I’m having the hardest time deciding between playing an undead or a troll priest, both for pve and pvp.
For pve, berserking is obviously bis…but what about pvp?
devouring plague is a great additonal dot that does a lot of dmg and heals insanely well, but it gets dispelled all the time (pallies, priests, dwarves, consumables, ice block, divine shield…), wotf is obviously really good, nuf said
shadowguard is insane imo, it scales really well, each tick does more dmg than your main dot at some point, with the proper gear (on nost I saw spriests doing 500 dmg per tick), and it’s really fun to use. It can proc black out on EVERY proc, and most importantly, it’s very rarely going to get dispelled (alliance offensive dispell = priest basically, and they’re not gonna bother dispelling shadowguard most of the time).
They also have a -20% healing debuff as a racial, which is really good in pvp.
Soooo I do think that trolls look awesome, and that it would be funnier to play, but undead are still very good.
I’m not sure people understand how good shadowguard and hex of weakness really are honestly, especially once you get a lot of spell power.
Troll is better than undead in every scenario where devouring plague will get dispelled or removed by CDs/ consumables, which happens a lot, especially in group pvp
Devouring plague is on a 3 min cooldown for a reason. It’s extremely powerful when you use it right. You don’t just throw it away at any random moment (such as on a fully healed target with cleanse support).
It’s pretty much always better than the troll priest racials when your team is hunting an enemy flag carrier in wsg. Troll priest spells are pretty much useless for that. In your “worst case” scenario the enemy healers will use a gcd to cleanse the devouring plague immidiately. That’s one gcd that would otherwise be spent healing or dispelling 2 magic effects such as mage slows, roots, shadow word: pain, fear, polymorph etc. Buying your team time to catch up with or killing the enemy flag carrier is not useless in such a scenario, unlike shadowguard which actually requires the enemy to attack you to have any use.
Since the op is coming to the forums to ask for advise I would also expect him to not to only do premade bg’s. In pugs a large portion of the priest/paladin minority will not be in range, or bother to dispel your target. They will often be busy doing other stuff.