Priest Hero Talents — The War Within (Season 1)

Last updated on Sep 09, 2024 at 18:00 by Clandon 26 comments

This guide will walk you through the best Hero Talents for Discipline Priest for Raiding and Mythic+, how they impact your gameplay, and more.

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Best Hero Talents for Discipline Priest in The War Within

This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Discipline Priest, check out our Talents page:

1.1.

Raiding Hero Talents for Discipline Priest

Voidweaver will be your best and default Hero Talent choice for raiding content as a Discipline Priest. Entropic Rift Icon Entropic Rift triggering on cast of Mind Blast Icon Mind Blast means we can have a fairly high uptime on the rift during an encounter granting us access to significant power on a short cooldown.

The Entropic Rift Icon Entropic Rift (along with Collapsing Void Icon Collapsing Void) itself deals a large amount of damage (and therefore provides a large amount of Atonement Icon Atonement healing), Void Blast Icon Void Blast combined with its supporting talent Void Infusion Icon Void Infusion provides a massive improvement over smite (especially considering this damage is now shadow damage and is therefore amped by Shadow Covenant Icon Shadow Covenant and Abyssal Reverie Icon Abyssal Reverie), and Voidheart Icon Voidheart provides a flat 20% increase to Atonement Icon Atonement healing while the rift is active. All of these factors and more lead to a large boost in healing both during and outside pet windows allowing Discipline to feel like they have options available for throughput even if your pet is unavailable.

Oracle is an alternative for raiding, although not as easy to get value out of. Expect to be Voidweaver in most scenarios. The vast majority of the power within this tree comes from two things.

First, Premonition Icon Premonition itself granting various buffs in a cycle. The big one to look out for here is Premonition of Piety Icon Premonition of Piety which gives a large healing amp and overheal redistribution. With the cooldown reduction from Perfect Vision Icon Perfect Vision bringing Premonition Icon Premonition down to a 45 second cooldown and Clairvoyance Icon Clairvoyance coming after Premonition of Solace Icon Premonition of Solace, you can have Piety up (either through itself or via clarvoyance) every minute and a half, which lines up perfectly with Evangelism Icon Evangelism.

Second, Preventive Measures Icon Preventive Measures providing a 40% amplification to Penance Icon Penance damage also increases the power of Ultimate Penitence Icon Ultimate Penitence. As a result, investing in Heaven's Wrath Icon Heaven's Wrath and Overloaded with Light Icon Overloaded with Light becomes very powerful as Oracle.

Overall, the burst available with Premonition Icon Premonition only barely matches up with the burst available via Voidweaver, even when considering a scenario where you can take Fatebender Icon Fatebender over the cooldown reduction. As a result, the only scenarios you can really expect to see this tree used are scenarios where both the frequent burst available in Voidweaver is less valuable and you can make good use of Ultimate Penitence Icon Ultimate Penitence's ability to ramp multiple times in quick succession.

1.2.

Mythic+ Hero Talents for Discipline Priest

Voidweaver will be your best and default Hero Tree Talent choice for Mythic Plus content as a Discipline Priest. Voidweaver provides significant burst via the Entropic Rift Icon Entropic Rift itself, Void Blast Icon Void Blast being a significant upgrade to Smite Icon Smite, and Voidheart Icon Voidheart being a large Atonement Icon Atonement buff. With all of these tools being tied to Mind Blast Icon Mind Blast, you will have access to them very frequently to meet the constant incoming damage requirements of a Mythic Plus Environement as well as being significantly less reliant on having your pet available to do any relevant healing.

Unfortunately due to the nature of incoming damage in Mythic Plus being fairly constant, the lack of throughput this tree provides in comparison to the frequency that Voidweaver can, and overheal redistribution via Premonition of Piety Icon Premonition of Piety being less impactful in a five man environment compared to in raid, it is not recommended to use this tree in Mythic Plus.

