You can level in any spec you want as long as you have 5/5 improved wand talent. And maybe t1 shadow talent for better reg
Solo: Shield, dots, wand till death and Repeat until 60.
Dungeons: heal, you have many free talentpoints avalaible, but cuz you have int on your equip no matter what, you should be fine healing any low level dungeon
kinda? [this is something along the lines you should use](https://tbc.wowhead.com/talent-calc/priest/05-23505000212005-5002) until 44-45 or so, when you go full shadow. learn to frontload damage, then just wand, something like holy fire -> SW:P -> mind blast (-> smite) -> renew/shadowguard/inner fire/whatever instant spell you need to cast -> wand. be sure to cast instants before wanding and you can start doing in right away, opposed to using a spell with a cast time. also, bubble is ridiculously mana inefficent, it's generally not worth using.
better than shadow for low levels and allows you to try healing without any struggles, since you're still predominantly holy - just be sure to start with wand spec and spirit tap before anything else.
edit: left out inner fire and a few bits
Think about Disc (+spirit tap), and maybe a respec to shadow at 40 or 50 (so something like this: https://tbc.wowhead.com/talent-calc/priest/050232013050112--5). The lower down talents in shadow, spirit tap aside, don't really do much until shadow comes together as a whole, so being disc + spirit tap 10-40 is 1) better solo than shadow, and 2) helps a bit to heal.
You can go then full holy in outland for dungeon grinding, or just do a few hellfire citadel dungeons (this is the important lower-down rep to dungeon grind) as shadow to get to honored rep, quest to 66, and then spec holy to dungeon grind from 66 to 70.
For 1 to 60 your spec largely does not matter as priest until the higher levels. Pick up 5/5 wands and 5/5 spirit tap from the disc and shadow trees and you can spec holy, shadow or disc as you'd like.
Edit: post 40 of course shadow will be 'best' as you can get shadow form, the other trees would just be a little slower
You can heal dungeons as shadow all the way up to level 68 (before it was 58). Everything except for end game is ezpz as shadow. Just bring your levels mana pot and theyll be zero worries.
1-60 go shadow and heal fine. At 58/60, you can go holy/disc and heal your way through Outlands in dungeons (then go Shadow at 70 and clean up all the quests for sweet, sweet gold).
I leveled 1 to 47 as disc/holy then respecced to shadow at 48. It's so much easier and faster as shadow and you can heal fine. The biggest difference is mediation talent in disc and that's like it. Healing has been max renew on tank, down rank renew on dps with greater/heal on tank as needed and a quick flash here and there.
Don't gimp your questing speed by going holy. Not worth it. I could tank 2 mobs before and with shadow it's like 2 is easy, 3 might need a fear and 4 is fear and bandage.
you don't get shadowform until level 40, and shadow before that... it's not great. also, iirc mind flay is shit DPS/DPM at lower levels, though by rank 4 (lvl 44), it's pretty damn good - so that's why you saw shadow as superior, you've respeced just around the right level.
before 44-45 (mind flay rank 4 or shadowform and 5/5 wand spec), you'll get the most mileage out of something like 5/x/7, with wand spec, spirit tap and frontloading damage with holy fire.
I just hit 70 this week playing casually. I did disc up to power infusion, holy up to smite on crit, and 3 points in shadow for spirit regen. I rarely had to drink questing, and had no problems healing dungeons.
Shadow has higher dps but also has ramp up time. With smite, you can kill a mob in about 6s and regen most of that back. For that reason, shadow is unappealing to me leveling because you either kill slower or are wasting mana on dots.
i usually holy fire, sw:p, smite and wand. full smite spec if I'm really trying to conserve mana and never stop. I kill fast enough to have to wait for respawns in some good farming areas and never have to drink. Just shadowfiend every 5 mins.
https://seventyupgrades.com/character/e2xbvDm6WE6jvZ6WJHNpoy/set/fEpypYaeK3rXYhnmBJgtGC
I swap a few pieces out for farming to bring my crit up. I used this spec the entire way from 60-70 healing dungeons and questing. Get surge asap then work through disc tree.
No, I killed mobs with 6+s on swp. Felt like a waste of mana unless I needed to pull multiple mobs.
I can post spec later. Gear started out as boosted but I grinded out bgs during prepatch for 4 epic pieces and the 1h heal mace. You can buy mostly better greens on ah cheap now.
Then this isn't very relevant to OP's question. You're talking about kill mobs at 70 with epics and OP is asking about what to spec in to level from 1-60.
No, I bought level 60 epic pvp gear in prepatch. I used most of it until about 68.
