WoW: Which priest?
Friday, May 6th, 2005 - 3:03pm
Which priest would you rather look at, err, play?
I checked a priest faq today and saw the dwarf's fear ward bit. Is that reason alone to choose a dwarf priest over another race, and do you think the racial spells will be changed in the future? Or does the prospect of guys whistling at me and watching me breathe outweigh the fear ward benefit?
take the female night elf, they dance real purty like
EDIT: ok to be serious. If you want to hook up with other people the NE starting zone is a little isolated and it is a pain in the ass to do the run to IF the very first time, especially at low levels.
That being said, with a dwarf you will be at IF at level 5 if you want, and then will eventually work your way through the wetlands to Menethil Harbour and the ship to the NE island just doing quests.
If you don''t care about meeting up with others, then I prefered the Night Elf starting zones of the dwarven one. But that is personal preference.
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Morrolan
The dwarf, because he comes ready with beer in hand!
"If Blizzard announces a subscription fee for Diablo III we will have to build a second Internet to make room for all the complaining." - muttonchop
I hate dwarves in skirts personally. Fear ward is nice for magmadar though
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Fin, if you need help getting anywhere as either one, just look me up. I''ll be happy to help.
"If Blizzard announces a subscription fee for Diablo III we will have to build a second Internet to make room for all the complaining." - muttonchop
Right now, its my understanding that the large bulk of priests are undead for the horde and dwarves for the alliance. Im sure some of it is because the people just like those classes, but I think most of it is for the racial attributes. Fear ward for alliance dwarf and Will of the Forsaken/Devouring plague for Undead priests.
I have never been an alliance, so I don''t know the whole scoup behind fear ward, but I''ve heard all great things about it. Either way, priests are a blast to play. Good luck with it!
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I play a dwarf priest. Works fine, there are two drawbacks to it:
1. Fear ward - I think while playing it has been useful once. On top of that, it has a 10 minute duration, so you get sick of casting it over and over, meaning that you probably will not have it up during the 1 encounter out of 2,000 that it is useful.
2. One of the dwarven racial bonuses is a gun bonus, which is wasted on a priest.
Neither of these are big reasons not to play a dwarf, but they are at least minor drawbacks.
It is mostly used for a single fight in Molten Core, but it is very important.
It probably would have some great uses in PvP against the fearing horde scum when making an assault.
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It''s a kilt! With a matching top!
I''m not fooling anyone, am I? I''ve taken the dwarf to 13--I had to buy that beer mug--and the elf to 3. He''s one ugly dwarf, though. Don''t take the red skin tone unless you want to look like a sunburned junkie outdoors.
thanks for the comments and offers.
If I recall, dwarf priests can do a quest to get that extra instant self-heal. Can NE/human priests do the quest to get that ability as well?
-> Lent
Blackhand Alliance: Korduroi (70 Priest), Faustus (49 Warlock)
Blackhand Horde: Lent (70 Priest), Durok (61 Hunter)
Just humans.
"If Blizzard announces a subscription fee for Diablo III we will have to build a second Internet to make room for all the complaining." - muttonchop
Then I''d go dwarf for the fear ward, the self-heal and the starting location.
-> Lent
Blackhand Alliance: Korduroi (70 Priest), Faustus (49 Warlock)
Blackhand Horde: Lent (70 Priest), Durok (61 Hunter)
No, only humans get the instant self-heal, that''s the Human Priest special spell, just like Dwarves get the fear ward.
Graktar, Orc Hunter
Hmm - really? I''ll have to log on my dwarf priest and check. I haven''t played him in months, but I thought for sure he did the quest and got the ability.
-> Lent
Edit: Here''s the quest - I think dwarves can do it:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?wquest=5640
And here''s the spell entry:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?wspell=13908
Blackhand Alliance: Korduroi (70 Priest), Faustus (49 Warlock)
Blackhand Horde: Lent (70 Priest), Durok (61 Hunter)
Dwarves get it too. I used it last night.
Dwarf is the best (since they don''t have gnome priests) and you can just get him a vest instead of robe.
