Discipline Priest Healing Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within (11.1.5)

1. Refresh your Shadow Word: Pain to ensure it lasts the entire duration of your Ramp.
2. Cast Power Word: Shield
3. Cast Renew x6
4. Cast Flash Heal
5. Cast Power Word: Shield
6. Cast Power Word: Radiance
7. Cast Power Word: Radiance
8. Cast Evangelism
9. Cast Voidwraith
10. Cast Mind Blast
11. Cast Penance
12. Cast Void Blast
13. Continue casting Void Blast and Penance when it is available until all Atonement's have fallen off.

1. Refresh your Shadow Word: Pain to ensure it lasts the entire duration of your Ramp.
2. Cast Power Word: Shield
3. Cast Renew x6
4. Cast Flash Heal
5. Cast Power Word: Shield
6. Cast Voidwraith
7. Cast Power Word: Radiance
8. Cast Power Word: Radiance
9. Cast Mind Blast
10. Cast Penance
11. Cast Void Blast
12. Cast Void Blast
13. Cast Void Blast
14. Cast Void Blast
15. Cast Void Blast
16. Cast Penance
17. Cast Void Blast
18. Continue casting Void Blast and Penance when it's available until all Atonement's have fallen off.

1. Refresh your Shadow Word: Pain to ensure it lasts the entire duration of your Ramp.
2. Cast Power Word: Shield
3. Cast Renew x2
4. Cast Flash Heal
5. Cast Power Word: Radiance
6. Cast Mind Blast
7. Cast Ultimate Penitence
8. Cast Void Blast (Clipping the previous cast early. See Advanced section below)
9. Cast Penance
10. Continue casting Void Blast and Penance when it's available until all Atonement's have fallen off.

1. Refresh your Shadow Word: Pain to ensure it lasts the entire duration of your Ramp.
2. Cast Power Word: Shield
3. Cast Renew x3
4. Cast Flash Heal
5. Cast Power Word: Shield
6. Cast Power Word: Radiance
7. Cast Mind Blast
8. Cast Penance
9. Cast Void Blast
10. Continue casting Void Blast and Penance when its available until all Atonement's have fallen off.

1. Refresh your Shadow Word: Pain to ensure it lasts the entire duration of your Ramp.
2. Cast Power Word: Shield
3. Cast Renew x6
4. Cast Flash Heal
5. Cast Power Word: Shield
6. Cast Power Word: Radiance
7. Cast Power Word: Radiance
8. Cast Evangelism
9. Cast Shadowfiend
10. Cast Mind Blast
11. Cast Premonition of Clairvoyance
12. Cast Premonition of Insight
13. Cast Smite
14. Cast Premonition of Piety
15. Cast Penance
16. Cast Smite
17. Cast Penance
18. Cast Smite
19. Cast Penance
20. Cast Smite
21. Cast Penance
22. Cast Smite
23. Continue casting Smite and Penance when its available until all Atonement's have fallen off.

1. Refresh your Shadow Word: Pain to ensure it lasts the entire duration of your Ramp.
2. Cast Power Word: Shield
3. Cast Renew x6
4. Cast Flash Heal
5. Cast Power Word: Shield
6. Cast Power Word: Radiance
7. Cast Power Word: Radiance
8. Cast Mind Blast
9. Cast Penance
10. Continue casting Smite and Penance when its available until all Atonement's have fallen off.

1. Refresh your Shadow Word: Pain to ensure it lasts the entire duration of your Ramp.
2. Cast Power Word: Shield
3. Cast Renew x2
4. Cast Flash Heal
5. Cast Power Word: Radiance
6. Cast Mind Blast
7. Cast Ultimate Penitence
8. Cast Smite (Clipping the previous cast early. See Advanced section below)
9. Cast Penance
10. Continue casting Smite and Penance when its available until all Atonement's have fallen off.

