I’m torn between which one I want to main for SoD
On one hand, priest gets homunculi which sounds fun but might end up being a meme
On the other hand, Paladin basically gets horn of winter which is kinda pog since its a death knight ability
All 3 pally specs look giga buffed, both Priest healing specs look very buffed too, but they were always good. Shadow seems weak with single target damage, but their AoE appears really good now, except their mana seems unchanged which is immediately going to debilitate them I think.
Go Pally, they got much more exciting buffs.
Holy Paladin is going to be insane.
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I have made my decision!
I rolled a human paladin and a human priest on hardcore and decided whichever one got to a higher level before dying, would be my choice.
Paladin died at level 9
Priest died at level 8
So I’ll be going paladin.
For some reason, I actually feel kind of disappointed by this outcome and I was thinking about why that is. Maybe I cared more about Homunculi than I thought? And then it hit me, it wasn’t about Homunculi itself but rather the fact that it was a totally new ability and Paladin only gets stuff that already exists in future expansions. Plus, I’ll be missing out on the wonkiness of starshards on a human or dwarf since priests also get all their racials regardless of race.
But numbers don’t lie and 9 is higher than 8
Think of the fun you can have with Mind Control and dispell in pvp realms though 
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In PvE, I don’t think it will matter at 25 at all.
In PvP, priests will probably be the top PvP healer at 25, especially for Alliance. Priests are the only one with a defensive magic dispel at that level which will help you counter lava burst burst damage by dispelling flame shocks. PW:S also likely is a big deal in 25 PvP where people will probably be dying fast.
Priests also have more instant casts where paladins will more easily be locked down. Horde have shaman which means a lot more ranged low cooldown interrupts will be coming at alliance healers.
Beacon of light is also a magic buff I believe, at least the datamined version is, which means shaman and horde priests will be dispelling it and it costs more mana (at least in the datamine) to cast beacon than it costs to cast purge or dispel.
So basically, your head says paladin vut your heart says priest
To make it easy for you, the two abilities you highlighted make the choice easy since those are the two that syand out to you.
Other than new passives, Horn is the only new paladin ability. Everything else is copy pasted from TBC, Wrath or Retail. Its also useless sonce it can’t overlap with Blessing of Might and takes up a rune slot.
Homunculi on the other hand is going to be good for any build even if the dps is garbo just for the fact that it applies three very useful debuffs. While prayer of mending is going to be better in general for the leg slot rune for healer priests. every raid is going to want one Homunculi priest so it has is uses even on healers. And its not the only new ability priest gets thiugh there are a good amount still copy pasted.from future expansions.
That being said, all of the copy pasted abilities paladin gets are very strong and will probably be doing bigger numbers.
So the head vs heart argument I opened up with is pretty true. You’re right to lean paladin since its going to be very strong albeit boring and you’re right to be tempted by priest since it has more new toys that can’t be played in different versions of the game.
You can always play SoD Paladin in retail or Wrath but you’ll only get to play SoD Priest in SoD
Homeboy over here psycho analyzing me
Just like SOM play alliance for easy mode least then you can keep going when the horde dies out like it did.
I dont like the Horde much anymore. Allly is better.
Alliance was always superior.
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When did this turn into a horde vs alliance thread?
Priest wasnt great in original classic i got one to lt commander