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Discipline Priest guide

HealerPriest · WoW Forever

Beta guide, level 30. The WoW Forever beta stops at level 30, so this guide and its build cover levels 1 to 30. We update it for level 60 after launch on November 4.

Discipline is the shield and tank healing Priest. Forever turns it into a real spec: Penance is a new channeled heal (or damage) spell, Divine Aegis puts a shield on targets you crit-heal, Soul Warding lets you shield more often, and Power Infusion stays one of the best buffs in the game. Meditation now keeps 50% of your mana regeneration going while you cast.

Strengths

  • Excellent tank healer: shields stop damage before it lands
  • Power Infusion: +20% spell damage and healing on an ally
  • Strong mana tools: Meditation and Inner Focus

Weaknesses

  • Weaker at healing a whole group
  • Very little movement ability
  • Shields need planning ahead

Talent build (level 30) 21/0/0

Discipline 21 points

  • Twin Disciplines5/5
  • Mental Strength5/5
  • Inner Focus1/1
  • Improved Power Word: Shield3/3
  • Meditation3/3
  • Improved Inner Fire2/3
  • Soul Warding1/1
  • Penance1/1

21 points in Discipline: Twin Disciplines for stronger instant spells, Mental Strength for Intellect, bigger and more frequent shields, Meditation and Inner Focus for mana, and Penance at 30. Divine Aegis and Power Infusion come after launch.

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Key talents

Penance
New in Forever: a quick channeled volley that heals an ally or damages an enemy.
Soul Warding
New in Forever: Power Word: Shield is 4 sec faster to recast and 15% cheaper.
Improved Power Word: Shield
+20% shield strength.
Twin Disciplines
New in Forever: +5% damage and healing on your instant spells.
Meditation
50% of your mana regeneration keeps going while you cast.

New in Forever: Discipline talents

  • Power in LightYour Smite and Penance spells deal 10% increased damage to targets afflicted with your Holy Fire or Shadow Word: Pain.
  • Twin DisciplinesIncreases the damage and healing of your instant cast spells by 5%.
  • Holy PrecisionImproves your chance to hit with Holy spells by 18%.
  • Soul WardingReduces the cooldown on your Power Word: Shield spell by 4 sec and reduces its mana cost by 15%.
  • PenanceLaunches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 44 Holy damage to an enemy, or 133 healing to an ally, instantly and every 1 sec for 2 sec.
  • Renewed HopeYour heals from Flash Heal, Binding Heal, Lesser Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, and Penance gain 10% increased critical strike chance when cast on targets with Weakened Soul, and reduce the remaining duration of Weakened Soul on their target by 5 sec.
  • Divine AegisYour non-periodic critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 15% of the amount healed. Shields up to 1,200 damage and lasts 12 sec.

Rotation

  1. Power Word: Shield on the tank before the pull and whenever it drops.
  2. Renew on targets taking steady damage.
  3. Penance for quick burst healing.
  4. Flash Heal for fast single heals.
  5. Greater Heal (with Inner Focus) for big, predictable damage.

Cooldowns

Inner Focus
A free big heal that crits more often.
Fade
Drop threat before a mob turns on you.
Psychic Scream
Fear nearby enemies off you in an emergency.

Stats

Healing power first, then Intellect and mana per 5 seconds, then Spirit. Crit comes last until your mana is solid.

Best races

Alliance

Gnome
Expansive Mind (+5% mana) and Eureka!, which also boosts your heals for 8 sec.
Human
The Human Spirit (+10% Spirit) and Ruthless (+1% crit).
Dwarf
Stoneform for bleeds, poisons and diseases.

Horde

Undead
Will of the Forsaken breaks fear, Cannibalize restores mana between fights.
Troll
Berserking: +10% casting speed for 10 sec.

Professions

Tailoring for cloth gear (Forever adds new spell power patterns), Enchanting to make your own wands, or Engineering.

Leveling

Discipline levels better than Holy: shield yourself, wand or Smite, and use Penance. Many players still level as Shadow and swap for dungeons.