RunePriest or WarriorPriest

[Witchhunter101]

Yeah me and a few of my friends are going to get WAR and play together as a group and we wanna know which would be better for heals and better for everything overall.

[Ascension]

Runepriests will be better healers than Warrior Priests.

[Rokk]

It may depend on what classes your friends choose to play, but overall it depends on what mechanic you want. Range or close-combat. No class should be better overall than another. I assume that certain class combos will mesh better tho.

EDIT: If you're melee than the melee/defense buffs and aoe heals might work very well with a warriorpriest. Just my 2 cents.

[Buckethead Wendy]

I'm in kinda the same predicament, cant decide which one of those two I'm gonna play when I'm grouping with my friends. As of now, I'm leaning towards WP, just because back line healing (or fighting for that matter) isn't my thing. But the RP will probably be the better overall healer, while the WP might have better survivability and damage capabilities. Just pure guesses at this point though.

[Fontaine]

Warrior Priest is not necessarily the worst healer of the two. A Rune Priest is considered a "flex" healer, which means that they are versatile in how they heal. They will specialize in which ever mastery tree they spec into: direct damage, hot/dot, or aoe.

That being said, a Warrior Priest will have some fantastic AoE/group heals.

If you want just a straight up healer, a Rune Priest will be the better choice. This is because, unlike the WP and AM, the Rune Priest does not need to do damage in order to heal/improve their healing. However on the flip side of this coin, is that the WP and AM are going to be much better at dealing damage than the Rune Priest.

[Soapbar]

Here is a secret about choosing a healer for this game that ancient sages from 1974 and beyond have passed to me: choose the class that seems like the most fun for you. The best class is usually is the one you will have the most fun with, where you will feel more connected with the game, thus an incentive to do your best to get the most enjoyment out of your experience.

[DwarfMan181]

IM NOT GONNA BE A WP!!!! How many times do I have to tell you "WitchHunter101"??????:mad::mad::mad: Im on Soapbar's side!:)

Ya Piece a Garbage!!!

[Kirska]

Runepriests will be better healers than Warrior Priests.

This is a broad statement, but overall I agree.

Runepriest: Heal, Heal, Heal, Heal
WP: Bang, Pew, Heal, Heal, Bang, Pew

[vaisadversary]

It totally depends on the fight situation, generally in a scenario/dungeon/what have you there will be multiple people, needing BOTH healers to be successful.

A Warrior Priest has single target attacks, AoE attacks and AoE heals. as well as single target heals but i think in most cases that will be left to the runepriest/archmage

Im not as familiar with a runepriest but im pretty sure hes handy with AoE attacks and alongside but not confirmed AoE heals as well.

Say you are doing a raid and you attempt to slay a dragon. The Warrior Priest would charge along side his fellow melee companions/tanks and engage on the dragon. as hes fighting and building his righteous fury, he uses his AoE heals and single target heals on occasion to replenish those close to him, AoE heal the close combat careers.

The Runeprist keeps at a far range and uses his runes to dps and fortify his teammates, and to both AoE and single target heal ranged dpsers and maybe the tank or whatnot.

It would be difficult and inefficient for a Warrior priest who is meleeing this dragon to target and run back to a ranged friend in need of heals, then charge back into combat, and repeat this throughout the fight, and it would be harder for a ranged runepriest to select a melee friend dancing under the feet of this dragon and run up to heal him, then return to his position to heal others.

basically both healers are going to be fantastic in their own way, both healers have their own mechanic, but both healers will certainly be needed for various situations. none should be praised as the [best] healer.

[Ladner]

I'm guessing if you have a proper group with a tank, then the Rune Priest will be the best for RvR.

However, with no tank (and therefore no taunt / guard) then a Warrior Priest is the way to be -- armor etc.

