WotLK Priest leveling tips and skill rotation?

[bins999666]

I am pretty new to this game and I currently have a lv 37 Priest. I am having problems with my mana since it runs out a lot. May be after 2-3 monsters I need to drink again. I usually use holy fire then spam smite. I use renew too. Is this normal? Any tips on skill rotation?

[taralej]

Yeah, it's normal. There's not much you can do except picking Spirit Tap and waiting for later levels so you can reroll Shadow with Vampiric Touch and other mana talents & spells.

[zixsen2]

Yeah what taralej said, it's pretty harsh leveling a priest the early levels. Once you get to surge of light in holy at level 39 (if you specced into spirit tap, which you should) it really starts making a difference, thats what I felt, also stack as much spell power as possible helped me out tons. At 60 though I went shadow considering you get Dispersion don't forget the glyph for it either, and later at 66 you get fiend as well and at that point the mana problems should be all gone.