| As I mentioned above the priest first concern is to prevent a wipe of the group. Sometimes its obvious that you simply are not going to win whatever nightmare fight you have got yourself into. At which point a priest may very legitimately run and hide until the mobs leave and return and rez the group, however in some cases the priest has already attracted aggro and knows he will never get away.
At which point he may see another class which can rez running away, so a clever priest will do everything he can to insure they get away. My brother plays a druid, so I know if it all goes down and he gets away he can return and rez me then I can rez everyone else, strangely priest do have some spells which draw massive aggro so in that case I will use them and heal my brother so that he can
escape and shadow meld until the danger has gone.
Since my priest is here to heal he needs no buffs right?
A priest needs buffs just as much as you do, when grouping I always ask party members not to worry about giving me attack buffs but armour buffs and mental buffs like Arcane Intellect are sorely needed. Mages this also applies to your water.
Heal yourself
If you can, heal. Say you?re a pally or druid remember that when the @#!t really hits the fan the priest is going to be intent on keeping the main tank alive, sometimes he can be chain casting to do just that. He may not have time to do anything else. So if you can heal yourself in a tight spot.
Warlocks
Make sure you put that soulstone on your priest rather then yourself, because your priest can then rez everyone else.
Pet classes
Remember that we can not see your pets health like we can see the groups health bars, we have to manually target your pet to see its health, and guys remember when the fight gets hairy we have a lot on our plate, however there?s no harm in asking ?can you heal my pet? every now and again, because we may just have not had time to check it.
Pallys
There is nothing worse then getting through an instant getting most of the way there then dying, only to discover that the two pallys you have with you haven?t bothered to do the quest to get resurrection. Do the quest, pretty please.
You may believe that none of this matter?s however bear in mind that while you can get away with it now at higher levels having a priest in your group can really make a difference, even at lower levels if you offend a priest enough he or she will never group with you again. I?m lvl 26 right now, and usually with 2 minutes of logging on I will receive 2 or 3 tells from players asking me to join
their groups because I have healed well for them before, those players who have looked after me I will do my up most for, however those that I have grouped with and completely break every above rule I will remember. Please guys, we are a supporting class and we choose this role because we enjoy helping, so help us help you.  |