Discipline Priest Midnight Season 1 Raid Guide — 12.0.5
On this page, you will learn all about encounter-specific advice for play as a Discipline Priest in the Midnight Season 1 raids. Covering boss-specific advice on how you can make the most out of every pull!
Raiding as a Discipline Priest
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Discipline Priests and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
Midnight Season 1 Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Discipline Priest
| Raid Difficulty | |
|---|---|
| Heroic Raid | Mythic Raid |
Imperator Averzian
Damage Pattern Breakdown and Ramp Targets
The vast majority of the damage during this encounter will come from the
Dark Upheaval. This ability is broken down into two different
instances of damage, the initial hit and the ticking damage afterwards. The
ticking damage will be up for basically the entire fight providing some
level of damage that needs to be healed constantly. The initial hit from
this ability combined with the group soak, 
Umbral Collapse,
provide moments where you can focus your ramps, even though the damage they
deal is incredibly low.
Example Cooldowns
The following is an example cooldown plan you can utilize for this boss fight:
Example Cooldowns
To utilize the above example cooldowns in game, you will need the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon to read out the note for you and provide alerts during the encounter. If you are not familiar with the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon and how to utilize it with notes, Viserio provides a great guide here on how to import the note provided.
Prefer to just look at the note directly on wowutils instead? Take a look at the public version of the above note here.
Vorasius
Damage Pattern Breakdown and Ramp Targets
While this fight does an high amount of damage via various mechanics
throughout the entire fight, the primary combo I want to highlight is the
incredibly dangerous combo of mechanics that happen once every few minutes.
The boss will summon a bunch of adds via his 
Parasite Expulsion ability.
While the adds are spawning, the raid will take a ton of damage. These adds
need to be kited to one of the walls in the arena and killed near that wall
in order to break it. However, the adds also deal a very large amount of
damage when they blow up on death. Additionally, immediately after the
walls are handled, the boos goes into his beam mechanic forcing you to
run to either the far right or far left corner of the room and hide. While
this beam is fired, the raid takes a large amount of damage.
While each of these mechanics is dangerous on their own, the combination of all three happening almost back to back makes any one of them an incredible cooldown target.
Example Cooldowns
The following is an example cooldown plan you can utilize for this boss fight:
Example Cooldowns
To utilize the above example cooldowns in game, you will need the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon to read out the note for you and provide alerts during the encounter. If you are not familiar with the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon and how to utilize it with notes, Viserio provides a great guide here on how to import the note provided.
Prefer to just look at the note directly on wowutils instead? Take a look at the public version of the above note here.
Fallen-King Salhadaar
Damage Pattern Breakdown and Ramp Targets
This fight can be split into two distinct phases incoming damage wise.
Initially, the primary damage of the encounter will come from both the
near constant rot damage of 
Twisting Obscurity as well as the damage
dealt by the Void orbs while they are active. Focusing healing any time
a Void orb is active is a good target during this phase.
When the boss reaches 100 energy, he begins his intermission phase. The raid takes a significant amount of damage during this entire phase, so it is a fantastic target for evangelism or other major cooldowns.
Example Cooldowns
The following is an example cooldown plan you can utilize for this boss fight:
Example Cooldowns
To utilize the above example cooldowns in game, you will need the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon to read out the note for you and provide alerts during the encounter. If you are not familiar with the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon and how to utilize it with notes, Viserio provides a great guide here on how to import the note provided.
Prefer to just look at the note directly on wowutils instead? Take a look at the public version of the above note here.
Vaelgor & Ezzorak
Damage Pattern Breakdown and Ramp Targets
The primary damage of this fight can be broken down into 3 primary mechanics.
Midnight Manifestation is simple ticking damage that occurs
throughout most of the fight. 
Void Howl puts a circle on every
player in the raid that deals a large amount of burst damage to the player
and spawns an add. Any time this mechanic happens during this phase, the
ticking damage of Midnight Manifestation is also happen and results in a
very dangerous and prime ramp target.
