I play a Pally and 4x Shadowpriests.



I am now continuing to gear my Pally up and just doing Dailies with the Priests. I am AoE Levelling up 4 Shaman.
I have made many posts in replies to peoples threads about Priests. They are not ideal, you will struggle at 70 to get past normal instances and into heroics. Alot of encounters that 4x Shaman blitz through Priests struggle with massively.

Mana Tombs, last boss. Have to keep switching to kill adds, Shamans chain lightning and the adds die.
Same thing in Sethek halls with elementals.
All bosses that cast nukes are irrelevant, grounding totem eats.
Priests are squishy.
Priests have no AoE
Priests have no spammable nuke except if you go holy
Priests have poor mana efficieny with no way to return it except fiend if holy
Priests have no spell pushback

etc etc etc

I wanted to try it out to be different from everyone on the Shammy-wagon but it didn't work out. In PvP they are terrible for the simple reason you dont pump out enough damage and have to use too many GCD's to get anything done. Mind Blast/SW will hurt well geared people pretty badly but not kill them in arena. You move in for the mindflay but its not instant damage and half your priests are getting beat on - the person gets healed to full and then you have two nukes on cooldownw and dots that can all be removed. Your ability to focus fire and only focus fire beomes your weakness. Shamans and Mages and Hunters simple overpower the oppositions ability to heal a single target and force the healers to focus on many targets (Chain Lighting, Mage AoEs, Hunter Multishot etc etc all make multiple targets hp drop quickly).

I started out as Alliance 6 months ago as Shamans, now I'm Horde and I'm going back to Shamans. Out of all my adventures, I have learnt to multibox quite well and have all the ins and outs down pat - but the Priest bandwagon was the wrong one to get on, should've stuck with Shaman before they become stupidly popular. :P



-Dan