The fear ward IS useful when fighting instance bosses that regularly fear. Run-of-the-mill normal quest mobs, limited usefulness like most other racial abilities. I would not plan on them changing the race stuff soon, seems to be very far down on their list, if at all.
Finn knows he doesn''t have to worry about starting location as I will just come along and port him to whichever of the major cities he wants to quest in.
O.K., this is now starting to confuse me. At level 50, having done Deadmines, Gnomeregan, Uldamann, and Zul''Farrak, I have not met one of these bosses. I''m sure they exist, but it should be made clear that the skill comes in useful against the bosses sometime after you hit level 50 (where I am).
It may be very useful after that, I''m willing to grant (though I haven''t seen it first hand yet), but it hasn''t been to me in my first 5 months of play.
I think my true love, the Princess in Maraudon, uses fear. But that just may be her overwhelming charisma forcing us mere mortals to flee in abject shame at our own wretchedness.
Well, that just goes to show - I need to do Maraudon.
Princess and Sunken Temple use fear.
Mcfinn, choose a character whose ass you would not mind looking at for 1-60. That''s why I went human female. What can I say, I''m vain like that.
I rolled a Dorf Priest once. Deleted him at third level because he was all covered in...Alliance.
If I didn't drink, Crom would laugh and cast me out of Valhalla when I die. Peer pressure I can handle, but not when it comes from Crom. -Lobo
Wait if Dwarves get Desperate Prayer and Fear Ward, what do humans get in addition to Desperate Prayer? My human priest would surely like to know!
Graktar, Orc Hunter
Well starshards isnt to wonderful(high mana cost). And even if when it does more damage than smite, I can cast 2 smites before it reaches me or one starshards... you do the math!
Devouring plague is terrific but it has a recast time of 3 minutes (yuck!) I played an undead priest to 21 before being completely disappointed. Both because it woudl be a great addition to any priest spell lineup and completely nerfed into situational use. I would much rather have a half mana half life drain version that I could cast every minute than the current version. Its so odd because Warlocks get a talent version of the spell sans enormous recast time.
So Im trying a Troll Priest. Why? because they get a racial spell like the shaman spell lightning shield. It doesnt do nearly as much damage but it complements smite and mind blast rather than trying to inadequately replace it (starshards).
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I wish my buffs lasted 10 minutes.
"And my son, too, thinks everything is a launchpad, every bug a meal, and every sunny day a reason to take all your clothes off and roll around in the grass." - rabbit
Well, the main one lasts 3 minutes. You might be wishing for longer than 10 minutes if the buff was only useful for 1 minute out of every 1,000 that you played.
Humans get Desperate Prayer (same as dwarves) and Feedback (5 min weapon enchant that procs a minor mana burn). It's alright - better on a dagger, but the burn isn't very substantial. The best part about it (and it's a pretty big bonus for me) is that it's the only enchant-like thing in the game that makes your weapon glow purple.
Kids go crazy for dwarves in skirts...film at eleven.
I have a level 40 dwarf priest that I haven't played much lately. So Fin, what happened to the 70s you already had:)
Wannabe priest with a sword....
heckuva thread necro!
I think Finn's priest, a little dwarfy man, is still specced shadow.
But Finn has cancelled his account and no longer plays; I blame the lack of a single hourglass of the unraveler after 100+ BM runs. =(
But finding this thread is great -- that's a pic of agaeus's old priest alleah.
GOOD TIMES!
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True story: I rolled a dwarf priest because (a) I wanted a healer because groups always need healers, and (b) all of my toons are dwarves (except for my druid and my first attempt at a paladin, who's now a bank alt).
So anyway.
I'm hanging out in Ironforge the other day, DEing about half of the Auction House, when another dwarf priest whispers me:
Your about the only dwarf priest I've ever seen.
Or something like that. I didn't respond because, well, it takes some concentration to sort all of the DE stuff and, besided, I didn't have anything to say back. Despite the mangled grammar, I think he might have something. Are dwarf priests that much of a zoo attraction?
Enix, the uber-casual hunter
they used to be the only class with fear ward, many moons ago, so not really.
Now, if you're a *female* dwarf priest -- those are super rare.
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