Additionally, when both dragons fly up into the air for the intermission
phase, 
Midnight Flames deals a fairly large amount of damage
and is another viable target for cooldown usage during the fight.
Example Cooldowns
The following is an example cooldown plan you can utilize for this boss fight:
Example Cooldowns
To utilize the above example cooldowns in game, you will need the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon to read out the note for you and provide alerts during the encounter. If you are not familiar with the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon and how to utilize it with notes, Viserio provides a great guide here on how to import the note provided.
Prefer to just look at the note directly on wowutils instead? Take a look at the public version of the above note here.
Lightblinded Vanguard
Damage Pattern Breakdown and Ramp Targets
While the incoming damage breakdown above can look a bit chaotic, its
because this fight just deals a lot of damage from a lot of different
mechanics. 
Light Infusion is constant ticking damage throughout
the entire fight with periods of it being significantly stronger when one
of the bosses is empowered. Your primary ramp windows will be focused
around 
Sacred Toll windows as the immediate burst of this
ability combined with the sheer amount of other damage happening at the
same time has a high likelihood of killing someone. In general though,
simply using stuff as close to on cooldown as possible is a good idea on
this fight as its unlikely to find a moment where there isn't a large
amount of damage going out for your abilities to provided value.
Example Cooldowns
The following is an example cooldown plan you can utilize for this boss fight:
Example Cooldowns
To utilize the above example cooldowns in game, you will need the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon to read out the note for you and provide alerts during the encounter. If you are not familiar with the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon and how to utilize it with notes, Viserio provides a great guide here on how to import the note provided.
Prefer to just look at the note directly on wowutils instead? Take a look at the public version of the above note here.
Crown of the Cosmos
Damage Pattern Breakdown and Ramp Targets
Breaking this fight down into 3 distinct phases, the first phase is fairly
tame in regards to incoming damage compared to the next two. The primary
mechanics doing damage in this phase are 
Echoing Darkness and
Void Expulsion. Echoing Darkness is damage the adds deal when no
allies are within melee range. This will simply be ticking damage occurring
for most of the first phase. The second instance of damage in this phase
will be the spawning of the puddles via Void Expulsion. These single
instances of burst damage are valid ramp targets when combined with the
ticking damage already present.
When moving on to phase 2 of the encounter, the incoming damage ramps up
incredibly. Throughout the phase, 
Voidstalker Sting is
ever-present dealing a fairly significant amount of damage. You also
continue to have puddles spawning via Void Expulsion throughout
the phase. And then finally you have the Cosmic Barrier mechanic.
Throughout the phase the simulacrum will cast a barrier that does an
incredibly high amount of damage while the shield remains unbroken. You
can have all three of these mechanics happen at the exact same time. Look
for any major overlaps of these mechanics for cooldown usage but primarily
focus on the Cosmic Barrier's.
In the final phase of the encounter, the most dangerous damage you need to
pay attention to is 
Gravity Collapse. A number of players in the
raid will receive a tether binding them to where they stand. By running
away from where they stand, they will snap their tether dealing an
incredible amount of burst damage to the raid. These tethers will need to
be staggered and broken one at a time while the healers top the raid after
each break. All of your healing in this phase will be focused around keeping
the raid alive through these tether breaks.
Example Cooldowns
The following is an example cooldown plan you can utilize for this boss fight:
Example Cooldowns
To utilize the above example cooldowns in game, you will need the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon to read out the note for you and provide alerts during the encounter. If you are not familiar with the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon and how to utilize it with notes, Viserio provides a great guide here on how to import the note provided.
Prefer to just look at the note directly on wowutils instead? Take a look at the public version of the above note here.
Chimaerus the Undreamt God
Damage Pattern Breakdown and Ramp Targets
This fight's damage can be broken down into three main mechanics.
Caustic Phlegm is a fairly often occurring dot on the raid
providing ticking damage to heal. You should not need to be assigning
cooldowns to this mechanic. Your main cooldown targets will be either
Consume or 
Rift Emergence.
