Is 5 priests team a good choic for pvp?

[Peng]

I tried to build up a team with 5 durid, but i figured out the survival ability is sux, therefore im think about a 5 Disc priest team, any one has a same set? plz give me some suggestion. thx

[Ejercito de un hombre]

I´m running a dual priest/priest team and i´m finding it insanely good. Both are disc/holy and i can easily take on elite mobs and 2/3 guys in pvp. "/castsequence reset=8/combat/target holy fire, mind blast " is the only macro needed for leveling, cause it has huge mana efficience and will tale mobs down to 5-10% health at the most (without critting). I usually end up a battle with holy fire on cooldown. Holy nova can be used for aoe farming, even without bubble, but once your mana is gone, you´ll be also gone. Looking forward to BC content to see how better they will get (pre-bc is terrible for caster items)

[Ellusionist]

I thought of doing this as 5 shadow priests, but never did it...

I have a team of mages (which I spent 200 shards on the BoA shoulders for--bleh) that absolutely suck in the level 19 WSG bracket. My main "solo" character in TBC was a mage, so it was home sweet home for me. It just sucked.

Cloth + standing right on top of each other + AoE + no ability to heal = dead quick.

As far as priests, I would imagine the squisability would be the absolute same, but you'd be able to throw yourself some heals. Anyway, as a boxer you just run into a lot of AoE and cloth won't put up with it.

[Ejercito de un hombre]

Ellusionist, priests are much more durable than mages, specially when multiboxing. Our AoE heals multiplied can get everyone to full health at any time. I´ve tanked 10 mobs same with two priests, aoeing them to death with holy nova. Now Imagine five!

I´m sure people won´t play priests cause they don´t have that high burst damage and definately won´t be able to run heroics, but in terms of survivability, they´re definately awesome. Fear bomb teams are also nothing, specially if you´re undead. Fear ward + Wotf ownz.

[Ellusionist]

Ellusionist, priests are much more durable than mages, specially when multiboxing. Our AoE heals multiplied can get everyone to full health at any time. I´ve tanked 10 mobs same with two priests, aoeing them to death with holy nova. Now Imagine five!

I´m sure people won´t play priests cause they don´t have that high burst damage and definately won´t be able to run heroics, but in terms of survivability, they´re definately awesome. Fear bomb teams are also nothing, specially if you´re undead. Fear ward + Wotf ownz.

Haha, I forgot about fear ward! Sounds like I have a new project tonight! Hell, I already have the BoA "level 1-80" shoulders, might as well utilize them.

[genocyde]

I have been long tempted to try a 5x priest group. They would have an insane instant cast full health Circle of Healing as holy. I can't imagine that it wouldn't be better to go shadow though. Now that dots will be able to crit and the fact they already tick for over 2K you might be looking at the strongest fire and forget PvP team around. Throw out vamp embrace + a dot or 2 on as many targets as you can before just spamming 5x holy nova and fear on round robin with 5x fear ward.

And instant AoE purge with 5x mass dispel if you feel comfortable using ground target AoE.

As for burst capability theres nothing that 5x mind blast followed by 5x Shadow Word: Death wouldn't kill in pvp.

Thinking about vampiric embrace though. I believe full talented it's 25% of your damage heals you and 5% heals party. That x5 could be enough to keep you going for a long time.

Providing all 5 are doing equal DPS thats about 45% of your DPS back as heals. That could easily be over 1500 HPS for each priest.

Could be a LOT of fun except for gearing em. Hope you can arena or raid because it would be very rough to do heroics with a priest tank. Even with 15% dmg reduction on shadow form and 6k + armor

[grettir]

Well for the gearing part, there is always wg, arena and bgs. Just like you would do for a shammy team .. sounds like an interesting team, my give it a try and lvl them on rested xp.

[daviddoran]

My mages kinda sucked at 19. Sure 4 fireballs would kill people, but I rarely got a chance to cast em all. My 5 druid team was much better, because of 10x HoTs, so I could immortalize my teammates, root the enemy, and spam wrath/moonfire.

Mages will probably do better later though, but for the 19 bracket, id skipt it.

I have 3 priests, so I might try doing something with them someday, if I ever get around to leveling the other 2...

[gitcho]

I've got 5 NE shadow priests, currently at lvl 65. 80's with resil gear can still take me, but only because I get too many resists when trying to DOT them. Anything less than an 80 is dead fairly quick, as 15 my dots (pain, VT, and VE) burn fairly good ... I've got about 400 spell pwr mostly from quest gear and my DOTS alone will do about 30k damage in 20 seconds or so ... Both MB & SW-death hit for about 850-900 each and MF ticks for about 230 x5.

I chose +dmg gear from quests rather than +stam or +int, so they only have about 5.3k hp I took them into BG's (2-3 games of AV and 2-3 of AB) and got waxed pretty bad - mostly because I don't think I was used to the mechanics - but in world pvp, they are simply amazing - burst damage is huge. I rarely lose a single toon, even against multiples. DOTS + fear = game over. Occasionally i'll have to throw a 5xrenew on one of the guys, or hit 5x holy nova once, but am surpised at how I hardly ever need to heal, which is great.

CONS: They are not viable for instances (unless my strategy is wrong) and will run OOM quickly (regen is fast tho with hymn of hope, dispersion, and replenishment).

I've considered switching to disc, but survivability has only been an issue in BG's, and only because i've been vastly outnumbered. I think I could consistently beat a group of 5 within 6-8 lvls of me in world pvp.

I've got a few short videos vs group-quest elite mobs, and a few pvp ganking videos, but nothing much ... anything you would like me to record & post?

[blast3r]

Everytime i turn around i see something like this and my mouth starts watering...NEED MORE TOONS!!

I think I may just make one team of each class. I can tell I will never stop leveling. I'll probably have them all at 80 and then a new xpac will get released.