Mad Priests on Madmortem

… from Blizzard that is, of course

Now, it is not as if the priest currently is, or probably will be a class that needs love insofar as that we are underpowered – heck no!

My little problem is pretty simple: All other healing classes are getting a lot more versatile and capable of filling other classes roles (which is something that blizzard has stated is being done intentionally), which also means they are getting a lot of cool, shiny, new toys. Priests however, already are capable of filling any role more or less easily – meaning, we get nothing.

Yeah, there is Divine Hymn and the Guardian Angel – but heck, Pallys actually get an AE Heal! We get Improved Death v. 2…

BUT!
Lightwell gets another pass!

Since this post seems to have become quite popular in recent days, please remember that it has been written months ago!

Due to the talent Grace (have a peek over here) it seems blizzard wants discipline priests in WotLK raids.

To recap: The current incarnation of Grace reduces damage taken by 6% and increases healing done by 6% when we set a disc priest to do tank-healing.

To me, this is just crap.

Our former PvP talent tree, which was (actually since this is only the beta, it still ist ^^) a very nice talent tree – is now bended to be forcefully included in raids. The one problem with this: If you wanna raid as a disc, you will still specc a helluva lot different than a pvp disc priest!

So, we force someone to take a crap healing specc to get grace?

GREAT.

(and yes, disc sucks for PvE – no 16% freecasts for example…..)