01-15-2006, 01:38 AM
NotSoDarklord,Jan 12 2006, 06:05 PM Wrote:Warriors. This is kind of a crap shoot, if the fears are dealt with then things certainly get interesting. I like arms/fury better than MS for this matchup, most priests just wait for ms timer to get low then fear/heal, arms fury is just painful all around.
If you're playing against epic'd out warrior, there is no crap shoot against a holy priest. Charge, hamstring, berserker rage, mortal strike (-50% healing effects as well as damage) and chop away until dead. If the warrior's smart, he or she will even pummel an attempted heal for bonus points. Typically, the holy priest is dead in under eight seconds with no recourse. It doesn't take skill to do this. A warrior can destroy a holy priest so fast, it's not even funny and the warrior will take almost no damage in the fight.
This is the reason I switched to full shadow priest spec a couple months ago. I got plain tired of dying to every stink'n MS warrior who came my way. At least now, it's a fight. If they make it in the next patch so that holy priests actually stand a chance against warriors, I'd switch back to holy/disc.
You're right in your equipment build, though. You want lots of stamina and +armor helps a lot, too.
Regarding fighting warlocks, a warlock with a succubus is a joke. It's the ones with felhunters out that you want to worry about. They eat up your buffs, debuff the warlock (i.e. remove SW:Pain), and can do all kinds of stuff to mess you up.