Why Your Priest Needs the PvP Bible More Than Ever

Player versus Player (PvP) combat is in your Priest’s future, even if you’ve avoided it so far. Wrath of the Lich King (WotLK) has brought more advanced, real time battles to the game.

The first real time PvP battle zone is Lake Wintergrasp. In this new zone, players go at it on the live server (no instancing) to win points that allow them to buy special items.

Given the popularity of Lake Wintergrasp and the trend toward PvP combat in the gaming industry, you’ll surely see more even more PvP in WoW in the future. Here’s what you need to know for your Priest to excel in this new world:

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Competing in WoW PvP combat as a Priest requires a lot of forethought and planning. With loads of mana and a wide variety of healing spells, a Priest can be a strong PvP combatant. However, since they have a low health level and no armor, if an opponent can get past your Priest’s defenses, it’s all over. If you want to be successful in Priest PvP combat, you have to have a smart plan. If you don’t, your Priest will be dying an awful lot.

When a Priest is part of a PvP combat team, it’s usually assumed that the Priest is there to heal the rest of the party. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Holy and Discipline Priests are extremely useful in group PvP in the arena and battlegrounds, providing debuffs, buffs, and generally filling the time-honored healer role. Shadow Priests, on the other hand can be powerful DPS (Damage Per Second) dealers, with the added bonus of being able to heal when necessary. Whether your Priest primarly aids the party, or primarily goes out to do damage to the enemy depends on how you develop and play the class.

A Priest can be very effective against many classes – they can crowd control with Fear and deal DoTs (Damage Over Time) spells, while at the same time, they can dispell most any spell an opponent casts. But put a Priest up against other classes, and the Priest will be helpless to defend itself. Without the correct strategy, a Priest has no realistic chance against a Rogue, for example.

This is why a quality Priest PvP Guide is imperative for getting the best possible results. A good guide will not only show you strategies and tactics your Priest can use against each type of opponent, it will give you a better idea of how each other class is likely to attact your Priest. A good Priest PvP Guide will also give you more than just a few standard strategies for Priests. It will show you exactly how to take on each of the other classes in one on one duels. And it should show how the Priest, in each of its three specs (Holy, Discipline, and Shadow), can best fit into a 2v2, 3v3, or 5v5 team.

Because a quality PvP Guide contains the hard-earned combat experience of veteran Priests, it will contain information that you’re unlikely to discover on your own. It will teach you the key things you need to know, saving you vast amounts of time and energy you would otherwise spend on trial and error.

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