Thanks for acknowledgement on Priest racials

#0 - Aug. 7, 2007, 5:18 p.m.

Just thank you for acknowledging that players have had a point for awhile as to the unfairness inherent in priest racials. I hope you can kill a few birds with one stone while fixing this problem.

For example, Symbol of Hope and Fear Ward provide a lot of the raid utility priests lack at the moment. Starshards fills the problem of shadow priests having nothing to cast while locked down. Shadowguard, hex of weakness, and DP liven up the shadow priest's playbook a bit, which is sorely lacking. Desperate prayer also greatly helps priests in pvp situations.

The other major caveat with priest is the placement of Divine Spirit/Imp. Divine Spirit. I strongly suggest moving this to the holy tree, at the 21 point level. Just as very few people specced lightwell prior to BC, just as few spec CoH, and just as few will spec the new 51 point talent, just in order to get this silly spirit buff.

Thanks for acknowledging the problem! I hope you take a lot of suggestions into consideration while figuring it out.

Here's one more suggestion: If you happen to find Fear Ward + WotF is overpowering in PvP, just make Fear Ward able to be active on one target only, a la earth shield. That's if you do find it to be overpowered.

Nethaera

#4 - Aug. 7, 2007, 5:22 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Just thank you for acknowledging that players have had a point for awhile as to the unfairness inherent in priest racials. I hope you can kill a few birds with one stone while fixing this problem.

For example, Symbol of Hope and Fear Ward provide a lot of the raid utility priests lack at the moment. Starshards fills the problem of shadow priests having nothing to cast while locked down. Shadowguard, hex of weakness, and DP liven up the shadow priest's playbook a bit, which is sorely lacking. Desperate prayer also greatly helps priests in pvp situations.

The other major caveat with priest is the placement of Divine Spirit/Imp. Divine Spirit. I strongly suggest moving this to the holy tree, at the 21 point level. Just as very few people specced lightwell prior to BC, just as few spec CoH, and just as few will spec the new 51 point talent, just in order to get this silly spirit buff.

Thanks for acknowledging the problem! I hope you take a lot of suggestions into consideration while figuring it out.

Here's one more suggestion: If you happen to find Fear Ward + WotF is overpowering in PvP, just make Fear Ward able to be active on one target only, a la earth shield. That's if you do find it to be overpowered.

There are a lot of things that will be looked at with not just priests but a lot of the various classes as we continue to work on current and future game development. I believe that Tom Chilton even mentioned in the class panel that we want to take a look at the Discipline tree for Priests and find a way to make it more functional as its own tree and realize its own focus. As many people have said after seeing us at BlizzCon, we do listen, we are watching, and we are aware not only of what the community is saying but what we are seeing for ourselves. We may not be able to always give you details about everything that is being worked on right away, but we give them when we are comfortable with doing so.