Healers...Follow

Trying to make a healer becuase they seem to be essentials for dungeons and raids or any grouping, but Priests seem a little too fragile to solo with and level, and since there are no nice people that just want to group up and quest, will it be too hard to solo with a priest, or is it not so bad?

Absolutely love my shady Draenei. Can take on a group of 4 a level or two above me with MC and fear, no problem. Shadow doesn't really kick in til you're 30ish though, so be patient. It may seem like you're not getting anywhere, but in time you'll be one of the most lethal toons out there. Plus as a priest you're still one of the best healers in the game, especially once you can work on your different healing and dps sets. Practice healing in the lower instances, it's one of the hardest things to do in the game and takes a lot of finesse, but the rewards are huge. Anyone who yells at a healer is a douchebag, unless the healer is completely incompetent i.e., doesn't buff or even try to communicate. It's happened to me, and I switched from dps to healing and we all made it through. But yes. Go shadow for leveling, and you'll thank yourself for it. Now get out there and melt some faces.

Leveling a Shadow Priest is super EZ mode, even when it comes to even level elites.

I leveld as shadow from 1-40 and switched to disc/holy with 40.

It only takes a bit longer to level, but i have chosen a healer, therefore i should do the best what my class can offer, being holy/disc.

Personally i dislike shadow priests. Most of them are mages which still want to have the "needed" feeling. I see shadow priests in BG´s watching 3-4 ppl die and not even popping out of shadow form.

Gnlpfth.

Not popping out of Shadowform sounds like a flaw in the player, not the class. That person doesn't understand the concept of team. I hope you meet some others that change your mind.

I play Shadow and will absolutely switch stances to break off a heal or two. I carry around two sets of gear and will switch frequently at different times through an instance or party run. I didn't spec shadow because I have a mage complex, I needed an efficient leveling build. Soloing Holy is like watching paint dry. :-)

Uh, no.

I've leveled a Mage to 70 and I'm currently working on a Priest who is level 63. The two classes are nothing alike in a group environment.

Both bring something completely different to the table. Mages bring AB, water, food, great DPS and poly. Shadow Priests bring an extra PWS, VE, VT, an extra shackle and great DPS.