Priest is an excellent healer and many players would go for priest as their character.
After the launch of Patch 3.0.8, priests are getting better features. A full list of updates for priests:
Glyphs – You will get Glyph of Spirit Redemption that helps to increase the duration of Spirit of Redemption by 6 seconds.
Shadow – You get to cast the Cure Disease and Abolish Disease while in Shadowform.
Holy – the Circle of Healing has a 6 second cooldown.
Discipline – Silent Resolve now reduces the chance your helpful spells and damage over time effects will be dispelled by 10/20/30%.
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