Hey there,
I would like to open a thread about the major issues regarding racials on priests. As any player who has done a minimum of pvp will know, the handicaps between the different races in TBC is decisive from a certain skill level, but this problem is maximized even more in the case of priests. Any player who intends to have any chance in competitive pvp is forced to play exclusively 2 races (dwarf or undead), since the racial abilities of these 2 classes are extremely superior to the abilities of any other race:
-Dwarf: In this case you have both stone form and chastise (30s cd and no gcd- seriously, who thought it’s fair that this ability is only possessed by some races. It is probably one of the top 10 priest skills) . These 2 abilities allow you to escape from any rogue and to take full control of the arena both to facilitate your fears and to avoid those of the enemies. In addition, you also have instant healing (desperate prayer), so you have no disadvantage over the other races.
-Undead: In this case it is true that you lose the instant healing, which can be a disadvantage, but in exchange you gain a second trinket for fear/mind control that allows you to move freely against other priests and risk as much as you want since you will always have the winning hand against any priest of another race in terms of fears, which makes you practically immune to these.
Comparing these racials with the human ones (my case, but its the same with any other race), no one who knows even a little will tell you that none of these racials is even comparable to perception (mainly useful if you are a rogue) and feedback (a practically useless skill, because of the high cost of mana in relation to the mana that burns to the enemy).
I would like to know what is the exact goal of blizzard to maintain these enormous differences between races. You only need to check how many priests are in the top 5% of the ladder that are not one of these 2 races to see that I am not exaggerating one bit when I say that it is as if they were different classes just because they have another race.
Taking this into account, you can only choose between these 2 races if you want to have options to be competitive in pvp. What is the exact message intended by this?
Why other classes such as paladins have been modified from the original (being also a much smaller difference between races than in the priests, since 10% damage is obviously much less significant than the racials already described), while in the priests this huge difference remains?
The worst of all is that there is no possibility to modify the race of your character, so the only option that Blizzard leaves to all the people who made their character without thinking exclusively in the possibility that these problems were not solved in classic TBC to be able to participate is to make a second character from zero.
However, I am sure that when humans can compete with the rest of the classes, in LK after the modifications in the racials, the possibility of changing races will be allowed, since 95% of the priests will be in an unfavorable situation, forcing blizzard to give them back the advantage they have enjoyed throughout TBC.