You sound like a butthurt class/spec… Druid?
Priests were top pve healers all phase 1, but they weren’t even close of first place in pvp, or as pve dps.
Besides, penance and pom were nerfed before the last weeks of p1.
During phase1 priests were an easy target for almost any decent caster.
Priest has a 2 min cd that can negate the burst window of any class almost entirely. So priest has an answer to losing the jump that no other class is even remotely close to
You also have on hand the most devastating burst that can one shot most classes outright. No one else can do this
The greatest predictor of a WSG win, the entire phase, was the presence of a priest. Nothing else was even close.
Priest also won the final dueling tournament on the biggest server. So it also emerged as the best dueling class. It took second the tournament before that, only losing to warlock.
i cant see a lock beating priest. they just take too much sustain and they cant life drain us. So they just die. A hunter can range us and drain mana and win but we can always blow pet up unless they red button and i just melt. Rogue 50 50. i have to trinket or disperse open stun or half my hp is gone but usually we win. Shaman idk im horde so i dont fight them but prob beat them dont quote me. Paladin is easy win. Purge, mortal strike and disperse when they get close and they really cant do much. Mage 1 lucky SWD and they are dead. THeir hp sucks. Hunter is only thing priests can remotely be afraid of and thats only during Big red button
So rogues hunter and spriest.
As I’ve been saying, the three most broken classes
Not during the last weeks and not without stacking priests. A single priest in wsg would always fold like a paper sheet.
Druids and hunters were also decisive, specially hunters.
And wsg’s were imo broken with the premade/stacking meta.
Priests didn’t dominate neither pvp, neither dps, only instanced healing.
A single priest couldn’t win alone
a pug wsg, but you can’t say the same about a single hunter, or druid.
The only mandatory class was priest. Everything else was ancillary
Then, the constant asking for druids and hunters in LFG by premades, should have been a product of my imagination.
They were what you filled with. But they were not mandatory. Priest was the only thing NO GROUP went without
at the highest lvl in wsg priests replaced even holy pallies for ally.
in any case the pvp dev is a priest main so no surprise there.
Nerf Shadow Priest dear Elune, 1.2k HIT SW:D in the game right now.
I actually love this idea. This is exactly what is needed
I feel like this makes sense for the ability too. If you mess up, you pay the price
Are you trying to say that any decent premade, could queue without a druid, or a hunter during p1??? Yeah they probably keep stomping pugs, but they wouldn’t have a chance against any premade.
I was a part of many that had either one or the other.
Never in a single one that didn’t have a priest
Sure…
Priests were only op by stacking wsg’s with 2/3 and sometimes four of them.
One priest, in regular wsg’s, (which is what should count, because premades were broken), or in wpvp, didn’t make a huge difference and weren’t definitely top tier as mentioned before.
Also not true. In pugs, the side that had a single priest was the winner
Did you go to exalted in P1?
Nerf this class. Make the game playable
Yes and no. Pre nerf yes, Penance and PoM were stronger. Post nerf, no. There is a reason people started making all moonkin groups towards the end of the phase for WSG.
I also disagree that priests have the best defensives in the game. One of the strongest, sure. But not the strongest. That honor goes to frost mages, who have an actual invulnerability they can use twice, mobility (something priests do not have) and a barrier to boot.
Yeah, this is ludicrous. Quick, rush out a patch for Druids while leaving this in the game for weeks! Makes sense.
Let priests be the primary PvP and PvE class for the entirety of SoD!