1. Refresh your Shadow Word: Pain to ensure it lasts the entire duration of your Ramp.
2. Cast Power Word: Shield
3. Cast Renew x3
4. Cast Flash Heal
5. Cast Power Word: Shield
6. Cast Power Word: Radiance
7. Cast Mind Blast
8. Cast Penance
9. Cast Smite
10. Continue casting Smite and Penance when its available until all Atonement's have fallen off.

Your primary playstyle in Mythic Plus will revolve around rotating between casting Power Word: Radiance followed by a cast sequence of DPS spells to utilize the Atonement provided. Single target applications of Atonement are generally not nearly as valuable due to how powerful Radiance is, but occasional use of Power Word: Shield will be utilized, especially with procs from Weal and Woe.

Your DPS windows following your Radiance casts will often involve a Voidwraith cast, allowing you to abuse both Shadow Covenant and Inescapable Torment. With Voidweaver in the mix, Mind Blast itself provides significant power even when your pet is unavailable.

• Power Word: Radiance is a 2-second cast by default, multi-target Atonement applicator with a large heal tied to it. Power Word: Radiance applies Atonement to five people but for a reduced duration. Not only is this our best way to apply Atonement to a whole group, but it is also a significant heal on its own. As a result, the majority of your Atonement application in a key will be from Radiance.
• Power Word: Shield is an instant cast, single target Atonement applicator with a shield tied to it. While this is a very potent option for applying Atonement to a single target, it does have a cooldown. This should be your first choice if you need to apply Atonement to a single target.
• Flash Heal is a 1.5-second cast, single target Atonement applicator with a decent-sized single target heal tied to it. While this is an option for single target Atonement applicator when a single target is injured and needs Atonement, the majority of your uses will come from Surge of Light procs.
• Renew is an instant cast, single target Atonement applicator with a small heal-over-time effect tied to it. The largest benefit to Renew is that it can be cast while moving. In most cases, Renew will see very little usage in Mythic+ and should not be a button you are pressing often.

With Voidwraith both activating Shadow Covenant and being strong itself via Inescapable Torment and Essence Devourer, your pet enables significant throughput while active. Combining this with Mind Blast activating Entropic Rift from your Voidweaver creates moments of extremely high burst healing. These 2 abilities will be the primary drivers behind your healing capabilities in dungeons.

The following is a general sequence you can utilize when both cooldowns are available. Keep in mind that there are many variations available based on the exact scenario you find yourself in, but the following is a good starting point:

1. Cast Voidwraith
2. Cast Power Word: Radiance
3. Cast Mind Blast
4. Cast Penance
5. Cast Void Blast
6. Continue to cast Void Blast and Penance when available until your Atonement falls off.

Shadow Word: Death has a variety of modifiers that affect its strength in the moment.

The following are the various modifiers that can increase its strength:

• Triggering Inescapable Torment
• Hitting a target in Execute Range
• Hitting a target with an absorb on them for Devour Matter value while Voidweaver.

In situations where you are not hitting a target in execute or with an absorb, Shadow Word: Death mostly just becomes a mobility tool being slightly worse than a Void Blast in output. In any situation where you are meeting either of those conditions are are meeting multiple conditions at the same time, Death becomes a much higher priority spell.

While the damage of this spell is not massively ahead of your normal rotation involving Voidwraith, it does provide the benefit of granting a large self-shield as well as granting you pushback/movement immunity, allowing you to potentially avoid/cancel encounter mechanics. Utilizing this spell when you are not in a pet window as a supplementary cooldown or to utilize the defensive nature of the spell leaves it in a solid place as a flexible cooldown.

It is important to know how the targeting of this spell works. By casting Ultimate Penitence with an enemy targeted, the spell will prioritize throwing bolts at enemies. When utilizing this version of the spell, ensure you have Atonement active on the group to get any healing out of this spell. When casting this spell with an ally targeted, the spell will prioritize throwing bolts at allies. While you will still see an increase in healing from Ultimate Penitence if Atonement is active on the party due to our Mastery, it is possible to use this defensively if you find yourself without any Power Word: Radiance charges and are desperate for healing.

