The Five Stages of Priest Grief

[Alkhara Majere]

1) Shock followed by Denial

This is the first time you watch a druid tank through the Ramparts, switch forms to heal everyone, and then go cat form to dps the boss for the last 10%. No way Bliz could have made a character that can do all that! Or maybe you’ve just been 3 shotted or the umpteenth time in a battleground, or reached level 50 on your NE before you first heard of desperate prayer or FW. Everyone’s shock comes a little differently, but the denial is the same.

2) Anger, envy, and resentment

You come to these boards and lay out all the reasons why priests are horrible. You despise warlocks, mock hunters, and resent druids for all the right reasons. Shadow priests even get a bit of cold shoulder, since a few of them claim not to worry about the insult that is the Holy tree. How dare they!?! Anyone who posts a thought counter to your position risks getting an earful of abbreviated insults. Sometimes you feel a bit bad about it later, but you’re just so mad you can’t help it!

3) Bargaining

A blue post! A blue post! Now is your chance to tell Bliz the 10,000 things you know they need to fix, if only they weren’t so stupid! But you back off a bit. You know you can’t expect them to do it all at once, so you add your most important thoughts to page 36 of the “Constructive Feedback” post. You’ve done well. It’s going to be ok.

4) Depression

Nothing has changed. You tried to go back to step 2, but who has the energy for that anymore? There really is no point to any of this. Priests are the inbred cousin from Carolina backwoods that everyone wishes didn’t show up to the Love is in the Air festival. Time to reroll. Time to switch to your Alt. Of course, it never gets so bad that you actually quit WoW. That would be more depressing.

5) Acceptance

You realize that while your class isn’t the best one in the game, and you don’t have dozens of incomplete 4-player groups out there just waiting for you to sign on, the game is still pretty fun. The Outland is huge, and cool-looking, and there is no shortage of quests or instances to choose from. Even the race for gear seems a little less important for some reason. So long as you don’t think about what you can’t do, you realize your class is functional.

Coming back to visit the class forum, you start to see the patterns. That player is still in denial; that one is obviously resentful; oh there is another like me in acceptance! /wave. You hope several things get fixed, because really, some of them are just amazingly broken. But so long as you don’t want to do something like pvp with a holy spec, you’re having a good time with some friends online. That’s ok too.

[Kuiren]

Lol im in denial... XD

Funny post btw.

[Nugma]

How pro. Priests are win.

[Glynbeard]

<3 priests, wish i still had mine..

[Nugma]

<3 priests, wish i still had mine..

Go lvl one Glyn!

[Snitch]

Bloody World of Warcraft payment is "pending" from like 3 days ago so have to wait /cry.

Snitch

[Nugma]

Bloody World of Warcraft payment is "pending" from like 3 days ago so have to wait /cry.

Snitch

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