So I could use a little help here. I can not for the life of me seem to bog down on a alt to play. I am currently enhance main and really enjoying it but I am at a point where I want to do another toon. I have it narrowed down to a priest (dps spec) or a mage mainly because I don’t have much experience with those two classes and I want to learn something new.
My questions for both are as follows maybe your answers would help me nail this down.
- Which would be more of a plus for raiding?
- Is it viable in both pvp and pve?
- Better covenant choice abilities?
- Overall feel of the class?
Thanks again for any feedback
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If you only want to DPS and never heal, definitely mage. You’ll have three DPS specs to choose from, all of which bring great group utility, all of which are fun, and at least one of which will be doing excellent DPS at any stage of the game.
I actually don’t mind healing at all I am just limited in my knowledge in it or rather hadn’t had much practice with it in many years. Last time I even tried it was back in cata as a offspec of my paladin.
Except only 1 mage spec is good right now, the other 2 are meh and bad.
As I said, “at least one.”
Ahhh well in that case, I recommend Priest. You have two healers to choose from. Holy is more reactive, you heal after players take damage, and dps between heals. Discipline is more proactive, know when the damage is coming, shield them up, and DPS to heal your teammates. Holy is easier than Disc, but Disc is more in demand for most group content.
Shadow is doing well and I find it to be a lot of fun. I wish it brought more utility to group content, and soloing harder content like Torghast can be difficult. But for the latter, you can use Disc and Holy. Decent dps and almost invincible lol.
Funny because my.main is enh/resto and my 2 alts are arcane mage and shadow priest. Personally I prefer the priest, I’ve always just been drawn to the hybrid dps specs. For raiding I’m not so sure, I’ve been playing my priest only in pvp mostly. If you want to raid as mage expect to play fire.
The big advantage on mage IMO is the crazy mobility with shimmer and night fae ability. Especially compared to spriest where you have to channel mind flay sometimes. Something about priest is more fun to me tho, life grip can make some clutch plays and multi dotting has always been a fun play style for me - especially SP multi dotting because I feel like it’s not JUST dots but you have some nice burst too.
Either choice will work, just gotta figure out what you value the most or which is more fun
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