Discipline Priest Healing Stat Priority — The War Within (11.1.7)

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. Haste
2. Mastery
3. Crit
4. Versatility

Crit will slowly gain more value compared to Mastery the more mastery you get, so some level of balance between the two is ideal, but overall will have a very small impact on output as long as your are prioritizing Haste first. Haste is still our best secondary by a large margin.

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

1. Haste until 15-20%
2. Crit = Mastery
3. Haste past 20%
4. Versatility

When trying to decide between Crit and Mastery as your next stat after Haste, try to focus on whatever one you currently have less of. You want a fairly even balance of both.

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 reduces your global cooldown and more. Moreover, it increases the number of attacks your Shadowfiend/ Mindbender can make, and the number of ticks from Shadow Word: Pain.

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.

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).

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.

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.