Priest Concern Summary

[Lissa]

I'd like to see this "master of crowd control" quote people keep talking about.  Priests were stripped of their CC for a reason.
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The original vision, and this goes back to the alpha stages of the game, was that Priests were to be primary CCers of the game with Healing. When Blizzard got to the beta, they degraded the Priest's CC abilities and replaced some of it with damage spells (from what I've heard from Alpha testers, Priests did not have Smite, SW:P, and Mind Blast in Alpha, damage from a Priest was melee only). The only Priest CC abilities that survived to push 3 were Sleep (given to mages in push 3, later changed to Poly in push 4), Mind Control, Mind Soothe (use to work on everything, now only humanoids), and Psychic Scream (horribly nerfed like all fears since the game went live).

Also, if you can get a look at one of the early Priest pages during the early pushes of the beta (1 through 3 or 4), Blizzard actually stated on the description that they were the Masters of Crowd Control above their healing aspects. I'll see if I can dig up an archieve page somewhere to show that that was Blizzard's original vision for the Priest.