PRIEST in Cataclysm Classic: Was It Any Good Though?

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I remember being shadow for some of H ds prog and my god it absolutely cranked, with a super satisfying burst window rotation

The 4 piece tier 13 bonus for shadow is actually extremely powerful for burst as you can send shadow fiend out and change your rotation to mind spike x 3 followed by an instant Mind Blast all of which have 3 orbs. The best way to utilize this is hit the haste soft cap and then reforge for mastery, it makes shadow an incredible burst damage class and once shadow fiend is down you still have great sustain

Thanks for this! Amazing video and very helpful for a returning player who's been away for a bit and has forgotten a few things. Looking forward to a shaman video from you.

You could save with leap of faith….or you can troll with it

@WillEmmo 2 things I'd change with this video: 1. You need to tease the toilet bowl priest shoulders from t11. 2. The toilet bowl priest helmet! Personally, I love the helmets like this because I basically don't have to hide helmet bow to see my characters face. 3. You forgot to mention the trolling possibilities that are added with a leap of faith (live grip), saving people or gripping them to their demise for maximum trolling potential! Hope this comment made you laugh, ty for the awome videos, I check youtube everyday to see when ykur next upload is coming out, j know these take work so thanks! P.s I was rewatching some of your older videos, I loved that style, it's more professional now, but yeah it's your channel and I like both formats! Ty<3

I'm very much excited for Disc Priest in Cata, it's got such a fun toolkit. When I got access to the Cata Beta the first thing I did was make a gnome priest, and of all the alts I made to try out new stuff in the beta I leveled that gnome priest the highest. I can say this much- Disc Priest is probably the best healing spec to level as in the game. Atonement finally, FINALLY, makes spamming Smite while questing not just viable, but the optimal strategy. You no longer need to just swing your wand until your arm falls off, you can actually DO DAMAGE. And that damage heals you too. It's a defining feature of the Discipline spec, but Atonement ALSO is the greatest healing talent for leveling out of all the healer specs. Leveling as a healer post vanilla is like leveling as a solo warrior during vanilla. You struggle to get one kill, and if you're outnumbered you might as well just AFK and the same outcome would occur. Leveling as Resto Druid and ESPECIALLY Holy Paladin is just agony. I doubt anyone else actually cares about this, and this doesn't exactly apply to me anymore due to having played long enough to be able to put some gear/heirlooms on an alt and level as whatever, but as someone who struggled uphill leveling as a healer priest the first time around, Atonement is (fittingly) a godsend.

Always have a banger WillE video for my Friday night dinner ❤

If the balance of classes is around 4.3, Holy priest will be nuts. The spec only got buffs over buffs through all the expansion. - Chakras at launch only had a 30s duration then they changed it to 1min and by 4.3 chakra stances were infinite so you always got the effect and spell through all the fight. - Sanctuary got hiper buffs during patches. - 4.3 is where holy got the new talent "Heavenly Voices" and destroyed hps meters, increased the healing of Divine Hymn for 100%.. yes.. 100% and reduced the cd to a 3min cooldown so you could literally top your raid TWICE in a fight. I'm totally playing holy in cataclysm classic if we get 4.3 version at launch Also hpriest since wotlk has never been a tank healer... People that do not play holy priest should stop saying that

cant wait for the warlock vid!

I forgot how much I hated cata healing as disc… i don’t want to do damage if I did I’d play a dps

It’s been a a while since OG Cata, the last patch I played and I played priest and Druid (healing obviously) and I can’t remember which one I liked, I reckon both 🤷‍♂️

I'm a priest main in wrath and extremely excited to continue with it in cata. I just wish I could triple spec because holy is a bit of fun to mess around with but will still mainly be shadow/disc. I wish they could add more potential for holy through the gear sets because it feels like they got slept on

Maybe the players I played with weren’t that great, but I remember cranking during Firelands compared to everyone else, apart from the hunter in our group who was my main competitor. The arcane mage, boomkin, and rogue in that group generally didn’t keep up, although I think the rogue was combat and not subtlety.

Heroic spine of deathwing holy was extremely op. Make sure you were in single target Chakra state to get rid of the debuff easily and efficiently and in the aoe healing state for stacking for rolls and dpsing the plates. Holy was also really good on Heroic Hagara for the stack ING the middle and just heal through mechanic

@WillE my first time playing wow was in 2019 classic and after watching your priest video back then saying you could say 100% Priest was worth playing and I haven't stopped since. I've alted a bunch of dps and tanks but nothing feels as perfect to me as priest. Can't wait to push Disc priest in every avenue of the game, thank you for the push to main this class back in the summer of 2019.

Dunno about "classic cata" but I totally destroyed firelands dps and healing as disco back when it was out! Good times!

I have enjoyed disc healing a lot in wotlk, so I'm excited to get even more fun in Cataclysm :D!

everytime I see a was it any good though video my day becomes better by at least 200%

I remember playing Disziplin priest in cata and actually most people at least back when I played there, thought that holy was the better (but more gear requiring) spec especially because it could both heal groups and single targets very effectively. Disziplin was definitly better for tank healing but that wasnt always too needed.