Discipline Priest Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — 12.0.5

Note that these builds are generic recommendations for various content. Certain raid encounters or Mythic+ dungeons favor slight build alterations in order to capitalize on key utility. In all of these cases, you will find builds tailored toward each encounter on the dedicated Mythic+ pages below.

On this page, we cover all of the talents you have access to, explaining how each one of them is to be used. Some of these talents, active or passive, can make a huge difference in how Discipline Priest is played, all of which is explained on our rotation page.

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Discipline Priest Talent Builds

Oracle Raid Voidweaver Raid Voidweaver Mythic+ Oracle Mythic+ Voidweaver Delves

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Oracle Raid Build for Discipline Priest

This build will be your primary build for raiding content. This build focuses on pushing strong Atonement output via the Mindbender, Death's Torment, and Inescapable Torment package during Evangelism windows or via looking for low health targets to snipe with Shadow Word: Death. Utilizing Penance exclusively as an Atonement applicator and single target heal instead of a dps button in addition to talenting into stronger shields via Eternal Barrier and Weal and Woe for strong single target capabilities as well. This build will provide the best overall output and will be fairly flexible although heavily reliant on the power of Void Shield.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

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Voidweaver Raid Build for Discipline Priest

This build is an alternative build for raiding content focused on the Voidweaver Hero Talent Tree. While this build runs a lot of the same talents as the Oracle primary build, you move away from the Eternal Barrier path and instead take the Greater Smite path as Void Blast is actually relevant output unlike Smite.

While this build can push ok numbers in raid, its significantly less flexible in regards to its output and requires very specific timings to not quickly fall behind. Additionally, its harder to play as the timing requirements are very tight. As a result, we recommend sticking to the default build unless we specifically call out a situation where this build can shine.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

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Voidweaver Mythic+ Build for Discipline Priest

This build is an alternative build for Mythic+ content. Providing a strong amount of output both with every Shadow Word: Death cast as well as your Entropic Rift windows, this build provides consistently solid Atonement healing options at the cost of weaker single target healing output.

Note: With repeated nerfs to Atonement, this build is quite a bit behind in potential output. While you can easily play it in weekly key content, it is not recommended and you will be trying significantly harder to keep up with HPS requirements compared to the Oracle alternative.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Oracle Mythic+ Build for Discipline Priest

This build is your primary build for Mythic+ content. This build focuses on leveraging the immense power of Void Shield by talenting into Eternal Barrier, Weal and Woe, and the final point of Master the Darkness. Additionally, the insane strength of Shadow Mend in situations where you can easily proc it will carry you through your hard single target healing requirements.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

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Voidweaver Delve Build for Discipline Priest

This build is recommended for Delve content both solo and in groups. The Voidweaver talent tree is capable of pushing incredible amounts of damage while also keeping you and your group alive.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

FAQHow Does Death's Torment Interact with Expiation, Inescapable Torment, and Shadowfiend?

While the bonus Shadow Word: Deaths only deal 15% of the initial damage, both Expiation and Inescapable Torment will do full damage on all three triggers. Shadowfiend will always spawn one Pet when using Shadow Word: Death in execute. The extra hits from Death's Torment each have a 15% chance to spawn an additional Shadowfiend.

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 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.

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.