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Best Hero Talent Builds for Discipline Priest

Voidweaver Oracle
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Best Voidweaver Raid Build for Discipline Priest

Voidweaver does not have many choices to make in the tree. No Escape Icon No Escape can have niche usage if there are adds that need to be slowed, but by default taking the movement speed increase via Dark Energy Icon Dark Energy will be the better choice with how low mobility Priest already is. Voidwraith Icon Voidwraith is a significantly stronger version of our existing pets Shadowfiend Icon Shadowfiend and Mindbender Icon Mindbender and will almost always be the better choice compared to Depth of Shadows Icon Depth of Shadows. In raid Void Empowerment Icon Void Empowerment is taken less so because the node itself is strong, but because Darkening Horizon Icon Darkening Horizon will often push your Collapsing Void Icon Collapsing Void out of your higher Atonement Icon Atonement count within your ramps. In Mythic plus, with ramping not a thing due to group size, the longer duration rift via Darkening Horizon Icon Darkening Horizon provides some extra value and will be the default.

From a defensive perspective within Voidweaver, Void Leech Icon Void Leech will be your default choice, but Embrace the Shadow Icon Embrace the Shadow has potential in situations where a large amount of the damage taken is Shadow damage.

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Best Oracle Raid Build for Discipline Priest

For choices within Oracle for raiding, Waste No Time Icon Waste No Time will often be an HPS loss due to front loading the Power Word: Radiance Icon Power Word: Radiance Atonement Icon Atonement's to the beginning of the GCD instead of the end, so unless its enabling you to cast Radiance's where you would otherwise be unable to cast them, it is harmful to be talented into Waste No Time. Divine Feathers Icon Divine Feathers will be the default option for personal movement speed. The actual effect of being able to give your feather to another person can potentially be utilized, but you need to ensure that the party member you're trying to give the feather to doesn't avoid the feather somehow resulting in you not getting your much needed mobility. As a result, its highly recommended to just continue using the Angelic Feather Icon Angelic Feather's for yourself and talenting into Divine Feathers for the additional 10% movement speed. Save the Day Icon Save the Day can be used depending on the scenario if Double Leap of Faith Icon Leap of Faith has value.

Perfect Vision Icon Perfect Vision will be the default here to allow Premonition Icon Premonition to line up well with Evangelism Icon Evangelism. In scenarios where Evangelism is not being used on cooldown and is being held to 2 minutes or slightly longer, Fatebender Icon Fatebender can be taken instead to provide a significant power increase to the various buffs. Defensively Desperate Measures Icon Desperate Measures is a solid default option, allowing your Desperate Prayer Icon Desperate Prayer to last longer. Either choice here is fine depending on how often you find yourself needing to cast Power Word: Shield Icon Power Word: Shield or Flash Heal Icon Flash Heal on yourself.

2.1.

Hero Talents Rotation for Discipline Priest

Almost no changes occure rotation wise when playing Voidweaver as most of the value happens passively. There are a few things to keep in mind, however.

  • Many situations with no pet active can now be covered soley with a Mind Blast Icon Mind Blast window due to the various Voidweaver effects it activates.
  • Voidwraith Icon Voidwraith modifies the cooldown of Shadowfiend Icon Shadowfiend, so in situations where you're utilizing Shadowfiend and Voidweaver at the same time, you gain access to some additional potential pet cadences.
  • In non-Evangelism Icon Evangelism ramps, you will see Mind Blast Icon Mind Blast getting cast earlier than usual to ensure the Collapsing Void Icon Collapsing Void occurs while a large number of Atonement Icon Atonement's are still active.

The Main changes for Oracle revolve around when and how to utilize the various Premonition Icon Premonition buffs.

  • With Perfect Vision Icon Perfect Vision allowing Premonition Icon Premonition to be a 45 second cooldown, you end up with two charges of Premonition available for every Evangelism Icon Evangelismcast.
  • Due to the order of the buffs, if you utilize the Premonition Icon Premonition charges in groups of two with each Evangelism Icon Evangelism, you will have Premonition of Piety Icon Premonition of Piety and Premonition of Insight Icon Premonition of Insight available every time either via themselves or via Clairvoyance Icon Clairvoyance.
  • Premonition of Insight Icon Premonition of Insight will result in you being able to send many Penance Icon Penance casts rapidly in your Evangelism Icon Evangelism window.
3.

Changelog

  • 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
  • 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within Release.
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