Discipline Priest PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.1.7)

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.

The following build is to be played as the default talent build for 3v3 and Solo Shuffle.

The following build is to be played if you want to maximize your damage output. This is normally played in 2v2.

• 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.
• Benevolence increases the healing of your spells and should always be chosen.
• Surge of Light is a powerful healing talent as it can proc instant Flash Heal free of cost. It helps with sustained healing.
• Phantom Reach increases the range of most spells by 15%. This is great for Priests because one of your weaknesses is mobility. If your team starts to kite away from you, you will still be in range to heal.
• 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 powerful 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 Ultimate Penitence are your main defensive cooldowns and are therefore mandatory.
• Divine Aegis is a crucial passive for Discipline Priests. Any direct healing that critical heals your target places a shield on that target for 30% of the amount healed. This, in combination with Inner Focus, drastically increases your healing output. These talents should always be chosen.
• 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.
• Evangelism has a 1.5 minute cooldown that extends Atonement on all allies and heals them for 4 million, split evenly among them. This is important for any situation your team might be in when you are falling behind on healing.

You can choose three 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.

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

Inner Light and Shadow allows you to swap between two stances. Inner Light reduces the Mana cost of your healing abilities by 10%. 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.

Phase Shift makes you immune against attacks and spells for 1 second. This makes it more difficult for the enemy to land crowd control on you.

Archangel increases Evangelism healing by 30% and Evangelism increases your healing/absorption effects by 20% for 15 seconds. This is a crucial talent if you find yourself falling behind in healing often.

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.

Purification gives Purify a maximum of two charges and grants your target a small absorb shield. 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.