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Spell glossary: Priest

The spells and talents of a sustained single-target Priest rotation at level 20, with their real values sourced from WoW: Forever's own Wowhead tooltips.

Abilities

Ability	Required level	Cost	Cooldown	Cast	Effect	Source
Shadow Word: Pain	18	95 Mana	None	Instant	108 / 18s (19/tick)	Wowhead tooltip
Mind Blast	16	80 Mana	8s	1.5 sec	70-75 (+43% SP)	Wowhead tooltip
Smite	1	20 Mana	None	1.5 sec	16-20 (+43% SP)	Wowhead tooltip

Talents

Ability	Tree	Max rank	Effect	DPS relevant?
Wand Specialization	Discipline	2	—	Yes
Twilight Focus	Holy	3	—	Not checked
Spirit Tap	Shadow	5	—	Yes
Improved Shadow Word: Pain	Shadow	2	—	Yes

What's still missing

This class isn't complete yet: here's precisely what hasn't been sourced yet, rather than leaving it silent.

Power Word: Fortitude, Inner Fire, Power Word: Shield (buffs named in the real rotation) not looked up.
Wand Specialization, Twilight Focus, Spirit Tap talents' exact numeric effects not looked up (only their names/point allocation are confirmed from the real build).
"talents.discipline" and "talents.holy" only include the 2 talents actually taken in the real level-20 build (Wand Specialization, Twilight Focus) -- the rest of those trees are not catalogued at all, unlike Warrior/Mage/Rogue where the full non-taken tree was at least listed with dps_relevant flags.
Real level-20 build note: this build spends points in ALL THREE trees (2 Discipline + 2 Holy + 7 Shadow), unlike every other class's build sourced so far, which stayed in one primary tree. Not yet clear if this is specific to Priest's early leveling or a broader pattern worth re-checking on other classes.

See also: the DPS simulator and character optimizer use this same data.

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