Return of Reckoning

SJHarrison4115 wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2024 1:50 am G'day @Plainguy, I'll try to help out where I can, and to begin I'd simply suggest: Play what you want to Play, regardless of expectations.

Obviously that has the caveat that if you play an undesirable spec, you will also need to deal with the consequences of that. However, obviously there are ways to circumnavigate that with guilds, friends, etc.

As it appears that you're leveling at the moment, you could try shield spec. Especially in SC's you do output a pretty massive amount of healing, so long as you're hitting things. This can give you a "Hybrid" playstyle which will allow you to retain a single gear set. Rydiak has a great guide on the Grace WP.

Ultimately, book healing is optimal for WBs and for the majority of your RR and crest gains. Healers & Tanks can struggle more than DPS (Especially rDPS) to gain RR/Crests so as a means to off-set this, and what may appear to be counter intuitive, I'd recommend running the Prayer of Righteousness with the Wrath Tree's Divine Justice. Additionally, consider popping some Smites into the Blob v Blob combat. This will help you get "tags" which will fuel your RR and Crest gains.

Ultimately, I do love DPS Warrior Priest to, and it can be good in niche scenarios at the moment, but only with end-game gear, the earliest of which that is actually semi-decent is Bloodlord. I'd love to see some love to DPS WP and we may yet see it, but It's somewhat doubtful.

Anyways, hope this helps and good luck brother.

Rydiak wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2024 2:19 am Thanks for the shout-out, SJHarrison4115!

OP, check out the guide linked in my signature. It should give you some guidance on a playstyle that it sounds like would interest you.

Dackjanielz wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2024 6:41 pm Yeah i agree with this dilemma - it is one i feel all the time.

I personally think a healer should have 3 healing specs and tanks should have 3 tank specs.

Some classes do a good job in this regard, Knight for example is a brilliant 2h spec tank, his damage is not that impressive but thats not the point, his utility and survival however is very good, Destro players often AVOID my knight when im using this and rightly so.

But warrior priest is not one of them im afraid to say, Wrath priest sucks to be blunt, it is somewhat "enjoyable" but performance wise it is simply lacking...

Your damage is lesser than DPS classes, you have no utility, no survival, no healing....Yeah...

Runepriest on the other hand - now THATS how you design a good healer.
All three mastery paths can do both healing and damage, brilliant in my opinion.

You COULD do a grace build priest, the healing and dmg is not bad here but this spec only works in scenarios, it wont work in open RVR so if you're happy with that then up to you.

Good luck!

SJHarrison4115 wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:27 pm Hello again Plainguy!

Just wanting to put my 2 cents in again, though, fair warning, there are absolutely better/more experienced players than me out there.

The leveling experience can be the absolute most fun you'll have as a Warrior Priest as you can do some things that just aren't viable at end-game.

For my part, I leveled exclusively through PVP in SCs especially and I found that rather counter-intuitively, if you run 2H whilst investing in Grace and Wrath semi-equally, you can output some insane healing and very very reasonable DPS.

With Strength gear you can slot armor tali's and you'll end up being very, very robust (as WPs are naturally). The strength gear is important if you want to get amongst the fight as your lifetaps are based off your damage dealt.

Divine Assault is your bread'n'butter skill to keep people alive and if you get good at target switching you can top healing boards in SCs before 40. You can switch your defensive target mid channel and spread the healing out. Which when you're doing some biiig crits can be really high.

Look- Wrath isn't in a great space right now, but it's not terrible either and you need to understand something that is overlooked constantly. "You cannot deal damage if you're dead." This is less obvious in SC's where dying and rejoining the battle is expedient, but in RvR it's very, very evident.

You are the ultimate brawler as a Warrior Priest, your survivability if you play correctly is unmatched. You're able to bash in with anyone and you make a vital Combat Resser.

You don't play to top DPS charts, you play because you have something no-one else does. Versatility. Runepriests and Archmages are great and can deal quite decent damage along with toping healing, but whilst they're running away as soon as anything gets in their face, you're swinging a big f**kin hammer at whoever dares to get in your space.

In terms of gearing, it can be hard, as most gear is indeed tailored towards willpower, I'd recommend just avoiding spending War Crests as much as possible. Take any of the PVE sets that offer strength scaling (Beastlord is a good start at 40 whilst you move towards Bloodlord).

If you want to play Wrath, you'll need to try obtain Sov/Warlord as quickly as possible that means hording your crests.

It can take awhile to hit the benchmarks in this build, but obtaining Grace of Sigmar helps your lifetap output signficantly (this was WAAY better when it was obtainable earlier, but oh well.) Prior to getting Grace of Sigmar, you can consider running Greave of Sigmar, a Toughness Buff and DeBuff is quite significant and can assist your outputs by a massive margin.

Leading the Prayer (w/ Prayer of Devotion) is super important for this one, as with the changes to the internal cooldown, this gives you a truly insane amount of self-heal based off the actions of your allies.

You want the extra crit from Fanaticism as all you're Renown points will be spent on defences.

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Go forth my friend and embrace the mantra of "Do not go quietly into that goodnight, rage, rage against the dying of the light."

(Disclaimer: Yes, I do understand that compared to traditional paths this can absolutely be considered to be unviable or off Meta, however prior to CR40 it worked for me in a big way where I was routinely top 5'ing DPS charts and Healing in SCs.)