Restoration Druid v Shadow Priests

[Treesh]

Because if you take the same sample size as I have, you'll find that a massive amount of shadow priests do suck at healing.  I have leveled three characters to 50 or higher, and until around the mid to late 50s, enough priests out there simply don't know the basics of how to heal.  You'll find this on both PvP and PvE servers.  There's the rare shadow priests that knows what they're doing, but a vast majority don't know jack.

Not just small stuff like not knowing how to maximize spirit regen or becoming an expert at dealing with a mage or warlock's AoE habits.  I'm talking basic stuff like renewing a warrior at the start of each fight, or other stupid stuff.  Using Prayer of Healing early into a pull, for example, when only two members were injured so far.

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I've seen priests that make it to the end of Sunken Temple wearing obviously solo gear simply cause they can't think of a single reason to have spirit.&nbsp; I've seen priests that spam Flash Heal in situations it is fairly obvious that you could get a good Greater Heal off... over and over through an instance.&nbsp; I've certainly found priests that PW:S mages after aggro's been pulled off them, and those that had no idea that they could dispell magic on friendly targets, that was fun to explain in BRS.&nbsp; I've had the misfortune of running Dire Maul with a priest that still hadn't figured out what this thing called a debuff bar is, and what "Mortal Strike" does.

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You're mainly talking about priests who don't know how to play priests, not specifically shadow specced ones. I've been in groups where even the holy specced priests pull that crap. It's poor healing tactics period regardless of how they are specced. That is the fault of the person behind the keyboard and not the spec of the character.