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I have always loved Dungeoneering. Even in the slower paced days of single realm LFG method. There was a real sense of ownership over your group when you put it together yourself. Perhaps with the new cross-realm style dungeon farming some of that sense of ownership has been lost, or become exclusive to Guild Runs. Which is still rich in lore-ish story telling potential, just less ad hoc than the old style... all in all, a good thing and healthy evolution in my opinion. Besides.... we're priests. You don't turn down a priest for a 5man. Right? The Question is why?

We just rule. Fact.

I think alot of priests are usually played by more mature players than other classes, not to judge! I mean, i haven't seen alot of priests doing bad, atleast not on my server. Maybe it is because younger people think of priests as boring? Idk.. thats just what i think, might not be true at all...

I know where you're coming from. I have this to add:
The reason why you don't see that many priests doing bad is because those who are don't last very long before they are ignored by everyone and/or get fed up with there own bad performance.
But to be fair, its very hard to go wrong as a priest in a five man party. On the other hand with how well adapted priests are to work with 4 allies gives us the players a chance to idk, get creative with all the spells and abilities we have.
You could say that part of being a 'good priest' is knowing what abilities your enemies (npcs) are packing when you dungeoneer. Ok knowing for PVP is easy... but in a Dungeon, there is a niche you don't see Priests master.
Its not like we lack by comparison to other classes.
I should say lacked because we did get a good tune up for Cataclysm imo. Just more fun to be had.

Healers generally get a lot of downtime in dungeons, imo, Priests have more they can do with that downtime, making us a totally unique element in five mans, the sad part is other classes don't recognize it and whats worse some priests out there don't. Which is why those usually re-roll shammies or druids.

We just rule. Fact.

Fact.

:)))

[/quote] : "Which is why those usually re-roll shammies or druids."

That's about to be changed! Agree?

Now that we can just spam smite and keep the tank toped off, were simply the best.

We rule pretty much.

When i first played wow i was 15 so to me, the whole idea of "healing" as we were the main healing class back then with 2 healing specs, was a little dull.

So maybe that's the deterrance?

We're the swiss army knives of the healing classes and that's just super awesome. Need a dedicated tank healer? A Priest can do it. Need a raid healer? Hell, a Priest can do it like noone else. Plus, we have style. I have a 80 Holy Paladin and a 80 Resto Druid with whom I've raided quite a bit and I can tell you, I've always envied Priest because of their style and because, buffs and nerfs aside, they were always pictured as "THE" healers. :-)

I think alot of priests are usually played by more mature players than other classes, not to judge! I mean, i haven't seen alot of priests doing bad, atleast not on my server. Maybe it is because younger people think of priests as boring? Idk.. thats just what i think, might not be true at all...

Young people + priests often ends badly. Thats why they reroll mages.