery CHANGED	3	3	After being struck by a melee or ranged critical hit, or suffering more than 30% of your maximum Health from a single attack, heal 25% of the damage taken over 6 sec. Refreshing this effect carries over any remaining healing.
✦ Inspiration CHANGED	3	3	Your non-periodic critical heals increase your target's Armor by 25% for 15 sec.
✦ Holy Reach	2	4	Increases the range of your Smite and Holy Fire spells and the radius of your Prayer of Healing and Holy Nova spells by 20%.
✦ Improved Healing CHANGED	3	4	Reduces the Mana cost of your Lesser Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, Penance, and Prayer of Mending spells by 15%.
✦ Searing Light CHANGED	2	4	Increases your Holy damage done by 5%, and gives a 10% chance each time your Holy Fire spell deals periodic damage for your next Holy Nova to cost no Mana.
✦ Binding Heal NEW	1	4	Heals a friendly target and the caster for 236 to 284. Low threat.
✦ Litany of Light NEW	2	5	When you cast a healing spell, gain Mana equal to 10% of the base cost of the spell if your previous heal was a different spell.
✦ Spirit of Redemption CHANGED	1	5	Upon death, the priest becomes the Spirit of Redemption for 15 sec. The Spirit of Redemption cannot move, attack, be attacked or targeted by any spells or effects. While in this form the priest can cast any healing spell free of cost. When the effect ends, the priest dies.
✦ Spiritual Guidance CHANGED	5	5	Increases your spell healing by up to 25% of your total Spirit and your spell damage by up to 8% of your total Spirit.
✦ Spiritual Healing CHANGED	3	6	Increases the amount healed by your spells by 10%.
✦ Prayer of Mending NEW	1	7	Places a spell on the target that heals them for 172 the next time they take damage or receive non-periodic healing. When the heal occurs, Prayer of Mending jumps to a party or raid member within 20 yards. Jumps up to 5 times and lasts 30 sec after each jump. This spell can only be placed on one target at a time per caster.

✦ Shadow (18 talents)

Shadow damage that feeds health back to you. Melts faces, barely drinks. Key picks: Mind Flay, Vampiric Embrace, Silence, Shadowform. New in Forever: Improved Mind Flay, Devouring Contagion, Early Demise.

Talent	Ranks	Row	Effect
✦ Shadow Focus CHANGED	5	1	Improves your chance to hit with Shadow spells by 5%.
✦ Blackout	5	1	Gives your Shadow damage spells a 10% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
✦ Spirit Tap CHANGED	5	1	Gives you a 100% chance to gain a 100% bonus to your Spirit for 15 sec after killing a non-trivial target. For the duration, your Mana will regenerate at a 50% of normal rate while casting.
✦ Shadow Affinity CHANGED	3	2	Reduces the threat generated by your Shadow spells by 30%.
✦ Improved Shadow Word: Pain	2	2	Increases the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain spell by 6 sec.
✦ Shadow Reach CHANGED	2	2	Increases the range of your offensive Shadow spells by 20%.
✦ Improved Mind Blast	5	3	Reduces the cooldown of your Mind Blast spell by 2.5 sec.
✦ Improved Psychic Scream	2	3	Reduces the cooldown of your Psychic Scream spell by 4 sec.
✦ Mind Flay CHANGED	1	3	Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 63 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%.
✦ Improved Mind Flay NEW	2	3	Your Mind Flay now deals 20% more damage, gains 10 yards increased range, but slows the target's movement speed by 20%.
✦ Improved Fade	2	4	Decreases the cooldown of your Fade ability by 6 sec.
✦ Vampiric Embrace CHANGED	1	4	Afflicts your target with Shadow energy that causes all party members to be healed for 20% of any Shadow spell damage you deal for 30 sec. Vampiric Embrace also grants a chance for your Spirit Tap talent to trigger when enemies afflicted by it die.
✦ Shadow Weaving CHANGED	3	4	Your Shadow damage spells have a 100% chance to increase the Shadow damage you deal by 2% for 15 sec, stacking up to 5 times.
✦ Silence CHANGED	1	5	Silences the target, preventing them from casting spells for 5 sec and interrupting their spellcasts for 3 sec.
✦ Devouring Contagion NEW	2	5	Reduces the mana cost of your Devouring Plague by 50%. Targets that die while Devouring Plague it is active spreads it, jumping to a nearby enemy within 10 yards for the remaining duration.
✦ Early Demise NEW	2	6	Increases Shadow Word: Death's critical strike chance on targets at or below 20% health by 30%.
✦ Darkness CHANGED	5	6	Increases your Shadow damage done by 10%.
✦ Shadowform CHANGED	1	7	Assume Shadowform, increasing your Shadow damage by 10%, reducing the Mana cost of all Shadow spells by 50%, increasing the critical strike damage bonus of your Shadow spells by 100%, and reducing Physical damage taken by you by 15%. However, you may not cast healing spells while in this form.

Want the exact numbers? The full Priest talent reference lists every rank word-for-word from the beta client. And if you're wondering what Blizzard shuffled, every Priest change vs Classic sits on one page.

Quick checklist before you lock in points

• Check the level slider before judging a build. A deep talent may be a level-60 plan, not a level-20 plan.
• Read the prerequisite path, not just the final talent. Five points in a tree unlock the next row.
• Use the class guide to compare roles, then use build comparison when two versions look similar.
• Save or copy the link after testing. The current snapshot page explains how shared links behave when beta data changes.

Best races for Priest

Human · Dwarf · Night Elf · Troll · Undead · Gnome (new in Forever) · Skyborne

Dwarves shrug off fear effects. Trolls cast heals faster when they are hurt. Compare every racial passive side by side on the races page.