In Battleground Blitz, the primary role of Discipline Priest is to support your team with strong healing and damage output. Their first objective is to keep their team alive, more through damage prevention than actual healing. Their second objective is to support their team with damage, crowd control, and offensive purges to keep the enemy team under pressure. Atonement allows Discipline Priests to accomplish both objectives simultaneously as the damage they deal heals their entire team.

• Ultimate Radiance
• Phase Shift
• Inner Light

Ultimate Radiance makes an already strong spell, Evangelism, to have a 45 second less cooldown, and Power Word: Radiance healing is increased by 15%. Phase Shift will help you move around the map easier. Discipline Priests have very little mobility when they are slowed and this helps with that issue. The final talent is Inner Light that reduces the mana cost of spells when Inner Light is active, and increases damage/healing through Atonement when Inner Shadow is active.

For an in-depth guide to Discipline Priest talents, read here:

In Battleground Blitz, without the Arena Dampening effect, healers, when left alone, are able to sustain against many players with relative ease. The way to counter the high throughput of healers in Battleground Blitz is with the effective use of crowd control.

Discipline Priest has many tools in its kit to aid with this:

• Psychic Scream
• Void Tendrils
• Mind Control
• Leap of Faith - Not a defensive, but can be used to help teammates move around the map a bit easier. This pairs well with Save the Day.

You have several defensive abilities you can use to help keep you and your team alive.

• Power Word: Barrier is a powerful defensive cooldown, but it is rarely used because it is on a choice node with Ultimate Penitence. There are very few situations where you will be playing Barrier. Typically you will want to use Barrier when an Assassination Rogue uses Deathmark or when a Retribution Paladin uses Avenging Wrath. It can also be used when a Rogue uses Smoke Bomb on one of your teammates. That way, your teammate should stay alive long enough for the Smoke Bomb to end, and you will then be able to heal. Ultimate Penitence is the primary choice you will be using on this choice node. This gives you additional damage to contribute to kills and an extra cooldown to rotate with your other defensive cooldowns.
• Pain Suppression is very powerful defensive. It will primarily be used while you are stunned and anticipate either follow-up crowd control on you, high burst damage on someone in your team, or both. You should still use it outside of a stun if someone in your team is going to die.
• Desperate Prayer increases your health by 25% for 10 seconds and instantly heals you for that amount. This is a good spell to use when you are the target of the enemy team and struggle to keep yourself alive.
• Fade is a very underestimated cooldown as Discipline Priest. Thanks to the talent Translucent Image, Fade reduces all damage taken for a short amount of time. Fade has a very low cooldown, so make sure to use it whenever you take significant damage, and you won't need it as a freedom effect.
• Shadowfiend is a powerful offensive cooldown and a good defensive one. You can use it for burst damage when your team goes for a kill. You can also use it before a CC chain on you to have it heal your allies through Atonement while you are in CC. Note that your Shadowfiend grants you Mana every time it attacks. As such, you do not want to use it when you are at 100% Mana, but you want to use it as early in the game as possible to get the cooldown back early to generate even more Mana and stay in the fight longer.
• Power Infusion grants your target 20% Haste for 15s. You can use it both offensively and defensively. Ideally, you will want to use this when your DPS teammates are using their offensive cooldowns. Remember that thanks to the talent Twins of the Sun Priestess, you also get Power Infusion for yourself when using it on an ally.

1. Intellect
2. Versatility
3. Mastery
4. Haste
5. Critical Strike

The stat priority for Discipline Priest is the same in Battleground Blitz and Arena. If you want an in-depth explanation and suggestions on gear, read our gearing section here:

If you get either Warsong Gulch or Twin Peaks as a map, you will likely be playing offense. This means that when an enemy player picks up your flag your goal is to kill that flag carrier. Your main focus will be to keep your offensive team alive by any means necessary. Rotate Pain Suppression and Dome of Light to stay alive as long as possible. Psychic Scream is a valuable crowd control spell because it can be used on multiple players. Use this when several enemies are stacked.

On resource race maps, your primary goal is to keep your team alive at whichever base is decided to be fought over. There is not much room for you to make plays or defend bases by yourself. The best healers will be able to heal through the team fight and ensure the team fight is won by their team. Trade Pain Suppression when your team gets low and focus on maximizing Atonement healing.

Similar to resource race maps, your goal is to keep your team alive in the big team fights. The goal on this map, unlike normal Rated Battlegrounds, is to team fight at one node and try to cap both bases. This results in long 7v7 team fights, and the winner will more than likely pull ahead quickly. Trade Pain Suppression when your team gets low and dispel crowd control with Purify. Use Psychic Scream when multiple enemies are stacked.

Note: Capping the flag will make the inactive bases active, and both teams will have to recap the nodes. Use this tactic if your team is falling behind on points or lost the team fight.

Ranged DPS specializations will always be the best orb carriers on Temple of Kotmogu, so do not grab the flag unless it is a dire situation and you have to. The most important part about this map is to win the initial team fight and quickly gain momentum by grabbing 3 orbs and standing in the middle of the map. When the enemy team starts to resurrect, leave middle and kite around the center. Here are some tips for this map:

• Players take more damage the longer they hold the orb. This means that, eventually, the Orb carriers will die. Ideally, your team will only hold 2-3 orbs at a time so that you do not easily wipe when you have high stacks.
• Make sure you die on the correct side of the map! You and your team will resurrect depending on where you died. If you die on purple side, you will resurrect on blue side and vise versa. Ensuring you and your team resurrect together is crucial, this will allow you to regroup faster and quickly wipe the enemy team that will be weak.
• There are leaves at every orb; if you are low on Mana, make sure you grab one!