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Post by
Incendium
I've been playing a priest since the original closed beta, and I love every minute of it. I've played both shadow and holy in raids and PvP, and while shadow is fun, there is nothing quite like the rush of raid healing.
A well-geared shadow priest can bring top tier DPS (on-par or greater with the pure DPS classes) as well as utility (such as mana regen and extra heals). From my perspective, holy priests are about endurance, not how fast you can spam heals on the main tank. While that paladin is huffing and puffing for mana, the priest is still going strong.
Post by
Simulator
From reading various things, it seems that holy priests aren't common because they aren't all that great. They're not capable of being primary healers, and don't have much in the way of versatility.
This statement could not be further from the truth. They key to enjoying World Of Warcraft is playing a character you like with a group of people you enjoy spending time with. Each healer-type in this game brings different strengths and weaknesses to the game. Priests are absolutely capable of being a primary healer - don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
That said any pure support talent specialization will have problems farming, questing, etc. It's one of the burdens that goes along when not playing a DPS class.
Post by
Skyfire
They're not capable of being primary healers,
Whuh hunna buh?!?!?!?! Holy priests are the original main-healers, and are so for the fact that paladins are hybrids, and so are druids. And besides, druids can only b-rez, meaning they need a real rezzer to... well, rez. :)
Post by
Alliest
I played a holy priest for 2,5 years, quit it 3 months ago... I was really hardcore but I got tired of it.
still 2,5 years and the class still kept me entertained with 6-7 raids per week, it's a fun class to play, but i'll put it to ya this way:
- Since most ppl that roll priests sucks really bad at healing cause they still haven't figured out how the class works, the rest of the ppl thinks all priests are bad. So they want you to roll shadow and take other healers...
- Unless you're planning on actually learning your class to 100%, don't even think about it tbh... priest is the most complex class to heal with, when it comes to playing and maxing out your proccs / reg and how you make the raid benefit the most of you. (Yes, it IS a fact, if you don't know what I mean you've gotta look into the things you haven't thought of).
- No matter how hard you try, you will never as much dmg as the normal dmg classes unless you roll shadow. No really, you won't... I had 1200dmg 26,57% crit and full holy-dps specc when I tried it, it simply doesn't work. This is not really a big con tho, since you prolly intend to heal anyways.
- When it comes to PvP it's really nice for arenas due to all your instant casts, get 400 resilience and another healer in your 5v5, then its pew pew healing if you're specced right, you really make yourself usefull to the team in a lot of ways.
- There are WAY too many priests on most servers, so GL trying to get a guild unless you're planning on rolling shadow.
I prolly forgot to mention a lot of things that I was going to, but I blame it's 06.25 atm.
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Alliest
And before anyone says "Priests are poor for healing and <other healing class> is better!",
let me say:
Meet a priest that can play his class to 100% and be amazed... I've played with some of the worldst best healers (yes world-top guilds, I used to be hardcore) and I have never lost a healing meter. Yes yes "healing meter doesn't matter!"... in some fights they do and you can clearly see who is the superior healer when it comes to endurance, the saving heals in critical moments and purely keeping the raid alive, well played priest > all. no discusion about it, priests you've outhealed gotta L2P tbh.
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Incendium
What you want to do is collect gear first. Get your tailoring sets crafted (shadoweave and spellstrike), and run instances for your gear (aim for +hit and +dmg and stamina). You may have to do the instance gear collecting as holy, but once you get about 600~ spell damage and 76 spell hit (with 5 points in shadow focus), you're ready to hit karazhan.
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Discolando
While that paladin is huffing and puffing for mana, the priest is still going strong.
I find that funny... my experience has always been the exact opposite. Of course, my Paladin has 15k mana while fully buffed, so I'm sure that has something to do with it. :)
Post by
Cerinity
I am holy...only 63. But I've always been holy. I have a lvl 70 warrior. Being that warrior I have spent a lot of hours depending in the kindness of Holy Priests. It's why I decided to become one myself.
I can tell you 2 things.
