WoW Forever Priest
Shadow Priest is the biggest winner. Shadowform now cuts the mana cost of all Shadow spells by half, which removes the five-minute mana wall that kept Shadow out of Classic raids. Shadow Word: Death is new and Devouring Plague is no longer an Undead racial spell.
Sim status
Priest for Forever: Quick Sim live in beta
MythicSim is integrating the open-source wowsims engine, via its community Forever fork, as a second backend. The engine is theirs; MythicSim adds the hosting and the one-click front end. Quick Sim ships first, checked against live beta data from 17 September 2026. Stat priorities, trinket boards and a droptimizer follow once beta gear and loot tables exist. Retail Midnight sims are unaffected.
What changes for Priest
Healers get Penance, Prayer of Mending and Binding Heal, three of the most requested later-expansion spells, placed in the talent trees at Classic point costs. Divine Spirit is a trainer spell and no longer a talent.
Gnome Priests are new to the Alliance. Undead Priests lose Devouring Plague as an exclusive but the spell itself is stronger in every tree.
Specs
- Discipline PriestHealer
Penance turns Discipline into an active healing tree rather than a place to park points for Holy.
- Holy PriestHealer
Prayer of Mending, Binding Heal and Litany of Light broaden the group healing toolkit.
- Shadow PriestDPS
Shadow Word: Death, a universal Devouring Plague and a 50% mana discount in Shadowform make it a raid DPS spec.
New spells and talents
New spells
- Penance
- Prayer of Mending
- Binding Heal
- Shadow Word: Death
- Devouring Plague (all races)
New talents
- Renewed Hope
- Litany of Light
- Devouring Contagion
Removed
- Improved Power Word: Fortitude
- Improved Prayer of Healing
- Divine Spirit (now a trainer spell)
From the BlizzCon 2026 demo build via the community talent calculators. Beta will change some of this; the page is updated as it does.
Races
Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Undead, Troll. Gnome Priest is new to Forever. The Skyborne cannot be Priests. Racials are rebuilt so no two races share a passive and weapon skill racials are gone, which is why race is a real sim input in Forever.
What the Priest sim has to model
Beyond the engine-wide changes (unified hit and crit, Expertise, bonus healing as spell damage, periodic crits), these are the Priest-specific pieces the Forever engine needs before a stat weight for this class means anything.
- Shadowform mana economy at a 50% discount, which changes how long a Shadow Priest can sustain its rotation.
- Shadow Word: Death as an execute and Devouring Plague as a baseline dot with periodic crits.
- Bonus healing counting toward spell damage, which changes what gear Shadow wants.
Priest trinket boards
One board per spec, ranked on the Forever engine once beta data lands. Each page already lists every trinket a Priest can equip at 60 and where it drops.
Other Forever classes
Common questions
Is there a WoW Forever Priest sim?
A beta one, at /wow-forever/sim. MythicSim runs the open-source wowsims Forever engine (a community fork of wowsims/classic, not a MythicSim engine) as a second backend, with Priest on its new talent trees. Paste your WoWSims Exporter text and get a DPS number. Talent values are being checked against beta data from 17 September 2026; launch is 4 November 2026.
What new spells does Priest get in WoW Forever?
Penance, Prayer of Mending, Binding Heal, Shadow Word: Death, Devouring Plague (all races). New talents include Renewed Hope, Litany of Light, Devouring Contagion.
Which races can be a Priest in WoW Forever?
Priest can be played by Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Undead, Troll in World of Warcraft: Forever. Gnome Priest is new in Forever. The Skyborne cannot be Priests.
What are the Priest specs in WoW Forever?
Discipline (Healer), Holy (Healer), Shadow (DPS). Forever keeps the three Classic trees for every class and reworks their contents; there are no new specs.
Do I need a /simc string to sim a Forever Priest?
No. The SimulationCraft addon is retail-only. Forever sims will use a Classic-style character export addon that MythicSim ships with the sim. Until it is live, this page is reference material for the class changes.
Beta
Sim your Forever Priest
Paste your WoWSims Exporter text and get a DPS number for your talent spec. Progress is posted in the MythicSim Discord and the changelog.