Discipline Priest Shadowlands Leveling Guide From 1 to 60
On this page, you will find our level by level Discipline Priest leveling guide for Shadowlands. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Priest leveling guide.
Gear Options
When leveling as a Discipline Priest, always target the gear with the highest item level available. Looking for specific stats on leveling gear will not matter as you will most likely have a fairly large item level gap on items when you get another of the same slot.
Level by Level Rotation and Talents
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Talents to Level up as a Discipline Priest
Your first talent row unlocks at Level 15.
Your talent set up should be as follows if you plan on questing and doing open world content.
- Level 15:
Schism
- Level 25:
Angelic Feather
- Level 30:
Power Word: Solace
- Level 35:
Shining Force
- Level 40:
Sins of the Many
- Level 45:
Purge the Wicked
- Level 50:
Lenience
Your talent set up should be as follows if you plan on focusing primarily on healing dungeons.
- Level 15:
Twist of Fate
- Level 25:
Angelic Feather
- Level 30:
Power Word: Solace
- Level 35:
Shining Force
- Level 40:
Sins of the Many
- Level 45:
Purge the Wicked
- Level 50:
Lenience
Rotation to Level Up as a Discipline Priest
- Cast
Power Infusion on cooldown.
- Maintain
Shadow Word: Pain /
Purge the Wicked on all targets unless the target will die before a significant portion of the DoT ticks.
- Cast
Schism on cooldown.
- Cast
Shadow Word: Death if the target is below 20% hp. Be careful you do not kill yourself with this spell as you will take damage equal to what it deals if the spell does not kill its target.
- Cast
Shadowfiend on cooldown unless you need to hold it for healing purposes.
- Cast
Mind Blast on cooldown.
- Cast
Penance on cooldown.
- Cast
Mind Sear if there is more than 1 target alive and near each other.
- Cast
Smite as your filler.
Starting at level 15, you are able to queue for dungeons with the in-game group finder. As a healer, this will be the faster method of leveling as well as giving you valuable experience in healing as a Discipline Priest. The following is a general priority list of healing spells in dungeons:
- Cast
Power Word: Shield if under the effects of
Rapture
- Cast
Power Word: Radiance when it is available and you have multiple people that need atonement at the same time.
- Cast
Shadow Mend when you need to direct heal someone or to apply
Atonement. Replaces
Flash Heal.
- Cast
Flash Heal when you need to direct heal someone or to apply
Atonement.
- Cast
Power Word: Shield to apply atonement or to apply a small absorb to a player.
In addition to these baseline abilities, there is a passive effect that is crucial to understand leveling as a Discipline Priest:
Atonement causes your damaging spells to heal all targets with
Atonement on them. It is crucial that you dps to utilize your Atonements applied
instead of getting stuck in the habit of spamming direct heals. Follow the
healing spell priority list above to apply Atonement and then once all players
taking damage have Atonement on them, follow the damage spell priority list.
Discipline Priest War Mode Talents for Leveling
Trinity increases the duration and effectiveness of your
Atonement so that you can spend less time applying Atonement to yourself and more time DPSing. Keep in mind that Trinity changes it so that you can ONLY apply Atonement via
Power Word: Shield.
Shadow Mend and
Power Word: Radiance will stop applying it as long as you are talented into this PvP talent.
Searing Light increases your
Smite damage as well as causing successful smite casts to reduce the cooldown of
Penance.
Dark Archangel can be used as a DPS cooldown in world content. Its power is not very significant in solo content but can be very nice if you are questing with friends as it works on them too if you apply atonement to them first.
Congratulations!
Congratulations on reaching Level 60! Now that you have hit Level 60 we recommend looking at our Easy mode page and Talents section to learn how to play at max level.
Changelog
- 31 May 2022: Page reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 29 Oct. 2021: Clarified the use of Purge The Wicked in place of Shadow Word Pain when the talent is selected.
- 29 Jun. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 07 Dec. 2020: Updated damage rotation priority list.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Guide added.
This guide is written and maintained by Clandon, Healer in Incarnate as well as staff and theorycrafter at Warcraft Priests (join them on Discord or on their website) and is reviewed by the other staff at Warcraft Priests and notable members of the healing community.
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