Discipline Priest Healing Stat Priority — Midnight (12.0.1)

All of our secondary stats are very close in value. Due to the scaling of Intellect on gear as well as the closeness of the secondary stat values, targeting the highest item level possible is almost always the correct play in terms of gearing outside of edge cases. For a more in-depth discussion about gearing, check out our gearing guide.

For more information on how the information on this page is determined, as well as what Enchants and Consumables to use based on the results, take a look at the following two pages.

The stat priority is as follows when deciding between equal item level gear:

1. Haste
2. Crit
3. Mastery
4. Versatility

The stat priority is as follows when deciding between equal item level gear:

1. Haste
2. Crit
3. Mastery
4. Versatility

Intellect is your primary stat. Ensure that all gear you are wearing (except for trinkets and jewelry) have intellect on them as every point of Intellect will increase your the power of your damage and healing.

Haste reduces the cast time of your spells, reduces the cooldown of Power Word: Shield, Mind Blast, and Penance, reduces your global cooldown and more. Moreover, it increases the number of attacks your Shadowfiend/ Mindbender can make, and the number of ticks from Shadow Word: Pain.

Mastery ( Mastery: Grace) increases your healing on Atonement targets. Please note that this DOES work with your Atonement healing and not just your direct healing.

Critical Strike grants your damaging spells and heals a chance to double their value. That said, it is worth noting that it does not double-dip with regards to Atonement healing (Atonement heals cannot be critical hits; they only heal for the amount of damage that was done, which is the only portion that can be a critical strike).

Versatility is a simple damage and healing done increase. Additionally, however, it does also provide a small damage taken reduction as well.

Leech grants you self-healing based on your outgoing damage and healing events. This free self-sustain can reduce the amount of Mana and global cooldowns you and the other healers have to spend healing you during major damage events, allowing you to focus more on the people that need it. Due to this stat being a tertiary stat instead of a secondary stat, it is not going to be found very often but will remain powerful when it is.

Diminishing returns on secondary stats mean that once you break a specific threshold (shown below) for each stat, the amount of rating of that stat required to equal one percent will increase slightly. This does not mean that you need to entirely avoid these stats once you go over these thresholds, as they are not hard caps.