Something to keep in mind when utilizing this spell is that the bolts from Ultimate Penitence will generate Weal and Woe stacks, so ensure you utilize said stacks before using your next Penance cast.

In general, both offensive and defensive Ultimate Penitence are good options to utilize in dungeons.

The following is a general sequence you can utilize when Ultimate Penitence is available. Keep in mind that there are many variations available based on the exact scenario you find yourself in, but the following is a good starting point:

1. Cast Power Word: Radiance
2. Cast Mind Blast
3. Cast Ultimate Penitence
4. Cast Void Blast (Clipping the previous cast early. See Advanced section below)
5. Cast Penance
6. Cast Void Blast
7. Continue to cast Void Blast until your Atonement falls off.

Power Word: Barrier is a powerful cooldown, assuming your group can stand under it for the duration. A significant, group-wide damage reduction is nothing to ignore. Look for opportunities where your group can stack under the Barrier while high damage is occurring.

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.

Evangelism serves a significantly different role in dungeon content compared to Raid. While in Raid you care mostly about the Atonement extension portion of the spell, in keys you want to utilize it as a spot heal. By limiting your active Atonements to only one or two targets, you get an incredible spot heal on a reasonable cooldown.

Penance is not only one of our most iconic spells but also one of our most powerful and versatile. While the majority of our penance casts will be utilized for damage against enemies, casting them on allies is completely viable and immensely powerful, depending on the situation.

Penance is modified by a variety of spells/talents, including Castigation, Harsh Discipline, Power of the Dark Side, Shadow Covenant, Blaze of Light, and more. When all of these effects are stacked on top of each other, the result is a massive cast for either Atonement healing or a gigantic single target heal. Playing around things like Harsh Discipline and Shadow Covenant to buff our Penance casts is a major facet of Discipline Priest gameplay.

Your primary playstyle in Mythic Plus will revolve heavily around rotating between casting Penance to generate Weal and Woe stacks, casting Power Word: Shield to consume said Weal and Woe stacks, and then cycling your other cooldowns ( Premonition/ Shadowfiend/ Ultimate Penitence/ Evangelism/ Power Word: Barrier) to handle any significant incoming damage threat.

While simply pressing Penance and Power Word: Shield on cooldown will handle a lot with this build, you are fairly reliant on having one of your additional cooldowns available to not fall behind when significant incoming damage presents itself. As a result, mismanaging your cooldowns and finding yourself without anything available is incredibly dangerous.

Penance is one of your strongest tools as Oracle for a variety of reasons:

• First, it is flexible in usage in regards to how you want to distribute healing. It can be cast on an enemy to heal via Atonement but it can also be cast on an ally directly for a large single target heal. Keep in mind with Twinsight always firing bolts of the opposite type, you still get solid output of the alternative when choosing which targeting method you want. However, Twinsight bolts will simply choose a random enemy to hit or a random injured ally to heal, therefore you do lose some control. If a single person is in danger, prioritize healing them directly instead of leaving it up to luck that twinsight chooses the correct target. In the same vein of thinking, if there isn't a single person in danger, but you want to ensure that the offensive bolts hit a target with Schism on it or the target with Shadow Word: Pain, then consider firing the spell offensively on the target of your choice and letting Twinsight hit a random injured ally.
• Second, it triggers Encroaching Shadows and Revel in Darkness to spread your Shadow Word: Pain to additional targets in AoE scenarios. This is important for both the trickle Atonement healing that each DoT will provide but also for the mana return via Throes of Pain when the pack dies.
• Finally, it builds Weal and Woe stacks which are incredibly important for your Power Word: Shield usage which we will talk about more in the Power Word: Shield section.

