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Class choice dilemma: Priest vs. Paladin
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Post by
rhistel
Greetings,
I'm almost completely new to Wow (just few days after the 10-day trial) and I have some troubles with deciding which class to play. The preliminary choice is easy I really want to be a
healer-support
, but here's where it gets difficult. I don't really want to be a druid or shaman, nature/primal/shapeshifting/etc. theme of those classes doesn't suit me to well. I'm left with Paladin and Priest. I really like the versality (especially the tanking potential) of the Paladin, but leveling as Retribution is not entirely my idea of play (though it has its moments), the most fun I have in mmo comes from healing/support and I'm really looking for a class which will still be able to fill that role well, even with a more leveling talent spec (I've read even shadow priests are not to bad in healing). On the other hand I don't want to play a really fragile class, I know Priests can't tank, but I really don't know how well they can survive on the battlefield, Paladins excel at staying alive, but I don't know how they do compared to Priests in heal/support and I will probably be able to really become a healer on a quite high lvl.
I will apprieciate some hints. What should I choose to get more fun out of the game? (and by fun I mean healing/supporting the party and not being dead to often).
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Post by
Valkyre
I have a 70 paladin and a 62 priest (the priest is my old main, still wears AQ40 stuff). For me personally I like the priest more for a few reasons
Renew is a nice HOT to have, pallies have none
You get AoE heals which is nice in raids and PvP (at times)
Arena has given many players a good deal of experience in locking down pallies, much more easily than priests imo
You can give yourself a weaker damage shield every 15sec allowing more reliance on that as opposed to two strong damage shields every 5 minutes (4 if talented in protection)
You get a fear spell, as well as a fear protection spell
If holy spec, you can die and still continue healing for a short duration... it just makes it that much more painful to kill you in pvp
It really comes down to taste tho, pallies do get better buffs and a wipe prevention spell (if there's two ressurectable classes in the group) but for me I enjoy healing on my priest much more than the pally. Pally tanking is a lot of fun too imo.
Post by
rhistel
Thank you very much for all of the advice. As suggested I'm currently trying to play both till about 20 lvl and see which one I like better (I already have a Pally 21 lvl) so it's time for the Priest now. I hope that (alongside your hints) will help me decide.
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