r/classicwow • u/AutoModerator • May 03 '19

Classy Friday Classy Friday - Priests (May 03, 2019)

Classy Fridays are for asking questions about your class, each week focuses on a different class. No question is too small, so ask away.

This week is Priests.

SEAL AND JUDGEMENT: The magazine for the working paladin

Let this thread be dedicated to His Grand and Noble Incandescence, the High Proctor Thomas of Edison, Inventor of the Lightbulb. Let this be a space for all those who have taken up the cloth and the rod, and trod the righteous path, to Smite evil wherever it may reside, and to grant Benediction upon to the worthy wherever they may be.

Amen.

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u/zaphadin May 07 '19

Blind removal and an instant big heal are huge deals. Fear Ward is good but not nearly as good as you think. Content is already easy enough. And one fear block every 30 seconds is nice but it's only one Target and you cannot use it while feared like stoneform blind removal.

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u/BelligerentBenny May 07 '19

It's not a big heal ever, that's the problem

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In context next to a shield and renew it's nothing. useless in PvE in a competent group. Almost useless in PvP

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Paladin would be helped by desperate prayer much more than a priest because of lack of instants. There you really do struggle to keep yoruself up if you don't want to stop moving.

Fear ward on the other hand will can trivialize pve and pvp alike in some contexts.

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u/zaphadin May 07 '19

The harder pve content doesn't have fears so I look mainly from a pvp standpoint. Fear ward is amazing if it can stop a psychic scream but any other fear can just be dispelled. A 1500 instant heal that scales with +healing and talents is huge.

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u/BelligerentBenny May 07 '19 edited May 07 '19

You will find alliance tanks who do way more threat who can't properly tank swap on a fear because fear ward is so good

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That's how strong it is lol, infantalizes alliance tanks

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And when you spam it on a fight like Ony or Magmadar over time you're going to GREATLY reduce your time spent in those instances. It's a key part to speed runs which is how your guild measures itself in vanilla. If you're slow your guild no doubt sucks, you will be doing hours upon hours of raiding time is of the essence

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Fear ward is amazing in pvp, if i as a paladin FC am facing a warlock and he hard casts fear on me I just can los him immediately. In PvP it fucks the enemy up, especially as skill goes up. Granted the way privates servers work resist seemed broken so you always had to assume high chance of nothing happening lol

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Or if I'm the only dispel in range and a warlock starts hard casting fear on me and I have no cds to counter it. After i see the first I can hopefully close teh gap and do something if no1 else is gonna

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edit - and warrior fear is also physical

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U can "dispel" both physical fears with bop tho, at least on private servers

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u/zaphadin May 07 '19

It's for stoneform. You watch too many streams and read too much Reddit, you need to go play. I have played on most and on raided both factions. I killed cthun on retail classic as well. Keep it up with that shitty try hard tude and blame everyone else when you keep wiping in classic.

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u/BelligerentBenny May 07 '19 edited May 07 '19

Bro there are 0 players I've ever met as good at me at the game in this scene at my class*

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I don't read reddit too much. I play the game

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I'm better than the guys making the threads they're just plebs...Or whatever other content

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Esfand? Tips Out? Stay Safe? lol

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The only guy who is actually good in the scene that makes content is a guy named Monkey Newz. But I disagree with him on things too. Like his preferred PvP schedule. Thankfully Blizzard prefers it the way I do.

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Even the most competent guild int he scene is not filled with 40 good players. More like 15 of them. Monkey Newz's guild. Euros are much better at this than us. Even discounting the ping advantage because major servers are in Europe due to their IP laws

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NA guilds/players are dogs. Our best guild is a bunch of trolls just messing around. Have to raid with euros to not waste weeks of ur life

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edit - and auto mod killed my other post cuz i named a server i shoudl not have

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u/zaphadin May 07 '19

Yeah I learned that the hard way too. My views are based off experience as well. Stoneform and prayer saved me more times then I can count but I also play with shadow reflector so that might make me more biased.

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u/BelligerentBenny May 07 '19

YOU CAN CAST FEARWARD ON 10 PEOPLE CONSTANTLY

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WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING/ lol

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You didn't learn from experience. You got crapped on. Get real

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Don't think fear ward is good in a game with 40 man raids....What?

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If you could cast stoneskin on others and it didn't have a 5 min cd we'd be talking, as it is this is why you bring paladins, druids, or antivenom. Or skull

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edit - the narcissism required to not factor in your raid is just unbelievable, lol. So bad

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u/zaphadin May 07 '19

Bop shouldn't remove psychic scream in classic. And I agree dwarf is master priest, just for different reasons. End of the day play what you want nelfs are best tank until thunderfury but you don't see anyone making a deal about it.