Updated for Mists of Pandaria build, gems, and enchants.

The builds and info on this page are for max level characters, though lower levels can still get use from them. If you need to get to the level cap  ASAP then save yourself a lot of time and trouble and treat yourself to an in-game leveling guide.

Contents

• Builds
• Disc. Stats
• Gems and Enchants
• Macros

Discipline Priest PvP Builds

Any spec of Priest can pick any one talent from any one row, for six total talents at level 90. To check out all of the Priest abilities, glyphs, etc, see our M of P Priest page.

Talents can be swapped just like glyphs. Use a bit of Dust/Powder or Tome from your Inscription supplies vendor and swap one talent at a time for a new one, or your trainer can wipe the whole set for you.

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Discipline Talents, Abilities, Glyphs

Talents Tier 1: Acquired at level 15 – Control Psyfiend will send people fleeing all over the place, preferring to target those close to you. Void tendrils – roots a group of targets. Maybe better for PvP, but offers some control for A of E times in PvE. Dominate Mind – this is your mind control Tier 2: Acquired at level 30 – Movement Phantasm greatly improves your Fade ability: for a brief time it removes roots, makes you untargetable, and increases your speed. Angelic Feather – place feathers at up to three locations, people moving through the feathers get a speed buff. You can also cast it right on a target and on yourself. With a litle care this looks like it could be quite useful. Body and Soul increases the target’s movement speed, briefly, when you cast Power World Shield or Leap of Faith on them. Tier 3: Acquired at level 45 – Healing and Damage From Darkness Comes Light- Vampiric Touch ticks give a chance for a free, instant, Mind Blast with increased damage and that doesn’t consume your DoTs. Mindbender replaces your Shadowfiend. It’s attacks restore your mana. Power Word: Solace – damages an enemy and restores a bit of mana. Tier 4: Acquired at level 60 – Emergencies Angelic Bulwark throws up a shield to protect you when you go below 30% health. Again, this looks like more PvP use than PvE. Desperate Prayer instantly heals your for 30% of your health. Spectral Guise improves the Shadowform. Tier 5: Acquired at level 75 – Bonuses Divine Insight: Chance for your next PW: Shield to ignore and not cause the Weakened Soul effect. Twist of Fate – Finish Him! you do more damage as the target gets low in health Power Infusion increases casting speed and reduces mana costs for 20 seconds. Nice for when that burst is needed. Tier 6: Acquired at level 90 – Godhood. Well, maybe not. Cascade: Your Holy Bolt bounces from target to target, doing damage to each, preferring longer range targets and never hitting the same one twice. Halo: A Ring of Power extends outward from your location damaging enemies and healing friends and doing max power at 25 yards. This one just sounds cool and might a pretty nice in a raid or mass fight. Divine Star: Your star blasts outward, staight away from you, damaging enemies and healing allies along its path, and does the same on its return.	Discipline Abilities
	Rapture Meditation Penance Holy Fire Divine Aegis Heal Spirit Shell Greater Hea lInner Focus Grace Prayer of Healing Archangel Strength of Soul Pain Suppression Atonement Borrowed Time Power Word: Barrier Train of Thought Mastery: Shield Discipline	1 10 10 18 24 28 28 34 36 45 46 50 52 58 60 62 70 78 80
	Prime glyphs are gone Majors modify power for greater effect. Minors are just cosmetic and fun. Desperation allows Pain SUppresion to be cast while stunned. Leap of Faith removes roots and such from your target. Levitate is a movement speed increase. Borrowed time makes the effect visual. Heavens and Shackle changes the look of the powers. Blast to the level cap, with Zygor

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Discipline Stats and Gear

1. Primary: Int > Resilience
2. Secondary: PvP Power > Spirit > Mastery
3. Weaker: Critical/Haste/Hit/Expertise

• PvP Power in Mists of Pandaria replaces the old Spell Penetration and is a direct add to your damage and healing towards players. Point for point it’s likely that PvP power is roughly equal to Int in value.
• Hit and Expertise: If you’re an offensive D Priest then you will want 6% Hit and Expertise (since attacks can now be dodged.) If you’re a healer/shielder then those stats are not nearly as valuable.
• D. Priest Mastery is a pretty solid stat.
• Spirit really depends on your mana usage. If your mana use is fine, then get other stats.

Reforge Crit & Haste into better stats.

