By the account of everyone I know who plays priests, if you play Holy to level and do not have someone helping out the whole way, it will take eleven-billion years.
That could have changed in recent history, dunno, but at least used to be the wisdom I would hear that unless you hated yourself and enjoyed misery, you levelled Shadow or Discipline and then kicked over to Holy for raid healing if that's what you were gonna be doing.
But, okay, you have to understand I am WEIRDLY old-school. I started on the game only about a year after it game out, so basically everything was still fucking evilly hard compared to what it's like now (and was, still, much easier than previous MMOs were, omg, like EverQuest where when you died, you respawned and had to run to get your gear off your corpses or you just LOST YOUR GEAR ALTOGETHER). Like, when I picked it back up last year I was like, wtf, my mount can swim?! when I fell off the dock in Hinterlands, and the experience of levelling was totally effing different. I remember when Barrens chat was Barrens chat, and like. You wanted to set the entirely zone on FIRE if you were Horde because it was ugly and miserable and just about nearly all you could fucking do for quests for like TWELVE LEVELS. SO! My notion of how hard stuff is to do remains skewed.
TOTALLY RANDOMLY, I will note it's totally worth it, when you level to there, to go to Outlands as soon as you can (which is 68) because the XP is way better in Outlangs and also, it's freaking ridiculous levelling through Outlands because you get your flying mount at 70, and the place was designed for not having flying mounts until, what, 78? So, so many quests where you just fly in, grab something, and either fly out or run out, no grinding through all the mobs to get there. Sadly you do not get your Northrend flying mount until 78 unless you've already levelled a character to 80 (in which case, you do).
(My cunning plan is to get my main, a troll mage, to max-level before Cataclysm comes out. WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY SURE IF I WILL MANAGE. *facepalm*)
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That could have changed in recent history, dunno, but at least used to be the wisdom I would hear that unless you hated yourself and enjoyed misery, you levelled Shadow or Discipline and then kicked over to Holy for raid healing if that's what you were gonna be doing.
But, okay, you have to understand I am WEIRDLY old-school. I started on the game only about a year after it game out, so basically everything was still fucking evilly hard compared to what it's like now (and was, still, much easier than previous MMOs were, omg, like EverQuest where when you died, you respawned and had to run to get your gear off your corpses or you just LOST YOUR GEAR ALTOGETHER). Like, when I picked it back up last year I was like, wtf, my mount can swim?! when I fell off the dock in Hinterlands, and the experience of levelling was totally effing different. I remember when Barrens chat was Barrens chat, and like. You wanted to set the entirely zone on FIRE if you were Horde because it was ugly and miserable and just about nearly all you could fucking do for quests for like TWELVE LEVELS. SO! My notion of how hard stuff is to do remains skewed.
TOTALLY RANDOMLY, I will note it's totally worth it, when you level to there, to go to Outlands as soon as you can (which is 68) because the XP is way better in Outlangs and also, it's freaking ridiculous levelling through Outlands because you get your flying mount at 70, and the place was designed for not having flying mounts until, what, 78? So, so many quests where you just fly in, grab something, and either fly out or run out, no grinding through all the mobs to get there. Sadly you do not get your Northrend flying mount until 78 unless you've already levelled a character to 80 (in which case, you do).
(My cunning plan is to get my main, a troll mage, to max-level before Cataclysm comes out. WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY SURE IF I WILL MANAGE. *facepalm*)