Overall, you should be casting Penance fairly often and close to on-cooldown with obvious exceptions for holding it slightly for imminent incoming damage you know you will need it for.

While Power Word: Shield is not very strong on its own, the sheer amount of large modifiers that can increase its power result in absolutely massive shields if played correctly. The following is a list of modifiers and how to utilize them:

• Weal and Woe is by far the largest modifier. When casting Penance, each bolt fired (Including Twinsight bolts!) will increase the next Smite or Power Word: Shield you cast by a significant amount. Penance being 3 bolts by default, one for Castigation, 3 more for Twinsight, and the occasional extra from Harsh Discipline result in Oracle to be able to cap or near cap out the benefit of Weal and Woe with a single Penance cast.
• Inner Focus increases the Critical Strike chance of your Power Word: Shields by 20%. Your Shields can crit and will be significantly larger when they do.
• Eternal Barrier provides an additional 20% modifier to the strength of your Shields.
• Mastery: Grace, Discipline's Mastery will also increase the size your Shield if it is cast on a target that has Atonement on them already. Keep in mind that the Atonement applied by the Shield itself will not cause the Shield to benefit from Mastery. The Atonement must be present prior to the Shield cast.

As a result of all these various modifiers, pressing Penance followed by casting Power Word: Shield on a target with Atonement on them will create massive Shields for incredible single target healing. Casting Penance followed by Power Word: Shield on cooldown or as close to as possible will be one of your primary sources of healing as Oracle.

• Power Word: Radiance is a 2-second cast by default, multi-target Atonement applicator with a large heal tied to it. Power Word: Radiance applies Atonement to five people but for a reduced duration. Not only is this our best way to apply Atonement to a whole group, but it is also a significant heal on its own. As a result, the majority of your Atonement application in a key will be from Radiance.
• Power Word: Shield is an instant cast, single target Atonement applicator with a shield tied to it. While this is a very potent option for applying Atonement to a single target, it does have a cooldown. This should be your first choice if you need to apply Atonement to a single target.
• Flash Heal is a 1.5-second cast, single target Atonement applicator with a decent-sized single target heal tied to it. While this is an option for single target Atonement applicator when a single target is injured and needs Atonement, the majority of your uses will come from Surge of Light procs outside of the casts done for the direct healing itself.
• Renew is an instant cast, single target Atonement applicator with a small heal-over-time effect tied to it. The largest benefit to Renew is that it can be cast while moving. In most cases, Renew will see very little usage in Mythic+ and should not be a button you are pressing often.

Premonition is the core talent and ability that the Oracle Hero Talent Tree revolves around. The spell includes four different spells that rotate in a set order. The Spell this starts on will always be the same as it resets back to the beginning on pull of a Dungeon start, therefore there is no pre-pull manipulation to be done to influence the initial order. The following is a list of each buff in order, what they do, and how to utilize them in keys:

Premonition of Insight provides 7 seconds of cooldown reduction to your next 3 spells cast. WHile there are a ton of possible uses of this and there may be scenarios where you want to get CDR on very specific spells to meet niche moments, there are 3 general use cases that can be applied to most uses of this spell:

When the damage your group is taking is fairly even (all 5 members needing healing at a similar rate) you can use the following sequence:

• Cast Power Word: Radiance
• Cast Mind Blast
• Cast Premonition of Insight
• Cast Penance
• Cast Smite
• Cast Penance
• Cast Smite
• Cast Penance
• Cast Smite
• Cast Penance
• Cast Smite

This sequence maximizes the total HPS output on the entire group by utilizing the built Weal and Woe stacks on smites between the Penance casts. However, in many scenarios, the damage event you are attempting to heal is either very short or you need more upfront healing at the cost of overall healing. In those scenarios, do the following:

• Cast Power Word: Radiance
• Cast Mind Blast
• Cast Premonition of Insight
• Cast Penance
• Cast Penance
• Cast Penance
• Cast Penance

