Discipline Priest Shadowlands Leveling Guide From 1 to 60

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.

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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

1. Cast Power Infusion on cooldown.
2. Cast Schism on cooldown.
3. 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.
4. Maintain Shadow Word: Pain on all targets unless the target will die before a significant portion of the DoT ticks.
5. Cast Shadowfiend on cooldown unless you need to hold it for healing purposes.
6. Cast Mind Blast on cooldown.
7. Cast Penance on cooldown.
8. Cast Mind Sear if there is more than 1 target alive and near each other.
9. 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:

1. Cast Power Word: Shield if under the effects of Rapture
2. Cast Power Word: Radiance when it is available and you have multiple people that need atonement at the same time.
3. Cast Shadow Mend when you need to direct heal someone or to apply Atonement. Replaces Flash Heal.
4. Cast Flash Heal when you need to direct heal someone or to apply Atonement.
5. 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.

1. 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.
2. Shadow Mend and Power Word: Radiance will stop applying it as long as you are talented into this PvP talent.
3. Searing Light increases your Smite damage as well as causing successful smite casts to reduce the cooldown of Penance.
4. 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 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.