Discipline Priest Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

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The War Within Talent Builds for Discipline Priest

Shield-Focused Oracle Raid Pet-Focused Oracle Raid Voidweaver Raid Oracle Mythic+ Voidweaver Mythic+

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Shield-Focused Oracle Raid Build for Discipline Priest

This build will be your primary build for raiding content. Utilizing the strong passives surrounding both Penance and Power Word: Shield, this build pushes very strong HPS via both shields for spot healing as well as strong Atonement output.

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Pet-Focused Oracle Raid Build for Discipline Priest

This build is an alternative build for raiding content. While less potential HPS than the recommended build, this build is a fun alternative for people that want to play around the new pet/ Shadow Word: Death mechanics in Mindbender, Death's Torment, Expiation, and Inescapable Torment.

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Voidweaver Raid Build for Discipline Priest

This build provides a Voidweaver build for players that want to utilize this Hero Talent Tree. Keep in mind that with the various changes to the class moving into Midnight, this Hero Tree is significantly behind in potential output.

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Oracle Mythic+ Build for Discipline Priest

This build is your go-to for Mythic+ content. Providing both strong Atonement output as well as significant single target healing options on very short cooldowns makes the build very flexible regardless of what is thrown at it.

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Voidweaver Mythic+ Build for Discipline Priest

This build is an alternative Mythic+ build for players that want to utilize the Voidweaver Hero Talent tree. While this build can push out solid AoE healing via Atonement, it struggles during windows where it does not have access to Entropic Rift. It also has significantly less options for single target healing compared to the recommended build above.

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The Oracle primarily amping the value of Penance. 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 turn Penance into a monster of a spell. It's versatility in regards to being both a AoE healing tool through Atonement as well as a strong single target heal make simply pressing Penance on cooldown a very strong baseline for your healing output.

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 on cooldown 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, which despite the tool tip saying its a 50% damage increase, is actually a 100% damage increase. 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. As a result, this Hero Tree is not recommended for most content.

In the following section, we will break down the more situational options or choices to be made within the talent tree. Talent nodes that have value but may not be good or generic enough to be played in all situations. If a talent node is not mentioned, it is due to it either being an instant pick already or too bad to ever take. Please refer to the above-linked talent builds if you are unsure of which category a talent falls into. If you are looking for a description of all talents/spells, please take a look at our spells page linked below:

While Enduring Luminescence is the default in the recommended Raid and Mythic+ builds above, Bright Pupil is still viable. Bright Pupil is very dependent on the exact incoming damage needs and you may find this talent in various alternative builds and boss specific talent selections if the exact timers match up.

While Dark Energy is our default for both forms of content as having a high uptime movement speed buff is generically valuable, keep an eye out for opportunities where the movement speed slow attached to your Entropic Rift via No Escape can provide significant value.

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.