Discipline Priest Healing Spell List and Glossary — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

If you are new to Discipline Priest, this page is a great place to get a general understanding of what spells you have available and how they work. If you already have experience playing the spec and are looking for more gameplay-focused resources, feel free to skip this section. For macros to help utilize the below spells better, please refer to our macros page.

Note that this page simply lists all the abilities, assuming you are at max level. If you are leveling, check out our dedicated Priest Leveling page, which has detailed information on when you unlock all of these abilities.

For the abilities below, you might see an included acronym or commonly used short-hand name to refer to that spell. This guide will otherwise avoid using this terminology in most places. Still, you might find them used in the class discord or elsewhere.

These abilities are available depending on what Hero Talent you pick between Voidweaver and Oracle

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Entropic Rift	-	A rift opened by casting Mind Blast that follows your current target.
No Escape	-	Your Entropic Rift applies a slow to targets within it.
Dark Energy	-	You have increased Movement speed while your Entropic Rift is active.
Void Blast	VB	Your Smite is converted in a stronger version of itself while your Entropic Rift is active.
Inner Quietus	-	A buff to Power Word: Shield.
Voidheart	-	Increases your Atonement healing while Entropic Rift is active.
Devour Matter	-	Causes your Shadow Word: Death to deal increased damage to targets with an absorb present.
Void Empowerment	-	Grants a small Atonement extension to 5 allies when an Entropic Rift is opened.
Darkening Horizon	-	Causes Void Blast casts to extend the duration of your Entropic Rift (to a limit).
Voidwraith	-	Summons a pet when your Entropic Rift expires.
Touch of the Void	-	Causes Voidheart to linger for a period of time after Entropic Rift expires.
Quickened Pulse	-	Shadow Word: Pain and Entropic Rift deal damage more often.
Void Infusion	-	Increases the Atonement healing triggered by Void Blast and Penance.
Void Leech	-	Saps health from nearby allies that are higher hp than you.
Embrace the Shadow	-	Reduces Magic damage taken. if the damage was Shadow damage, heal a small portion of that damage taken back.
Overwhelming Shadows	-	significantly increases the damage dealt by Mind Blast.
Collapsing Void	-	Causes your Entropic Rift to collapse, dealing AoE damage when it expires.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Guiding Light	-	Grants a second charge of Penance
Preventive Measures	-	A buff to Power Word: Shield, Penance, Smite, and Holy Nova.
Preemptive Care	-	Increases the duration of Atonement by a small amount.
Waste No Time	-	Reduces the cooldown of Power Word: Shield.
Words of the Wise	-	Increases the healing of Flash Heal, Plea, and Power Word: Radiance.
Assured Safety	-	Casting Power Word: Shield also applies 4 stacks of Prayer of Mending to the target.
Divine Feathers	-	A small buff to Angelic Feather movement speed as well as giving the option to give them to allies and still get the benefit yourself.
Save the Day	-	Grants an additional use of Leap of Faith immediately after casting it.
Foreseen Circumstances	-	Increases the DR of Pain Suppression.
Prophet's Insight	-	Increases Atonement healing from Holy Spells
Prophet's Will	-	Increases the power of Power Word: Shield and Flash Heal when used on yourself.
Desperate Measures	-	Increases the duration of Desperate Prayer and buffs the value of Angelic Bulwark.
Prompt Prognosis	-	Increases the effectiveness of the first bolt of each Penance.
Piety	-	Causes a small percentage of any overhealing to be redistributed.
Unfolding Vision	-	Causes expiring Power Word: Shield's to instead jump to a nearby target for a percentage of their remaining absorb amount.
Twinsight	-	Causes your Penance casts to also send bolts at the opposite target type of your current target (enemy/ally)

