Howdy, folks. I know I’ve made many of these posts before asking about different healing classes and I figured I’d like to hear a little bit about the Priest. I know they’re supposed to be great healers but what I wanted to know is do they bring any utility to a raid or dungeon? I would love any information or feedback!
Shadow Priest is great for buffing your Warlock DPS and helping tear single-targets down really really fast.
Other than that, they don’t really bring much beyond what any other Healing Priest would anyhow. Extra Stamina is nice, so are the Cleansing spells too.
Occasional crowd control on undead targets? I haven’t been asked to do that, yet, though.
With mind control you can kill one humanoid in pack before fight even starts
Other than healing they bring defensive disease removal, magic removal (offensive and defensive), a stamina buff, undead CC, mind control, and magic shields castable on friendly targets. If they’re discipline they also bring a unique cool down ability which buffs the spell damage/healing of a friendly target temporarily.
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60 Stratholme and Scholomance almost entirely undead, so there is use if party isn’t strongest
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Well, VE can provide some ridiculous healing into dungeons, so that’s always very helpful.
but you’re out of the fight the whole time soooooo not really worth it unless that human is a caster and you’re using their abilities to get free heals/util and drain their mana.
In terms of things that other healers won’t necessarily have:
Dispel
Shackle undead
Cure disease
The only AoE heal
Mind flay is really good for runners if you’re shadow spec
Mind control is situationally useful in lower level dungeons
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Stamina buff
Silence (if shadow)
Mind Control
Shackle
Spirit buff (if disc)
PW:S best shield in the game.
Dispel Magic
Cure Disease
And can even bring a little DPS and group heals with SW:P and Mind Flay with VE
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Your party is not supposed to attack when you mind control someone, duh. When MC mob dies - tank charges
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getting other players to consistently not attack mobs is an uphill battle.
you can mind control to get unique buffs from NPC’s, there is a mind control guide if you want to find all uniques in the game.
you can cleanse poisons and diseases (aka all dots except curses)
you can buff like no one else
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You misunderstand. The mind control is to get the controlled mob killed before the rest of the pack is even engaged.
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you can’t.
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oh wow, just realized it. doh thanks!
yep just disease and magic.
Druids have a long Cooldown AoE Heal.
Shaman has the best AoE healing spell and group healing utility spell in game with Chain-Heal.
You may be thinking for alliance only however so it’s forgivable.
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depends a lot if you’re in a premade or a pug. it’s great in premades but in pugs it’s difficult to get people to wait on it.
Ohhhhh I forgot about tranquility. But yeah I wasn’t thinking of Shamans because I’m an alliance nerd.
No point picking up the patrol that walked up on the Holy Priest, they can heal when they’re dead!