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Discipline Priest Class Guide
The Discipline Priest Class Guide

Updated for the 3.3.3 patch

  1. Introduction
  2. Discipline Talents
  3. PvP
  4. Number Crunching
  5. PvE Gear
  6. 1-80 Priest Leveling Guide

1.0 - The Discipline Priest

This page is an overview of the Discipline tree for the WoW Priest, but it's just an overview. For a far more in-depth guide to Priests, of all flavors, covering leveling to raiding to PvP, check out the Killer Guide to Priests .

The Discipline Priest is by far the most durable of any of the Priest builds. Talents in the Discipline Tree focus on longevity, efficiency, utility and most of all, durability.

Discipline represent both a mixture of the Priest's viable healing power and the survability required to endure massive damage and focused fire from enemy players/mobs for an extended period of time. Discipline Priests, if played well, can be very hard to kill, especially 1 on 1.

With a solid mix of heals, pain suppression, and fear, combined with a pretty solid offensive mix, one of which is mana burn (used against all casters,) Priests can be formidable PvP opponents.

Primary reasons to spec Disicpline while raiding are for both the increased mana efficiency, via meditation, as well as the increase in mana regeneration via divine spirit is well worth the decrease in certain healing capabilities from not being fully holy. Still, while Holy Priests are slightly better at group healing than a Discipline Priest, the Discipline Priests are much better single target healers. They also require less downtime than Holy Priests.

For leveling people often choose to go with a Shadow Priest build and then switch over to Disclipline (also see our Priest leveling page) after getting Shadowform.

Discipline Priest Class Guide

2.0 - Talent Builds

See our Priest leveling guide for a Shadow leveling build. This one is Discipline with a few point in Holy. The progression is intended to get you into Penance ASAP, but feel free to tweak it to suit your own needs.

2.1 - Patch 3.3.3 Leveling Discipline Build, 57/14/0

Talents

  1. Discipline
  2. 5 in Twin Disciplines
  3. 2 in Improved Power Word: Fortitude
  4. 3 in Improved Inner Fire
  5. Inner Focus
  6. 3 in Improved Power Word: Shield
  7. 3 in Meditation
  8. 3 in Mental Agility
  9. 5 in Mental Strength
  10. 2 in Focused Power
  11. 3 in Enlightenment
  12. Power Infusion
  13. 3 in Improved Flash Heal
  14. 1 in Focused Will
  15. 3 in Rapture
  16. 2 in Aspiration
  17. Pain Suprerssion
  18. 2 in Grace
  19. 2 in Reflective Shield
  20. 5 in Borrowewd Time
  21. Penance
  22. Holy
  23. 5 in Holy Specialization
  24. 5 in Divine Fury
  25. Desperate Prayer
  26. 3 in Inspiration
  27. Discipline
  28. Soul Warding
  29. 2 in Focused Will
  30. 2 in Renewed Hope
  31. 1 in Divine Aegis

Glyphs, Major

  1. Pain Suppression
  2. Renew
  3. Penance

Glyphs, Minor

  1. Fortitude
  2. Levitate
  3. Fading

Skip enchants unless you have plenty of gold. Same with Gems.

If you do buy gems/enchants then go for Spellpower before any other abilities.


Discipline Priest Class Guide

3.0 - Discipline PvP Build

54/17/0 Basic Arena Build for Discipline Priests

Tweak to match your role in the team and your partner and gear. This isn't the ultimate build, but it will get you started.

Talents

  1. Discipline
  2. 5 in Unbreakable Will
  3. 3 in Silent Resolve
  4. 3 in Improved Inner Fire
  5. 2 in Martyrdom
  6. 3 in Meditation
  7. Inner Focus
  8. 3 in Improved Power Word: Shield
  9. 3 in Mental Agility
  10. 2 in Improved Mana Burn
  11. 2 in Reflective Shield
  12. 5 in Mental Strength (brain push-ups)
  13. Soul Warding
  14. 2 in Focused Power
  15. 3 in Focused Will
  16. Power Infusion
  17. 1 in Renewed Hope
  18. 3 in Rapture
  19. 2 in Aspiration
  20. 1 in Divine Aegis
  21. Pain Suppression
  22. 1 in Grace
  23. 5 in Borrowed Time
  24. Penance
  1. Holy
  2. 2 in Healing Focus
  3. 4 in Holy Specialization
  4. 5 in Divine Fury
  5. Desperate Prayer
  6. 3 in Inspiration
  7. 2 in Searing Light

Glyphs, Major

  1. Pain Suppression
  2. Smite
  3. Penance

Glyphs, Minor

  1. Shadowfiend
  2. Levitate
  3. Fading

Enchants and Gems

  • Spellpower
  • Haste
  • Stamina
Consider a Hand-Mounted Pyro Rocket for your gloves.

 

Discipline Priest Class Guide

Raiding as a Discipline Priest - Gear, Numbers, Etc.

4.0 - Number Crunching

Combat Ratings at level 80:

  • Crit rating: 1% crit = 45.9 critical strike rating
  • Crit by Int: 1% crit = 166.67 intellect
  • 1% hit = 26.23 hit rating
  • 1% haste = 32.79 haste rating

For shadow priests with 3/3 Shadow Focus and 3/3 Misery, you need 11% hit, or 289 hit rating to be hit capped at level 80.

  • Intellect - 1 = 15 Mana

4.1 - Spell Hit, Crit, etc.

Defacto Priority:

+Healing = MP5 - Spirit - Spell Haste

4.2 - Gems

Throughput

Regen

Metaslot

  • [Insightful Earthsiege Diamond] is the superior metagem at lower gear levels and when regen is a significant problem.
  • [Ember Skyflare Diamond] will grant more intellect then the IED if you have more then 1.1k intellect. It is also the prefered metagem for Throughput. It does however usualy provide less regen overal then IED but the fact that it does not require any blue gems in your gear and also grants spellpower makes it the superior choice in most cases.

4.3 Enchantments

5.0 - PvE Gear Guide for Discipline Priests

A Decent Pre-raid level 80 gear list

Optimal Level 80 Gear List:

Level 70 PvE gear guide.

Believe it or not, there are people who want to do the level 70 raids, while at or below 70. This gear list is for them.

Helm:

Neck:

Back:

Shoulders:

Chest:

Wrist:

Hands:

Belt:

Legs:

Boots:

Rings:

Trinkets:

Weapons:

Off-hand:

Two-Hand:

Wand:

6.0 -- 1-80 Priest Leveling Guide

Leveling your Discpline Priest, or an other Priest build, doesn't have to be an exercise in frustration. It's not a lack in the class, you're very hard to kill and do very nice damage, it's just the sheer number of quests and the "where to go next?" questions that make the job of lveling a bit frustrating at times. The fix? Treat yourself to a full blown 1-80 leveling guide and never again wonder about where to go or what to do. Grab Zygor's guide, and speed through the levels faster than ever before.

Whether you're starting from level 1 or are 70 something Zygor's will show you where to go next. This guide is in the form of a small in-game window which lists the current quest and goals. It's also fully automated, which means that tasks, quests, and waypoints automatically update as you finish the quests. Everything you need to know is contained within the guide and is displayed in that guide window. You may never have to look at your quest log again.

Grab yourself a copy of Zygor's Leveling guide (or read a review of Zygor's Guides first) and blast through 80 levels with ease. Then when Cataclysm hits simply update the guide and blast to 85!


 

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