04-11-2005, 05:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-11-2005, 05:53 PM by MongoJerry.)
mjdoom,Apr 11 2005, 10:40 AM Wrote:If you want to do this you better have 3 (or more priests). Psychic Scream does have a cooldown. Spamming it is not an option and as MJ points out its range is very limited. It is also limited to 3 targets as opposed to the 5 of piercing howl.Â
Actually, at higher ranks, you can get up to five. However, it's rare that a party stands close enough to be feared all at once. I've done the "run forward and fear" thing, but it's usually just to disrupt a couple of players on the opposing side so that my party can focus on killing the other team's healers.
I came back to add to what I said before. The way people kill priests quickly in group situations is with stuns. It's usually a charge combined with tons of ranged dps. Or perhaps a rogue will stun the priest or hit an already stunned priest for 1.5k damage coming out of stealth. If a priest's stunned, all those tricks that you think make priests invincible are worthless, and we're as much paper mache as all other casters. I've often been hit by a charge followed by a mortal strike while being pelted by a mage and/or hunter. When I come out of the stun, sure I can phychic scream the warrior away, but then my health has fallen enough that the ranged dps kills me before I can heal myself. That's just the life of a priest in a group situation.
And if they don't do that to me, well they're idiots and will lose, because I'll heal and dispell stuff on my party, and debuff and distribute SW:Pain's on their party. Like I said, if someone's attacking my party's warlock instead of me, I'm smiling, because I know my party will win.