Why I’m not playing Disc until 80.
Posted by Jay | Filed under PvP, World of Warcraft
I’m not playing discipline again until 80. I’ve had it! Gone are the days for me where I will happily sit behing the front line of various DPS and keep people alive ( healing ) or try to get everyones attention so my buddies can do their stuff ( priest tanking ). Each of these actions are gone for the priest for many reasons.
PVP players are already used to stacking 2-3 dps on a discipline priest to take em down. Pre-3.02 a D priest could certainyl live with that and excel! Since we’ve trained the player base to do this, post-3.02 2-3 dps on a tanking discipline priest takes me down in 5 seconds. I don’t even get to heal myself most of the time.
Yes. I am whining about priest tanking!
On the other hand! Shadow is WAY fun. 4 dots, dispel still works and as long as I’m on my game, a longer mass dispel is no longer detrimental. Haha, get it?
Overall, I applaud Blizzard for the change. From what I can see, they’re pushing raiding and pvp to be more frenetic, more decisive and more open ended. Everyone has a little bit of everything with one or two specialties. Enough ball pading, here’s some pointers since most of Discipline will play the same.
- Mana drain is less important because fights will be over quicker.
- Fear bomb is a potent weapon. 3 seconds is HUGE in pvp right now. Like 12k HP to dead huge.
- Learn how to pillar dance. Put your left hand on WASD and learn to turn and camera pivot with your right hand. Reverse that if you’re left handed.
- DO NOT MOUSE CLICK. Learn to use the key binding menu to create SHIFT + AlphaNumeric and CTRL + Alphanumeric to cast spells.
- Throw shield around.. like a bad analogy that I can’t think of right now.
- Target health can be displayed as a number now. When you’re target is at 4k life, queue up mind blast + Shadow Word: Death. Bring that target DOWN!
- Discipline priests are great for single target healing, but you HAVE to learn to play offensively to survive. The best defense ( YOU! ) is to have a strong offense ( situation awareness ).
That’s all I have to say until I start arenaing at 80. Enjoy the freebies, raid where you can. Go kill Illidan. Just go!
Rerollmuch - 70 doesn’t work, and waiting till 80.
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