Finally, in scenarios where the incoming damage is almost entirely focused on 1/2 targets instead of evenly on the whole group or in scenarios where you need to attempt to build group effective health before a one-shot threat, use the following sequence:

• Cast Power Word: Radiance
• Cast Mind Blast
• Cast Premonition of Insight
• Cast Penance
• Cast Power Word: Shield
• Cast Penance
• Cast Power Word: Shield
• Cast Penance

Again, there are plenty of different ways to use this spell, so this is not a comprehensive list. But it should give you a good idea of where to start and what the general use cases will look like. Also keep in mind that due to many of these sequences being so heavy in regards to Penance value, Shadowfiend to activate Shadow Covenant pairs incredibly well with Insight if you need your Insight window to have even more power.

Premonition of Piety increases both your healing and absorbs done as well as redirects overhealing to other targets that are injured. This is both strong as a healing increase and incredibly good at balancing out your HPS in scenarios where some players are taking significantly more damage than others. Use this whenever you need any sort of additional power as it pairs very well with just about everything we do.

Premonition of Solace applies a decent sized absorb and a small damage reduction to the target of your next single target healing spell. The damage reduction is tied to the absorb, therefore once the absorb breaks, the damage reduction is removed. Keep in mind that if you do not intentionally trigger this shield once activated, Twinsight from your next offensive Penance will apply the shield automatically. We recommend using this with a Weal and Woeed Power Word: Shield as the Power Word: Shield will be consumed first before the Solace shield resulting in the DR getting more value, but do not let that prevent you from just using it whenever if someone needs help.

Premonition of Clairvoyance comes last in the rotation and simply provides all 3 effects at once. This is your strongest cooldown available as Oracle.

After using Clairvoyance, the spell cycles back to Insight and continues to repeat through the order.

While this isn't the strongest spell in your arsenal, it provides solid output in a variety of different scenarios.

It is important to know how the targeting of this spell works. By casting Ultimate Penitence with an enemy targeted, the spell will prioritize throwing bolts at random enemies. When utilizing this version of the spell, ensure you have Atonement active on the group to get any healing out of this spell. When casting this spell with an ally targeted, the spell will prioritize throwing bolts at the most injured ally. While you will still see an increase in healing from Ultimate Penitence if Atonement is active on the party due to our Mastery, it is possible to use this defensively if you find yourself without any Power Word: Radiance charges and are desperate for healing.

Something to keep in mind when utilizing this spell is that the bolts from Ultimate Penitence will generate Weal and Woe stacks, so ensure you utilize said stacks before using your next Penance cast.

In general, both offensive and defensive Ultimate Penitence are good options to utilize in dungeons.

When playing Oracle, while Shadowfiend still does solid damage and therefore healing through Atonement, the primary benefit is activating Shadow Covenant for a significant buff to your Penance casts during its duration. This is especially potent when combined with Premonition of Insight as it allows you to drastically increase the number of Penance casts in your pet window.

Evangelism serves a significantly different role in dungeon content compared to Raid. While in Raid you care mostly about the Atonement extension portion of the spell, in keys you want to utilize it as an on-demand heal. Either by sending this spell on the whole group when you have Atonement active or by limiting your active Atonements to only one or two targets resulting in an incredible spot heal on a reasonable cooldown. This can be solid on its own to fill gaps or gets even more powerful when combined with Premonition of Piety.

Power Word: Barrier is a powerful cooldown, assuming your group can stand under it for the duration. A significant, group-wide damage reduction is nothing to ignore. Look for opportunities where your group can stack under the Barrier while high damage is occurring.

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.

Void Shift, while it does have an incredibly long cooldown, can be an very powerful tool in our arsenal due to being off the GCD. With Prophet's Will in our build, maintaining a very large Power Word: Shield on yourself is fairly trivial, allowing you to safely swap your HP to someone in immediate danger.