Fav class would probably be paladin because they are by far and away the best PvE healer in the game.
Paladins argue priests are better, but as a priest I would trade every single skill in my spellbook for the armour of a paladin. A paladin in my guild (and probably most paladins tbh) have as much armour on his shield as I do with Devotion Aura, Inner Fire & Druid buff.
Fade is the most useless skill in PvE now, it just doesnt remove enough agro. If I pull in a heroic I have no choice but to fear. If noone pulls the mob off me during the fear duration I just have to bubble (which once again has scaled abysmally since TBC) and spam heal myself.
Its the same for PvP. Take a holy priest to the arena and I have to respec to full discipline to stand a chance. Rogues can (and do) stunlock me from full->zero (can I just interject that I'm not an idiot, I have a stamina set, 10,500hp self buffed). Breaking through both my shield and my PrOM. Mortal strike warriors will rubber duck me as well. I have (as do all priests) less damage mitigation than at level 60. How does that work? Dont even get me STARTED on crowd control, every tom dick and f*cking harry seems to have a new stun except the class that really needs one - priests. Fear, lasts 8 seconds on a 30 second cooldown. And every fucker is undead, so WOTF is popped and i have to tank them for 30 seconds. If I can manage that (which clearly in arena is unlikely) I can throw another fear, which is normally either resisted or they just use their PvP trinket. So really I have to wait like 60 seconds before I can effectively crowd control. Bullshit. Utter utter bullshit. Not to mention that if I cast a heal EVERY class can spelllock me. Holy priest without control of the holy tree? Free arena points tbh.
So give me a paladin any day of the f*cking week. I love my priest for PvE, in 25 man raids where I can rely on not having mobs ganking the shite out of me, but PuG heroics? I can expect (given im in near full kara+ epics now) about 15g repairs by the end, and thats like 4/5 deaths. Its just stupid.
I dont want paladins to get nerfed, but I DO want priests to get a massive buff. We used to be able to outheal paladins, which IMO was fine. We're paper cannons. But now it works like this:
Paladins last longer before going OOM.
Paladins can take FAR FAR more damage.
Paladins heal for more or less the same.
How is that fair for the 'best healing class in the game'. Mind you blizzards priest page also refers to us as the 'master of crowd control' which is so totally and utterly wrong its almost laughable.
Anyway, rant over.
Anyone want a dwarf priest? ;-)
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