Discipline Priest PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight / 10.0.7)

We will discuss two builds here. As a healer, adapting your build to the situation is important, as the way to heal greatly varies with what you are playing with and facing.

This first build is primarily to be played in 2v2 when you don't need high AoE burst healing as you do not have Power Word: Radiance. It is best played when you can afford to play extremely offensively, both by the specialization of your teammate and by the damage of the enemy team.

This second build is made for 3v3. You most likely want to play with the talent Power Word: Radiance. Alongside the PvP Talent Ultimate Radiance, it allows you to have strong, instant burst healing.

Dispel Magic, Mass Dispel, Leap of Faith, Shadow Word: Death and Power Infusion are part of your defensive and offensive utility and need to be picked.

Mindgames is one of your major offensive cooldowns and will significantly help your team landing kills on your goes.

Power Word: Life is a powerful healing spell with a short cooldown. It is instrumental in keeping your team alive.

Surge of Light is a powerful healing talent as it can proc instant Flash Heal free of cost. It helps with sustained healing.

Phantasm is a spell Priests have needed for a long time. It removes snares upon using Fade, giving Priests much-needed mobility.

Psychic Voice reduces the cooldown of your Psychic Scream by 15s. It is crucial as Psychic Scream is your best crowd control ability.

Mind Control is a solid pick as it gives you a power crowd control option that you can use both offensively and defensively.

Twist of Fate is a great talent as it allows you to recover when the enemy team has brought someone in your team low on health.

Void Tendrils allows you to mass root enemies. It is a good ability as it gives you more crowd control options, and makes it easier to survive when being trained by melee DPS.

Pain Suppression, Power Word: Barrier and Rapture are your main defensive cooldowns and are therefore mandatory.

Aegis of Wrath greatly empowers your Power Word:Shield. The shields are potent at the moment which makes this passive a must-have.

Protector of the Frail allows you to reduce the cooldown of Pain Suppression by using Power Word: Shield. Since you want to use Power Word: Shield on cooldown, as it is your best healing spell, the Talent is very powerful.

Power of the Dark Side, Dark Indulgence and Castigation both empower your Penance. It is one of your key healing spells, so empowering it for more healing or damage, resulting in healing through Atonement, is key.

Power Word: Solace is an essential ability as it allows you to regenerate mana while dealing damage and healing through Atonement.

Purge the Wicked is a better version of Shadow Word: Pain. Picking this Talent will allow you to save mana as it spreads upon using Penance, removing the need to use it manually on multiple enemies.

Train of Thought is a great talent as it allows you to reduce the cooldown of both Power Word: Shield and Penance, your two fundamental abilities.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents, each has uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents depending on your team's goal.

Dome of Light reduces the cooldown of one of your major defensive cooldowns, Power Word: Barrier and increases damage reduction from it. This is the most powerful defensive cooldown in the game, reducing all damage taken by 50% for anyone who stands in the area of effect on a relatively short cooldown. In 3v3, you should always pick this Talent. In 2v2 Discipline Priest is a specialization that requires a solid damage output to be viable. Therefore you will only pick Dome of Light against comps that have very high burst damage and will not take you out of your Barrier when you use it, so Subtlety Rogues and Assassination Rogues, Arms Warriors and Fury Warriors, Retribution Paladins, and Feral Druids. Against other specializations, you will favor offensive PvP talents.

Inner Light and Shadow allows you to swap between two stances. Inner Light reduces the Mana cost of your healing abilities by 15%. You may want to use it in some situations, but they are rare. The Talent is mostly picked for its second stance, Inner Shadow. It increases your spell damage by 10% and buffs your Atonement healing by 10%. It is one of the key talents that you need to play to maximize your damage output and healing through Atonement.

Strength of Soul is now a solid option against teams with heavy physical damage. Shields now absorb a lot of damage, so it may remain in effect for a long time, making this PvP Talent worthwhile.

Ultimate Radiance makes your Power Word: Radiance instant and increases the healing done. It is an excellent pick in a metagame where there is a lot of damage spikes very often, as it allows you to top your team instantly.

Dark Archangel increases your damage and the damage of all allies with your Atonement by 15% for 8 seconds. This Talent is good if your team relies on large bursts to kill a target.

Purification gives Purify a maximum of 2 charges. It is crucial against teams with spammable, dispellable crowd control like Polymorph or Fear as you will be able to dispel your teammates multiple times, increasing their uptime and preventing the enemy team from controlling the pace of the game.

Archangel refreshes the duration of your Atonement and increases your healing done by 20% for 15s on a 1-minite cooldown. It is a solid healing cooldown, but it does not work towards Discipline Priest's strengths this patch, so you will usually not have a slot for it.

Eternal Rest allows you to have a very short cooldown on your Shadow Word: Death. It can be helpful against classes like Mage to avoid crowd control such as Polymorph.

Thoughtsteal is an exciting talent that steals an ability from an enemy. This gives you access to the ability, and the enemy cannot use it for 20 seconds. Here is a list of the abilities you can steal from other classes/specs:

• All Druid specs: Rejuvenation
• All Mage specs: Polymorph
• Mistweaver Monk: Renewing Mist
• All Paladin Specs: Blessing of Freedom
• Shadow Priest: Vampiric Touch
• Holy Priest: Renew
• Discipline Priest: Penance
• All Shaman Specs: Frost Shock
• All Warlock Specs: Fear

This PvP talent is especially powerful against Mages as you will deny them their primary crowd-control ability. Without it, they will not be able to peel for their team, and they will not be able to land offensive crowd control either. However, in the current patch, you will usually not have a slot for it.

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Changelog

• 21 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
• 30 Jan. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.5.
• 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
• 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
• 28 Jul. 2022: Reviewed for Shadowlands Season 4.
• 03 Jul. 2022: Rewritten and further updated for Patch 9.2.5.
• 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
• 28 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
  • Updated PvP Talents.
• 23 Nov. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
• 02 Jul. 2021: Updated PvP Talents.
• 08 Mar. 2021: Updated PvP Talents.
• 05 Dec. 2020: Updated PvP Talents.
  • Updated Talent Table.
  • Updated Tier 1 Regular Talent.
• 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.

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