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Holy pallies stole my job!
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Post by
FrightKing
OOC: Not sure if right board or if its a proper topic but moderate at will please!
On my server my horde Holy priest is taking more and more guff everyday. As I stay in search for a PvE guild or even a PvP guild to endgame with i find its hard being a holy priest. I find many guilds prefer stacking more holy pallies and resto shamans and even resto druids nowaday over holy priests. I see the point in shamans and pallies because stacking can offer more buffs per player but even 1 SHADOW priest could give all the necessary priest buffs. Despite earning as much respect I could and epics I healed my way into instances for people arent harboring much need for holy priests anymore I think or maybe its just my (mean) server. Well my question here is, what are your opinions on holy priests in respect to other healers and should we just hand in our healing gear to become holy pally mana batteries henceforth!?
Post by
Aylia
The problem as far as I've seen is not that guilds don't want holy priests, it's that stacking multiple holy priests doesn't have the same benefit that stacking other healers does.
More paladins = more blessings.
More shamans = more groups with totems.
More druids = more combat resses, innervates and groups with tree buff.
Once you have one priest with IDS (which for note, shadow priests can't do), bringing more doesn't get you anything beyond more healing. Combine this with the fact that there seems to be an abundance of holy priests, at least on every server I've played on, and there aren't going to be a lot of raid spots available.
That doesn't mean that priests aren't good healers, and it doesn't mean that
nobody
wants us. You'll probably just have to be patient. Keep an eye on the guilds that you're interested in joining to see if they start recruiting priests. If you really can't find anything on your current server, you could always look into applying to guilds on other servers and transferring if they're interested in having you.
Good luck.
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Post by
Sareth256
Also, we're not even the best at our job anymore. Take the four healing classes of equivilent gear, for example. Paladins are the best MT healers, ahead of Priests. Druids are the best for instant heals/HoTs so are more useful for fights such as Gruuls. Shammies are better raid healers than priests.
I agree. Priest ought to be main healing class and it is true that hybrid classes are better. This is what I dislike. If priest was the only one class able to ress others for instance, than we would be more demanded. But if you are good healer, you can get to every dung. And there is lack of healers everywhere.
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Post by
cody
Priests are very important in BT and Hyjal because of the heavy aoe damage. Circle of Healing is an awesome talent. It's hard to heal this only with pallys and druids. My previous guild was raiding with 5 pallys and 2 druids or so. We never killed Teron or Azgalor. You need holy priests at end raiding content imho.
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