Priest Changes Coming!

[Lissa]

Looks like in terms of healing power, the status quo is unchanged.  Dwarven priests are still best for healing, while Humans and Night Elves are buffed for PvP/soloing power.

I still think that it was Blizzard's intention all along to make the "uglier" races more desirable for Priests; else you'd see only 1 out of 1000 Priests being Dwarves.  Certainly, if you take away the race-specific Priest spells, Humans and Night Elves are more desirable (5% spirit boost, rep bonus, mace bonus, or shadowmeld, and overall "prettier").  Many people think Trolls "look cooler" than Undead but you'd have to be nuts or unaware of racial abilities to roll a Troll Priest in the past.

I think my biggest gripe at this point is the fact that Star Shards is still a single target spell. IMO, it should be like the WC3 Priestess of the Moon power, an AoE that does something like 50 to 75 DPS at the highest spell level (which is well below the AoEs of Warlocks and Mages). Just switch when the NE gets the two spells (Star Shards is gotten at 20 instead of 10 now and Elune's Grace is gotten at 10 instead of 20 now).

So, if they buffed up the other races in regards to healing abilities, everyone who rolled the "ugly" Priest races would be peeved and would demand the chance to reset their race (yeah, like that would happen).  The only thing that makes Dwarves cool is Desperate Prayer and Fear Ward.  Gun Specialization?  Stoneform?  Treasure Finding?  Uh, yeah.  :)  All useless racial abilities for Priests.

I know atleast 3 dwarven priests that would argue against you on the treasure finding... ;)

Most Priests in the Avarice Alliance are Night Elves, despite the advantages that Dwarves get.

-Bolty
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For me, it's one issue and one issue only why I don't play Dwarves and Gnomes, LoS. The shorties have problems with LoS and I hate having my LoS blocked easily by minor thing (a small boulder in the landscape presents no problem for Humans or NEs, but it presents a major problem for Dwarves and Gnomes when they're near it).

Besides, Ori was an NE priest in beta and was going to be an NE priest in live... ;)