Priest specs and the Gnome priest

Last checked: 2026-11-12

Priests are the other cloth mana class, split by Mobalytics into Discipline, Holy and Shadow. Gnome Priest is the new Alliance combination on the product page. IGN lists Alliance as Human, Dwarf, Night Elf and Gnome, with Gnome as the recommended Alliance race, and Horde as Undead or Troll. That is a wider Alliance list than Druid and a narrower Horde list than Mage.

Two Shadowform sentences are in the 11 Nov hotfix and they are the reason to read this page after launch week. Gnome’s Confounding Flash can be used in Shadowform. Holy’s Twilight Focus works in Shadowform. I am not expanding either talent into a percentage. The sentences are the fix notes, and the fix notes are enough.

“How to get Shadow Word: Pain” is the query attached to this class in the research file, about 240 searches. Wowhead has spell pages for the ranks. I did not open the rank table, so I will not invent a level. The safe statement, marked as a single reading, is that you learn the spell from a priest trainer as you level. If you are choosing among healers, Holy and Discipline are both on Wowhead’s list, and that comparison is the healer page, not a claim that Shadow is a healer.