Discipline Priest Healing Easy Mode — Midnight Season 1

This build is your straight-forward build for raiding content. Focus on casting Penance on cooldown against enemies and utilizing Power Word: Shield when you will get good value or when it has upgraded into a Void Shield. Use Evangelism to enable mass Atonement coverage during major damage events.

This build is your primary build for Mythic+ content. Focus on casting Penance defensively and Shadow Word: Death on cooldown for strong AoE healing through Atonement.

This build is your primary build for delve content. Pushing large damage windows with your Entropic Rift and Mindbender to AoE down medium sized groups of enemies. Make sure to heavily utilize Dominate Mind in this content to bring along the strongest enemy you can find to fight on your side as they will often do more damage than you yourself will. Additionally, make heavy use of Fade to utilize Spectral Illusion to keep focus off yourself so you can spend more time dealing damage and less time worrying about your own health bar.

The stat priority is as follows when deciding between equal item level gear:

1. Haste
2. Crit
3. Mastery
4. Versatility

The stat priority is as follows when deciding between equal item level gear:

1. Haste
2. Crit
3. Mastery
4. Versatility

Keep in mind that these stat recommendations are for the simplified version of the spec only. If you are attempting to get into higher level raiding and looking to use our more advanced recommendations, please follow the stat recommendations on the main stats page below.

• Plea is an instant cast, single target Atonement applicator with a small direct heal effect tied to it. The largest benefit to using Plea is that it can be cast while moving.
• Power Word: Shield is an instant cast, single target Atonement applicator with a fairly strong shield tied to it. While this is a very potent option for applying Atonement to a single target, it does have a cooldown.
• Flash Heal is a 1.5-second cast, single target Atonement applicator with a decent-sized single target heal tied to it. With this costing more Mana than Plea, as well as requiring you to stand still, it will not see nearly as much play as your primary applicator outside of a few situations. The first situation where this gains significant strength is when the single target heal portion of the spell is relevant. The other would be to abuse other talents, like Surge of Light or Binding Heals.
• Power Word: Radiance is a 2-second cast, multi-target Atonement applicator with a decent heal tied to it. Power Word: Radiance applies Atonement to 5 people, but at a reduced duration. This is useful in raids for getting large coverage before a major damage event or in M+ to quickly cover the whole group in Atonement.
• Penance also applies Atonement when cast on an ally. Due to the fact that Twinsight exists, you can easily use Penance as an Atonement applicator without significant loss and will therefore be a very solid option.

Discipline Priests rely on applying Atonement and then dealing damage to heal through Atonement.

In Raid, you want to be mostly casting Penance on cooldown. Power Word: Shield is strong, but you want to make sure your casts are providing good value as if you over-utilize them, you can quickly run out of mana. Make sure you use any proc of Void Shield that you get.

Combine this with cycling your Power Word: Radiance charges and you will continuously do a very solid amount of HPS. When looking to utilize our primary cooldown, Evangelism, you want to plan out your usage around major damage events. The following sequence is an example of what your cast sequence should look like when utilizing Evangelism in a raid environment:

1. Refresh your Shadow Word: Pain to ensure it lasts the entire duration of your Ramp
2. Cast Flash Heal
3. Cast Penance - defensively
4. Cast Power Word: Shield
5. Cast Plea
6. Cast Evangelism
7. Cast Power Word: Radiance x2
8. Cast Penance
9. Cast Mind Blast
10. Cast Penance
11. Cast Smite until Penance becomes available again or if your Atonements have fallen off

Healing in a dungeon relies on Atonement in AoE healing situations or situations where the single target healing requirements are low. In situations where the incoming damage becomes significant, you have a multitude of cooldowns to augment your healing, both AoE and single target.

Your core method of handling AoE damage will start with Power Word: Radiance. This not only provides a large heal to the entire group, but also applies Atonement to your whole party, setting up the next part of your rotation.

