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Healing priests are in rough shape

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Xodok
#0 - Jan. 6, 2009, 10:17 p.m.
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Priests seem to be pretty gimped in both PvE and PvP departments. I feel for you guys and I hope something will be done in close future to fix it. That is all. I'll spare you some time and won't go into current problems of priest healing and future problems that the upcoming patch will bring.
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Ghostcrawler
#79 - Jan. 8, 2009, 4:46 p.m.
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You guys are trying to dissect subtle differences between "gap filling" and "being well rounded." Those are just words. They are descriptive, not definitive.

Priests can do lots of different things. When you bring a priest of any spec, you get some really nice buffs (like Fort or Spirit) and utility (such as Mass Dispel). When you bring a healing priest, you bring enormous benefits in flexibility. The priest can Greater Heal the tank on one fight, cast spot Renews and PoMs on the melee dps in another fight, throw out a CoH or PoH when lots of people are down at once, or Flash or PW:S a rogue before she dies. Casting GS or Pain Supression on a tank, especially an OT who dps's a lot and may not have the gear, can be really useful.

You can shift from fight to fight depending on the specifics of the encounter and the needs of the raid. If you are in a group where raid attendance is not always 100%, a priest is a wondeful thing to have. You can tank heal when the paladins don't log or hot when the druids don't log.

The strongest groups will have all 4-5 types of healers. But we also tried to design the encounters so that you can work around it if you are missing a few.

If your raid is stacked with paladin healers your group healing will suffer. If your raid is stacked with druid healers, your tank healing will suffer. If your raid is stacked with priests, you won't have any problems.

If that type of role doesn't appeal to you, I can understand. There seem to be a lot of priests (on these forums) who just don't like priests and want them to be something else. But really we think they're fine and will keep getting spots on raids and Arena teams. For a lot of players, "priest" is *still* synonymous with "healer." I don't think we're in danger of that changing.