After he spawns adds in the down realm and the adds are needed to be killed,
he casts consume to devour any remaining adds that are still alive. Consume
deals a large amount of raid damage over its 10 second channel and is a
prime ramp target. Additionally, Whenever the groups are ready to split
between the two realms, the soak mechanic you use to do so deals a
decent amount of raid wide damage but also applies a very large healing
absorb to the whole raid. This can also be an incredibly good ramp target,
but keep in mind that 
Atonement does NOT heal through
realm changes. If you take the realm change, anyone left behind with your
Atonement still on them will not receive healing. As a result it is
incredibly important to be on time for your ramp for the heal absorb so you
don't waste a significant amount of your Atonement uptime on a period
where it simply won't heal anyone.
Example Cooldowns
The following is an example cooldown plan you can utilize for this boss fight:
Example Cooldowns
To utilize the above example cooldowns in game, you will need the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon to read out the note for you and provide alerts during the encounter. If you are not familiar with the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon and how to utilize it with notes, Viserio provides a great guide here on how to import the note provided.
Prefer to just look at the note directly on wowutils instead? Take a look at the public version of the above note here.
Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar
Damage Pattern Breakdown and Ramp Targets
The primary damage on this fight will come from two locations. Every so
often during the encounter, including right on pull, the boss will cast
Voidlight Convergence. This is a large ticking damage ability
that applies a specific color (holy or void) to the raid which is utilized
for many other mechanics during the fight. When this ability is used again
during the fight, players will have their colors changed around. This
ability does a large amount of damage and is a good ramp target.
Additionally, when the boss is killed and is in his egg phase, there is a large amount of damage going out on the raid. This is a very extended period of a large amount of incoming damage and is your primary ramp target.
Example Cooldowns
The following is an example cooldown plan you can utilize for this boss fight:
To utilize the above example cooldowns in game, you will need the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon to read out the note for you and provide alerts during the encounter. If you are not familiar with the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon and how to utilize it with notes, Viserio provides a great guide here on how to import the note provided.
Prefer to just look at the note directly on wowutils instead? Take a look at the public version of the above note here.
Midnight Falls
Damage Pattern Breakdown and Ramp Targets
This fight is broken down into 3 phases (4 on mythic) and one intermission
phase. In phase one, the primary damage of the fight will come from the
constant ticking damage of 
Shattered Sky as well as the overlaps
of the 
Disintegration damage when the Prism's die. Focus your
ramp windows in this phase around the Prism deaths to get maximum value.
Moving into Intermission, the primary damage comes from, the
Shattered Sky ticking damage as well as the 
Starsplinter
mechanic. Focus on keeping players with the Starsplinter alive here.
In phase 2, the constant ticking damage of Shattered Sky continues. The
primary dangerous mechanic in this phase is the beam mechanic.
Overkill Current damage is reduced per player hit by the beam,
but even when the mechanic is done correctly and soaked well, expect the
raid to take massive damage when they go off. These are excellent targets
for your ramp windows during this phase.
In Phase 3, the Shattered Sky ticking damage once again remains. Additionally
you now have a handful of new mechanics that are dangerous. The primary ones
to focus your ramp windows on will be 
The Dark Archangel. These
are large bursts of damage that generally are surrounded by other windows
of large amounts of damage going out.
Example Cooldowns
The following is an example cooldown plan you can utilize for this boss fight:
Example Cooldowns
To utilize the above example cooldowns in game, you will need the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon to read out the note for you and provide alerts during the encounter. If you are not familiar with the Northern Sky Raid Tools addon and how to utilize it with notes, Viserio provides a great guide here on how to import the note provided.
Prefer to just look at the note directly on wowutils instead? Take a look at the public version of the above note here.
Changelog
- 20 Apr. 2026: Updated for Patch 12.0.5.
- 24 Mar. 2026: Updated for Mythic Release.
- 16 Mar. 2026: Updated for Season 1 Release.
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