Holy Priest or Resto druid? SL

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I’m here again. And I wanna hear what you are choosing for SL! Let me give you a list:

Druid:

  • Love the versatility of the class. (Stealth, roots, instant mount etc)
  • Love the lore (running around like a nature princess healing, or dps as balance)
  • HATE leather transmog… I mean, is there one good set out there?
  • Bad healing visuals. It’s just shiny green things, some heals doesn’t even show barley.
  • So much time being spent shapeshift ( maybe this will be better since cross-specc custom shapeshift forms in SL?)

Priest:

  • Love the lore (Love running around being an holy angel)
  • I feel like solo content is so much harder as priest, even if I go shadow…
  • LOOOVE the cloth transmog, like the most pieces from all expansions (Kyrian covenant, here I come!)
  • Like the visuals of the healing spells, something is actually happening/showing.

I mostly play Druid now, ilvl 460… but I think I’m gonna give my priest a little go now for awhile. Try it out even more.

But what do you think? What healing class will you choose in SL?

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I love healing and priest has been my main for several expansions.

I am lvling alts of all the other healing specs but I am gonna main a resto druid in SL. Just seems way stronger in m+ than priest and I wanna create my own m+ group in SL and kinda tryhard them.

Holy priest is lacking in m+, which currently does not matter to me as I do not run high keys.

With disc priest I am tired of dealing with certain affixes, they are doable but difficult. I also do not enjoy ramping in raids.

Resto druid is perfect for m+. Great mobility, plenty of instant casts, battle res, easy to play, can deal with every affix, utility, cooldowns, great dps. I also love the nelf cat form but I don’t like playing feral. As a resto druid I still get to use cat form in dungeons for dps x).

Disc is my favorite healing spec but I enjoy every healer class, maybe except for MW monk (find him really boring in dungeons) so I do not mind changing to a druid class. Should be fun, maining a different class than what I am used to.

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Why not both?

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Holy gets power infusion, 2min cd, 20 sec duration 25% haste on target/self.
That is a huge advantage for holy and for its allies.
It gets mindblast and mind sear, yes we can AoE from ranged now lol

But i can give you this, there is literally 0 chance for Hpriest to reach close to a Rdruid inside M+ because of that extremely massive toolkit Rdruud has and nobody else does.

As for raid healing, i think ill remain Hpriest for SL and im not seeing rdruid being close to Hpriest in terms of output inside raids. AoE machine!

I would advice play priest now, you got your druud ready and let the priest be ready and waiting but have in mind, you wont have an easy time inside M+ without the BiS traits as hpriest.

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I’d say let’s wait until we have a beta, things keep changing.

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My Priest will be satying Disc no matter what they do to it… I enjoy it.

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I feel like disc is not my specc…Haha I don’t get it at all. Love Holy tho!

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I’d stick with Druid, you got 4 specs of all roles in one class. Priest has two healer specs, but if you ever want to DPS Shadow just freaking blows…

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Don’t like shadow at all :confused:

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I have mained Healing Priest since WOTLK. I also main Alliance.

I think these two things have a LOT in common in that you KNOW you are handicapping yourself with either choice. Horde is a FAR superior faction to play for ~95% of content in this game…and Priest will always be inferior to other Healers.

In the past, when solo-play was not that much of a factor in wow, Holy was at least the goto-choice for casual-healers, as the spec was very beginner-friendly and despite not having any kind of strength…it also had no weaknesses. It was simply the baseline other healers were designed around.

But in current WoW with Visions (which you have to farm your right of access in worldcontent…) and SL with Thorgast the solo-factor is much more prominent than ever…and Priest is by FAR the weakest solo-class of any of the healing classes. You can make Shadow work if you love the spec and put some serious dedication into it…but if you invested the same effort into arguably ANY OTHER class in this game, you would get better results for solo play.

That said, i simply cannot vision my character as a shapeshifter and i do not like Monk animations at all. Which means i am stuck with Priest. And Alliance.

I like the pain. It fuels the anger i need for regular forum posting!

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I play all 3 priests. Holy is by far my favourite for raiding

Shadow for solo content

Disco for when I’m bored

Cannot wait to get rid of Azerite armour so I can swap between all three seemlessly

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Laughs in covenants, soulbinds, legendaries and what not

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