Does Priests need AP?

[Max]

So, I was in SM GY and.....









Can you tell me(I never had a priest) Do priests need Attack Power or was he just a dick?

[Tahlian]

No. Priests, regardless of spec, need a certain amount of spell power. Attack power affects melee and ranged physical attacks, not magical ones.

[Tyuriwen]

Just...no. XD That's...just wow.

They get their AP from SP (spell power). >.<

[Dewclaw]

No, priests do not need AP...unless he was a staff melee priest...

[Tyuriwen]

unless he was a staff melee priest...

Sounds like me when I run out of ammo. Such a huntard, ammirite?

[cowmuflage]

isnt AP for non spell casters or have i been greatly misstaken

[kamoodle5]

AP only promotes physical power, thus classes that either use melee or ranged ar ethe best candidates for AP. I know that rogues, hunters, and druids (depending on how you spec) will do, and I guess warriors, too, even though they prefer strength.

Well, it's like the warlock I went to RFK with that rolled for and won mail and leather armor and he cannot wear them.

[Sarayana]

No two ways about it: casters DO NOT need AP. Ever.

AP is for rogues, ret/prot pallies (prot for threat), kitty and bear druids, hunters, death knights, warriors, and enhance shammies.

Priests, mages, warlocks, holy pallies, resto/ele shammies, boomkin and trees need SP.


That being said, he was probably just not aware of stats. At lower levels, a lot of people just play it by ear and think a blue is always better than a green, that kind of thing. I sincerely doubt he was griefing you. (Unless he was all in heirlooms. Having a level 80 that runs heroics or BGs enough to buy gear for alts has no excuse for not understanding stats!)

Sorry you lost the roll though.

[kamoodle5]

Same ordeal for the rookie mistake of thinking a purple is better than a blue before reading the stats.

[Sarayana]

Yup. *rolls eyes*