Discipline Priest Healing Stat Priority — Shadowlands 9.2.5
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 — Shadowlands 9.2.5.
If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Healer Priest stat priority.
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 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:
- Intellect;
- Haste;
- Critical Strike;
- Versatility;
- Mastery.
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: Solace, reduces your global cooldown and more. Moreover,
it increases the amount of attacks your
Shadowfiend can
make, and the number of ticks from
Shadow Word: Pain/
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 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) 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.
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 threshholds as they are not hard caps.
Stat | Rating |
---|---|
Haste | 990 |
Critical Strike | 1050 |
Mastery | 1050 |
Versatility | 1200 |
Changelog
- 31 May 2022: Page reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 22 Feb. 2022: Page updated for Patch 9.2.
- 01 Nov. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.5.
- 29 Jun. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 23 Nov. 2020: Updated Stat priority and added short section discussing Stat DR.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands pre-patch.
More Priest Guides
Guides from Other Classes
This guide is written and maintained by Clandon, Healer in Incarnate as well as staff and theorycrafter at Warcraft Priests (join them on Discord or on their website) and is reviewed by the other staff at Warcraft Priests and notable members of the healing community.
- Alliance Sepulcher Mythic Hall of Fame Closing this Week
- Sepulcher of the First Ones 9.2.5 Mythic DPS, Tank and Healer Log Rankings, Week 5: Affliction Is Back
- How to Receive Different Weapons from Zereth Mortis World and Daily Quests
- Very Solid Ocean Near Stormwind Defeats Player
- Impressive Stormwind Recreation in Minecraft (Video)
- Idol of Y'Shaarj Shadow Priest Talent Explained
- Upcoming Sepulcher of the First Ones Raid Tuning: July 5th
- A Preview of Priest Talent Trees in Dragonflight