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Babe Bridou wrote:
> mikel wrote:
> 
>> I just wanted to interject that for the first time I am leveling up a 
>> priest beyond single digits, and finding it to be way more fun than I 
>> expected. I know that during some conversations a little while back, 
>> about the mage leveling project, you had warned me that lower levels 
>> as a priest were boring solo, but I am not finding them so. I don't 
>> know why--perhaps it's the experience of leveling a few mages--but I'm 
>> finding it very easy and a lot of fun.
>>
>> A group of eight of us recently decided to all create new characters 
>> on Ursin, which is a fairly new PVP server. For some in the group it's 
>> the first PVP server; for me it's just a chance to experience a brand 
>> new environment with a bunch of good friends. My "senior" character on 
>> Ursin is Crawley, an Undead priest. He is just 16 now.
>>
>> At 15 I took him down to Camp Taurajo to test him out against the 
>> Bristlebacks down there. I've used them as staple grinding for several 
>> characters, and I thought 15 was a bit low (you need to kill 16, 17, 
>> 18, and the occasional 19), but I wanted to test him out in a known 
>> location.
>>
>> What a surprise! Crawley had no trouble with 16s, 17s, or 18s, and was 
>> able to survive several fights with multiple adds, or with 19s. I'm 
>> finding it easier to grind there with a priest than it was with an 
>> equal-level mage, even though I had lots of experience with a mage. 
>> The mobs don't die as fast, but Crawley has ground a whole level 
>> without dying at all, and without sitting down to drink more than 
>> three or four times the whole level.
>>
>> Soloing a priest is just way easier and more fun than I expected. And 
>> it's almost like playing two totally different characters in one, 
>> because the experience of playing a priest in a group is so different 
>> from playing one solo.
> 
> 
> Priests are really, really consistent soloists once you get to level 15 
> or so. From then on, you have good firepower, enough to handle most 
> mobs, and if you go the "fast" shadow way, you can say bye to downtime 
> at level 15 (spirit tap), all the way to level 60.

Thanks for the tip; I had grabbed Blackout, because my career as a Fire 
Mage made me love stuns. Now I have a point in Spirit Tap.


> Until level 10 I had troubles. Damage was low, downtime was immense by 
> my standards - before starting my priest I had a hunter to level 25 and 
> an enhancement shaman to level 38. After that, I decided to go holy 
> right away, giving myself a consistent disadvantage (less damage AND 
> more downtime) for solo gaming.

Well, I gotta say that my Enhancement Shaman is the king of leveling 
among my characters, even better than my rogues. So if your experience 
was similar, then almost anything is going to seem worse by comparison. :-)

> There are probably only two priests that levelled to 60 the "hard" way 
> (troll holy priest) on my server, and between the two, I'm the only one 
> to still have a heal [rank 2] hotkey, go figure ;)