russ,Apr 19 2005, 10:25 PM Wrote:Because if you take the same sample size as I have, you'll find that a massive amount of shadow priests do suck at healing. I have leveled three characters to 50 or higher, and until around the mid to late 50s, enough priests out there simply don't know the basics of how to heal. You'll find this on both PvP and PvE servers. There's the rare shadow priests that knows what they're doing, but a vast majority don't know jack.
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Which "massive amount"? If you find 100 priests on a server above lvl 50 it is really a lot. I know Druids who didn't even know what Combat Rez ist, or who never heard of using taunting abilites. Druids who didn't once change the form away from cat in a whole Instance, not even when a pull went bad. Druids who didn't even care healing when the priest yells "OOM". Barkskin? Useful if you're in Cat form and have two mobs on you...
Blame the player, not the class. Somehow it seems that some Druids must reassure themselves again and again, that they "outheal a Shadow Priest any day" and "heal better than most Holy Priests", because they have so much more experience healing (especially in the official forum). I am sure most Druids have used their cat form in Instances more often to do damage than Shadow Priests have used their Shadowform. If you're a Priest you heal in groups. There is nearly no other way. Except in rare cases the group already has another healer you are the one who heals, regardless what spec you have. There are dozens of damage dealers, but only a handful of healers. If there is a Druid and a Priest chances are that the Druid becomes secondary healer and can do what he wants, the Priest is expected to be the healer (and don't deny it, every Druid is happy when he can use forms in Instances instead of healing ;)).
Except when you meet the rare Priest who doesn't play in groups at all, chances are good that he has played the Healing Role more than you have, regardless of his Spec.
You get people who don't know how to play their class in every class, on every level. Have I told you about the lvl 45 Warrior who didn't know how to drag skills onto his Quickbar....? :D