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Leveling with a priest up until Shadowform really sucked. I usually leveled through this stage by just doing instances, either healing or DPS. The only thing I liked, was I could heal while fighting, it not be a hindrance.


This isnt a comparison. Priests are priests, and mages are mages. They are not alike, other than they are ranged casters. Priests are more like moonkin than mages, if I had to compare casters.
Also, I can kill paladins and mages as a priest. They are not difficult, when you can do some of the same things they can, and dispel their shields.

Edited, Jan 31st 2009 10:45pm by sederix

I think i've just scholared Mozared.

I'm really sorry

'bout time. If Moz reports on the weather in Elwynn Forest, I rate it up. The author of the sticky ought to be a scholar.

On a related question (seeing as this thread has turned into a discussion of healing), healed my first instance (since gnomer early last year lol- that was a disaster) in a long time. I'm really getting into my priest. and I think I like priest healing. I wasn't perfect, I'm used to healing on my shammy, but I think I did pretty good. Only went OOM in ramaparts on the 1st boss when the DK tank pulled him accidently along with the 3 trash mobs. So we had 6 mobs total. Tank eventually died when I went oom, but the enhance shammy had insane dps and downed him.

I think I did good, but you guys talk about using certain tricks. But you don't say what those tricks are. :). Or is it just something that comes with experience. I mainly want to ask about bubble. I didn't use it much. I tried using it at the start of a fight, but quickly found out that draws aggro lol. Blew my fade, and didn't have it when I drew aggro later in that fight. Did I mention 90% of DK tanks are absolutely horrible? Right now my shield is tied to my V key, but that can be hit sometimes when my index fingers are on the 1,2,3 and 4 keys. When should I shield? and how often? It doesn't seem like it's that mana efficient. I seemed to like not casting and allowing mana regen, and then heal when they are about halfway. But this can be dangerous if things go wrong and there is lots of aoe damage.

Speaking of aoe damage I have circle of healing, that is pretty good. Doesn't heal alot. I have prayer of healing, long cast time, bu heals a sh*tton. When do I use holy nova? It seems to be pretty similar to circle of healing, I can't see much use for it unless circle is on c/d.

In any case, I don't see how levelling shadow will help my healing as mentioned. But maybe it will help teach mana efficiency. But even as holy, I can't just go blowing all my cool healing spells any time I want to. I still try to keep myself in the 5 sec mana regen. Shadow priests aren't my thing, when I think of priests I think of light- not some dark thing where I can't see my toon very well.

Edited, Feb 3rd 2009 8:33am by thrashering

As Holy I don't use either shield or Holy Nova much for PVE healing. They're more Disc priests' tricks. :) But Shield is still a good tool for the uses AI mentions. When there's heavy AoE damage, shield and renew the tank, Circle of Healing, (free flash heal on tank), Prayer of Healing.

Circle of Healing is a fluffy chocolate cupcake of goodness, frosted in awesome. Glyph for it and you have 6 chances to crit with one instant cast. If you go into an instance or raid with 20% Holy crit, more times than not this amounts to a free Surge of Light or Holy Concentration proc every 6 seconds. Those instant Flash Heals are particularly wonderful, but both are nice for mana management anyhow. Keep your PoM up all the time for this same reason. It can crit on each bounce. And don't forget it's an instant heal as well.