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As Priests, not only do they use some weapons and wands, but also they can wear cloth armor, which makes them fragile in melee combat or against damage in general. Early on the best weapons are staves, and they continue to be for groups, as bonuses are more important than weapon DPS. Once you hit mid-20s, soloing with a dagger and wand can be a better option, but staves will most often be better than anything else when part of a group. You can always hold onto multiple weapons in your inventory for different purposes: a dagger (and an off-hand to boost your stats), and a staff. Swap them out as necessary depending on your situation.
As usual, within financial reason, Priests are going to do any soloing at all should concentrate on getting the best cloth armor possible, since it is their greatest weakness. Getting armor patches from a leatherworker can be a huge boost, as the +x bonus will be larger percentage of your total armor than with other armor types. Also consider an armor enchant for your cloak, which again, will have a greater overall effect on your armor than characters who wear other armor types.
For a Priest at lower levels, tailoring is a mediocre profession. Though cloth is generally what Priests wear, most of a low-level Priest's equipment will be from instance drops or quests. Probably, it is more economical to purchase any necessary upgrades from the Auction Hall or from friends/guildmates and use two gathering professions instead, at least until you are level 50 or so. However, if your other profession is enchanting, many players find success in adopting tailoring as their second profession, even at lower levels. Tailors can cheaply produce items that can be disenchanted for use in enchantments.
Those who are above level 60 in the Burning Crusade expansion, tailoring dramatically improves in usefulness. In the Burning Crusade, tailoring gives access to a number of high-level patterns that can only be worn by the player who makes them. For example, many high-level Priests believe that the full Primal Mooncloth gear set, which can only be made and worn by high level tailors, is the best healing gear available, with the sole exception of certain very high level epic items that are very difficult to obtain in the game.
As for Priests, there is a good profession for them is Engineering. Engineers are able to start creating cloth head gear (such as Flying Tiger Goggles or Shadow Goggles) early in the game. Engineering also allows a Priest to create Combat Pets such as Gnomish Battle Chickens or Mithril Mechanical Dragonlings for him or herself.
For shadow Priests who don't want to respec but do want to be a main healer for level 40+ instances, you can take investing in +healing items as you can find them at the Auction House into account. Healing Priest as well as Discipline Priests, we can say, both of them are worth considering but for a shadow Priest, it's a major lifesaver because they do both PVP and instances.
As usual, within financial reason, Priests are going to do any soloing at all should concentrate on getting the best cloth armor possible, since it is their greatest weakness. Getting armor patches from a leatherworker can be a huge boost, as the +x bonus will be larger percentage of your total armor than with other armor types. Also consider an armor enchant for your cloak, which again, will have a greater overall effect on your armor than characters who wear other armor types.
For a Priest at lower levels, tailoring is a mediocre profession. Though cloth is generally what Priests wear, most of a low-level Priest's equipment will be from instance drops or quests. Probably, it is more economical to purchase any necessary upgrades from the Auction Hall or from friends/guildmates and use two gathering professions instead, at least until you are level 50 or so. However, if your other profession is enchanting, many players find success in adopting tailoring as their second profession, even at lower levels. Tailors can cheaply produce items that can be disenchanted for use in enchantments.
Those who are above level 60 in the Burning Crusade expansion, tailoring dramatically improves in usefulness. In the Burning Crusade, tailoring gives access to a number of high-level patterns that can only be worn by the player who makes them. For example, many high-level Priests believe that the full Primal Mooncloth gear set, which can only be made and worn by high level tailors, is the best healing gear available, with the sole exception of certain very high level epic items that are very difficult to obtain in the game.
As for Priests, there is a good profession for them is Engineering. Engineers are able to start creating cloth head gear (such as Flying Tiger Goggles or Shadow Goggles) early in the game. Engineering also allows a Priest to create Combat Pets such as Gnomish Battle Chickens or Mithril Mechanical Dragonlings for him or herself.
For shadow Priests who don't want to respec but do want to be a main healer for level 40+ instances, you can take investing in +healing items as you can find them at the Auction House into account. Healing Priest as well as Discipline Priests, we can say, both of them are worth considering but for a shadow Priest, it's a major lifesaver because they do both PVP and instances.
