What does the Paladin community think about holy priest?
How similar are these 2 holy specs and which do u think is better and why?
Holy Priest is better for throughput responses and provided player buffs. It far outclasses Hpal for healing in raids just having more tools to heal within a raid setting.
HPal is better for having a brez, and having slightly better on burst damage. Their player buff is lesser than PI will ever be. And they bring the added disadvantage of clogging up melee while providing less maxed dps (their average dps is actually significantly higher because Hpriests rarely ever get to dps when they have to heal while Hpal actually has to). For raid, Hpal fills a niche roll as passive tank healer and spot healer (this is rarely done or required barring your raid severely messing up and taking lot of avoidable damage) and press and forget CD bot. They are one of three specs that heal that have a form of DR (the other two are disc priest with barrier and shaman with spirit link) and there’s is by far the best DR since it is flat and requires no positioning.
The two specs are honestly not similar at all. I do think Hpal is slightly better in most situations but which spec is better really comes down to a situation to situation basis. The one situation where Hpriest is just flat out better would be PvP to me. Hpal is terrible in PvP right now
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Holy priest tier is hpal’s old infusion of light that we lost so screw hpriest i hate them
- (2) Set Bonus: Casting Prayer of Mending reduces the cast time of your next Heal or Prayer of Healing by 1.0 seconds and increases their Holy Word cooldown reduction effect by 2.0 seconds.
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Melee Holy Paladin vs Holy Priest… Really no similarities they are complete different things…
Between those I think Holy Paladin is overall stronger for all PvE content and has a clearer niche for Raids… But if there’s already a Holy Paladin then I’d probably take the Priest in that case, however, I’d probably take an Evoker, Resto Druid, maybe even a Resto Shaman ahead of the Priest if all things are equal.
As for Caster Holy Paladin I’m honestly not sure how it performs since I don’t really like it and always go for the melee version so can’t really speak there… I’m not the biggest fan of Holy Priest either (I like Disc a lot more) but I do play it sometimes and it’s “ok”… If my only options were Caster Holy Paladin and Holy Priest I’d probably play the Priest because I find the playstyle better.
Now, they are really both viable for all content, you can safely play what you enjoy more… Tunning can always go either way and move the meta one way or another but I mean if you really care about that then I think Holy Paladin is typically less tunning-sensitive.
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I think most healer classes actually play better than holy paladin. Hpal has so many design issues within the spec right now (big and small) whereas other healers actually get what we had in design but better. For example Resto druids get a much better designed awakening, holy priests get a better designed infusion of light, etc.
Hpal struggles regarding design and fluidity for many reasons. We have two playstyles competing in our spec tree while it was not made bigger to compensate so neither playstyle is fully fleshed out. We have issues with holy power design.
In terms of performance both healers are good. Pick which one you find more fun. I think holy priest is far better designed, they even had a developer who realized maintenance buffs for healers are annoying so they removed the one holy priests hated in beta, but holy paladin has a much worse maintenance buff and it stayed.
Just pick which one you like more. Try them both, nobody can tell you what to play. Performance wise, they are both fine and contribute different things so pick which one you want to get better at.
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