Mists of Pandaria Classic Discipline Priest Guide

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.

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.

Strengths

• 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.

Weaknesses

• Limited personal defensive cooldowns.
• Performs poorly on fights with high reactive damage, that requires healing throughput.

Below are our recommended races for both the Alliance and Horde Discipline Priests.

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

1. Worgen
   • Aberration
   • Darkflight
   • Flayer
   • Viciousness
2. Human
   • Diplomacy
   • Will to Survive
   • Mace Specialization
   • Sword Specialization
   • The Human Spirit

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.

1. Goblin
   • Best Deals Anywhere
   • Better Living Through Chemistry
   • Pack Hobgoblin
   • Rocket Barrage
   • Rocket Jump
   • Time is Money

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.

1. 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.
2. Tailoring — is a great choice for the Lightweave Embroidery or Darkglow Embroidery unique cloak enchants.
3. 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.

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