Welcome back to Lae’s Alt Appreciation!
This week, it’s the humble Priest.
I first rolled a Priest as my 3rd or 4th alt (I can’t quite remember) as I thought it would be easy as it is quite similar to Mage – a caster that is. I first rolled her as Shadow Priest and I really really enjoyed it. I also took loads of screenies levelling up… probably because I was enjoying it (and shadowform) too much:
Anyway, my Priest is a NElf and is currently Holy with a Shadow offspec. I loved dotting and flaying and fearing as shadow, and I even – for once – enjoyed PvP as I found I was really quite survivable with the fears and silences. However, once I reached 90 I decided I really wanted another healer, and enjoyed Holy so much it’s stuck there since.Ā
Even though she’s sitting around doing very little at the moment, my Priest is the healer I take if the guild needs one in a raid – she’s ok geared and fully gemmed/enchanted and she has some awesome AoE heals with some extremely pretty spell effects. I also love her mog…
My one and only Priest was my ‘main’ for a grand total of about a month. He is a worgen, specced Holy/Disc and my 3rd most well geared character. I do enjoy playing him, and I love the quick LFR queues (we queue together on him for that reason), but I really don’t like that he’s worgen… the hunchback mainly. However, I find healing quite boring, especially in LFR, which means I don’t really ever stick playing the Priest for long periods of time.
I actually started levelling him during Cataclysm, just by healing dungeons. I got to about level 77 and it tailed off as I was playing my DK a lot at this time. This is when I started to become an altoholic, I was swapping characters a lot and this guy saw the worst of it I think. At the start of MoP, I was tanking on my DK and wasn’t enjoying it at all, so I swapped back to the Priest and levelled him next, my second 90.
I think as we write this post, we want to go and play our Priests a little! I really want to master the art that is Discipline healing…
Mr and Mrs WoW 
I never realised that priests had two healing specs! I only knew about shadow & hply spec and had never considered what the third might be (thought I knew they weren’t made for tanking :P). I’m really struggling to motivate myself to roll a priest but I will!
Even if only to level 20 to experience it a bit, but I’m glad I’ve enlightened you a little š good luck!
I’ve been playing a priest as my main for the better part of, crikey, 8 years. So from that very high horse, allow me to tell you the glaring flaw in both of your priest alts:
They appear to be Alliance.
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Hehe cheeky!!
You’re right though, priests are pretty awesome!