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Priest racials gone in WotLK
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Post by
razzem
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9957009134&sid=2000&pageNo=1
It looks a sad sad day. I really enjoyed the uniqueness of starshards. Sounds like they're not as worried about uniqueness anymore and want to level the playing field more.
Post by
SeaOfHoles
Good. Feedback, won't miss you at all!
Post by
cloudp
... But the choice of a priest was one of the hardest choices EVER to make.
- Feedback and Desperate Prayer for Humans,
- Chastise and Depsertate Prayer on Dwarves,
- Symbol of Hope and Chastise on Draeneis,
- Starshards and Elune's Grace for Night Elves,
- Devouring Plague and Touch of Weakness to Undead,
- Consume Magic and Touch of Weakness on Blood Elves,
- Hex of Weakness and Shadowguard for Trolls.
Each spells are quite unique and made people that wanted two specs, holy and shadow, to be quite weaker than other priests if their race is not the same. Dwarves suck on PvE racials, night elves suck on holy racials, particularly pvE... it was a bit unbalanced. I can see their point on doing this. But as personal opinion i have to agree with you - i enjoyed this uniqueness. Some people will love this, some will hate...
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Post by
Cross88
Boo! I liked having troll's priests shadowguard orbiting him while in shadowform. It looked badass!
Post by
SeaOfHoles
My Human Priest, created on day 1, and still my main character. How many people really made an informed decision on race selection? And who knew how important those decisions would be? Who knew what a total suckage Feedback would be?
Should people need to go back and roll a different race to make up for that? Ehhhh, not me.
I don't believe one race should be "preferred" over another. It should be a matter of style.
Post by
Syrio
My Human Priest, created on day 1, and still my main character. How many people really made an informed decision on race selection? And who knew how important those decisions would be? Who knew what a total suckage Feedback would be?
Should people need to go back and roll a different race to make up for that? Ehhhh, not me.
I don't believe one race should be "preferred" over another. It should be a matter of style.
i did lol, my first character was a night elf priest just for starshards. When i rerolled horde, it was undead just for DP... :(
im %^&*ed about this, but if they do it, i want to have that damn shadowgaurd, i love that orb going around the trolls.
Post by
murakaz
I'm all for this change, I never liked the idea of certain races being at a disadvantage because of the racials. It was great when they gave us all Fear Ward, and now we get to keep all of the legitimately good racials as well.
Hopefully Desperate Prayer heals for the same and is still instant and mana-free.
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Post by
Aylia
Awesome! I never use Chastise anyway, so I'm perfectly fine with trading it in for Desperate Prayer. And I guess Devouring Plague might be handy, too.
Post by
Robyn
<puts on priest alt hat>
Well, at least we can't complain. Devouring Plague and the renamed Symbol of Hope are very decent choices for keeping 2 of the existing racial spells, and we're getting Holy Nova as a base ability as an added bonus while they make room for Desperate Prayer as the new 11-pt holy talent. That's a good deal, however you look at it ;)
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Post by
LightningBlade
Man UD Priest is gone, should've rolled a troll for Berserking then.
Post by
Robyn
If you're saying what I think you're saying, then I don't see how the solution in the quote would be an improvement. Some of the racials are better than others, so some would just naturally never (or very rarely) be picked under the "Player choice" system anyway -- they'd effectively be gutted just by their own obsolete natures.
Unless you meant something else, in which case I apologise and request clarification.
That is what he meant ;)
But tbh quite a few of the priest racials were approaching ok-ness - Desperate Prayer, Symbol of Hope, Devouring Plague, Starshards, Chastise are all reasonably good, and some of the others have some situational use as well.
Giving people the choice would probably have been ideal, but that would need a fair amount of work; you need UI for it, networking protocol, and so on, and there is no equivalent mechanism which works like that elsewhere in the game... I can totally understand Blizz's preference for the simple-and-direct solution.
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Post by
FrightKing
I'll miss all the unique lore-based racials. It made sense as they all have differing faiths. Only makes sense to have different abilities. I can see they needed balance but Starshards and Chastise I will greatly miss. As long as they rename Devouring Plague I guess I'm cool with it, but it's still Beta, maybe they'll make a comeback.
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