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1. Best In Slot Gear Disc Priest Talents

This guide was written by Buythelight and Mitzki, both priest mains in Method.

Buythelight has been a priest main since starting playing World of Warcraft in Warlords of Draenor, prior to the rework that would become the current iteration of Discipline, he has played Discipline since the Tomb of Sargeras mini-rework

Mitzki has been maining Discipline priest ever since she started raiding Mythic in Emerald Nightmare. In 2017 she applied for a raid spot in the guild that would become Reason and later took the role as healing officer in Battle of Dazar’Alor.

Strengths

• Discipline can cover almost any kind of burst damage and are very adaptable to the encounter, they have options that allow them to burst heal every 45s, 60s and 90s.
• Discipline brings a lot of passive damage for a healer, which helps on tight damage encounters.
• Discipline brings really strong damage reduction and shielding to negate what could have been lethal attacks.

Weaknesses

• Discipline priest has a very proactive playstyle and has limited raid-wide emergency heals in comparison to other healing specialisations.
• Discipline is also a very hard specialisation to master. There is almost always something you can do better and mistakes are very punishing in terms of healing throughput.

What has changed

Disc Priest Shadowlands changes

• Smite - has lost its absorb effect.
• Mindblast - has been added to the baseline toolkit for disc. It has a high mana cost, with a decent damage event and an absorb effect.
• Spirit shell - New level 50 talent. Very potent ability currently and will be covered in depth later on.
• Shadow covenant - Reworked, it still has its initial heal, but lost the healing absorb. Shadow Covenant now locks you out of holy abilities instead, and increases your shadow damage done.
• Mind sear - This new baseline toolkit for Discipline gives you a good AoE damage option if your mana can afford it. Important to know is that atonement only heals off the first target hit.
• Power Infusion - A powerful haste buff that can be cast on either yourself or a friendly target.
• Shadow Word: Death - A powerful ability during execute, but with a backlash. It does no atonement healing, but it can be a great help to push some additional damage when there is nothing else to do.
• The Discipline priest playstyle in raid is overall very similar to how it was played in BFA. You just have a few new buttons to press after ramping up to maximize atonement healing.
• In the last few days, Disc priest has seen a 6% decrease in damage done overall, with another 10% taken off Mindgames, putting its spellpower value around 250%. Gameplay-wise, nothing changes; disc is still very strong.

BiS Gear (Ulduar Edition) Disc Priests

Please refer to my BIS Gear list when verifying gear.

Items that are considered BIS gear have a * next to their name.

Disc (normal):

Head: * Conqueror’s Cowl of Sanctification

• Meta: 25 spell power + 2% intellect
• Gem: 23 spell power (pre 3.2 was 19 sp – from this point forward I will only list 3.2 gems)
• Enchant: 30 spell power + 20 crit.
• Socket bonus received

Neck: Life-Binder’s Locket

• Gem: 20 Intellect
• Socket bonus received

Shoulder: Mantle of the Unknowing

• Enchant: 24 spell power + 15 crit.
• Gem: 20 Intellect
• Socket bonus received

Back: * Cape of the Unworthy Wizard

• Enchant: Lightweave Embroidery
• PS: Enchant procs ALL the time!

Chest: * Conqueror’s Robe of Sanctification

• Gem: 23 spell power
• Gem: 20 intellect
• Enchant: +10 stats
• Socket bonus received

Wrists: * Unsullied Cuffs

• Gem: 12 spell power + 10 intellect
• Enchant: 30 spell power
• Socket bonus received

Hands: * Conqueror’s Gloves of Sanctification

• Gem: +10 all stats
• Enchant 28 spell power
• Socket bonus received

Waist: * Cord of the White Dawn

• Gem: 23 spell power
• Gem: 20 intellect
• Belt Buckle Gem: 20 intellect

Legs: * Conqueror’s Leggings of Sanctification

• Gem: 23 spell power
• Gem: 20 intellect
• Enchant: 50 spell power & 20 spirit
• No socket bonus received

Feet: Boots of the Servant

• Gem: 23 spell power
• Enchant: 18 spirit (will discuss in Holy)
• No socket bonus received
• This item is used for both Holy & Disc

Finger: * Signet of Soft Lament

• Gem: 20 intellect
• Enchant: 23 spell power
• No socket bonus received

Finger: * Glowing Ring of Reclamation

• Enchant: 23 spell power

Trinket: * Pandora’s Plea

Trinket: * Sif’s Remembrance

Weapon (2-h): * The Lifebinder

• Enchant: 81 spell power

Wand: * Scepter of Creation

Ok, discussion time!

Disc Priests need 3 main components: Int, SP & Crit. Minor priorities are to haste & spirit.

1. Haste should be capped around 10% (mine’s currently 10%)
2. Spirit should be around 1k (mine’s currently 1026)
3. Crit should be capped around 25% (mine’s currently 27%)
4. Spellpower be 2.3k+ (mine’s currently 2300)
5. Intellect should be 1.4k+ (mine’s currently 1508)

Why these stats? Simple, disc. priests are about the throughput while conserving a ton of mana. Optimally, you should never lose more than 10k as a disc priest in any fight. Obviously, some boss mechanics don’t allow for this, but in most fights, you should never get even close to low! If I hear a disc priest call for an innervate, a little piece of my heart breaks.

Most of my items and itemization are easily understood. If you’re disc, your 2 priorities are INT & SP (ie: staying power & throughput!). You have a secondary priority to crit and a very low priority to haste & mp5. Thus, from gemming/enchanting you should see this reflection. My only “sore” spot are my boots with the spirit enchant. First, there are no really good boot enchants for priests, maybe mp5? maybe stam? Because I use these boots for both of my specs (Holy & Disc), I benefit from keeping a spirit enchant on the boots for holy.

Best In Slot Gear Disc Priest Talents

Recently I made some changes on my Disc gear. The biggest is my weapon change. The Lifebinder seems to be a “holy” weapon, where Rapture seems to be a “disc” weapon, based on their bonuses. However, after careful consideration, I was able to have more flexibility with the Lifebinder in my disc set. With the haste on the weap, I can use more gear that has crit. Also, if you look at the static stats of both weapons, you’ll notice that Lifebinder has very LOW spirit (for a staff) and Rapture has very HIGH spirit. Again, disc priests do not benefit as much from spirit as a holy priest, so easy choice – more spirit = more mp5 & sp for holy; while the Lifebinder had slightly more int & the haste allows for me to get creative with my other gear choices.