Any other Priests been on hiatus from the game?

[Caithyra-bleeding-hollow]

@Ache-azshara

We were the first class to get a hero talent rework, and the first class to be communicated to. Sure, they didn’t follow up a ton, and didn’t address some of the more requested things ( those being mobility, talent bloat, and lack of healer interrupt.) Personally I’m okay with no healer interrupt, I feel gaining all that range made up for a lot of mobility issues -not all- and talent bloat was later slightly alleviated.

So, while I’ll give you that the communication is always less than desired (as it is for most classes). We hardly got special treatment. Plus we’ve received several rounds of buffs to holy, shadow DMG, and disc radiance/flash heal. Is it everything every one wants? No… Is it completely ignored and cast aside like you and many claim -also no.

Everyone was focused on revamping Oracle and completely forgot about the bigger picture: the Priest talent tree.

Disc doesn’t use Oracle in M+ or raid and Archon has overtaken Oracle in M+ for Holy (62.8% vs 37.1%). Holy doesn’t play Oracle for raid.

So all that time and effort wasted on Oracle could have been dumped in updating all 3 Priest specs talent trees.

[Zelebra-zuljin]

Nah…still having a bunch of fun on priest.

i have been trying out other specs and classes recently though, i figured why not in the mean time.

But priest has always been my favorite and will continue to be. Through hard times and easy times, it happens to every class/spec eventually.

[Viljo-thunderhorn]

@Ache-azshara

We were the first class to get a hero talent rework,

Every single class got this, it is a new system and that’s just how design works. Just because we were one of the previews and got to see an early iteration before it was done means nothing.

We are talking about the class and spec trees here.

@Ache-azshara

Plus we’ve received several rounds of buffs to holy, shadow DMG, and disc radiance/flash heal.

Reverting repeated, unnecessary nerfs throughout beta should not be commended. We took two steps back, any buffs are just getting us back to the same spot we were before beta with the same issues we were calling for to be addressed.

[Lathorian-malganis]

You guys just need to be as loud as you were in shadowlands beta

[Zarathiel-sargeras]

@Ache-azshara

We were the first class to get a hero talent rework, and the first class to be communicated to.

While this is true, it’s also a fairly disingenuous framing of what happened. Yes, oracle was show early and changed immediately because Blizzard was aware of just how terribly the reception could be. They prefaced the reveal with “this is early, subject to change, and we have other ideas if this doesn’t work out”. They were hedging before they even showed it off, and I think they were still surprised by how universal the negative reception was.

Oracle got minor (but important) changes for playability, but no changes to what its role is in the game’s environment, while voidweaver and archon essentially went live with their first version and priest overall received zero functional changes in both 11.0 and 11.0.5 despite nearly all the feedback from Dragonflight beta remaining relevant for all talent trees.

Priest did get special treatment this expansion. Whether that’s because priest is getting major changes in 11.1 or later is yet to be seen, but it is a very unique case currently.