[Goosey_J]

I have have a powerful gut feeling that overall, Rune Priests will out heal Warrior Priests. Because of the Warrior Priest's melee abilities and heavier armour, I believe their healing ability will be weaker (in order to compensate). I reckon that the Rune Priest will be the guy that keeps the tanks up (the guys that should theoretically receive the most damage) while the Warrior priest will be watching over the general flock, healing and assisting where is needed.

I don't think that this speculation will be too far off the mark.

[Vyker]

It totally depends on the fight situation, generally in a scenario/dungeon/what have you there will be multiple people, needing BOTH healers to be successful.

A Warrior Priest has single target attacks, AoE attacks and AoE heals. as well as single target heals but i think in most cases that will be left to the runepriest/archmage

Im not as familiar with a runepriest but im pretty sure hes handy with AoE attacks and alongside but not confirmed AoE heals as well.

Say you are doing a raid and you attempt to slay a dragon. The Warrior Priest would charge along side his fellow melee companions/tanks and engage on the dragon. as hes fighting and building his righteous fury, he uses his AoE heals and single target heals on occasion to replenish those close to him, AoE heal the close combat careers.

The Runeprist keeps at a far range and uses his runes to dps and fortify his teammates, and to both AoE and single target heal ranged dpsers and maybe the tank or whatnot.

It would be difficult and inefficient for a Warrior priest who is meleeing this dragon to target and run back to a ranged friend in need of heals, then charge back into combat, and repeat this throughout the fight, and it would be harder for a ranged runepriest to select a melee friend dancing under the feet of this dragon and run up to heal him, then return to his position to heal others.

basically both healers are going to be fantastic in their own way, both healers have their own mechanic, but both healers will certainly be needed for various situations. none should be praised as the [best] healer.

First off, to say you don't know much about the runepriest means that your info concerning this topic is not particularly useful. In order to weigh in on a comparison of the runepriest and the warrior priest you would need to know something about both classes.

I don't understand this post at all. It seems as if you are implying that healing range is lower than damage spell range (by saying the warrior priest must go to the ranged to heal them and that a runepriest must go to the tanks to heal them) which, while that may be true, is a serious divergence to every other mmo I have ever played. I assume you mean to say that the only aoe heals are pbaoe heals. Since you are referring specifically to "dungeons and scenarios" I would be surpised to see that aoe heals would be a huge factor in those types of encounters. Additionally, I don't know how you can say that its not confirmed that the runepriest can aoe heal since the mastery trees have been officially released we do indeed know that the runepriest gets aoe heals and has a mastery tree related to them. Of course not 2 paragraphs later you say runepriests can aoe heal. Directly contradicting yourself in the same post is a real rarity and a pleasure for those of us who can read.

You basically say that warrior priests will heal the melee chars and runepriests will heal the ranged chars. While this is an interesting idea, I strongly doubt that it will be that cut and dry. The reality of the situation is, of course, you don't know what you are talking about and your conclusions are not useful in any way as a result. If you really are in the beta as your avatar claims (which i strongly doubt given your post here) then roll a runepriest, learn what abilities it has, and return to give us a real evaluation because we are interested in informed opinions here.

[vaisadversary]

rawr.
someone has forum rage.

unless YOU have played the beta yourself stfu and dont tell me to lay low for i have played and from what i have experienced my statement stands.

fast pace fights does not allow time for camera panning and targeting. if you want to be successful that is.

[rukusix]

I thought the answer was obvious. It's gotta be RP since Dwarves are the master race.

[ElevenBravo]

I thought the answer was obvious. It's gotta be RP since Dwarves are the master race.

I always thought that dwarfs where like the Danny Divto's in the movie Twins, left overs!

[Griswelda]

I think the RP will be the most flexible healer in that it will go well with any group setup. IMO the WP will be best used in a melee heavy group where his AE heals/buffs etc can effect those in his immediate vicinity.

Also having tanks/dps close by will aid in his survival, whereas alone out front he will be ripe for the picking because lets face it people are still going to kill the healers first whenever they can.