Sigh...Race shouldn't matterFollow

When I started playing years ago, it was always "whichever race looks best to you" or "the one you want to look at for the next several months." I just decided to pick back up on my 40 human priest after playing my main hunter for over a year, and everyone keeps telling me "why'd you roll a human priest" and I can't stand it. I started it pre-BC, and even still its "why aren't you a dwarf or draenei".

It's really discouraging me from playing the class at all, Fear Ward isn't THAT important, is it? I'm not going to regret it at 70 right? Just afraid of being put on the side for raids for a priest with fear ward. My human is only level 42, so it wouldnt be that bad rerolling, but now I'm thinking, if I'm gonna reroll, I'll reroll paladin because I just don't feel like leveling priest to 40 a second time. I wouldn't think race matters with pally really... but still... If Fear Ward was that important, it would be trainer taught.

I guess im just ranting a bit, but have any of you guys been forced to sit out for a priest with fear ward, or do any of you with it feel it is really that big? I am just tired of hearing things like that from friends and random people I don't even know, sigh now i'm afraid to make a pally because of the chance to find out at 40+ that I shouldn't have picked then race I did.

Edited, Jun 7th 2007 2:56pm by Boyiee

Racial Spells:
Priests get two additional spells according to their race, first at level 10 and then at level 20.



Consume Magic: 20 Blood Elf Dispels one beneficial Magic effect from the caster and gives them 120 to 154 mana. (453 to 488 mana at level 70). Instant cast, 2 minute cooldown.

500 ish free mana every 2 min = nice (its small but since its a instance ability it cant hurt) (500 mp / 2 mins)



Fear wards looks like a great ability, esp. for alliance since they cant have undeads tank or OT.




Symbol of Hope: Greatly increase the morale of the party members. Gives them up to 99 mana (based on the level of the casting priest) every 5 secs for 15 secs. 5 min cooldown. (1000 mp to group / 5 mins)

wow... this one is great, Draenei ability (they have fear ward too), throw in their +1% spell hit / melee hit aura, and their HoT and I can easily see why people think their the best race for a priest.

Yeah my hunter was exaulted and revered with a ton of places and i remember how long it took (night elf lol) - Just annoying for people to put down a class, let alone a healer for something as lame as that. It really was discouraging.

Simple solution - don't be their healer if they are short of one. Come on, there are so many healers out there that don't have fear ward, and hey, it doesn't really matter all that much as long as they are capable healers. The only thing that matters is how skilled you are at playing your character.

My friend has a lvl 45 human priest and has never had any complaint about it being human. Now, he does get a lot of people thinking he's stupid because he happens to be levelling it with holy spec - but put him in an instance and noone is complaining! :D

Fact is, there are always going to be people there who think they know how to play your class better than you. You just have to prove them wrong.

And if they don't get the point, /ignore.

lol @ anyone who thinks fear ward is needed before 60...

Note that Fear ward is a holy spell.. so can't use in shadowform either!

Dwarves racial skill for a shadowpriest are a pain! =)

kinda obvious that it's not, in fact I was referring to heroics/10man/25mans. Other guild priests who happen to be dwarf or draenei are the people I was talking about, and not for shadow, for healing. For dps its a different story; thought that was kinda obvious.

Fear Ward is a killer ability, but definitely not neccessary for every Priest. Your Perception ability isn't as good, but makes up for your lack of Fear Ward somewhat.

But in my opinion, Dwarf Priests own Draenei by far, Stoneform makes those Rogues, and Hunters very significantly easier, and I don't really like the 1.5 second cast on Gift of Naruu because you might as well use Flash Heal.

Lol at people who think they need fear ward. Ever. It's a crutch for your tanks, and not having it makes them better. As far as I know, there's always a warning in raids before a fear goes off. Force your tanks to stance dance, their reaction time goes up :P Stance dancing = win.
Of course, in PvP fearward is great.

Draenei and BE priests are insane. As PvE shadow, I'd kill for either of their combined racials - the +hit aura and group regen, or two forms of self-regen. I think those racials were basically them telling all priests "we don't care at all how balanced the racials are."

>.> Right. How'd I forget that? >.<

i have a dwarf priest.

is fear ward absolutely necessary? no

does fear ward help? yes.

is fear ward a crutch? not necessarily. berserker rage has 30 secs cooldown and there are fights where fear occurs more than once in 30 secs.

without fear ward, shaman's tremor totem helps. but the problem is you have to wait for it to pulse to remove the fear effect.

above mentioned, if you are a good healer, any guild wants you regardless of race.

Ever dueled a Warlock?

(I know, that wasn't funny.)

For PVE, I highly doubt you will EVER get cast aside as any priest simply due to racial. Yes, others might have a slight advantage, but there seems to be such a shortage of tanks and healers that you will no doubt be extremely welcome in many guilds, if not your own. Definately continue to 70, theres no sense rerolling from 1-42 just for fear ward.



edit - We just downed gruuls as a guild, and have 2 groups clearing kara. Or 2nd group (my group) only lacks Nightbane as a kill, and we were close last night. I'm fairly new to the guild, I dont know group 1 enough, but I believe 2 of our absolute top priests are night elves -- arguably the worst priest racials. However they are great healers, and extremely valuable in all our raids. I know at least one of them has cleared everything in group 1, and only moved to group 2 since theres no more kara upgrades for him, and he just wants to help the guild move forward (so he's helping our 2nd group, and now we're putting kara on farm).

So seriously -- dont worry about race. Humans are at least better then night elves, but we have some amazing night elf priests. Dranei have some nice racials, probably the 'ideal' PVE priests right now, but there would be a big shortage of them anyways. When the expansion hit, many people rerolled the new races, only a small percentage got to 70, a smaller percentage got past 70 and geared up nicely, and an even smaller percentage would have actually rolled a priest.

Edited, Jul 10th 2007 12:19pm by mikelolol