Fun as a level 60 priest

Guys - sorry I haven't been in this forum in a while, but I didn't stop
playing, I was just too busy on the realm forum and guild forum...

for the first time I'll whine a bit. I would appreciate much much much
if you guys from the US would post this in the official Priest forum,
as I would like the developpers to think about it. It's not a
suggestion, just an illustration of the main problem that I, and many
other holy priests, have in this game once they reach level 60: lack of
fun.

Here's the link to the original thread:
http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-priest-en&T=51529&P=1

For those interested, here is the link to another crossposted
discussion (realm forum)
http://sunstrider.net/showthread.php?t=2951

And lastly the content of my initial post, to discuss it here. Thanks
for your time!

Hey there.

I've made a short movie (15mb download) for the holy priest cause. It's
available here:

http://files.filefront.com/fix_it2avi/;4191191;;/fileinfo.html

It's about my primary concern for the Priest class: the utter lack of
gameplay fun when we go out and heal in a PVE instance that isn't a
raid. MC/ZG/BWL, etc... are not really concerned by that movie. Nor is
PVP, even though there are issues there, I know it damn well too.

This lack of fun in healing *is* the reason why the holy tree is frown
on. It's because healing in instances is ridiculously boring outside of
a raid, which happens maybe, what, once a week at most for casual
players, two-three times a week for serious players, and everyday only
for selected few hardcore gamers in a hardcore guild.

We are entirely passive in an instance. Sure we can chat, but that's
all we can do to enjoy it, and we don't need to be in an instance for
it. There's no "gaming" per se. Nothing to see.

When a priest reaches level 60, he will enjoy the loot in the first two
weeks, maybe, then unless he is ready to go loot MC/ZG/Onyxia/BWL
timewise and guildwise, he will be shelved.

Concerns:
1) the loot is unimpressive funwise. People get incredible items that
improve their damage, speed, mana, survivability, but our healing is
improved only in the dullest way. Please make loot with each heal you
cast gives you a chance to cast xxx. Please give us loot with +shield
bonus. Please give us loot with +% chance to resist stun effect. Please
give us loot with proc chance on wand shoot. Please give us loot for
the dedicated healer available in earlier instances! FIX IT!

2) the holy spells are broken, full stop. Healing spells do NOT improve
with levels. Sure you can heal more, but there is no clear bonus from
healing more. Especially since the most mana efficient heal spell is a
level 22 one (with full benefits from +heal). Actually this heal rank 2
spell is the only one that you might want to use with +crit% gear,
because you don't care about overheals with it. FIX IT!

3) the healing gameplay is broken. Right. If I want to heal others, I
need to forfeit my fun. This makes the whole "playing a healer to
assist others" basically pointless. Only the strong, the fierce, people
mentally ill can keep on helping others in instances after they got
their gear ready for MC. There's simply no point in so much dedication
for others being required as soon as you spec to holy. I already
forfeited PVP fun when I choosed my 41 holy / 10 disc, so why forfeit
my PVE fun as well?

Right now priests have two opportunities if they want to enjoy the end
game:
1) spec PVP. Good luck having fun on a PVE server.
2) be a raid leader. And pray that enough people are available each
time you'd like to go to a raid instance.

In any case, priests get spammed because priests are rare. Priests are
rare because they play their alts, waiting for a raid to come. Priests
play their alts because they have no fun going to non-raid instances.

Without priests available, people choose to grind honour for their gear
upgrades, instead of going out and fight. Thanks to DHK, outdoor PVP
and raids are totally dreadful, so people go to battlegrounds,
massively, and random outdoor PVP has disappeared more or less from the
face of the server. You won't see any level 60 with good gear outside
of Org/IF/BG.

Fix the holy healing fun. Give us a reason to go back there and help
our troops.

I'm done.

Thanks for reading.
Thanks for watching the movie.
Sorry for its bad quality and rather unfun action.
I wanted it to be short and lightweight. It's propaganda business here.
Spread it if you think it's true.

FIX IT!

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