So, I want to roll a dps/healer that is good in pve and pvp.
Main goals are Dps for both PvE and PvP and Heals for PvE.
Between Paladins and Priests, which would be better for this?
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Trying to Pick - WOTLK
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Priests are more fun in both healing / and dps, and since retribution paladins got fked up bit dmg wise in pve its not as fun to play, while shadow priest can top damage. In PvP shadow priest feels better aswell with instant Silence / Stun / fear / 90% dmg reduce and healing reduce, While paladins feels like you have stun / wings - hope for a kill.
Paladins can be played as a Tank tho and currently concidered the best tank class, so you have more options with the class.
Priests are a must to pass Valithria 25 heroic in ICC and many guilds gets around 3-4-5, so many shadow priests gets spots in raids as priests with OS holy for this sole puropse.
All in all I would say Shadow priest simple because its a more fun class to play with more damage, but I allways prefered rdps more then melee dps in general.Edited: March 6, 2016
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Sorry it's so long after the posts, but...
Are Paladins just bad due to WM bugs, or just this Patch (3.3.5a) just punished them?
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I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about Rag&Deathwing, or Lordaeron? On Rag&Deathwing, each of the specs have some detrimental bugs, but all three of them are very strong and competitive in PvE. Prot can't do competitive PvP very well (BGs are fine though), and Ret has some troubles with 2's arena (3's and 5's are much better), and Holy shines in PvP very well. All of which is pretty much where it should be.
The real difference between the two classes is essentially on what you're asking for. Shadow Priests generally fare better in competitive PvP than a Retribution Paladin will. A Shadow Priest can eat people alive pretty effectively, but to get decent rating with a Retribution Paladin, you'll have to be damn good at it, and your partner will have to know what they're doing as well.
As for PvE, both are very strong in all areas.Edited: March 19, 2016
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feral/resto druid combo /thread
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How about on Lordaeron?
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I tought it was the opposite, being easier to find avaibles 2s combo for a retribution paladin (like ret/frost mage, ret/hunter, ret/rogue...) than 3s...
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"best xpac ever"
Yet classes one shot each other. A duel doesn't last more than 10 seconds. Sad how ppl left cata/mop and enjoy that lordaeron, ancient game
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I don't understand how your post is related to mine. And to this thread...
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play human paladin and you destroy everything in pvp
