Priest Concern Summary

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might I suggest tweaking the game mechanics so that the 'possess' effect of mind control still allows the priest to cast spells on the possessee?

This has been suggested over and over again.  I'd love it, personally, but I suspect it won't happen, as it would come dangerously close to helping us be the "masters of crowd control" that our class description claims we are. ;-)

I'd like to see this "master of crowd control" quote people keep talking about. Priests were stripped of their CC for a reason.

Let's have our instant-cast more-effective Mind Soothe back again, too, please.

Riiight ... so any 5man can avoid every fight in an instance once again.

AoE fear ...

Your AoE fear may not be that reliable, but neither is any other escape mechanism in the game. Vanish gets removed/dotted, CC gets broken by trinkets/damage, Sprint gets slowed, Feign Death is just /laughed at ...

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"Give the Priest an ability to cast spells while moving." What, greater heal? Mind Blast?  Most priest skills are already instants.

Eh?  Base priests (racials aside) have one instant spammable spell, given talents - mind flay - and one dot.  We have one "instant" heal over time.  None of our other heals are instant.

The only non-self heal in the game that's instant is a Nature Swiftness modified druid heal. There's absolutly no good that could come out of a regularly instant heal.

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AFAIK there's no such thing as holy resist at all

It is possible, at least for PvE monsters, to partially resist holy damage; I assume the same is also true for players, although I have no proof of this.

Players (and I think monsters) all have 0 holy resist. There's no such thing as holy resist in the fact that you can't raise it, I believe. So lvl differences (and a pure spell resist i.e "miss") are the only reductions possible.