Hm sofar people only hate priest (maybe u play disc) if it was bursting affix week. That gonna change in SL and they made it to easier to handle disc priests.
Other hands probably lack of xperience.
Clearly not for the majority of puggers. The place has tons of mobs around the place. People ninja pull like thereâs no tomorrow.
I have more trouble with freehold than ML with people ninja pulling. Iâve seen 2 ninja pulls in motherlode since season 1.
To put it simply, priests are not considered âviableâ for M+ by the majority who think comp is everything even for low M+. And here comes the follow-up wall of text for that, skip to TL;DR at the bottom if you wish. 
Why arenât they considered viable? Because itâs true that theyâre not optimal for pushing very high keys. People look at the stats of parties that complete high keys and see only resto druids and holy paladins and assume that all other healers are complete trash. Resto shaman suffers from the same attitude to an extent.
The average people playing anything from +2 to +15 think that the reason their groups fail is composition even though itâs mostly lack of practice, skill, and knowledge of their own class. So they look to improve their chances by mimicking the comps used by those doing +28âs.
It does not help that the âmetaâ healers can withstand a lot of mistakes that the ânon-metaâ ones perhaps canât. As an example, a few times Iâve tried doing keys with pugs and had dps that refuse to interrupt, tanks that overpull and everyone completely ignoring affixes. When Iâm perma-stunned by 4 refreshment vendors in a row in Motherlode on bursting week, the response I get is âI did this yday with a druid they have 0 problem youâre just badâ and âwhy play priest -.- -.- omg I knew this would happenâ. Just because a druid or paladin CAN withstand more dps/tank mistakes, people think itâs the standard. They donât want to try any harder than they absolutely have to. It doesnât cross their minds that the druid/paladin is likely cursing the stupid party in their minds and thinking âyouâre so lucky Iâm a druid/paladin, bless whoever gets stuck with you lot nextâ. People never notice either that the healer who âhad no problemâ didnât add them, didnât stay to push the key⌠otherwise the party wouldnât be âstuckâ with me as their healer now would they.
And finally, I hope people stop telling you to use your own key as if that solves anything. Sure doesnât for me - people donât join because Iâm a priest. Iâve even had one or two people seriously whisper me asking if I could dps in stead and theyâll bring a restodruid friend to heal because âpriest isnât good for M+ anywayâ, like theyâre doing me a service by joining or something⌠when itâs a freaking +4.
TL;DR: Itâs a mess, community perception is warped by +28 comps, play shadow for keys but set loot spec to healer. Or join a pvp guild that runs quick hc raids for gear if you can. And no, it likely wonât get better in SL, so donât hold your breath. Itâs been like this since M+ began, dungeons just arenât priestâs niche. 
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Play archeage. 
Iâm not so sure. Disc priest with unholy nova seems very good for big pulls.
At that point find a guild that does some m+, did that myself so i could play w e i wanted. LFG is just a bit sad in general, they want their runs to go smooth when it comes to randoms joining : )
I shouldâve clarified I meant for holy. I hope youâre right and disc will be more viable again. Blizz canât seem to decide what direction to take it 
Yeah bursting is why l gave up on disc. âGuys can you kill em one and one I need to do dps to healâ and the dps just go zug-zug and aoe down a pack of 6 without any other mobs in sight
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Answered your own question there mate, nothing to do with you being a priest iâm afraid.
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