Discipline Priest PvP Guide — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0.1)

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/setup crowd control.

• New class spells: Focused Power, Everlasting Light, Twin Disciplines, Painful Invocation, Mindpierce, Strength of Soul, Spiritual Guidance, Dark Enlightenment, False Autonomy, and Lightburst.
• New Discipline Priest spells: Shadow Tap, Holy Ray, Shadow Mend, Greater Smite, and Depth of Shadows. The extra damage from some of these talents are needed, especially with the loss of Shadow Covenant.
• Removed Spells: Divine Star, Halo, Luminous Barrier, Power Word: Life, Premonition, Renew, Shadow Covenant, and Void Shift. The loss of Void Shift is a significant one and will heavily impact Discipline Priest's ability to keep their team alive in late dampening situations.
• Changed Spells:
  • Void Tendrils - Roots enemies for 4 seconds when Psychic Scream ends.
  • Purge the Wicked - Increases Holy damage by 15%.
  • Atonement now heals all targets for 60% of damage done.
• PvP Talent changes:
  • Archangel has been moved to the Discipline Priest tree.
  • Ultimate Radiance now lowers Evangelism's cooldown by 45 seconds and Power Word: Radiance healing is increased by 15%.