Why start a priest after reaching 60 with a warrior?

It seems nuts, I know. I’ve gone on and on since I started my mage about squishy not working for me. That was largely solved with the voidwalker use with Lockr, whom I enjoy playing a lot, too.

I’ve noticed a real void in-game for healers for parties. I like druid a lot because of the versatility, plus a good bit more armor that it offers, but what the game really needs is a good priesthood.

According to Wikipedia:

Priests are much sought-after for pre high-end raids (Stratholme, Scholomance, Blackrock Spire) but are very rarely played as of early 2006. Priests are perhaps the least commonly played class, although Warlocks are also rare. [1]

This can be attributed to the perception that sitting back and healing other party members is not as fun as other classes’ play experiences. High-level priests are quite popular however for PvP. The Priest is a very strong class for PvP and can decide the outcome of a battle if not dealt with correctly. Because of their dangerous use of area-effect fear and healing they are considered to be the primary target in any party.

The popularity of Priests may increase after the changes to the Priest class in the forthcoming 1.10 patch. Priests will gain several enhancements to both their healing and damage powers that are expected to make the Priest a more viable character.

I will be in more demand as a priest and have enough friends at this point that I should always be able to group with people to help them out by healing and to get their assistance with DPS and tanking.

If I gain some ground on some alts, we can level together. He will be bank-rolled well enough to buy good gear that adds shadow damage until it’s necessary to respec to Holy for 10- to 20-man raids.