These are your core skills that are available regardless of talents and form the core gameplay of the specialization.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Smite	-	A filler spell that deals holy damage to your target. Its primary use case is to heal through Atonement as well as to utilize talents like Harsh Discipline.
Shadow Word: Pain	SWP	A DOT that deals Shadow damage over time to the target. This is used to heal through Atonement and to proc Power of the Dark Side.
Flash Heal	FH	A single target heal that also applies Atonement to the target.
Power Word: Shield	PWS	A strong, single-target shield on a short cooldown that also applies Atonement to its target.
Mind Blast	MBl	A single target spell that deals Shadow damage to the target, which heals through Atonement.
Power Word: Fortitude	Fort	A Group/Raid wide buff granting increased Stamina
Penance	-	A channeled ability that deals Holy damage to the target or that heals an ally.
Purify	-	Dispels all magic effects from a single target.
Mass Resurrection	-	Brings all dead party or raid members back to life after a long cast. This can not be used in combat.
Focused Will	-	Reduces the damage you take after being melee'd. This is mostly relevant in open-world content and PvP, as you typically are not hit by melee attacks often in Dungeons and Raids.
Levitate	-	Niche ability that can prevent fall damage on your target if timed correctly.
Mind Soothe	-	Mind Soothe provides a unique buff reducing the distance at which an enemy will aggro on to yourself and your allies. This has fairly niche usage but can be used in some scenarios to avoid having to pull a pack of enemies and instead walk right past them.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Angelic Feather	Feather	Places a feather on the ground that, when picked up by any player, provides a significant movement speed increase.
Dispel Magic	Purge	Allows you to purge magic effects from enemies, preventing them from using powerful buffs.
Holy Nova	-	Heals and damages all targets in a set radius around the player.
Leap of Faith	Grip	Pulls an ally to your location, allowing you to quickly reposition allies to save them in a pinch.
Shackle Undead	Shackle	Can be used against any undead or aberration enemy to remove them from the fight for a significant period.
Mind Control	MC	Allows you to take control of an enemy, controlling them instead of yourself.
Dominate Mind	-	Provides a similar effect to MC above but allows you to remain in control of your own character for the duration, as well as essentially turning the controlled creature into a pet instead.
Mass Dispel	MD	Removes all magic effects off up to 5 targets in a specified radius.
Power Infusion	PI	Grants a significant haste buff to a single player.
Desperate Prayer	DP	Our primary defensive. Grants an increase to our max health for a period of time as well as an instant heal for the same amount.
Fade	-	By default, acts as an aggro management tool, but with additional passive talents, becomes one of our primary defensives.
Shadow Word: Death	SWD	Deals damage to a target that increases drastically if the target is below 20% health.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Improved Flash Heal	-	Increases the healing done by Flash Heal
Spiritual Guidance	-	Increases your intellect.
Lightburst	-	Increases the damage of Holy Nova by a significant amount, but places it on a 30 second cooldown.
Improved Purify	-	Adds the ability to remove Disease effects.
Painful Invocation	-	Increases the damage of Shadow Word: Pain.
Sheer Terror	-	Increases the amount of damage required for your fear to break.
Petrifying Scream	-	Causes fear to root targets in place instead of run around.
Surge of Light	SoL	Gives your heals and smite a chance to make your next Flash Heal instant cast and reduced mana cost.
Body and Soul	BaS	Causes Power Word: Shield and Leap of Faith to grant your target a movement speed increase for a brief period of time.
Twins of the Sun Priestess	Twins	Causes Power Infusion to also be granted to yourself when used on another player.
Strength of Soul	-	Grants a small stamina buff.
Psychic Voice	-	Reduces the cooldown of Psychic Scream.
Void Tendrils	-	Roots targets in place when your fear ends.
Everlasting Light	-	Grants you Surge of Light procs more often based on missing mana.
Move with Grace	-	Reduces the cooldown of your Leap of Faith.
Mental Agility	-	Reduces the mana cost of Purify and Mass Dispel.
Twin Disciplines	-	Increases the damage and healing of Holy and Shadow spells.
Dark Enlightenment	-	Grants a small amount of Haste.
False Autonomy	-	Increases the duration of your Mind Control or Dominate Mind.
Inspiration	-	Reduces physical damage taken after landing a critical heal on someone with either Flash Heal or Penance.
Binding Heals	-	Causes a percentage of your Flash Heal on other targets to be duplicated to yourself. This does cause Flash Heal to apply Atonement to both your target and yourself.
Sanguine Teachings	-	Grants a small amount of Leech.
Twist of Fate	ToF	grants a damage and healing buff for a short period of time after damaging or healing a target below 35% health.
Tithe Evasion	-	Reduces the damage taken from Shadow Word: Death.
Angel's Mercy	-	Reduces the cooldown of Desperate Prayer.
Protective Light	-	Causes you to take reduced damage after casting a Flash Heal on yourself. This does work via Binding Heals.
Mindpierce	-	Increases the damage dealt by Smite by a small amount.
Spectral Illusion	-	Causes Fade to create a temporary illusion in your place.
Improved Fade	-	Reduces the cooldown of Fade.