1. At lvl 62 my holy priest can do more DPS than my warrior could at 65. I solo plenty of quests. But this game isn’t about soloing now is it? It’s about groups. I have a good group of Guildies at my level that quest with me. This makes all the difference in the world. Best part…we hardly ever die…and if someone wipes…I just rez them and then call them a noob for dieing! LOL
2. Healing as a Priest is like tanking as a Warrior...It's all about knowing how to manager your toon. We don’t get high powered crap that makes our jobs easy…it takes work and practice and a certain amount of flipping skill. I stick to the primary classes because I know that if I play them well, then I am a good player. It’s something to be proud of. With a Holy Priest you got to know when to heal and which heal for what class you are healing and how much. (Tanks need bigger heals than Rogues because their health is off the charts compared to the Rogue or mage or whatever.) Keep an eye on the mana bar...and be smart about your heals. It is a blast when you pull this off and have mana left to spare. If I have to use a mana pot…I get pretty damn ticked at myself. (Or the warrior, who prop. Charged before checking the mana status! Grrr) You show me a Holy priest that can do that and I'll show you a "main Healer!"
You want a challenge…Do Holy Priest the right way!
If you want to be a Shadow Priest…then be one! I don’t mind having them in my groups. DPS is good to have. Period.
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Post by
TheOnyx
I was more or less pressured by my guild at the time to re-spec to Holy from my Shadow spec to help out in raid runs. I hated it so much I rolled a mage so people would not expect me to heal. My level 60 priest is basically just sitting around now.
Just like SUM DRUIDS IS 4 HEELS and SUM DRUIDS IS 4 FITE, priests are the same way. Most people don't care, though. They see a priest and they want you to heal. "Come on man, just heal this one time" turns into "Thanks for re-speccing and becoming our healbot, now we get to officially blame you for every time we wipe!"
I'm a little bitter. >:(
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Incendium
Must be the paladins on my server then... :]
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Post by
Rituido
The only thing you might have to deal with being a Holy Priest is that the other classes capable of healing got new tools useful for healing on their way to 70 as well as talent changes that make them more desirable and effective. Paving the way down a Druid, Paladin or Shaman's
only
healing tree are all the tools necessary to be a healer as that class.
While the Holy tree -is- the healing tree for Priests, you really need to have a good synergy between Holy and Discipline; especially seeing as how the "staple" Holy talents are situational at best; considered novelties by most.
Getting back on topic: They're pretty enjoyable aside from all that.
Side-note: Priests are more than capable of being main healers. We have a ton of healing spells that help us adapt to virtually all situations. We are without dispute the best 5 man healers. We just don't stack very well in raids, compared to Paladins, Shamans and Druids; thus, less desirable.
Post by
Malgayne
The best healer in my guild is a holy priest named Monasti, and when he isn't available the whole raid suffers visibly.
That having been said, we could
really
use a shadow priest to come on raids with us--I find them incredibly useful to have around, and I don't think you'll have trouble finding groups as a shadow priest. I do encourage you to keep a set of healing gear available because even if you don't respec, you will sometimes be asked to heal. But all things considered, I LOVE having a shadow DPS priest in my group.
Post by
Keeko
I've been playing a priest since release.
I have to say that while being a shadow or holy priest has its perks, the lolsmite discp spec is the only way to go. The offensive power of smite (criticals + surge of light), survivability of discipline and various holy talents, and the overall fact that it's made of win is what makes this build so awesome. I'm a lol discp/holy smite priest for life.
Hehe, I would love to be a serious smiter.
I tried it once, going holy dps while grinding consortium rep, was really fun! :D
But I'm a raider at heart and for that I spec soley for healing.
My priest was the first character I made. I rerolled tt warrior tank while MC still was teh pwn (due to lack of tanks in my guild) and continued tanking until TBC released. Then I got the opportunity to reroll again, and my choice was naturally my lovely priest :) Not that warriors we're boring, tanking is awesome too.
I just love healing...don't really know why. I've tried both paladin and druid, but they dont feel quite as fun as the priest.
// Keeko
70 Human Priest
Burning Legion-EU
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