Priest problem

[Kevin]

I have herd that the tier sets for the 60 priest are horrible? they should be set aside and one should either use the pvp sets or other items that " are much better then tier sets". IYO what do you think the best set is for the priest and if you dont think its a set what are the items. (if you believe holy is best priest say holy set, if you believe shadow is the best say your opinion on shadow sets) Thanks guys,

discuss ^^.

The only way I could see this being true is if you don't want to heal, or in comparing some of the ZG and AQ20 drops to the T1 set. The other priest set that isn't very good is the dungeon 1 set (often called Tier 0, but the devout set) since the only +healing it has is a set bonus and it has no mana/5. So for priests that want to be as effective of a healer as possible that can't access any raids, only 5 mans, then yeah you will do better to collect various random pieces. But this is not a unique situation for the priest class. A warrior will tank better in various pieces than the will in valor. A warlock will be better off in various random pieces compared to dreadmist. A hunter will do more damage and various random pieces compared to to beaststalker, etc.

The dungeon 2 sets however are generally pretty solid for most of the classes. There will still be a few pieces that are inferior to 5 man blue drops, but in general it takes 20 or 40 man raid pieces, or the PvP rewards, which are in many ways equivalent to low end raid drops, to be superior to them for pretty much all classes. Tanking warriors and most druid specs are a few of the bigger exceptions to that since both of their dungeon 2 sets go for a balanced approach and if you really want to specialize that doesn't work. But there are still a few pieces of the dungeon 2 set even for those classes that will be the best option in that slot for whatever particular role you want to play.