Mists of Pandaria Classic Discipline Priest Guide
Welcome to our Discipline Priest guide for Mists of Pandaria Classic, tailored for PvE content. Here, you will learn how all you need to know to play Discipline Priest proficiently. Click the links below to navigate the guide or read this page for a short introduction.
Discipline Priest Guide for Mists of Pandaria
In Mists of Pandaria, Discipline Priests
are known for their unique blend of damage prevention and healing through
dealing damage. They excel at mitigating damage and providing strong,
single-target heals while still being able to heal groups easily as well.
Overall, Mists of Pandaria
Discipline Priest
have a wide variety of utility while still being a versatile healer with a
unique playstyle, making them a valuable addition to any raid group.
Is Discipline Priest Viable in Mists of Pandaria
Discipline Priest is one of the
most powerful healers available during Mists of Pandaria. They bring a wide variety of
benefits to the group through buffs and powerful heals, and have some of the
strongest raid-wide defensive cooldowns in the game.
Discipline
is always desirable in raids, making it very easy for you to find a raid spot
any time.
Can absorb a ton of damage, preventing allies from even needing healing at all!
Extremely versatile healing kit.
Has some of the strongest defensive cooldowns in the game for a healer.
Deals a ton of damage while still fufilling the healer role.
Limited personal defensive cooldowns.
Performs poorly on fights with high reactive damage, that requires healing throughput.
Best Races for Discipline Priest
Below are our recommended races for both the Alliance and Horde
Discipline Priests.
Alliance
Alliance Priests will have a choice to make between choosing
Worgen for
1% cirt chance from
Viciousness and a movement speed increase on
Darkflight; or the
Humans racials
with 3% spirit increase via
The Human Spirit.
These racials are very close, making this a difficult decision. If you play
Shadow often, we would suggest you choose
Worgen for the
damage increase. If you are a big time PvP player,
Humans would be
the better option. If you are still on the fence,
Worgen will
serve you best
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Darkflight
Flayer
Viciousness
Human
Diplomacy
Will to Survive
Mace Specialization
Sword Specialization
The Human Spirit
Horde
Goblin will be
the go-to pick on the Horde side, giving you
Rocket Barrage, a much
needed mobility skill, as well as
Time is Money, a 1% spell haste
increase.
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Pack Hobgoblin
Rocket Barrage
Rocket Jump
Time is Money
Best Professions for Discipline Priest
Mists of Pandaria balances most professions to be an equal amount of bonus stats, with most professions giving an average of 320 stats increase. That being said, there are always certain advantages and disadvantages to each profession, making certain professions slightly stronger than others.
Engineering — Engineering remains the best in slot profession thanks to the new tinker
Synapse Springs.
Grounded Plasma Shield, another new tinker, is a decent on use defensive shield that can save your life.
Nitro Boosts remain a solid option for movement speed bursts during fights.
Tailoring — is a great choice for the
Lightweave Embroidery or
Darkglow Embroidery unique cloak enchants.
Blacksmithing — Allows you to add an additional socket to your gloves and bracers with
Socket Gloves and
Socket Bracer. While this is about the same stats gain as most other professions early on, once epic gems are introduced this profession becomes much stronger.
Priest Addons and Macros
Addons and Macros can greatly improve your quality of life during Mists of Pandaria. Listed below are some of our recommendations on Addons and Macros to help get the most out of your time playing the game.
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This guide has been written by Abide, TBC veteran for nearly a decade. Abide is a Warrior tank and multi-class expert currently playing on Faerlina as Horde. You can find him in the the Icy Veins Discord. You can also see him live on Twitch.