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By: David Anstey

David Anstey — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:23:28 +0000

I lvl’d my Priest as an old dungeon healer right from Deadmines and swapped back and forth between Disc/Holy, finally settling on Disc as my “natural” healing spec. Disc is a great 10 man healing spec where your sometimes asked to do both tank and raid healing/bubbling within the same fight. I sometimes felt under-powered as Holy compared to Disc. My biggest concern about the upcoming expansion is that they ruin the spec by modifying it too much. I’m not really chomping at the bit for group bubbles like some of my brother priests.

By: Snerus

Snerus — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:57:11 +0000

I have had the privilege to play every healing class in the game up to current icc content. Everything you have stated about each class is very true. My main happens to be a holy paladin. With that said, I would stray away from healing on a paladin, because come Cataclysm, it will no longer be the powerhouse in tank healing. It will also not be very good at raid healing. At the moment, I would suggest paladin all the way, but that’s if you can get some good play time in at 80 before cata. As it currently is, a holy paladin can effectively raid heal or tank heal depending on his or her glyphs and gems. If a paladin gems all intellect and glyphs for the holy light splash and mana reduction, they can tank heal until they’re blue. If they gem spell power with some mp5 and glyph for improved crit on FoL and increased healing numbers, they can raid heal just as well as any other class. This also depends on the player behind the toon. Just my two cents.

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Do I have WoW ADD or Am I an Altoholic? — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:22:44 +0000

[...] help but feel as though I’ve wasted my time on the Paladin, especially after I went through such deliberation choosing him to level. Sure, I have an 80 Paladin for whatever I want to do with him from now on, but I only have time [...]

By: Shaman

Shaman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:39:58 +0000

I’ve got a priest, druid and shaman at 80. I much prefer healing on the Shaman because they’re the most offensive healer. Between dropping totems, Hexing, to interrupting, purging, or Frost Shocking for the slow, there’s so many other things I get to do while healing. Right now my favorite fight is Saurfang because I two-heal it with a Holy Priest… on the adds I drop a Earthbind to snag the one the ranged burn down, then frost shock kite the second one around while still healing. The priest has some of this, but not as much, but the druid is the worst… I can sometimes pop out of tree and do a bit of DPS, but thats about it.

By: bleuchz

bleuchz — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:05:13 +0000

/2cents

When assessing Resto Shaman’s the first thing I look at is how much the use Chain Heal. Any more then 30% of their casts, and I dismiss them as not knowing how to properly play their class.

/end2cents.

By: Amandrel

Amandrel — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:25:00 +0000

I started out as a Druid and switched from Balance to Resto somewhere around Level 56, before BC came out. My small, casual guild had only had one or two healers, so I found myself dragged to any and all places they needed a healer (especially when I could fly a few levels before other classes and make it to Botanica etc). I was unsure of what I was doing, badly geared and in general pretty damn clueless.

Once Heroics were introduced I became a ‘Dreamstate Druid’ — I felt I needed Healing Touch to heal the sheer amount of damage done in Heroics and this was back in the day where casting Healing Touch threw you out of Tree form (hey you kids, get off mah lawn!!!).

Once I joined a raiding guild I went full Resto for Kara, and played my Druid until somewhere in SSC. I got bored of Druid healing as it was (Lifebloom/Lifebloom/Lifebloom/Lifebloom/Eat dinner/Lifebloom/Drink soda/Lifebloom/etc.) and levelled my Priest, which I played until WotLK/Sarth 3D.

I loved the big and varied toolbox of a Priest healer — I started as Holy, but went Disc after Penance was introduced and Discipline became a viable raid spec. Eventually even the raid instances became too routine and most of my friends had quit the game, so I abandoned my Priest in favour of Druid tanking before walking away from the game altogether.

I came back super-casual in November and now really just PvP — either on my Disc Priest or my newly-respecced Balance Druid. I never healed on my Druid after SSC and I’m wondering if maybe it’s time to try… I just wish they gave you different Tree forms based on your hair colour, much like they give you different feral forms.

By: Xeeon

Xeeon — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:58:28 +0000

I first tried healing as a priest. I leveled shadow until I hit 70 and then went Holy. I actually spent a lot of time in a Discipline healing spec for arenas. I was quite good at it, but I kinda felt like they ruined Discipline in BC when they nerfed Pain Supression and made it castable on other people. My main problem with holy was that while it was a better healing spec, holy priest were way too vulnarable to damage. Discipline was worse on the meters, but had much more clutch survival, as well as the spirit buff.

I enjoyed healing on my priest, but felt too vulnerable. In Wotlk, I rolled a Holy Paladin. It took me a while to learn how to beat other people when raiding healing in between boss fights; I mainly started spamming FoL.

I think that Holy Paladins, while maybe a bit borring to play, are the best healing class for me. My next adventure is rolling a Resto Druid …

By: jeffo

jeffo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:46:38 +0000

Nice post Beej, and nice to see the reasons others have for choosing their healer. I was going to respond here, but found it was too long to fit, so I posted a roundabout answer over at my own blog. Hmm, Comment luv doesn’t seem to be working for me now….

By: Dranok

Dranok — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:29:38 +0000

I am a Priest. Other MMO’s I used to play DPS’s as the mage or magic-damage class (whatever that might be). When it came to WoW I decided to try something different and be a healer. My girlfriend at the time was a Hunter so we had loads of fun questing where I would simply keep her up and let her and her pet kill off all the mobs with occasional DPS from me.

I do however take umbrage to the fact that Paladins seem to think Priests, because we wear cloth, are too squishy. If a Priest is too squishy thats his fault. We wear cloth, true, but thats why we have abilities like Power Word:Shield, Renew, Inner Fire, Binding Heal, etc etc. No Priest should be “too squishy” if he knows what he’s doing.