Discipline Priest Healing Stat Priority — Dragonflight 10.2.5

Last updated on Jan 15, 2024 at 15:00 by Clandon 24 comments
General Information

On this page, you will find out the optimal stat priority for your Discipline Priest. We first present the stat priority, before delving into more complex explanations. Our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.5.

If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Discipline Priest stat priority.

1.

The Basics of Stats for Discipline Priest

All of our secondary stats are very close in value. Due to the scaling of Intellect on gear as well as the closeness of the secondary stat values, targeting the highest item level possible is almost always the correct play in terms of gearing outside of edge cases. For a more in-depth discussion about gearing, check out our gearing guide.

For more information on how the information on this page is determined, as well as what Enchants and Consumables to use based on the results, take a look at the following two pages.

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

  1. Intellect;
  2. Haste;
  3. Critical Strike;
  4. Versatility;
  5. Mastery.
2.

Getting a Better Understanding of Discipline Priest Stats

Intellect is your primary stat. You should look for this stat in all of your upgrades. It provides you with Spell Power, which increases the power of your heals.

Haste reduces the cast time of your spells, reduces the cooldown of Power Word: Shield Icon Power Word: Shield reduces your global cooldown and more. Moreover, it increases the number of attacks your Shadowfiend Icon Shadowfiend/Mindbender Icon Mindbender can make, and the number of ticks from Shadow Word: Pain Icon Shadow Word: Pain/Purge the Wicked Icon Purge the Wicked.

Critical Strike grants your damaging spells and heals a chance to double their value. That said, it is worth noting that it does not double-dip with regards to Atonement Icon Atonement healing (Atonement heals cannot be critical hits; they only heal for the amount of damage that was done, which is the only portion that can be a critical strike).

Mastery (Mastery: Grace Icon Mastery: Grace) increases your healing on Atonement targets. Please note that this DOES work with your Atonement healing and not just your direct healing.

Versatility increases all your damage and healing done, and decreases all damage taken.

Leech grants you self-healing based on your outgoing damage and healing events. This free self-sustain can reduce the amount of Mana and global cooldowns you and the other healers have to spend healing you during major damage events, allowing you to focus more on the people that need it. Due to this stat being a tertiary stat instead of a secondary stat, it is not going to be found very often but will remain powerful when it is.

3.

Secondary Stat Diminishing Returns

Diminishing returns on secondary stats have been added to the game, moving into Shadowlands. This means that once you break a specific threshold shown below for each stat, the amount of rating of that stat required to equal one percent will increase the more you have. This does not mean that you need to entirely avoid these stats once you go over these thresholds, as they are not hard caps.

Stat Rating
Haste 5100
Critical Strike 5400
Mastery 5400
Versatility 6150
4.

Changelog

  • 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
  • 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
  • 21 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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