Priestie lurrrveFollow

I love my priest with the heat of a thousand suns. Tonight I was in the EPL putting poor Pamela's doll together, and I forgot that you get not one but two ghosties as soon as you go to grab the last piece.

They're level 55. I was level 51. Yep, that would be the dark red. And because I forgot they were there, they got the jump on me, so not even the benefit of starting at range, etc.

Finished the fight at 75% health.

Little to no mana though, because that's the thing with this class: a "bad" fight doesn't mean you die, it just means you drink.

And I'm not even good at playing casters. I can only imagine the feats of those of you whose reflexes weren't developed with Frogger.

People talk about the healing, the DPS, the nice buffs, but nobody really mentions the unkillability. Squishie, indeed.

Just another yay-priests thread, sorry. :)

Agreed. I could do twice as many with my druid while eating nachos at the keyboard. But for a class that can only wear the pretty armor, personally I'm impressed with how much direct smacking priests can handle. I guess that was the point. Survivability and solo efficiency aren't generally mentioned among selling points for priests, but I think this is a great solo class.

Edited, Jun 1st 2008 4:28pm by teacake

Just this morning.

I was doing the Hellfire Peninsula pvp daily, the one where I have to capture The Overlook, the Stadium, and Broken Hill. My priest is level 64, and is Discipline specced--but not PvP-like. 5/5 Spirit Tap, 2/2 Healing Focus, 3/3 Renew, 5/5 Divine Fury, and Holy Nova are my off-spec points-- I've 38 points or so in Discipline, and I don't have PvP talents like Martyrdom, Blessed Will, Unbreakable Will, nor Improved Inner Fire.

So, it's established that I've PvE healing gear and a PvE Disc spec. Well, I was sitting there in the Overlook, alone, just watching that bar move to the red side. I usually always have Power Word: Shield on, but I was ambushed between PW:S refreshes.

It was a female night elf warrior. Level 70. I put on my shield, put on Devouring Plague and Shadow Word: Pain, Psychic Screamed, used two trinkets with Power Infusion and pulled off some Smites with a Mind Blast.

Rather than recalling every move in the entire fight, I'll just tell you that my general strategy was to keep Power Word: Shield up any time I could, use Psychic Scream when off cooldown, and have Renew ticking.

Now, if this were an arms or fury warrior, I'd have probably died. However, my combat log showed Devastates and Shield Slams, and I had 5 Sunders stacked on me. Between my Reflective Shield and Renew ticks, the warrior didn't get me down past half health every before I healed.

If I were the warrior, I'd be embarassed. A level 64 took down a level 70, even though the 70 had the ambush.

And this isn't actually a "DISC PRIESTS RAWK" so much as it is a "PROT WARRIORS NEED A DAMAGE BUFF". 6 levels difference should mean they win. It's bad that it's not so.




No, she wasn't a crappy warrior either. She used her moves effectively, had time to bandage and everything.

I armoried her, she's got a mix of blues and epics, Tankatronic goggles and everything.

Why would a warrior use threat generating abilities in PvP? Sunders on a clothie? Makes no sense. Did the warrior also disarm you? lol.

Sounds like the warrior was trying to tank you, but forgot that there was no DPS or healer to back them up....lol.

Nice job though. It's always nice to see a lower level take out a higher level.

I'm quite aware. ;P

The reason Sunder Armor was stacked on you was because he used Devastate. Not only does Devastate cause the Sunder Armor effect on hit, it also does more damage the more applications of Sunder Armor you have on you.

Edited, Jun 8th 2008 1:46pm by Mazra

I understand this, but just question if it is more effective than just hitting Heroic Strike.

Devastate = 50% damage + 15/sunder. Max = 50% damage + 75 (fully sunder-stacked).

Heroic Strike = 100% damage + 208

So even a fully sunder-stacked opponent will take less damage with Devastate than Heroic Strike. To even get close, you have to stack it 5x (unlike Heroic Strike that will hit you each time).

Now with a squishy, let's say they have 2000 armor. You stacked sunders, and brought their armor to 0. That would give you a 16% damage increase (per your calculation of 16% damage reduction). So now you'd have:

Devastate = 66% damage + 75 (fully sunder stacked).

At least, that is how I understand it.

If that is correct, it seems that Heroic Strike would always deal more damage, and should always be used in favor of Devastate against squishies.

Of course, I could have missed something. Please let me know, as I am curious.

Thanks.

I totally didn't believe you, so I looked it up, and yep, they were orange. Well pfft. My priest suxorz.