Discipline Priest PvP Guide — The War Within (11.1.7)

Discipline Priests are one of a kind. In order to heal their team effectively, they need to combine traditional healing and absorption spells and damaging spells on the enemy to heal through Atonement. That makes Discipline Priests excellent offensive healers able to support their DPS with damage while healing with it. They also bring an offensive purge to the team for even more offensive pressure. However, they are not very mobile and run out of Mana quickly.

Strengths

• Powerful defensive abilities.
• Significant damage.
• Offensive purge.
• Strong cooldowns to rotate.

Weaknesses

• Very little mobility.
• High Mana consumption when hard-casting heals.
• Reliant on teammates to land CC.

• Archangel has been redesigned – Now a passive spell that upgrades Evangelism, causing it heal for 30% more and increase your healing and absorption by 20% for 15 seconds.
• Dark Archangel has been redesigned – Now triggers automatically when you cast Shadowfiend or Mindbender and increases damage done by 10% (was 15%).
• Shadow Word: Pain damage no longer increased by 15% in PvP combat.
• New Talent: Divine Procession – Smite extends the duration of an active Atonementby 3 seconds.
• New Talent: Inner Focus – Flash Heal, Power Word: Shield, Penance, Power Word: Radiance, and Power Word: Life have a 20% increased chance to critically heal.
• Purge the Wicked renamed to Encroaching Shadows and has been updated – Now causes Shadow Word: Pain to spread instead of overriding Shadow Word: Pain with a new spell.
• Evangelism now heals all targets affected by Atonement for 4200% spell power, split amongst targets healed. Evangelism continues to extend Atonement by 6 seconds and its visual has been updated.
• Contrition has been made baseline, and now logs as Penance healing.
• Penance healing now triggers Divine Aegis.
• Power Word: Shield absorption increased by 15%.
• Power Word: Radiance healing radius increased to 40 yards.
• Luminous Barrier healing increased by 20%.
• Indemnity increases the duration of Atonement applied by Power Word: Shield by 4 seconds (was 3 seconds).
• Ultimate Penitence now shields the Priest for 100% of their health (was 50%).
• Smite damage increased by 25%.
• Shadow Word: Pain damage increased by 25%.
• Pain and Suffering increases the damage of Shadow Word: Pain by 15/30% (was 7/15%).
• Void Summoner now only triggers from Mind Blast and Penance casts. Void Summoner reduces the cooldown of Shadowfiend by 8 seconds or Mindbender by 4 seconds (was 4 seconds and 2 seconds).
• Divine Aegis no longer triggers from periodic healing or Atonement or causes Power Word: Shield critical heals to be stronger. Absorption increased to 30% (was 5%).
• The following talents have been removed: Heaven's Wrath, Rapture, and Train of Thought.