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Favourite Healer Class
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22-12-2009 11:44am#1
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Druid by far, both raid and main healer.
Priest comes second but Druid is still more versatile.
Wouldn't rate a Shaman as a healer other than standing there in a raid clicking chain heal as it's the only healing spell of any worth, everything else is too slow, ineffectual, and the class itself is boring to heal with and unsuited to the job as it's been pissed on as a class for far too long from Blizzard.
I know there's been improvements but still, absolutely stinks as a healing class when compared to Blizz's favorite class, Druid.
Never played and I hate paladins as a class so I can't comment other than to say I've never met a decent paladin healer, ever, but they're still better than Shamans.
You sound like you really suck at shaman healing
Hardly a crap healing class. Pretty sure shamans stack haste these days, so much so that a decent geared resto shaman will have 1.1-1.2 second lhw's. Chain heal is still probably the best raid healing spell in the game, at least in 25 mans.
If played right, shaman healers are VERY powerful healers..... you just suck....0 -
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Well I have only ever healed with disc priest.
On a slightly related topic, thanks to the new patch I've been able to gear my priest alt to ICC10 acceptable gear. Managed my first raid this evening in ICC with guild and must admit that healing is so much fun.
Had only ever DPS'ed before that but healing has really rejuvenated this game for me. 0 -
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The most crucial point with me regarding Priests is the skillcap - Priests still remain a solid challenge (varies per role) due to above mentioned versatility and because of that, along with being able to have such a wide range of healing or just flat-out spec for DPS (Now more PvP viable than ever, behind Vanilla times) it's a class I just honestly couldn't put down once I rolled it all those years ago due to the variety.
Different strokes for different folks, sure, we can all respect that but ultimately I know very few people who have been dissapointed with Priests and those tend to be people who fail to understand them fully. I wouldn't tack them as the best due to being said jack of all trades that doesn't excel in a role above the other more focussed healer styles, but you can't go wrong if you have a good Priest.
Anyhow, think I've oversaid my peace, here. Imma skip off to sleep then continue my face-melting, tommorow
@Above poster going on about squishiness, have you ever played a Priest? We're suprisingly resilient to damage & aggro when needed and I fail to see how squishiness is much of a factor in anything when a) We're not meant to have aggro and b) Every healer can maintain themselves in most non-aggro danger situations, Priests being no exception. I can't fathom how people keep regarding Druids as more flexible than Priests... Just makes no sense, whatsoever.
Makes plenty of sense for the following reasons:
Priests can tank? Really? Well, there's one reason why druids are more flexible. While both are good main tank and aoe healers, druids are the better healers. There is no debate about that.
Druids are a lot more difficult to kill than priests... without a doubt. Giving both classes similar skill and gear level, I rather go up against a priest.
As a priest, you are automatically more squishy... your lack of armor for one is a definate disability. You simply ARE more squishy, there is no point trying to argue otherwise.
From hardcore raiding to PVP, survivability is a major factor. If you cannot survive then you are useless. You may get aggro during an aggro reset boss, or from adds that spawned. You might get stunned in a flame or other AOE damaging effect. I much rather be a druid in any of these scenarios. From my experience in wow... priests seem to die a lot more than any other healing class. This is over a long period of time, on differant servers and differant guilds, so it's not a matter of "oh they need to know their class"... 0 -
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Lilianna Dirty Society wrote: »Makes plenty of sense for the following reasons:
Priests can tank? Really? Well, there's one reason why druids are more flexible. While both are good main tank and aoe healers, druids are the better healers. There is no debate about that.
Druids are a lot more difficult to kill than priests... without a doubt. Giving both classes similar skill and gear level, I rather go up against a priest.
As a priest, you are automatically more squishy... your lack of armor for one is a definate disability. You simply ARE more squishy, there is no point trying to argue otherwise.
From hardcore raiding to PVP, survivability is a major factor. If you cannot survive then you are useless. You may get aggro during an aggro reset boss, or from adds that spawned. You might get stunned in a flame or other AOE damaging effect. I much rather be a druid in any of these scenarios. From my experience in wow... priests seem to die a lot more than any other healing class. This is over a long period of time, on differant servers and differant guilds, so it's not a matter of "oh they need to know their class"...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Never read so much **** in all my time on boards.....
again... HAHAHAHAHAH0 -
When i raid on my priest i never die (unless its a wipe), id like to welcome you to the "Fade" spell, it is very useful.
If you see priests dieing alot in raid its not because of their class, its because they are crap.
In regards to pvp, they should be disc specced and if so can gain ALOT of armor from glyphing/speccing into inner fire, and lets not forget about pain suppression, shields, psychic scream. I have done very well on my priest in pvp, its all in how you play.
If your getting owned on your priest its because your doing something wrong or just grossly overwhelmed by the opposition.
And in regards to:
Easily avoided if you know what to do, again a "you" issue and not a "class" issue.
We may be a lil more squishy stat wise if you throw in bear form, but we have more abilites to counter the squishyness.
If a druid pulls agro on a boss that one hits anything but tank, im glad im a priest, as i can drop the agro instantly and survive, tree goes bear and still fails.
Well as disc they are pretty tough to kill, but, disc doesn't have much of a place in raids. One disc priest may be good for some bosses, but if all your priests are disc, purely for survivability, then there is something seriously wrong. Although it is not a class spell but a race spell, shadowmeld for alliance druids is very much like your fade Poping bearform is the last thing you should do imo.
Again, from my extensive experience in wow, druids are both better healers and have better survivability. Note in my previos post I assumed both players had similar skill and gearHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Never read so much **** in all my time on boards.....
again... HAHAHAHAHAH
Care to expand on this, explain why you think so or do you lack the mental capacity to effectively enter this debate?0 -
Lilianna Dirty Society wrote: »Well as disc they are pretty tough to kill, but, disc doesn't have much of a place in raids. One disc priest may be good for some bosses, but if all your priests are disc, purely for survivability, then there is something seriously wrong. Although it is not a class spell but a race spell, shadowmeld for alliance druids is very much like your fade Poping bearform is the last thing you should do imo.
Again, from my extensive experience in wow, druids are both better healers and have better survivability. Note in my previos post I assumed both players had similar skill and gear
Care to expand on this, explain why you think so or do you lack the mental capacity to effectively enter this debate?
And me as a nelf priest i also have shadowmeld, 2 x agro dumps and the priests fade on a much lesser CD. I myself wouldnt specc disc for raiding unless needed, i was using disc as the pvp aspect which is kickass 0 -
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Well yeah your going into arena now, prefered healing gets alot more specific depending on the classes, a disc priest for your MS war may be poo but its good for alot of other classes. It all falls down to your tactics and which arena your doing
I dont get to arena much so i cant really argue with you here :P0 -
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