Priest Nerf: Good read ->Follow

Ok first I don't play a priest however I have read some of the recent posts made by the (few) priest that are around this is definately an issue.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-priest&t=18383&p=1&tmp=1#post18383

It did get blue text(dev attention) and I think something will be done if everyone /sign's it. Of course at the moment the login servers are down so you can't.

The thread has good suggestions on how to cope with powerleveling and such. Also it is a good chance to see how much Blizzard truly cares about its customers.

Anyways i'm not here to argue there is enough of that going on at the official Blizzard forums. Just if you don't pop in there this may be a useful thread to actually post on. I also think all jobs should read this because it will eventually affect us all.

Rule number 1 dont ever EVER go by what fanboi whackos post there. Posters on that site represent only a small presentage of the people who actually play the game. Most of the time they mask their disliking of somthing to make their prefered race/class better if not have a i win button on em.

I read the warrior forums yesterday night. people braggin on how nerfed wairrors are. However I found 1 thread which i posted of a person showing that wairrors are very effective and can dominate on pvp.

ill give you an example.
My lv 15 warrior has all green items on at that lv I use a 2h sword (undead warrior) and a 1h sword and shield. At this lv i have 2 stances. Battle and defensive, I cannot use all my abilities in one stance so i do change.
I made macros to swap stances and weps on the fly.

Before the servers went down i was doing a ratchet quest to kill some human scum. I found a rogue and another warrior doing the same quest. The warrior also had a 2h sword.

As we battled I quickly changed stances to taunt a mob off the rogue and shield bash a mob that was about to heal. then i quickly changed back to my battle stance to do major dmg. since i started tactical mastery i can someof my rage when i change.

The other wairror did jack squat. he just stood in battle stance and well even got pummeled in the hard times we had. He only played his warrior half way and could not keep agro off the rogue.

the rogue player even ask the other warror why didnt he change stances like i did. He just said defence stance sucks.

This is one of those people who will spend time on the wow forums crying when he gets is but serverd on a silver platter and handed to him.

Also some of the guild members in the Kharma trolls gave me good tips.

So far the hardest class for a good warrior to beat is the priest. a good warrior who understands all his stances can easly take down even a pally.

as for priest nerfed ask some of the Kharma trolls who have priest to tell you if they are nerfed.

Stop waisitng your time on the wow fourms. Most thats post there is pure garbage. Heck youll even get critizised for sayign blizzard did a good job on those forums. Not worth your time nor should you worry about em either.

I'm fairly upset i won't be able to shield the ancient of war in darnassus anymore.

That looked so cool.



I won't notice much else though.

Edited, Wed Dec 22 20:08:15 2004 by slgray

That whole need a cleric thing was crap. I was more partial to Shammys anyway. Needless, no matter what youll have people who want a specific class in group at all times, its just normal for people to think you need a cookie-cutter group formation to be successful.

oh, and as for the idea of only being able to cast shield on someone within 5 levels of you... that would be terrible. I don't want to be told I have to be lvl60 before I go on a raid, and if I go on one at lvl54 and do ok, then die because our priest says "sorry you were too low level for me to shield" then I'll be MOST unhappy. When everyone is lvl60, a lvl54 person going raiding will be a brave person. They don't need the game to decide they can't join in like anyone else.

I certainly hope WoW turns out to be nothing like EQ, which was pretty much my entire point, Cookie-Cutter games are simply not fun.

And playing a druid until about 6 months ago, I know that clerics are essential in some zones, simply because they could res. This doesn't make a very good enjoyable game for many peeps playing a class other then Cleric, Enchanter, Warrior, Shaman and rogue


Majria

Nice post Zanon. Well said.


Rate up brother man.


-$.02

(-Cherreia)

Aggreed. Coming from a WHM, RDM background in FFXI, I enjoy throwing "Protect" and a cure on random people getting thier buts handed to them. I have never PL someone, but I do assist random people if they are loosing badly and I happen upon them. They bow, I salute, and get back on the road. If I see someone, I should be able to throw on my PW-shield (kinda like Protect) and PW- Fortitude... thats my thought.

I feel most of us play Priests because we are INTO helping others.....

If this is true, it will be the first thing so far that I am less than happy with....