Priest and paladin healer will be garbage in P8 : Why Blizzard is again spitting on us?

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Hello,

So after thinking about the bonus of the SE sets, I realised Blizzard still doesn’t give a f about healers, especially priest and paladin.

Paladin :

  • 2 parts = LoL
  • 4 parts = WHO will heal his beacon target to get random heals whereas beacon will be at 100 % again ? It’s unplayable.
  • 6 parts = Great, so dev decided to fix an undeserved nerf… Zero effort.

T3 was GARBAGE for hpal, we got nothing to change a bit our gameplay or give us something new that impact our hps. Ok casting speed is cool, and after that ? Could we get FOR ONCE something funny ?

Priest :
Ok so the nerf of the shield was necessary, there is no problem for me about that. But if you nerf and kill a S gameplay, give an alternative to still be competitive. The bonus T3 was about shielding wherease shield doesn’t scale with the Seal (big LOL at devs here). So basically, all priests who were still playing the shield were useless, and ridiculous compared to mage. People who think we will play the shield in P8 are wrong : it’s still BAD, even with this weird t3.5 who gives an effect simiilar to a wotlk glyph that will just OVERHEAL (I calculated, and shield is atm absorbing 1.5 k, whereas BH heals 2k + and proc Divine Aegis, so LOL at the shield).

The 6 parts is also bad, and the 2 parts could have been cool ONLY IS WE COULD CAST PRAYER OF HEALING ON ALL GROUPS. There is no clear direction from Blizzard with this set, nothing funny, nothing that will really change our gameplay.

And the worst part is probably the mace, the Spire of sacrifice (https://www.wowhead.com/classic-ptr/item=241006/spire-of-sacrifice). It’s clearly for a binding heal priest, and it’s dumb. Healers will kill themselves, or may have to overheal themselves, it’s ridiculous. Imagine you are spamming and you drop 50 % HP, and there is a boss mechanics or something, then you’ll die for nothing. And don’t talk to me about the staff that will give a hot on your group, which is often overhealed by the SP. + the heal power difference between mace and staff is just too big.

I’m not asking for a come back of the shield, just for a solid option to play holy. It’s gonna be the last phase of SoD and I’m about to abandon a char I have since P1, my priest. Just because devs don’t put a single effort for my class and it becomes really boring… I’m waiting now for an update, a good new, a little hope before P8 releases…

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I completely agree. I have a priest too and I feel like my classe has been destroyed. The POH on all group could be a solution, let’s hope some dev read that and consider according us a real attention.

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i mean shaman was the worst healer for 7 phase
let them play too for once :dracthyr_crylaugh:

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Yeah I noticed that shaman have big issues too :confused: Time to react before it’s too late honestly

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Oh there’s been plenty of reacting. I’m tired of posting suggestions over and over, it’s pointless.

The devs clearly treat these forums as nothing more than a place for players to vent their frustrations, politely.

A lot of the things you are describing have been plaguing resto shamans as well, tier set bonuses are very hit or miss. I’m not sure any class had such a terrible set as t2 resto(draconic) and a few others too, thank the stars we could core-forge back then.

I have a feeling the shoulder enchant that grants set bonuses is their way of allowing players not to be entirely griefed by new/uninspired sets.

Anyway best of luck with your suggestions, hopefully you’ll have more luck than I had.

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new healer priest set bonuses actually have me excited tbh.
at least they seem more fun/better than the t3 bonuses.

the only T3 priest bonus for healers worth a spit is the 2set bonus, and MAYBE the 4set bonus if you like to spam overheals just to give tanks a bit of crit.

the 6p is… well… undead-specific, which only shines in naxx and strat/scholo/kara and is useless everywhere else, pvp as well as pve.

i was actually enjoying playing the HoT-style of priest that mostly relied on renews and circle of healing HoT + the proc for instant casts of greater heal and prayer of healing, but when naxx came out they made that unviable due to the sanctified mechanic.

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I completely agree. I have a healing priest and with Blizzard’s plan for P8, healing with a priest will be useless compared to other healing classes. If things don’t turn out better for healing priests, i’m very hesitant to switch from healing to shadow. This is a shame and truly regrettable for this iconic healer class.

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T2 healing was actually the best healing set i played , had so much fun in BG with it.
it was worthless in pve tho but at last it was fun.

while every other set is boring as hell and worthless stat wise

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I agree the concept was interesting. Maybe if all sets were like it, it would have been fine, the problem was the devs made sets that were amazing everywhere and others that were situational.

In PvE having chain lighting (essentially a heal with the set) miss most of the time was very much not good. Resto barely had ways to grab hit besides the ring rune.

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I have max level Priest, Druid, Shaman and Mage Healers.

  • I can say from experience the Mage healer is the easiest to play.
  • Priest Healer now used BH, CoH & PoM. Its easy but not fun, I miss using the greater heal/FL heals we did in Classic.
  • Druid with 6 set it spamming hots and just keeping them up.
  • Shaman is plain boring with 3 second cast times and having to manage multiple totems at the same time.
    I don’t understand why we have to move away from core abilities and play styles due to broken set bonus.
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Thoroughly disappointed by the team’s utter neglect towards SoD Holy Paladin. I suppose I should have read the writing on the wall after being literally forgotten about during P1 itemisation. We didn’t even get a full suite of Runes until phase four, and don’t even get me started on the Light’s Grace debacle lmao.

Legitimately makes me feel like I picked the wrong class. I’ve been playing this game for nearly two decades and I’ve never felt quite like how SoD has made me feel on a Holy Paladin.

The only thing I’ve discovered is that I’d rather have had ChatGPT handle class design.

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Elune thanks you! Or well, as a priest I thank thy for this post.

I have been saying from the start that the devs only play shaman/hunter/paladin and apparently mage recently.

Whoever is in charge of priest class design is not maining it him/herself. I already felt it when I think it was in p3 we had to do the head runes and the way they were in compare to f.e. druid lol.

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The pries scarlet set isnthe most dumb thing i have ever…
The 2 set bonus and the 6 set bonus doesn’t make sense at all to our play style.

Our tanks wants our outside barrier for raids which basicly makes 2 set bonus dead for priests.

I guess power infusion bonus is ok, but most of us pop it during pumping phase according to dps demand, usally at that time no much healing is needed from our side.

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They play Ret, maybe. :skull: