Wanting to solo a priest...Follow

I was thinking about rolling a priest. I had tried it before but I always needed someone else there with me because even the simplest of quests seemed hard on a priest. I was wanting to go blood elf and solo it, does anyone have advice or tips? Thanks.

Yes... Spirit Tap is a major talent to drop points into ASAP. It makes a huge difference in your ability to solo. I soloed as a shadow priest and found it far easier than when I leveled my Warrior. In fact, of the three classes I have above level 60, I'd say Priest is the easiest to level followed by Death Knight and then lastly Warrior. I regularly soloed mobs that are 4-5 levels higher than me and elites that were 2-3 levels higher than me (that came to a screeching halt once I hit Outland... those damn crystal giant things in Hellfire kicked my but when I tried to solo them at level 61).

I don't know about the solo potential of the other specs... but Shadow is a breeze. It's a bit rough for the first 10 levels... but once you get Spirit Tap it becomes a bit easier. It becomes a lot easier once you get Vampiric Embrace and becomes stupidly easy once you get Vampiric Touch.

I've leveled two priests... one holy and one shadow. You definitely want shadow for soloing. Like the others said, get your spirit tap first, and go from there. Once you get shadowform at level 40, you'll see a tremendous difference.

That having been said, I leveled both of mine before Blizz made all the leveling changes to the beginnig and OL areas, so it may be much easier now to level as holy.

I enjoy playing both of my priests, but I much prefer my shadow priest if I'm out doing dailies, just for her dmg done. My holy priest is more reserved for healing at this point, although she can still kick some a@! if she's so inclined!

4-5 is actually pretty hard, but doable as pretty much any class if you really learn how to play with it. You should have no problems with mobs at the same level unless your gear is terribad.