Priest Concern Summary

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Holy motherlode!  Oh, wow!  God, I hope they implement this.  If they did, that would solve so many of the issues I had being a holy/disc priest in PvP, and I would so go back to a holy/disc build.  It would allow the priest to actually (gasp!) heal and dispel in PvP.  And yet, it would avoid the cheese of the pally shield that allows pally's to heal themselves and attack while shielded.  Plus, this would be the answer to the prayer (pardon the pun) of what to do when an MS warrior comes at you.  If the warrior goes fear immune early, you could go transcendence, wait for the fear immunity to run out, and then break out and psychic scream.  The warrior would still likely win the battle, but it'd be nice to be able to have killing a holy/disc priest be a pita rather than the "free kill" it is today.  It'd be useful in PvE situations, too!  That would be so great.

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Guess nobody really cares about balance, anymore? And tell me, exactly what 2 player combination could take care of the priest/warrior duo if this happened? You complain that Paladins are sick in PvP because they can heal while surviving ... then want the same exact thing for yourself?

I guess I can see that priests could use some more special abilities that no other healing class has (e.g. how druids have battle rez), but I've never felt the pressure to keep up with or beat the druids.

Prayer of Healing? Anyway, the battle rez is both a blessing and a curse. Druids are the only healers in the game that aren't effective at out of combat rez.

My greatest worry with the upcoming changes to priests is that they will make one last desperate attempt to revive greater heal -- like make it really mana efficient or worse clobber flash heal's mana efficiency to force people to use greater heal.  I would rather that they threw out greater heal altogether as a bad idea and just improved flash heal if they feel the priests really need improvements in their healing power.

To be honest, I'd like to see something like Greater Heal still there, but have Flash Heal become a better spell with talents. Druids are pretty much stuck into long spell heals (Regrowth is very inefficient), so I see a big advantage in having one slower and one faster (druid healing touches, priest flash heals). If Greater Heal becomes the spell of choice, the tank's life will become much spikier. Spikes are dangerous.

Well, technically, we have the small level 50 quest series to get our prayer beads.  And then there's that major class quest around level 8 that undead priests get to heal and buff a forsaken guard to get a robe that gives them +1 spirit.  But, yeah, more class quests would be good.
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Ravenholdt has been in the game, unfinished, since 1.2 (I think). When Blizzard put in the class specific Sunken Temple quests, they added 4 classes (1.7) and 4 classes (1.8). But wait, there's 9 classes, right? Druids got screwed. Druid's last quest is at level 16.