Hey guys - please can you share your reasons for why you enjoy playing as a priest? specifically why did you choose to play priest over druid?
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I can’t seem to ever decide on a main. I always gravitated toward death knights, warlocks and druids, Death knights because they were dark and basically evil xd Warlocks because they were dark had really cool mogs and I could beat rouges in 1v1 with the mass CC that destruction has - Infernal, forgot the name of the other AOE stun, Seduction, mortal coil. The only issue is I am bad in non-1v1 combat xd and PVE in general. druids because they can do everything and are very mobile and because I decided to play a healer so I can actually get into content like mythic +.
I recently started playing a priest, and I love the shadow priest resource being insanity, I love that they attack the mind of their opponents with moves like mind blast, mind seer, mind control etc, I also like mind visions and snooping on people. I really like that they use the void which is technically power from the real bad guys. Like their mogs, now I look like my warlock with awesome attacks that target the mind and use the void.
Dislike their lack of a battlerez outside of engineering and their lack of mobility. If I pick a main I want to use it to farm old content for achievement score on that character, and priests are slow.
Also miss my ability to Shadowmeld, invis and fly out of combat. Sadly I find druid dps boring.
Sp…originaly just to rot ppl and stuff in tbc and wod, then legion came and ive fell in love with the spec.
Current version is also realy fun for pvp bu i definetly prefer legion or bfa sp for pve.
I started Holy in S1 in SL(leveled as Shadow, didnt liked it much), and my primary interest is PvP. The reason I liked holy very much because it has several ways to cheat death (Guardian Spirit, Ray of Hope), and can heal even after is finally brought down. Also, I just LOOOOOVVE to pop Ice Blocks and Bubbles (Divine Shield). x)
I also like the strong sustain and burst heal it has
That being said, I dunno why it got buffed in 9.2 as it was performing fine already at that point, and will not be even mad when the nerfhammer hits harder.
Back in wotlk and cata he used to be cool hybrid. We had hymns to heal our group and restore their mana. We had solid passive healing output while casting dots on enemies.
We had 2 kinds of magic shadow and holy ( now you cant heal yourself while interrupted because heal is shadow).
Back then dots power was dependent on moment of cast, so if you had trinket haste proc you always refreshed your dots. Dots snaping was a bit anoying but very rewarding.
We had mini vanish in MoP. We could go invis for a second. We even had root. Fun times.
During MoP discipline priests were half dpses in raids. Our healing output while smiting was insane. Shadow dots were doing serious damage.
Legion shadow was best shadow ever. You had to put more effort in planing voidforms and you had to know encounters well. It was VERY rewarding. Had some issues but i loved it. Keeping your shadowform for 75 seconds made you feel like a god. DoTs damage was ampflied by the time you could stay in voidform.
We had Surrender to Madness too. You had to plan when to sacrifice yourself in a trade for great dps output. If you failed you died. If you poped it too early you wasted uptime. If you poped it too late you lost dps. Shadow was a beast in first legion tier and not only.
During BfA i used to top overall damage in dungeons. It was cool. Blasting your enemies with azerite beam while being caped on 100% crit? EZ. Not gonna mention 20+ shadowy aparitions flying on your screen. It was epic. Wish they revert aparitions proc to dots again.
Currently i am “playing” my priest because of the achievements. Had a long break in SL. I find this expansion disaster for priest. Now i dont care about raids and dungeons i try to get some achievements and maybe mounts. If blizzard could intorduce class change or accountwide achievements i would buy / switch to another class. Probably DH for mobility. or giff us old SP back.
I recently got back to WoW after a long break and, well, I love priests because I love healing and priest has 2 healing specs. I love them both. Whatever patch it is, there is a good chance one of the 2 specs is in a good spot. During CN I played disc because it was strong and now I play holy. This way I can enjoy the game without having to switch characters mid expansion pack. I cannot be bothered to regrind everything on a new char, and playing a weak healing spec is just not fun.
Honorable mentions - priest spells that feel so satisfying to use:
I wanted to heal have tried them all and prefer priest and initially as i was always going to be a Dwarf Druid wasn’t available anyway.
Priest is fun and more than enough for what content i want to run and i know him inside and out. Shaman healing is pretty good too but for personal tastes its only those 2. I had think about dragon healing BUT NO ill be staying priest, holy that is.