Once Atonement is active on the party, focus on DPSing by casting Mind Blast to open an Entropic Rift, then using Penance and Shadow Word: Death on cooldown with Void Blast as your filler spell. Additionally, ensure you use any proc of Void Shield you get.

For single target healing, casting Penance directly on an injured ally will provide a significant amount of direct healing. In situations where your Atonement healing plus direct healing is not enough to keep someone alive, consider utilizing Pain Suppression to reduce the incoming damage on that target. If that is still not enough, falling back on Flash Heal when Penance is on cooldown and your Atonement output is not enough as a last resort.

In most cases our Apex talent is very simple to play around. With the buff lasting quite a while once procced, simple ensure you utilize the available cast prior to casting your next Penance to not potentially waste a proc. Outside of that, keep in mind that both the primary target of Void Shield and its additional targets will receive Atonement.

In Dungeon content, Evangelism immediately heals your whole group for a non-insignificant amount on cast. Additionally, it causes your next two casts of Power Word: Radiance to be instant cast. This buff lasts forever, so you can hold those Radiance casts for as long as you need them, making this a very strong tool to assist with mobility heavy encounters.

In Raiding content, this tool is a primary enabler for what we call a ramp. This concept will be described in the next section.

Evangelism also activates either Archangel or Mindbender depending on what one you are talented into. This either buffs all your healing and absorbs for a period of time or summons a pet for a short duration to both deal damage as well as interact with other talents such as Inescapable Torment if talented.

While this spell has an incredibly long cooldown at 4 minutes, its also incredibly powerful. When cast offensively, it will throw bolts at random enemies, dealing significant damage which translates to a large amount of Atonement healing if the group has Atonement active on them. When cast defensively, it will throw bolts at injured allies, healing them directly.

In Raid, you will almost always utilize this offensively with a full ramp sequence described below to ensure proper Atonement coverage. Similar to how it is used in raid, it will be used almost exclusively offensively in dungeon content as well, but without needing a full ramp sequence to be effective. Still make sure you apply Atonement to the group via a Power Word: Radiance before casting it.

Power Word: Barrier shares a choice node with Ultimate Penitence, meaning you have to choose between one or the other. Power Word: Barrier can be incredibly powerful in any scenario where the incoming damage during its duration is significant enough.

Keep in mind that it does require the group and or raid to be able to stack under the barrier for its duration to benefit, so some encounters it is very difficult to use even if the damage intake warrants it. While we are recommending Ultimate Penitence by default, keep an eye out for good situations to swap to Power Word: Barrier.

Pain Suppression is a very large Damage Reduction on a single target. Utilizing this either on the tank or on a player with a large damage over time effect on them can have a significant impact. When running the talent Protector of the Frail, you will have a lot of additional casts available of Pain Suppression, so make sure you use it often instead of just sitting on maximum charges.

Our two piece bonus, Priest Discipline 12.0 Class Set 2pc, is an entirely passive healing increase to a handful of direct healing spells in our kit. There is no gameplay adjustments that need to be made when using this bonus.

Our four piece bonus however, Priest Discipline 12.0 Class Set 4pc, in theory should also be a simple passive effect. In reality, it has a significant bug that can be utilized to get more value out of the bonus. While we we talk about the specific bug and how to utilize it in the rotation section of this guide, the main thing to know is that the Atonement duration increase will apply to more than just the stated spells after casting a Flash Heal. As a result, you may see mentions of utilizing Flash Heal earlier in sequences than normally expected.

Since Patch 11.1.7, World of Warcraft has an incredible accessibility function called the Combat Assistant. While I may be praising this as an accessibility option, its usefulness in regards to healers is questionable. The Combat Assistant will never recommend, or in the case of the one button rotation press, any cooldowns or healing buttons. For Discipline, it follows the following very simple priority list:

1. Cast Mind Blast when available
2. Cast Penance when available
3. Cast Smite

Overall, the best use case for this functionality is likely doing open world content or delves as Voidweaver.