I think RMP will forever be beautiful simply for it's CC. It's really not based on having a priest there because a priest is a best healer, but because of the CC that a priest brings in. Having sheep, fear, and sap means the other healer can be generally disabled throughout the entire fight! The addition of having a mana steal, especially with how much more mana-sensitive Cata is, makes it a really killer combo despite what I consider lack-luster pvp healing from priests.

Truthfully, I haven't been on my priest in a while, so I am only aware of the initial changes made in Cataclysm. Still, I doubt they have lessened the nerf on disc priest bubbles, which really was the core of disc priests before Cata. I really only ever used my priest seriously in PvP, though, and it seems rather lame that holy gets the best of both worlds where disc has to deal with "suck a lot less" and "mediocre to bad."

I thought RMP succeeded because of the Priest's ability to become a 3rd DPS? At least that's the impression I get whenever I watch Hydra or Numberone play.

Ulfsark

United States958 Posts

May 08 2011 18:55 GMT

#22

My friends parents who's house we used to ln at in Highschool call me by my Gaming name haha. As do a lot of my friends that I play games with.

Riku

United States1064 Posts

May 08 2011 19:13 GMT

#23

On May 09 2011 02:53 Denzil wrote:

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I thought RMP succeeded because of the Priest's ability to become a 3rd DPS? At least that's the impression I get whenever I watch Hydra or Numberone play.

The dps is a benefit to RMP, but it's really based on the CC, or else some other combo with priests would be just as popular. While a priest can offer a lot of harassment dps, I would say even the mana burn brings more to the team. However, all good priests should put in dps whenever they can, regardless of the combo.

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

May 08 2011 21:10 GMT

#24

On May 08 2011 16:51 vek wrote:

Argh I know... what on earth was Blizzard thinking with the changes to disc

I used to love my priest so much but once Cata hit it just ruined how it used to work. The new smite mechanics were so freaking boring. I had a brief stint as Holy but it just wasn't the same so I quit.

My undead priest was originally a 60 twink for around 2 years until exp for bgs came in. I then leveled her to 80 and did arena and some random raiding here and there. I never got bored of playing disc in battlegrounds or arena.

After that she had a short time as a gnome while I played with friends on a different server but it wasn't the same and I went back to Blackrock and back to being undead

Looking through my screenshots is still heaps of fun. I'll only post a couple though:

First I was undead...
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Then a gnome...
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Then back to being dead ^_^
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I also used to get a lot of enjoyment out of model editing. I was really sad when Blizzard killed it off in 4.0 and then each time a new method was found they killed it again. Really frustrating when for years they turned a blind eye to cosmetic edits and then decided they were going to declare war on it.

Wait holy shit what server were you on, I was in Mostly Harmless (one of 52357839272 of them)

You also have very familiar looking undeads...

I'm having this happen alot, I swear to god I know everybody I see. Actually if you haven't recognized my name from WoW yet you probably weren't on the same server as me, as I was Torenhire in WoW too.

I'll put some pics up too, since it's the new cool thing to do.

Also Disc Priests were fucking evil in arenas. Take your mana burn and GTFO

My partner in arenas was also my gf so once she left me (We missed gladiator by like 10 points and she got mad at me and dumped me) (PS I'm joking) I just pieced together a pretty UI and lived in Wintergrasp being annoying with my awesome healy skills.

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Trolling (hahaha pun) people in goldshire with my Razzashi Raptor mount. Back when I was human and before I met my girlfriend. She made me turn into a stupid blood elf. I've been human paladin since day 1 of release! ><

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Also that UI started out pretty cool but then I made it really hideously ugly, don't look at it.

I eventually told that guy a GM gave it to me, and he believed it. lol.

I also spent a lot of time being a general badass on my server.
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Here's everyone unable to turn in their PVP daily because I was prot and unkillable...eventually all the horde started healing him and I got a prot warrior and some shaman to help me out. About an hour later I got banned for three days for exploiting. I think the horde could have just let him die and then they'd have been good, he instant respawns.

This picture, let me preface it by saying I was trying to make my UI and Clintak made me come PVP - so it's hideously bad, even worse than the above one.

But this picture makes me lawls.
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"Mind if I join you two?"
"Yes"
You cry.

Here's another rev of Toren UI, and a halfway decent picture.

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And last but not least, I will shamelessly admit that when I wasn't in arenas / world PVP, I was RPing, and I looked pretty sexy.
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WoW-free since a year and a half ago! <3

It's good to reminisce, I miss all my old friends and have managed to keep track of a lot of them. Now that I feel I have sufficiently spammed the blog with nonsense... I am going to F5f5f5f5f5 until Vek tells me where he took those pictures. Haha.

vek

Australia936 Posts

May 09 2011 00:43 GMT

#25

I played on Blackrock since fairly soon after the game was released.

Originally as a mage called Vek, then a warrior called Vekki and then my priest Vekkeh (who is called Popipo since becoming a gnome).

Both the screenshots of my undead priest were taken on Blackrock.

One of my favourite things to do was collect RP gear and just mess around with alliance out the front of ironforge.

Also had a druid called Resto and another mage called Vek on Frostmourne alliance that I played quite a bit during BC. I used to do arena on about 4 characters a week

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

May 09 2011 02:18 GMT

#26

Aw, not on Blackrock. That was where the REAL Mostly Harmless way, IIRC. :p

I spent probably a third of my RP time in the Undercity trying to purge the undead out of Lordaeron, for Uther of course.

I have spent all night trying to think of the character that you look exactly like. and I can't remember. Oh well!

:p