Discipline Priest Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — 12.0.5

Following multiple tuning adjustments over the course of Season 1, Discipline has settled into a very Void Shield focused gameplay loop for both Raid and Mythic+ content. For both recommended talent builds, you will find they very heavily lean into modifiers for Power Word: Shield as they work with Void Shield itself. Our current recommendations are as follows:

• Raid - Oracle, for a variety of reasons, leverages the strength of Void Shield better than the alternative. Additionally, repeated nerfs to Atonement disproportionally affect Voidweaver comparatively.
• Mythic+ - Oracle, for similar reasons to raid, leverages the strength of Void Shield better than the alternative. Additionally, the single target strength provided by Shadow Mend is very strong in Mythic+ content due to the much higher average target count allowing a significant number of procs per minute.

While the Voidweaver alternatives can be played and accomplish many key levels, they are far enough behind in overall output that we do not recommend them anywhere.

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The builds listed above are popular recommendations, covering various different loadouts suited to each style of endgame content. Each Talent Build will have it's own rotation, and can also be manipulated further for specific types of content and to better benefit your group.

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Discipline Priest's Apex talent, Master the Darkness, has 4 total ranks with 3 different effects in total. The first Master the Darkness, provides a chance for your next Power Word: Shield after casting Penance to be turned into Void Shield. This shield is significantly stronger than normal and splashes to two additional nearby allies. Your second and third ranks of Master the Darkness, Master the Darkness, are simple passive nodes increasing both your overall Atonement healing and all shadow damage per rank. Finally, your fourth rank of Master the Darkness, Master the Darkness, causes a percentage of your Void Shield amount to be reflected back as damage when absorbed. This damage does contribute to healing through Atonement, making this talent incredibly powerful.

From a rotation perspective, this talent is not particularly difficult to use. Whenever you get a proc, use it before you cast your next Penance to ensure you do not waste a potential proc. Additionally, you can delay your cast to line it up with a major damage event to abuse the reflect damage contributing to Atonement healing.

Starting at level 71, Hero Talents allow players the ability to shape and focus their gameplay by picking one of two mutually exclusive options. Oracle and Voidweaver are the options given to Discipline Priest.

The beginning node of the tree, Guiding Light, provides an additional charge of Penance, providing a large amount of flexibility and control in your output. Other nodes like Preventive Measures, Prophet's Insight, Prompt Prognosis, and the immensely powerful Twinsight all push the power of Penance. Unfortunately due to the fact that Penance applies Atonement when directly cast on an ally but not via Twinsight, we almost exclusively use Penance as an Atonement applicator and single target heal as Oracle, allowing the offensive bolts from Twinsight to provide the Atonement healing.

With Penance applying Atonement, Twinsight provides some significant value in regards to simply floating a non-insignificant amount of Atonements via simply pressing Penance on cooldown. Combine this with the longer Atonement duration via Preemptive Care and you have a strong combination of near constant output.

Oracle also provides some solid bonuses to Power Word: Shield via Preventive Measures and Waste No Time. Combine this with nodes on the Discipline tree like Weal and Woe and Eternal Barrier and pressing Power Word: Shield often provides significant value.

Oracle synergizes incredibly well with Discipline's new Apex Talent due to the fact that Void Shield inherits Power Word: Shield modifiers.

Voidweaver focuses entirely on Entropic Rift. Casting Mind Blast creates a rift that deals damage to all enemies within. This rift grows in power as you cast Penance, making it larger and stronger. During the duration of the rift, your smite is transformed into Void Blast, which is a significantly more powerful version. When the rift expires, it collapses and deals a large burst of damage, which can be a signfiicant amount of healing.

Voidweaver also provides Voidwraith, which is a pet that is summoned after the rift expires. This pet's attacks heal allies via Atonement and synergizes well with talents in the Discipline tree like Inescapable Torment and Death's Torment.

This Hero Tree also has a very large modifier for Mind Blast via Overwhelming Shadows. Between all of the above mentioned effects, this tree pushes a significant amount of power into Mind Blast as a button, but as a result can leave you feeling quite weak when it is on cooldown. This spec also suffers from a lack of strong single target healing options unlike Oracle.

In Midnight, there remains the option to go into "War Mode." Enabling War Mode provides the following benefits:

• PvP talents enabled in the outdoor world.
• 10% increase in World Quest rewards at maximum level.
• 10% more experience gained while leveling.
• Earn Conquest Points, which can reward gear every week.

With the benefits of enabling War Mode for PvE content minimal in this expansion, it is not recommended to enable the feature. War Mode remains an attractive option for leveling purposes due to the increased experience gain.

In this section, we will rank the PvP talents best for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content. Below is a ranking of Discipline Priest-specific PvP talents. For more information on what is valuable in a competitive PvP setting instead of an open-world focus, please take a look at our PvP guide.

1. Inner Light and Shadow is a toggleable ability that grants you either 10% increased spell damage and Atonement healing or 15% less Mana cost on healing spells. Leaving this on the damage increase portion while leveling will result in a solid DPS and survivability gain.
2. Dark Archangel increases your damage and the damage of all allies with your Atonement by 15% for 8 seconds. This is great for small group world content where giving your group a DPS buff will be more impactful than taking a small boost to your own damage via any of the above three talents.
3. Your third option is very flexible as the remaining options do not provide much raw DPS value. Pick whatever seems fun to you for defensive/healing value.

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