How to Solo a WoW Priest Class.

There are a lot advantages being a priest. You can either do spell damage to your enemies or heal yourself and your friendly allies. Being a healer is usually popular in a dungeon run, especially if you are a good healer. Questing is still the fastest way to level a character. But being able to heal doesn't mean level fast if you don't know how to fight the mobs when you're soloing. Here are my tricks to solo my priests.

As a spell caster. First of all, the most basic rule is to make sure that you have drinks in your bags. Amazing how many people often forget to bring enough drinks with them when they are questing. Without drinks, you can't recharge your mana quickly. Instead quickly drink and get on your next combat, you'll have to wait for your mana to recharge naturally. That will slow the questing down for you.

Secondly, you want a good dps (damage per second) wand. The higher the dps is on a wand the better. This way you can still do a lot of damage when you run out of mana. And over all, you want gears that have intellect, spirit, stamina, and spell power bonus if possible. Intellect is your mana, spirit is your mana regeneration rate, stamina is your amount of health, and spells will do more damage then it should've been with spell power bonus. And always to remember to heal yourself when you have to.

Discipline Priest
Discipline priests are known for mana regeneration. As a discipline priest, you want a good dps wand, spell power bonus gears with intellect, spirit stats and mana regeneration. Spirit because that is your mana regeneration. And this is your basic combat tactic.

Always put your shield on before going into combat, that way you can use it again in mid- combat once the cool down for recasting the shield is up. Mind blast spell, follow by shadow of word pain spell then holy fire, smite and smite. That usually will takes care of single mob.

Or if you want to conserve mana like I usually do. I use shield, mind blast, shadow of word pain, then I use my wand until the mob dies. Recast mind blast and shadow of word pain onlyif you have to. This way you'll conserve a lot of mana to lasts you through numerous fights until you have to sit down to drink again. With spirit build and talent point such as Meditation and Enlightenment, you'll boost your mana regeneration during combat even more.

Holy Priest
As a holy priest. You want similar gear build as discipline priest. Due to Spiritual Guidance talent point, the higher your spirit is, the more damage and healing spell power you'll have, plus it is also your mana regeneration.

The combat tactic pretty much the same as discipline priest. Shield, mind blast, shadow of word pain, holy fire, smite and smite. Or more mana conserve approach. Shield, mind blast or holy fire, shadow of word pain, and use your wand.

The good thing about holy priests is that they are more popular to be invited into dungeon runs. Then all you have to do is heal your party members and not worry about help killing mobs. However, I do find a common misconception that holy priests are better then discipline priest. That is not true at all. Sure holy priest may heal a bit more then the other specs, but that doesn't mean discipline priest isn't capable of healing or do spell damage. If given the same gears, discipline priest usually lasts longer in combat due to their mana regeneration build. I know because my discipline priest mana pool usually out last a holy priest in raid. Last longer means you'll heal more in the end.

Shadow Priest
Shadow priests are build to do mass amount of spell damage and thus easiest to solo. But until they are high enough level to get Vampiric Touch and Dispersion, they will need to drink more frequently then the other two specs, because spells are more mana intensive. Therefore, Spirit Tap is a must have for shadow priest As a shadow priest, you want your gears to be intellect, stamina, spell power bonus, and critical based. Critical because then there's a chance you'll do two to three times as much damage, depending on how high your critical score is at.

At low level before you even have Mind Flay, your spells tactic is will be the same as the other two spec. Once you have Mind Flay, it will be shield, mind blast, shadow of word pain and mind flay.
Since shadow priest can't use holy spell to heal in Shadow Form, it is crucial to get Vampiric Embrace into your combat for healing. And Vampiric Touch for mana regeneration. So your best combat spells in shadow form are now shield, mind blast, vampiric embrace, vampiric touch, shadow of word pain, and keep mind flaying until the target is dead.


I've been playing World of Warcraft since the game released years ago. I love playing priest class and have several priests myself. These combat tactics work best for me and I hope you will find it useful as well to help you solo your priest class no matter which spec you go with.