I knew Priest was a needed class but WTF?Follow

High 50s are usually still shadow for the leveling. On 60 priests more often than not are holy. Really, if they want to get steamrolled thru, get a mage, or maybe rogue/hunter/lock.

This is no joke. As a fellow white mage, I can absolutely confirm one of the surest ways to never get a party is to run around with your LFG tag on.

I speculate it's because people see any healer actually LOOKING for a group and think, "Wow! they must be REALLY crappy if they have to look for a group!" Whereas one already in a group must be doing ok. I'm serious here. It worked. 60 whm/15 thf got three invites in an hour, switched sub-job, threw myself in the pool, sat for 19 continuous hours.

I'd also like to comment there's a general perception problem of abilities in WoW. Many people are conditioned to think a priest is the only possible main healer. I'm a druid main healer, and have had to explain this many times.

"Druids can heal? I didn't know that." >.< Shame on the druids though, for being so addicted to the fur. Yes I can main heal, yes I've done it, no I can't rezz the whole party if we wipe, so how's about we avoid being complete spazzes and thus avoid a wipe?

WoW is very tolerant of group make-ups, not that most people will even try to break out of the cookie cutter, "1-warrior tank, 1-priest healer, 1-nuker/melee dps, 1-support, 1-crowd control"

AUGH!

Tis why I get asked for it all the time. Warrior is perfect for the job. I can kill mobs fast and if someone aggroes, I can get them off him quickly. Lv.60 warrior is great for mid level instances too because it makes everyone's job easier. DPS'ers don't have to hold back, healers barely have to heal. So I completely understand the demand for my aid.

Still, wish people would ask me to RFD more often. I love that place. I've been trying to spread the word about it so more people know what a great instance it is.

Druids who are rogue wannabes, paladins who are warrior wannabes and shamans who are mage wannabes.

I once had a feral druid act as healer for a duke fight. He was OOM after two heals, it was the most pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life -_-

Even a shadow priest needs a big mana pool so at least you know you're safe there.

My macro:



It's worse @ 60.

Today..
"Strat?"
*my macro*
"plz"

On top of that, now I always get "wsg?" from at least 2 different people every time I log on. Being a reliable PvP Priest is nothing to complain about though :)

It was worse for my realm some time ago. There were not many lower level priests so I got invites for SM, Uldaman etc...

Very mean of me but I do avoid answering invites if I'm in a battleground/raid etc already since the invites are usually like "Wanna come to <put random instance here>?" Hello? Care to check my location first?

And then I decide to join a PuG.. And what happens? Mage starts asking for shield like I wasn't the one shielding him for the past hour. Right.. And I was wondering how that shiny bubble ended up on him. Noone dies everyone stay above 60-70% all the time and I still get "Priest do this, priest do that". This answer usually works though. "Greetings, I'm Ariél and I'll be your healer for the rest of the instance, I have a name so if you call me "priest" again you'll get no heals. Thank you."

I recently took a newb through Deadmines casting only 2 spells, Power Word: Shield (on myself) after which I would rush through a crowd of mobs, then follow up with Holy Nova to kill everything nearby and simultaneously heal me and the newb.

We made it all the way to the end in less than an hour and that included a lot of time spent looking around the various rooms that I had always rushed through before.

Probably could have done it in 30-35 minutes if we had been trying.

No doubt a lvl 60 warrior could have done it faster, but unless that warrior is an engineer with jumper cables, he won't be able to do much to help the poor newb who doesn't know enough to wait before entering a new room.