Why I’m not playing Disc until 80.
Posted On Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 By Jay
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.