Light's Inspiration	-	Increases the maximum health gain from Desperate Prayer.
Unwavering Will	-	Reduces the cast time of Flash Heal and Smite when above 75% health.
Spell Warding	-	Reduces all magic damage taken by a small amount.
Phantasm	-	Causes Fade to remove snare effects on use.
Angelic Bulwark	-	grants a small shield when you drop below 30% health.
Benevolence	-	Increases all healing done by a small amount.
Focused Power	-	Increases the damage dealt by your spells by a small amount.
Phantom Reach	-	Increases the range of your spells by a small amount.
Translucent Image	-	Causes Fade to grant a damage reduction effect on use.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Power Word: Radiance	PWR	Applies Atonement to 5 targets at a reduced duration.
Pain Suppression	PS	Applies a buff to a target, reducing all damage they take by a significant amount for a short duration.
Power Word: Barrier	PWB	Places a dome on the ground that reduces the damage taken by all allies standing under the done by a significant amount.
Ultimate Penitence	Uppies	Lifts you off the air, dealing damage or direct healing (depending on your target) via a large number of penance bolts over a long channel.
Evangelism	Evang	Extends the duration of all active Atonements by 6 seconds.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Atonement	-	A buff that can be applied to allies via PWS, Renew, FH, Penance, and PWR. When you deal damage to a target, a percentage of that damage dealt is turned into healing on all targets with Atonement.
Power of the Dark Side	PotDS	Increases the damage of your next Penance by a set amount. This is procced via your DoT.
Light's Promise	-	Grants you a second charge of your PWR.
Sanctuary	-	Causes your Smite casts to apply a damage-prevention debuff to the target.
Pain Transformation	-	Causes your PS to apply Atonement to the target and heal them for a percentage of their max HP.
Protector of the Frail	-	Causes your PWS casts to reduce the cooldown of PS and grants you a second charge of PS.
Dark Indulgence	-	Causes your Mind Blast to grant you Power of the Dark Side on cast as well as reduces its mana cost by 40%.
Encroaching Shadows	-	Causes your Shadow Word: Pain to spread to an additional target when casting Penance.
Bright Pupil	-	Reduces the cooldown of PWR.
Enduring Luminescence	EL	Increases the duration of Atonement applied by PWR.
Shield Discipline	SD	Grants you a small percentage of Mana back if your PWS is fully consumed.
Painful Punishment	-	Increases the duration of your DoT per Penance bolt on an enemy target.
Revel in Darkness	-	Increases the damage of your SWP as well as causes it to spread to an additional target when casting Penance.
Holy Ray	-	Causes each bolt of Penance to increase the damage and healing of the next bolt.
Lenience		Causes all targets with Atonement to take less damage.
Shadow Tap	-	Increases the damage and mana cost of Mind Blast.
Purge the Wicked	-	Increases all Holy damage done.
Castigation	-	Causes Penance to fire an additional bolt.
Indemnity	-	Atonement applied by Power Word: Shield is longer.
Pain and Suffering	-	Increases damage and duration of your Shadow Word: Pain.
Occultist	-	Increases all Shadow damage and healing done.
Borrowed Time	-	Grants a haste buff for a short duration after casting PWS.
Abyssal Reverie	-	Increases the Atonement healing caused by Shadow spells.
Divine Procession	-	Smite increases the duration of the shortest Atonement by a small amount.
Inner Focus	IF	Increases the Critical Strike chance of most of your direct healing spells.
Archangel	-	Grants a healing and absorb buff after pressing Evangelism.
Mindbender	-	Summons a Mindbender pet when casting Evangelism.
Shadow Mend	-	Gives your Shadow Word: Pain a chance to upgrade your next Flash Heal into a stronger heal.
Shadowfiend	-	Gives a chance to summon a Shadowfiend pet when casting Shadow Word: Death on a target in execute range.
Greater Smite	-	Casting Smite grants a short duration, stacking damage buff for more smites.
Divine Aegis	DA	Causes your critical direct heals to create a shield on the target equal to a percentage of the heal that created it.
Harsh Discipline	HD	Casting Power Word: Radiance casues your next Penance to fire additional bolts.
Blaze of Light	BoL	Increases the damage of your Smite, Solace, and Penance as well as attaching a movement speed increase/decrease to your Penance.
Death's Torment	-	Causes Shadow Word: Death to hit additional times per cast at a reduced effectiveness
Inescapable Torment	IT	Causes your MBl, SWD, or Penance to make your MB/Sfiend teleport to your target and deal AoE damage and increase the duration of your pet. The damage dealt by this target does heal through Atonement, but it follows the standard rules of only one damage event triggering Atonement and not all of them.
Eternal Barrier	EB	Increases the size and duration of your PWS.
Weal and Woe	W&W	Causes your Penance bolts to increase the absorb your next PWS by a percentage based on the number of bolts fired.
Searing Light	-	Causes your Penance bolts to leave a damage over time effect on the target based on damage done.
Expiation	-	Causes your SWD and MBl to consume seconds off your DoT and deal that damage instantly instead.

For information in regards to how to utilize the above spells in actual gameplay, please refer to the below rotation guide.

If you are in the process of leveling or have just started leveling a Discipline Priest, you may not have access to all of the spells discussed above. Please refer to the leveling guide, which will go over when you obtain your different abilities.