Hey guys I just started playing my lowbie priest and I'm in WSG and I heard earlier today I can mind control people and use their abilities against their allies:

Ghostcrawler (Lead Systems Designer for WoW)

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We might do something like that for pets in general. Mind Control however is a really powerful ability. Not only does it prevent the target from doing anything, it also lets you use their abilities against their allies.It's going to be hard for us to remove too many downsides from the effect.

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Anyways I was hoping that one of the good priest players (been seeing Noxn him/herself posting!) could direct me and show me where exactly these abilities can be found, while mind controlling an enemy in PVP?

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We might do something like that for pets in general. Mind Control however is a really powerful ability. Not only does it prevent the target from doing anything, it also lets you use their abilities against their allies.It's going to be hard for us to remove too many downsides from the effect.

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That's a true statement. It doesn't apply to PvP, but some abilities work differently in PvP. Even though the OP was asking primarily from a PVP point-of-view, there have been a lot of Spriest questions on the forums lately, and I was trying to appeal to a broader audience so that the PvE priests wouldn't immediately reply with "But we were ignored."

I'd work a little harder on improving your WoW game and focus less on the "catch the dev in an apparent misstatement" game. :)

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Just ask Funeralpyre where 5 THREADS of capped constructive responses and discussion got?

They didn't get a single blue response.

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That's not true. It got a response yesterday. It would have been silly to respond to every shadow priest thread with the same message and frankly we were more interested in getting the information out than we were in evaluating which thread "won the contest."

I think you guys place far too much emphasis on the identity of the OP and their post. From my POV, I wanted to answer some shadow priest questions since I had to be the moderation jerk in a couple of whiny threads and the official Q&A was so far away. And regardless of whether or not it got a response, all of that discussion got us to talking and we ended up making some changes.

My advice is to take my recent shadow priest posts as "shadow priests finally got some answers" and not an endorsement of a particular thread or player who asked them. It's hard enough to find time to visit the forums. I don't want to have to play the game of deciding which thread is the most worthy.

I wanted to make a spriest post. Here's a spriest thread that isn't total QQ. Boom.

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insulting a customer, good alternative
maybe when you posted the MC response, you should of state when you were talking about PVP and PVE, instead of mutilating it into what it is now

real mature, downgrading him to fulfill your own self righteous needs,

i saw that post about "being adult"
how bout you practice what you preach, maybe you wouldn't come off as incompetent so much

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We don't need comments like this in these forums. Come back when you're ready to talk about the WoW classes.

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