02-26-2007, 04:03 PM
Quote:Dunno. I got way off track from the PoM thing. The aggro mechanic wasn't nerfed, that doesn't surprise me. The spell itself being nerfed doesn't surprise me a lot, but I admit it could be overboard.
There's quite a bit I could say about your post GG (and maybe I should since I'm present in it).
Instead I'll just throw out a few things I think I think about holy priests. I just hit 70 not long ago. I'm 23/38, with all the damage talents you can take with that spec. I've got a decent set of TBC DPS blues from the 5 mans (self-buffed +610 dmg). My healing rig is about half pre-TBC raid gear (still no replacements for my T2). +1060 healing (5 man buffed), 350 stam, 475 int, 449 spirit.
Anyway now to the things I think:
1. I am very powerful--even godlike *blush* -- in a 5 man group. No other healing class can put out the DPS like I can while at the same time doing the healing. A balance/resto hybrid is similar, but I think I do it better. Of course I'm better geared than our two balance/resto hybrids so that might be off. I put on the healing gear for particularly difficult pulls or most bosses, but I play DPS monkey most of the time even without a backup healer. Shields, PoM, HoT, group heal, the priest has it all.
That said, GG exaggerates when he says I compete with the DPS classes. My burst DPS is excellent -- the zergier the run, the better I look in comparison due to 2 second Smites and Shadow word Death. But I've never 'won an instance' (as we say on Terenas) except for the one Ramparts run where I was 69 and everyone else was 62 and I did no healing. Even on that one our tanking pally wasn't that far away from me on damage done. I certainly do fine compared against other hybrid or healing specs, but no mage/warlock/hunter/rogue/DPS warrior/DPS shaman need fear me, let alone a feral druid.
This will never last either. I'm at the peak of my TBC power right now. As we get raid gear, my solo/DPS power will not increase since I will not be getting that gear.
2. I freaking BLOW at soloing. Only spec worse in my opinion is a full prot warrior, but they will scale much better with gear than I. I can't tell you how much gold I spent on water leveling to 70. I did make the mistake of rolling a BE hunter though. Everything they say about hunters is true -- EZ mode, overpowered... it's like a completely different game. It makes me sick to think about it.
3. PoM feels overpowered to me even in PvE. Seems like most fights (for example in Shadow Lab) I am torn between two things -- DPS, or entertaining myself by watching my PoM bounce from tank to offtank an back while everyone's health bars are full. And it's aggro free for me. Mana efficiency be damned (I have no talents for it) it's still aggro free, so I can spam it at the beginning of those big pulls without fear.
4. I am weak in PvP. I haven't done much since TBC, but the problems that plague holy priests have only gotten worse, not better. My shield and inner fire are actually worse, and my fear is as ineffective as always. Now my opponent just has way more health to worry about. My only hope is that my opponents are stupid and try to kill someone else first. Still waiting for that to happen... I'm very disappointed in the PoM for this reason, I was looking forward to being useful.
5. In raiding... well I can only speculate, but I think a resto druid will be a better healer than me. I'll hold my own. As Horde I can take comfort in my role as dispel bot until we get more paladins at least...