Discipline Priest PvP Guide (The War Within Pre-Patch)

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.
• Decent utility.

Weaknesses

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

• New & Changed Priest Class Talents:
  • Cauterizing Shadows
  • Phantom Reach
  • Void Tendrils now root targets for 15 seconds (was 20 seconds).
  • Mindgames removed.
  • Shattered Perceptions removed.
• Mindgames is now a PvP talent.
• Rapture increases the absorption of your next 3 Power Word: Shields by 80% (was increases by 40% and lasts 8 seconds).
• Luminous Barrier absorb amount increased by 400%.
• Power Word: Radiance healing is no longer increased by 10% in PvP combat.
• Power Word: Life healing increased by 15%.