I see all these meta priest decks using kahurt defender, and it really irks me because there is a way better card(priest only) called Lightshower Elemental. Give it a try would ya
Khartut heals for less but is stickier and presents two taunts the person has to deal with. I’d say that it depends on the situation for which one winds up being more effective.
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I feel that the heal to all friendly characters is better, but 2 taunts can be better depends on the situation.
Most people that run lightshower (and mo’arg) run nzoth too so lightshower makes alot more sense. Also khartut defender is not in standard so it isnt even an option. Not playing wild so cant say much about whats better or worse but it seems a 6 mana reborn may be better as far as stickiness goes. Also increases odds of getting it back with raise dead since it doesnt matter if you raise dead the front half or the back half, they are the same card.
All the cards i res are good ones so I don’t care which one I res, but I definitely see your point in a deck that may have unwanted cards.
It is really not just karhurt defender. It is also that obsidian statue.
Well yea but I have no problems with that card, it’s pretty good I’m specially talking about kahurt defender
oh, but the elemental is less annoying! I can remove it with only 1 removal/minion and its catch phrase isn’t repeated 2 times per minion and isn’t as obnoxious as “our homes, our tombs”
Ress priest doens’t need much healing, when there is a wall of taunt that can’t be bypassed easily while delivering lethal (thanks to convincing infiltrator).
Ress priest is supposed to be as annoying as possible: if you aren’t playing it that way, you are playing it wrong 
Okay ya got me, the stupid tomb crap is really annoying.
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It’s been so long i actually had to regoogle the statline, but some of the concept art it had surfaced and actually kinda looked dope.
Maybe they’re playing it for the pretty art! :P, jk jk lol.
But still yeah, If it’s a old Obsidian statue and kharut defender list, that’s probably a older legacy list, it might be someone running a old res priest deck they had after a couple years, or someone just playing a old list for fun.
The heal is only better if your opponent has to kill things one by one. Brawl or Twisting Nether kills a board like that outright. A board of rezzed Defenders can’t be killed that easily because of reborn.
Fair, but as a priest it is easy to come back from something like twisting nether easily with cards like mass resurrection and lesser diamond spell stone.
Mainly played for the taunt.
Khartut blocks 2 minions with some heal.
Lightshower is only better if you need to heal 8 or more and are only blocking 1 minion.
Remember, blocking a minion also blocks their attack power, which means you’re technically healing for that amount as much.
If I block a 12/12 and a 12/12 and heal for 6, I really just healed 30 damage.
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So I’m guessing you mean wild res priests.
Cause Khartut hasn’t been seen since Uldum 
Yup, played lots of wild, Rez priest varied a lot, but you had lots of different versions, Obsidian statues were the endgame wants of many, especially barnes priest or decks that could cheat a 5/5 vision out. After barnes got nerfed, i think some versions sometimes just ran some earlier versions they could play from hand.
I think the main faster versions i saw were like yeah, obsidian statue, Kharut defender (Rare but early taunt), some 2/6(?) taunt with deathrattle Destroy a minion i think.
Some greedy lists might have also ran deathrattle quest rez priest lists and i can’t remember if this card may or may have not counted as two deathrattle minions a rez and gave them a 40 health amara vs raza priest. But the summon 7 text seems to support it working. (It’s been quite a couple years since the last kharut priest, tho obsidian statue rez priests and up until sw, Blood of Ghunn ± ysharl or whatever) saw most recent play i saw i think.
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There were a lot of ways to pick rez priest minions. As well as historically in the past more cards like Twisting nether, lightbomb, and dragonfire potions and others in past metas so many the stickiness and the double amara credit might have helped for some. I still think they seemed the less seemingly dominant rez priests though, but it was probably cheap.
What baffles my mind is for a long time i think rez priest was the priest deck everyone hated but it got (and still gets?) support even in the miniset, for infinite taunt walls, but felt like most of the other priest classes always got nerfs to hit all 3, instead of just one. Kinda strange.
Maybe a dev likes playing it though, it’s kinda a open secret that Secret mage was good for years and iskar printed support for it while it was high tier in wild for years for darkmoon Sayge to replace the Aluneth’s infinite draw without the death by fatigue or t6 tempo loss part. I think nagalock might have been created since someone was bored and wanted to make naga do something it didn’t before as well too. (Giants used to be a static 5 with naga, until ungoro, they decided to make discounts apply to naga’s giants as well since of some unplayed arena card they made i think.
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I think the random creation of nagalock started when some random person went “Hey, why don’t discounts work for this card? Lets make that work”, and balanced the flipping nagalock interaction around a card that only drew 1 by rng, instead of planning around warlock tapping to coin turn 4 5x giants before any aoe was playable (except coin lightbomb in 20% of matches you could both go second 50% of the time, and draw lightbomb in time the other 30% before turn 6).
Even then t6 coin lightbomb was usually just immediately replaced with turn 10 2nd Naga + loathneb + 2nd giant wave, and then you were screwed, so it was really a coin flip experience you couldn’t do jack and had like a 70%-75% hsreplay winrate when 60-65% wr for a deck in standard was almost immediately high concern power levels over a 58% wr. and people hated nagalock but some person loved making it out of nowhere.
The failure of Rez Priest in Wild to be a serious deck doesn’t bode well for Vanndar Priest in Standard. It suffers from the same problem: consistency.
It might be annoying, but it’s not likely going to be competitive enough to be serious.
A lot of people are going very specific into why one is better or equal, but honestly I just meant in general I find the Lightshower to be better because it can Pokémon full restore a lot of my taunt wall