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started a Priest last night, level to 10, then started with a Pally leveled to 10.

You will not believe the difference, pallies heal for more and use less mana, takes me 3-4 shot as a priest to kill, with my pally its almost one shot...how can Bliz not see this?

I use 6 mana to judge on my pally and smite uses 34 mana on my priest and you strt with more or less the same mana.....

I'm so demotivated to level a priest, think they SUCK at the moment...but that's only me after a very negative night of leveling.
 
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heh come on really?

You come on here and tells us that a pally owns a priest on level 10. One can't say much @ all about wow or toons @ level 10. Get to 80, gear yourself comment again.

Pallies will always be insanely strong while you level. One really needs to think carefully before taking on a pally of the same level & skill

Things change @ level 80 somewhat thou, but still the big factor in making some toons great in pvp is the persons skill.

Classes and builds also have different 'jobs' in pvp

But 4sure a priest is quite a bit harder to level than a pally.
 
Fayera said:
started a Priest last night, level to 10, then started with a Pally leveled to 10.

You will not believe the difference, pallies heal for more and use less mana, takes me 3-4 shot as a priest to kill, with my pally its almost one shot...how can Bliz not see this?

I use 6 mana to judge on my pally and smite uses 34 mana on my priest and you strt with more or less the same mana.....

I'm so demotivated to level a priest, think they SUCK at the moment...but that's only me after a very negative night of leveling.
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I'm full purples on my frost mage and have pvp'ed for a number of years. A few months ago I found a blue geared pala running around Honor Hold Keep pawning all the mobs so thought it was gonna be easy pickings. I just could not take him down, tried over and over but he just never seemed to run out of mana and hit like a truck.

I don't duel pala's anymore, even in BG's I avoid them like the plague and would rather go one on one with a lock, at least you know it'll be a fair and close fight. I'm sure I could let my 5yo niece run around BG with a pala and she'd smack everything into tomorrow :)
 
Game isn't balanced around 1v1 combat, game isn't balanced around lower level PvP etc
 
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Yeah its hard to compare other classes to a plate class that can heal, "hit like a truck" and even bubble every now and then.
 
Fayera, you are right. I should of realized that a really long time ago. I would not of leveled a crappy priest. Do the right thing, level a paladin!

Paladin > priest. Don't let others fool you. A paladin can tank, dps and heal. a priest can dps, heal.

Both dps styles are boring, a fury warrior is fun, a hot streak mage is fun, a warlocks sucks (just for odom). All classes have different play styles you will like some while others will like others.

End of the day though, hybrid specs have more options for you to exp more aspects of the game.
 
Priest has some useful AoE healing abilities. There moments of sheer panic in lvl80 25man raids where healing one noob at a time is not going to cut it. You be suprised how often 3 or 4 people will run into the same damn flame or poisen spill.
 
JHatman said:
I'm full purples on my frost mage and have pvp'ed for a number of years. A few months ago I found a blue geared pala running around Honor Hold Keep pawning all the mobs so thought it was gonna be easy pickings. I just could not take him down, tried over and over but he just never seemed to run out of mana and hit like a truck.

I don't duel pala's anymore, even in BG's I avoid them like the plague and would rather go one on one with a lock, at least you know it'll be a fair and close fight. I'm sure I could let my 5yo niece run around BG with a pala and she'd smack everything into tomorrow :)
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Thats a L2p issue. I pvp as arcane & frost mage. I find pallies one of the easier classes to kill. BUT u need to be Arcane pvp specced. They simply cannot touch me.

But as some1 else said, wow is not 1vs1 balanced. Arena works in teams
 
Pallies are not > priests.

WoW is actually very balanced compared to other games. The developers have done well giving each class a different type of play style.

Priests are more based around instant cast spells and offensive play. A paladin cannot not match a priests fear CC in terms of offensive. A priests fear will make you move around alot in higher level arena, whilst as a paladin you are more suited to casting slowly. Paladins have more armor, and thus survive melee classes with more ease than priests. On the other hand, I find that priests survive caster classes with a bit more ease because of more instant casts.

Do not be so quick to roll a paladin just because they can heal tank and dps. You WILL find yourself choosing one of those because of time sink involved into gearing up every for every single one of those is something you would never do. Most guilds require you to choose a main spec anyway. Groups will not allow you to roll for healing gear if you were the tank. I doubt you will have enough gold to farm, gem and enchant 3 sets of gear and then respec constantly. It's just not going to happen, I actually know NO pallies who excel in more than one area of gameplay. Either they are tanks, healers or damage dealers and never really touch the other specs.

