Healing as a holy priest is a complete joke. There are 4 healing classes, and the priest is the least valuable of them. The priest has the least survability due to cloth and a craptastic one-shottable shield at 70. The druid can go into bear form, the shaman has mail+shield+frostshock/earthbind kite, the paladin has plate+shield+bubble+stun+lay on hands.

If that doesn’t sound unbalanced, consider that for the basic same output in healing, the priest has the least amount of utility for the raid. Stacking druids/shamans/paladins bring far more in terms of other abilities, like blessings, auras, totems, bloodlusts/heroisms, innervates, combat rezzes, reincarnations, divine interventions, lay on hands, etc. You name it, the priest doesn’t have it.

I don’t know why the hell I’m still playing my priest. People say oh oh we need priests. What the hell for?!

My most recent discovery is a new talent that reduces mana cost of spells by 50% for the next 15seconds… and if you happen to crit during that, you get 100% of the spell’s mana cost back when you only spent 50%… gg free mana!

From healing as a pally (66) , I went back to my shadow priest (64) healing in decent healing gear, and obviously its alright as long as the fights are short and lots of drinking time.

Then I went over to my holy priest (untouched at 60) expecting to have a much easier time healing in ramparts, and the differences between full-shadow healing and holy/disc healing were depressingly minimal. I think I even burn mana faster healing than when shadow dpsing.

Also, being a squishy sucks. Fade just doesnt cut bubble, or hammer of justice… let alone plate armor to hide in.

Maybe I’ve just gimped my own healing style by going ‘easymode’ pally healing and ‘can’t’ heal as a priest anymore…

I don’t know. I feel sorry for priests, I help them out whenever I can.

Holy paladin and shadow priest make for a beautiful combination, however.

This said I’m not even 70 yet and haven’t experience any of the new-end-game.

Also consider that in BC, a shadowpriest DPSing with a holy paladin main healing has more synergy than a shadowpriest DPSing with a holy priest main healing. Why? Spiritual attunement, which allows the paladin to passively regain mana from others’ healing, including vampiric embrace healing from a shadowpriest. Many heroic instance groups have taken to a holy paladin MAIN healing instead of a holy priest, because their mana simply lasts longer, they have more healing per second after talents (light’s grace 2.0 sec heal that heals for 4k instead of greater heal 2.5 sec that heals for a similar amount), and they have far superior damage mitigation through plate, shield, divine shield, blessing of protection, etc.

It sucks being outhealed by a healing hybrid, but Blizzard never really gives a crap about unhappy healers. /shrug

GG to us priests.

My guild has a lot of female players. I think it’s because overall the guild has attracted people who will treat women (and men, for that matter) with respect. Quite a few couples play in our guild.

My level 70 blood elf priest is also the typical female thing to play. Oh and my 60 paladin — from way back when WoW first came out — must be another stereotypical female class.

Any female that plays anything must be stereotyped immediately.