 what up guys welcome to my priest racial tier list and this is going to apply for all phases from now onward so we're going to need to make a new one each phase a lot of people have been asking me about whether or not they should be playing dwarf, whether night elf is okay, whether human is okay what's stronger out of troll and undead these kind of things so this is going to be a tier list for all of the priest ratios however ranked them and that should solve and clear a little bit of art make sure you watch to the end for my personal picks for race for both shadow and disc if you found it useful make sure you give it a like and if you disagreed with anything please do drop a comment so that we can have a discussion about it and then maybe we'll learn a little bit more about the game and tweak it for the future thanks very much for watching and enjoy start at the bottom we've got feedback as the worst priest racial in the game very very hard to actually get value out of costs a lot of mana doesn't drain that much mana uh i believe this is even dispellable and doesn't do that much damage so just overall pretty dead weight uh d tier top of it we've got elune's grace doesn't work on melee damage the the damage reduction only works on range doesn't work on spells it's dispellable only the dodge works on melee and it's not that much so it's nice in certain situations as a you know a little tank cooldown but not reliable in any way shape or form due to dodges rng and just a very niche cooldown to be using compared to other things that are available next up is star shards in the bottom of c tier and this is quite a lot of mana but also a six second channel so the only real use for it is kind of baiting out cs a lot of other things you could be pressing during that time six seconds quite long especially in the faster pace sod gameplay then we've got shadow meld and the only really redeeming quality of this is that you can drink while in shadow meld so this actually helps you get a little bit longer out of your drink because people are going to have to run up to you to stop it rather than being able to stop it from range so this is going to give you a few extra ticks there but generally quite a niche usage from this one as well then above shadow meld we have perception and perception in its own right is quite strong against rogues against feral's it's not a bad button to push however you are giving up something like stone form for it because you have to play human to get this and while the perception is nice in itself as soon as the rogue is out of stealth this is now useless and overall the stone form is going to be stronger for you against rogues in in the long run so the very niche class nature of this combined with the overall you know strength it actually brings keeps it relatively low berserking also quite low doesn't work on channels doesn't work on instant globals so the main time you're going to be getting value out of this is when you're casting things like flash heal mind blast or maybe you're wanting next up we got beat here and we've got touch of weakness which is strong because it procs blackout but the overall value that you get out of it in terms of damage reduction is relatively low and the damage that it does is also relatively low so there's other globals you can be pressing while being trained by melee that are going to give you more value if you don't get the blackout initially of this and the top of beta we've got devouring plague and generally this would be a little bit higher however we do have the option of void plague now which is a lot cheaper does a lot more damage and is generally a higher priority button to be pushing you won't be able to play in a focus if you're playing shadow at 40 so this is quite a tricky racial to actually get value from without ooming yourself very quickly in a tier we've got touch no sorry we've got hex of weakness apologies is the troll racial and this is providing 20 percent mortal strike so very very strong at 25 but it's going to continue to be decent it's spammable it's low mana cost you can use rank one and still get the 20 percent and this is going to be available basically whenever you want right you can you can use it at a 30 yard range and there's no cooldown so you can hex of weakness plenty of people in warsong gulch that are pushing in deep and cause a lot of extra problems for the healers that they wouldn't normally be now keep in mind that at 40 there will be other mortal strikes in the game as well that do 50 healing reduction so this will not be as valuable then next up we've got shadow guard and the reason this is so strong is because it procs not only on melee but also on range and spells and it has three charges so you don't have to refresh it anywhere near as much as touch of weakness and it also does a lot more damage the scaling on it is pretty nice it's a 0.26 or 26 approximately scaling per charge on your spell power so you can actually do a decent amount of damage with this as a as a passive that you've got up and not only that you can proc blackouts and the shadow vulnerable with it top of eight here we've got desperate prayer and now it's starting to get serious the desperate prayer is a very very strong heal i think at level 40 it's probably going to be healing you for like 25 to 30 of your hp most likely and when you combine this with something like stone form to remove wound poison this is going to be a very very powerful survival tool it's going to help you get to your next penance cooldown if you're playing disc if you happen to be playing shadow with it if you're playing a dwarf shadow priest then it could be a very good last resort coming out of shadow form popping this to buy yourself a little bit more time and it's also free it is completely free it doesn't cost any mana and this is really strong because it doesn't proc the five second rule really good shout there aka thank you then in s here we've got stone form and this is going to be very very strong because you can actually remove blinds with it blind is removable it's a poison stone form removing that but also it lasts for eight seconds and it will be making be making you immune to disease bleed and poison for the duration and i think we are definitely going to see a lot more bleeds and poisons if no more diseases coming out from other runes as we go forward so this has a lot a lot of a potential use cases making it very very versatile and that's going to be the bottom of our s tier next up we've got fear ward another dwarf racial and this is why dwarves are generally heralded so strong we've got three of their ratios in the you know in the tops top four even which is insane and yeah in rank two spot in s tier we've got the fear ward 30 seconds cooldown 10 minutes duration costs very little mana it's like a hundred mana and you can buff as many people as as you can during that 10 minutes with it if you use it on cooldown so pre-popping this in war song going to make your whole team basically means a fear especially if you got a couple of dwarf priests and you can refresh it as often as you can so if you're fighting another priest you can try and feel what every single one of his fears that makes it incredibly incredibly strong 30 seconds cooldown on this is absolutely nuts and then the best priest racial in the game is going to be will of the forsaken and the reason for this is the versatility of it the fact that you can remove any fear once it's already landed it also works on charms so succubus going to be charming as well potentially warlock society to use it down the line we'll have to see on that one but it also removes magic dust and magic dust is something that's going to be way more prevalent going forward people are stopped piling it right now they're not using it as much as 25 but you better believe better players at higher levels are going to be using magic dust more and if you can remove that with will of the forsaken and deny reset that is an absolutely huge deal that's going to be the difference between killing people and not so you are definitely going to want this one we'll have to wait and see if blizzard decides to implement the priest racial swapping at level 40 or if that's something they're going to be saving for later on if they do allow racial swapping at 40 i would suggest if you're playing a disc priest going forward just straight up dwarf if you're on alliance uh i'm playing with the dwarf ratios if you're on horde then obviously undead but then with dwarf ratios again so the uh you'll have the will of the forsaken field and and desperate prayer and that's going to be really really strong defensively for you um if you are playing on horde uh and you decide to go as a shadow priest then i would suggest going undead again but taking the troll racial shadow guard and hex of wings and if you're going to be playing on alliance again going dwarf stone form incredibly strong and taking the the troll ratios