How to Win Friends and Influence Priests

[Concillian]

I think the game would be helped GREATLY by a quest that demonstrates how aggro/threat works. Something of an escort quest that has increasing numbers of elite enemies and a fairly fragile AoE mage or healer to escort.

Many people would probably just complete it overlevel or ignore it, but it should be there, have a good reward and be available at every major city in some form or another.

Too many times my priest(s) have been teamed with the "melee damage" warrior who focuses on only one target. Most recently one who didn't pay attention to my mana bar and kept charging to pull (causing at least 2-3 extra adds on top of what we should have had) He, of course caused a wipe because he started a battle when I literally had zero mana.

I used to think the healer was the most important party member, but after having played priests and warriors in several instances, I'm going to have to change that to the tank is the single most important member of the party. The healer's role is fairly well defined and self evident, while the tank's role is apparently not as easy to pick up. I've partied with more good priests as a warrior than good tanks as a priest.

Add to the complication that in 2 out of 3 character trips to RFC, someone in my party has called in someone 40+ from their guild to help out, and I'm beginning to understand why people in higher level instances have little clue how to play their class in a group.