Just here to voice facts, wont be reading comments.
‘Unbalanced’ is a term I would typically use in retail PvP when a class/spec has the advantage of being overtuned in abilities and/or cooldowns.
SP is beyond that term. They’re just egregious and suck the fun out of SoD BG’s as they consistently carry by spamming two dots for 300-400 dps across a team fight with the freedom to keep that damage up while running back to a safe place. Most other casters gamble the chance of dying when going for the amount of damage an SP is capable of drooling over two keybinds at no risk.
God forbid they end up in a place where they have 4 NPC’s to knockback grief other casters, any form of execute or a life saving damage reduction despite not having to be actively present in a team figh-- What? They do? That’s wild, devs. Truly.
Anyway, not sticking around so i’ll ask the pre-nerf boomkin rerolls to huff their copium now. Peace.
I was in AB and at full range, spriest got one dot out on me, and i was running the other way towards farm. I didnt think much about it, its a single dot, but by the time i got there i was already at 50% health when the duration ended! Very tilted. None of my abilities do 50% health loss in one global.
On top of that, they can heal, have bubble, have 3 treant pets, have another minion, and fear. Outright broken and overpowered. It wasnt even sw death that was the killer, it was everything inbetween and no class can compete with their damage or survivability. They legit need to be nerfed.
Don’t worry with the new class tuning changes we actually get a second egregiously overpowered class! By buffing the hell out of moonfire and sunfire now we get to have two classes putting insane instant cast dots on people from ridiculous range! Gotta be honest I’ve lost all faith in the SoD team with this last set of changes
The only caster without mana issues now. Other classes have unintended bugs or interacts one one or two abilities that make them an outlier until nerfed. SPs entire kit is an outlier.
Let’s see. They’re the only class that can dispel their own dots, seduce, fear, silence, counterspell, hammer of justice, repentance…etc. Offensively, they can dispel faps, shields, freedom…etc.
But they’re not number 1 in parsing and that’s all that matters. So what if they are god tier at PvP and the caster with by far the best survivability? Boo hoo now they got a 2 min bubble so what. We should always balance around an activity that’s once every 3 days. Please guys forget about any other aspect of the game especially fun.
Honestly though, I’m pretty happy most are playing shadow cause PoM is still the most OP ability in the game.
The problem isn’t just that it’s the best healer in the game. It’s that you can take the worst player ever just give them PoM and they will singlehandedly have more impact than anyone else in a BG.
I’m in agreement with you and your points. Priest have received the strongest runes all of SoD.
Priest is the overall strongest era class at baseline, functionally. They are juiced because they’ve given the best class the best runes and no real tuning for two phases