Comments on: 10 Tips for the New Discipline Priest

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:47:07 +0000

Rolling a disc spec without Inner Focus/Pain Suppression/Power Infusion is pretty fail.

For one, your AOE heals will suck. Power Infusion+Innerfocus Prayer of Healing will just barely cut it for your only aoe heal (besides POM). BTW its a good idea to glyph this spell as well; you’re only as strong as the weakest part of you.

Pain Suppression – has more uses in pvp than pve I admit, but that damage reduction is really handy to use on tanks or yourself.

By: Athiul

Athiul — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:57:26 +0000

I’ve been playing a Disc specced priest since BC.. I’ve never ran into a problem with a rage starved tank since WoWLk, and now speccing into rapture makes it even more beneficial to shield tanks.. It’s pretty much a necessity.
739 Mp5, and crit 29% self buffed :LO makes for an easy ToC Heroic

By: Nocnox

Nocnox — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:58:02 +0000

I found rolling a disc priest suited me perfectly – i had been playing shadow (doing a little pvp) and still healing the lower instances, when i was higher levelled it was impossible to heal raids so still wanted the opportunity to do some dps whilst remaining alive and healing without the pain of dropping Shadowform – hence Disc spec…
I found power infusion incredibly useful in both raiding and pvp… pop power infusion and then PW:S when in the poop to do a mass of prayer of healings in a short time – also allows for quick bursts of DPS on fast moving targets/feared targets in pvp (as long as you watch your cooldowns)
With the new patch there is going to be a glyph for the CD on penance reduced by 2 secs … this is going to make us unstoppable single target healers and improve our dps… we just need something for group/raid healing now blizzard!

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80, Day 2 « Shadow Weaving — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:14:15 +0000

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By: Expolaris

Expolaris — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:15:37 +0000

Wonderful Article by the way.

I am a priest thats been going Disc since day one, i wanted to re-roll a heals for my guild but holy was honestly, boring to me.

Disc is built for a few things.
1. Endurance (no OOM for you)
2. SIngle Target Heals (your a MT’s best friend)
3. Damage Mitigation

While your less of a raid heals you are a great tank buddy, pair you with a holy priest or a resto shaman and the two of you can manage most things.

One thing i did notice is a disc priest should probably avoid haste if at all possible.
Enlightmentment 5% + Borrowed Time 25% + Power Infusion 20% = 50% spell haste

with that you actually have met global cooldown to 1 second!

All in all Disc rocks, once you go disc you can never go holy again.

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Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:56:22 +0000

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By: Matticus

Matticus — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:19:35 +0000

@tekillja: Yes and no. It speeds up the process AND reduces mana cost temporarily. But it’s not a major thing to get. On the other hand, there aren’t that many other talents to throw that 1 point into at that level.

By: tekillja

tekillja — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:14:56 +0000

I’ve been curious about Power Infusion… Is that spell essential to disc healing?

By: Rilgon Arcsinh

Rilgon Arcsinh — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:24:42 +0000

This is probably gonna get me laughed at, but my baby Priestess (currently level 20 :3) is intending to go Disc for raid healing, but has no plans to take Power Infusion or Pain Suppression. Are they really that vital to the Discipline toolbox that I should nab them at the cost of something else?

By: Cal

Cal — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:35:07 +0000

Nowadays its rare that a shield will affect a tanks ability to generate rage and I pre-shield the tank 95% of the time. Really, unless the tank far out gears the content that they are rage starved anyway this should not be an issue. Its a very common misconception.

I agree with Xannder, Disc is a way more fun and interactive play style than Holy ever was to me. I took a break from Holy and went shadow for most of BC, but returned to healing with WotLK and never regretted for a second being Disc.

Meters only show part of what we do. If you want a more accurate number, add back in 1/3 of what is on the meter to see what the Disc priest has actually contributed.

I’ve had my frustrations (Druid PW:S bug, PW:S and Aegis not stacking) but I have no desire at all to heal as anything else.