Ah HAH! Warning: WoW post.

[kiyoshi_05]

I was pleasantly surprised today while trolling the WoW forums. Some one actually posted something useful on the priest forums. It's a nice page setup to show the differences in healing between the classes that can and how the spells relate to each other even after you add in talents and +healing gear.

Comments

[sheidowdragon]

Resto druids are nice, but I still think Priests make better emergency healers. In a pinch, that > healing / sec is better and PW:S is a lifesaver. That aside, I do agree that priests needs some loving.

And the paladin roll is the stay alive while healing - something that's harder for the priest to do.

[kiyoshi_05]

True, the emergency healing part of the priest is nice with PW:S and flash heal, but one would hope to not need to be in an emergency situation. And the main bit about the paladin was because I know there are people and guilds out there who believe a paladin's main job endgame is to spot heal and nothing else. With the build I worked with Darthos, I think he's viable for #1 on damage for us. Really depends on how comfortable Xaun gets with her hunter.

The other...."interesting" thing I found today was this. It appears that Europe is getting more blue responses than us on their priest forums. And by more I mean we haven't gotten one since the blue responded to the "You will melt faces..." post. It's also a nice look as to what they'll be considering. I can't wait for the patch notes to come out.

[sheidowdragon]

Yeah, I like the fact that we don't always just follow the norm when it comes to a class. I especially like how any of the classes with a little work and skill can do what you want (paladins heal, warlocks tank...)

As for the paladin - I do believe that end game they should be spot healing. They should be spot healing at any level really - they're support healers. However, that doesn't mean they have to be in the back - you can still spot heal from the front for most situations (except things with AOE stuns...). The only cause I see them having to be in the back is if you need massive cleansing (similar to the Luci fight, but with poison/disease instead).

[sheidowdragon]

Yes, paladins should spot heal. But our definition of spot heal (up front, doing damage, healing whenever) isn't the same as other people's definition. My Shaman in MC was technically a spot healer. And all I really did was stand there and heal. That's about the most people expect from paladins.