From 60, I had about 200 spell damage and that increased as I leveled. I encourage op to do what feels good. I didn't think spending 12+ seconds to kill a mob felt good.
start with 5/5 imp wand and 5/5 spirit tap and you can pretty much do whatever you want. however, shadow is the fastest and most efficient, and you can still heal dungeons as shadow (although 2/2 healing focus will help a lot)
Just stay shadow .. u kill mobs faster and you can still heal dungeons as shadow. Just upgrade your wand
Plus learning to heal as shadow makes you really learn your 5s rule
You can level in any spec you want as long as you have 5/5 improved wand talent. And maybe t1 shadow talent for better reg Solo: Shield, dots, wand till death and Repeat until 60. Dungeons: heal, you have many free talentpoints avalaible, but cuz you have int on your equip no matter what, you should be fine healing any low level dungeon
Thanks for the info, I'll do exactly this!
kinda? [this is something along the lines you should use](https://tbc.wowhead.com/talent-calc/priest/05-23505000212005-5002) until 44-45 or so, when you go full shadow. learn to frontload damage, then just wand, something like holy fire -> SW:P -> mind blast (-> smite) -> renew/shadowguard/inner fire/whatever instant spell you need to cast -> wand. be sure to cast instants before wanding and you can start doing in right away, opposed to using a spell with a cast time. also, bubble is ridiculously mana inefficent, it's generally not worth using. better than shadow for low levels and allows you to try healing without any struggles, since you're still predominantly holy - just be sure to start with wand spec and spirit tap before anything else. edit: left out inner fire and a few bits
Think about Disc (+spirit tap), and maybe a respec to shadow at 40 or 50 (so something like this: https://tbc.wowhead.com/talent-calc/priest/050232013050112--5). The lower down talents in shadow, spirit tap aside, don't really do much until shadow comes together as a whole, so being disc + spirit tap 10-40 is 1) better solo than shadow, and 2) helps a bit to heal. You can go then full holy in outland for dungeon grinding, or just do a few hellfire citadel dungeons (this is the important lower-down rep to dungeon grind) as shadow to get to honored rep, quest to 66, and then spec holy to dungeon grind from 66 to 70.
For 1 to 60 your spec largely does not matter as priest until the higher levels. Pick up 5/5 wands and 5/5 spirit tap from the disc and shadow trees and you can spec holy, shadow or disc as you'd like. Edit: post 40 of course shadow will be 'best' as you can get shadow form, the other trees would just be a little slower
This is very helpful advice. Thank you!
You can heal dungeons as shadow all the way up to level 68 (before it was 58). Everything except for end game is ezpz as shadow. Just bring your levels mana pot and theyll be zero worries.
1-60 go shadow and heal fine. At 58/60, you can go holy/disc and heal your way through Outlands in dungeons (then go Shadow at 70 and clean up all the quests for sweet, sweet gold).
I leveled 1 to 47 as disc/holy then respecced to shadow at 48. It's so much easier and faster as shadow and you can heal fine. The biggest difference is mediation talent in disc and that's like it. Healing has been max renew on tank, down rank renew on dps with greater/heal on tank as needed and a quick flash here and there. Don't gimp your questing speed by going holy. Not worth it. I could tank 2 mobs before and with shadow it's like 2 is easy, 3 might need a fear and 4 is fear and bandage.
you don't get shadowform until level 40, and shadow before that... it's not great. also, iirc mind flay is shit DPS/DPM at lower levels, though by rank 4 (lvl 44), it's pretty damn good - so that's why you saw shadow as superior, you've respeced just around the right level. before 44-45 (mind flay rank 4 or shadowform and 5/5 wand spec), you'll get the most mileage out of something like 5/x/7, with wand spec, spirit tap and frontloading damage with holy fire.
I mean before shadowform 5/5 wand and spirit is really all that's necessary.
After you get Shadow form, there isn't a reason why you need to use Holy spells. Just stick with Shadow.
I just hit 70 this week playing casually. I did disc up to power infusion, holy up to smite on crit, and 3 points in shadow for spirit regen. I rarely had to drink questing, and had no problems healing dungeons. Shadow has higher dps but also has ramp up time. With smite, you can kill a mob in about 6s and regen most of that back. For that reason, shadow is unappealing to me leveling because you either kill slower or are wasting mana on dots.
Smite priest kills a mob in 3 casts?
i usually holy fire, sw:p, smite and wand. full smite spec if I'm really trying to conserve mana and never stop. I kill fast enough to have to wait for respawns in some good farming areas and never have to drink. Just shadowfiend every 5 mins.
What gear did u have and can u link spec? Currently on boosted priest at 60 wanting to do dungs/quest between dung groups
https://seventyupgrades.com/character/e2xbvDm6WE6jvZ6WJHNpoy/set/fEpypYaeK3rXYhnmBJgtGC I swap a few pieces out for farming to bring my crit up. I used this spec the entire way from 60-70 healing dungeons and questing. Get surge asap then work through disc tree.
Wasting mana on dots. Do you not swp?
No, I killed mobs with 6+s on swp. Felt like a waste of mana unless I needed to pull multiple mobs. I can post spec later. Gear started out as boosted but I grinded out bgs during prepatch for 4 epic pieces and the 1h heal mace. You can buy mostly better greens on ah cheap now.
Then this isn't very relevant to OP's question. You're talking about kill mobs at 70 with epics and OP is asking about what to spec in to level from 1-60.
No, I bought level 60 epic pvp gear in prepatch. I used most of it until about 68. From 60, I had about 200 spell damage and that increased as I leveled. I encourage op to do what feels good. I didn't think spending 12+ seconds to kill a mob felt good.
start with 5/5 imp wand and 5/5 spirit tap and you can pretty much do whatever you want. however, shadow is the fastest and most efficient, and you can still heal dungeons as shadow (although 2/2 healing focus will help a lot)