How much Resilience? Less if your teammates take the pressure, more if you’re the center of attention. If you’re taking less pressure then you can use some PvE items in place of the PvP items. If you’re the center of attention then you should get the full PvP set and maybe Res. gems and enchants. .

How much PvP Power? All you can get.

Discipline Priest Gems

The Mists of Pandaria (MoP) gems have much higher values than those from Cataclysm. Gems with stats such as PvP Power have twice the value of gems with Stats such as Int, such as 320 PvP Power Vs 160 Int. If the socket bonus is for Int/Resilience/Power then try to match the sockets to get the bonus, otherwise gem for PvP Power.

If you seed more gold to buy more gems and stuff, then see Hayden’s guide to massively improve your cash flow.

Gem Priorities
Meta		Burning Primal Diamond: +216 Int & 3% Increased Crit Effect
Red		Brilliant Serpent’s Eye: 320 Int, self-only Jewelcrafting gem Brilliant Primordial Ruby: 160 Int
Yellow		Mystic Sun’s Radiance: 320 Resilience
Blue		Stormy River’s Heart: +320 PvP power
Orange		Willful Vermilion Onyx: +80 Int & +160 Resilience Potent Vermilion Onyx: +80 Int & +160 Crit Reckless Vermilion Onyx: 80 Int, 160 Haste Tenuous Vermilion Onyx: 160 Expertise, 160 Resilience
Purple		Mysterious Imperial Amethyst: +80 Int, +160 PvP Power
Prismatic		Brilliant Primordial Ruby: 160 Int
Cogwheel		Sparkling Tinker’s Gear: 600 Spirit – requires an engie helm, such as this. Quick Tinker’s Gear: 600 Haste Smooth Tinker’s Gear: 600 Crit

Discipline Priest Enchantments

Short on gold? If you want to buy the best enchants, fund all of your alts, donate to the guild, etc., but don’t have the cash, then see what the Tycoon Addon can do about about fixing your poverty.

Helm enchants are gone in Mists of Pandaria, shoulder enchants are handled by the Inscription profession.

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Discipline Priest Macros

Go here if you need some basics on macros.

Shadowfiend Macro

#showtooltip Shadowfiend
/cast [nopet] Shadowfiend
/petdefensive
/cast shadowcrawl
/petattack

Prayer of Mending Target – If Target Not in Party then PoM Self

#showtooltip Prayer of Mending
/cast [raid] Prayer of mending
/cast [noraid,target=player] Prayer of Mending
/cast [raid,target=player] Prayer of Mending

Shackle Ebon Gargoyle

#showtooltip Shackle Undead
/target [harm] Ebon Gargoyle
/cast Shackle Undead
/targetlasttarget

Mouseover Shackle

/cast [target=mouseover] Shackle Undead

Shadow Word: Pain/Devouring Plague Macro: Here it is.

#showtooltip [nomod] Shadow Word: Pain; [mod:shift] Dispel Magic; [mod:ctrl] Devouring Plague; [mod:alt] Shadow Word: Pain
/cast [mod: ctrl] Devouring Plague
/cast [mod: shift] Dispel Magic
/cast [nomod] Shadow Word: Pain

The above were taken from ArenaJunkies. You’ll find more scripts and macros on their ArenaJunkies Priest scripts page

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How to Get your Priest to the Level Cap, ASAP

Priest leveling is easy, especially for Shadow. Holy and Disc. can level in PvP or Dungeons and Shadow can do all of that and quest effectively. Then you hit the tops and the game changes. And then you have those other alts you want to level though those 90 levels.

With the thousands of quests to 90 and a bazillion mobs to kill (not to mention other players, but they don’t count here) sorting out which quests are best and which series of quests will get you to 90 the fastest is important, which is why we highly recommend Zygor’s Guide.

Zygor’s is an in-game guide and it nearly automates the whole leveling process: you just pick your starting point, at any level, and the guide tracks which quest you’re on, tracks the quest objectives, and automatically advances and updates as you complete your tasks and quests. In addition, a waypoint arrow is set automatically, so you never have to wonder where to go. All of the important quest info is included in the guide so you never have to wonder what to do. You’ll find that it’s vastly superior to the in-game questing help.

Playing with Heirlooms and/or Recruit a friend? Gaining a few levels in the dungeons or in PvP? Zygor has your back. The guide knows what level you are and will correctly suggest where to go next and will let you dump all of your obsolete quests. You will probably never need to look at your quest log again.

Grab your copy here and get to 90 as fast as possible, or read our review, first.

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