by Younie » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:24 am
Ok, detailled answer on palavspriest. Doesn't tell you which is better, but will help you decide based on gameplay.
PVE
If you're gonna have to PVE to get PVP gear, it's important to consider this aspect of the game. Would suck for you to be bored half of the time just to be able to pvp.
In PVE, there is absolutely no match: Priest are way funnier to play and also more efficient healign wise.
Whereas pala basicly just spam FoL besides having some bop to give away, priest need to use all his spells to shine.
So if you're going to play pala, the gearing up process may be boring af. While if you chose priest, you'll get to play the funniest and most challenging class to play PvE-wise (or well, close to tanks).
FC
Both pala and priest are able to be great FCs. As pala, your main problem will be caster and as priest it will be melees.
Priest can use the bottle of bof to tackle the melees problem.
Priest have mind vision allowing them to kite longer without having to face a single opponent as FC.
Against rogues, priest can't count on mind vision anymore.
Utility
Pala: bof / bop/ defensive dispel / hoj / poison dispel
Priest: shield / defensive dispel / offensive dispel / fear / silence / mana burn / MC / Mind Vision
Gameplay
Pala are great because they cannot be CC'd and are hard to burst down as melee. And they are hard to oom.
However, pala don't have "burst" heal. Their only tool is FoL which is a spell costing very few mana but healing for very few as well.
Priest have more tools and they are able to burst healing or to shield. They are however easier to burst down or to oom. They also need to LoS not to be CC'd contrary to pala (which is not easy on a server where half the los spot don't work).
Also, pala have to spend more time than priest casting rather than using instant. Because they don't have instant and a single cast isn't enough to heal up for full their target. This means they are more static and more easy to CS.
This also means that it's harder for them to actually help a constantly moving FC. Priest can do a lot in a few GCD, while pala can't reallly.
If you're FC is moving a lot, priest is dispelling 2debuff at a time, can shield, can renew. Pala can only BOF. And if you have just the time to cast a flash heal, priest can heal his target for full HP while pala can only give a few hp in that time.
Having a pala dispelling cc / boping / dispelling poison on a priest really makes said priest god mod.
But you can't expect a pala alone to outheal the way a priest can.
And a priest alone is easily locked down by a rogue or a cc spam or a viper sting spam
smite priest
