When do Priests get an aoe HoT?

#0 - Dec. 22, 2008, 9:28 p.m.

It has been stated, that priests are the jack-of-all-trades or the gap filler. If this is true, then don't we need a tool that covers every type of heal?

Priests have

a single target heal, (GreaterHeal)
an AoE heal, (CoH, (Including Holy Nova and PoH in this group))
a heal that heals them and one other, (Binding Heal)
single target HoT (Renew)
aoe HoT?

If we are truly the gap filler then we need one more heal to cover that gap.

I have a feeling there will be Druids in here saying no no no but they themselves have called us the jack-of-all-trades. We just need this last heal to round out our role.

Now, if GC can come to this post and defend why we shouldn't have an aoe HoT...then it will just prove that Blizz really has no vision for the class.

If I am to be the class to cover every type of healing when you cannot find the best, then please give me the tools to do my job.

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Ghostcrawler

#25 - Dec. 22, 2008, 11:37 p.m.

You can only take that "priests are versatile" design too far or yes you will get into them either being better than everyone or jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none.

You have to look at the tools the priest has. Prayer of Mending is an amazing spell, and nobody has anything like that. Binding Heal is an interesting spell that will perhaps see more use after the Circle nerf. PW:Shield, SW:Death, Mass Dispel and Shadowfiend are all unusual mechanics that don't directly map to another class.

For us, it always comes down to questions such as: Will Holy priests get invited to heal 5-player groups, raids and (in a perfect world) Arena teams? Will a raid feel like they are giving up something to bring a priest instead of a druid, paladin or shaman? Do groups do different things when they have healing priests? Do priests care about the same items, buffs, debuffs and mechanics as other healers?

I don't beleive groups really organize themselves around healing niches in the sense that they want one hot guy, one AE guy and two direct heal guys. We just want enough distinction that you consider bringing e.g. a druid as your third healer once you have two priests.