Mists of Pandaria Classic Discipline Priest Guide

Last updated on Jun 25, 2025 at 12:00 by Abide

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.

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Discipline Priest Guide for Mists of Pandaria

In Mists of Pandaria, DisciplineDiscipline 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 DisciplineDiscipline 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.

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Is Discipline Priest Viable in Mists of Pandaria

DisciplineDiscipline 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. DisciplineDiscipline is always desirable in raids, making it very easy for you to find a raid spot any time.

Strengths icon 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 icon Weaknesses
  • -Limited personal defensive cooldowns.
  • -Performs poorly on fights with high reactive damage, that requires healing throughput.
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Best Races for Discipline Priest

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

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Alliance

Alliance PriestPriests will have a choice to make between choosing Worgens Worgen for 1% cirt chance from Viciousness Icon Viciousness and a movement speed increase on Darkflight Icon Darkflight; or the Human Humans racials with 3% spirit increase via The Human Spirit Icon The Human Spirit.

These racials are very close, making this a difficult decision. If you play ShadowShadow often, we would suggest you choose Worgens Worgen for the damage increase. If you are a big time PvP player, Human Humans would be the better option. If you are still on the fence, Worgens Worgen will serve you best

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

Goblin Goblin will be the go-to pick on the Horde side, giving you Rocket Barrage Icon Rocket Barrage, a much needed mobility skill, as well as Time is Money Icon Time is Money, a 1% spell haste increase.

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

  1. Engineering Icon Engineering — Engineering remains the best in slot profession thanks to the new tinker Synapse Springs Icon Synapse Springs. Grounded Plasma Shield Icon Grounded Plasma Shield, another new tinker, is a decent on use defensive shield that can save your life. Nitro Boosts Icon Nitro Boosts remain a solid option for movement speed bursts during fights.
  2. Tailoring Icon Tailoring — is a great choice for the Lightweave Embroidery Icon Lightweave Embroidery or Darkglow Embroidery Icon Darkglow Embroidery unique cloak enchants.
  3. Blacksmithing Icon Blacksmithing — Allows you to add an additional socket to your gloves and bracers with Socket Gloves Icon Socket Gloves and Socket Bracer Icon 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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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.