I would advise you roll a priest. They are more 'fun' to play because you find yourself moving alot. Prayer of mending jumps are just more fun than spamming holy light/flash of light. Also they are WAY more offensive than pallies with mana burn and fear. It's more rewarding trying to survive in PVP and you can survive as much (if not) better than a pally. But if you want an easy ride than perhaps roll a pally. Their raid healing consists of them mostly spamming the same spell over and over and over and this way they do heal more than a priest. PVP wise they basically do the same really....
 
On my pally i have issues against a good frost mage, mostly due to their insane ability to snare and us pallies lacking an effective close, as for healing, pallies are only interesting to heal on if you are drunk, spam FoL ooh HL with the occasional HS.... /yawn

Priest healing however, that is far more fun
 
Paladin > priest. Don't let others fool you. A paladin can tank, dps and heal. a priest can dps, heal.
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A paladin cannot aoe heal. They are just failboat at it. Fail, fail, fail. /spit. Nice tank healers but somewhat rubbish at every other healing role. Out of all the healers to run with on a 5man, I'd pick a pally dead last. Anyone whose tried to get through ToC Black Knight with a pally healer trying to keep everyone up in phase 3 will know what I'm talking about.

Second, a geared Disc priest will probably lolwtfpwn most any pally at 80. Mana burn, lotsa bubbles and heals, mass dispell the pali bubble, and just wear the fool down. Pallies have no heal reduction talent, and no way to oom the priest.

Protip. lvl 1-79 is no way to judge class parity. Never has been, never will be.
 
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A paladin cannot aoe heal. They are just failboat at it. Fail, fail, fail. /spit. Nice tank healers but somewhat rubbish at every other healing role. Out of all the healers to run with on a 5man, I'd pick a pally dead last. Anyone whose tried to get through ToC Black Knight with a pally healer trying to keep everyone up in phase 3 will know what I'm talking about.

Second, a geared Disc priest will probably lolwtfpwn most any pally at 80. Mana burn, lotsa bubbles and heals, mass dispell the pali bubble, and just wear the fool down. Pallies have no heal reduction talent, and no way to oom the priest.

Protip. lvl 1-79 is no way to judge class parity. Never has been, never will be.
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I have seen Retri Palas in BG's with healing gear.

They hit like trains and have a mana pool of over 18k How the hell do you kill that thing?
 
Sure, BG's are a pallies playground, I'll give you that. But arena has not been that kind to them. Re ret wearing healing gear, no idea. I've heard complaints about this before. I can only assume Blizz is aware of it, although logically, to me, it must mean they're stacking very little strength. /shrug. Pallies are annoying as a frost mage but I don't find them unstoppable. Just have to know how to deal. Spellsteal their BoF and kite the crap out of them. Biggest problem for me are rogues (grrr) and geared arms warriors, and occasionally warlocks. And hunters. Sheesh. Ow. 3x Explosive arrow in the face hurts like a mother.
 
rofl no they not

ye Pitbull, protection pallies with holy gear is every worse, but they are fixing that in the next big patch
 
Skurm said:
A paladin cannot aoe heal.
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Agree. I had a priest at lvl 70 which i raided with in TBC. For Wotlk, I switched to warlock. I had lvl 34 paladin floating about and decided to level it as my second character. I got lvl 80, geared up with BS gear and some 5 man dungeon kit. Went to Naxx 10 man as the 2nd healer. Other healer was also a paladin, but much better geared. I had a really hard time healing on that boss(i cant remember the name), whose aura prevents healing and only gives a few seconds every minute or something to heal. Time enough for 1 flash heal. Towards the end of the fight with everyone on low health, it was crazy.

After that, I respeced the paladin to prot and started to level my priest again.

Cant comment on pvp because I dont bother with pvp much.
 
To everyone who says paladins can't AoE heal, group up on a paladin with the holy Light Glyph, tell him to beacon himself and spam holy light. Ye, enjoy your AoE healing just because they don't have an ability to AoE heal doesn't mean they can't do it...
 
so as per usual people give you a lot of crap about level 80. you are level 10 and correct to say that at level 10 and all levels to come a paladin > priest, the same argument is druid > priest simply because you can fulfill more roles, dps, tank and healer.
 
I dont find pallies hard to beat with my frost mage.. just they take longer than normal.
 
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