Quote Originally Posted by 'Mudd',index.php?page=Thread&postID=103777#post103 777
This change saddens me and I feel that this really dumbs down the game. As a PvE holy priest, I found that downranking gave the class a lot of flexibility and can be used in most healing scenarios where other classes shine. They need that since there is not as much stacking benefits of having more than one holy priest in a raid than the other healing classes. Without down ranking its inefficient to spam a direct heal (bring a paladin instead), I can no longer keep 12 renews in flight without going oom (bring a druid instead). With CoH on cooldown in WoTLK, just use shammies for AOE. I'll buff you all with fort and sit outside the instance ;(

Blizzard is slowly removing ways to tweak your build, gear, and playstyle to gain an edge in PvE. Thats why I like PvE. Tweaking your toon to do better than another. I hope it doesn't just become a gear grind.
Please explain how downranking helps a priest be more viable. I don't know what you've healed, but this isn't standard in any 25 man raids to downrank. Priests aren't meant to roll HOTs or single target, they are meant to do a bit of everything and be pretty good at anything. Rather than spamming low rank flash heals for 1k, how about get some greater heals for 5-8k every 2.5 seconds? No one else can do that.

I'm going to bet a billion dollars that you've never gone deep into 25 mans...


By the way, read the new priest talents in WOTLK before you talk about not enough options. Discipline and Holy both have great PVE talents. Your DS priest no longer has to be useless.