Discipline Priest Guide
The arena healer: shields that soften damage before it lands, Penance, and one big save.
- Role Healer
- Health 3,950
- Resource Mana
Plan your Discipline Priest build → Shadow Priest
Toolkit at a glance
Counted from the spell data (every Priest spell, the Discipline spells, and the row-5 talent spells).
| Stuns, fears, incapacitates | Psychic Scream |
|---|---|
| Roots and silences | — |
| Interrupts | — |
| Defensives | Power Word: Shield, Pain Suppression |
| Heals | Flash Heal, Heal, Penance |
| Mobility | — |
Discipline Priest talents
Five rows of three. Pick one per row; rows 1 to 4 are passive and row 5 teaches a spell.
Your heals also shield their target for 20% of the heal, overhealing included, up to 1000.
Your Holy damage heals the most injured ally within 30 m for half of it.
Casting Power Word: Shield makes your next Flash Heal or Heal instant.
Power Word: Shield also makes its target run 40% faster for 3 sec.
Psychic Scream also frees you from roots and slows, and you run 40% faster for 3 sec after it.
Penance can be channeled on the move.
Pain Suppression also heals its target for 900.
Falling below 30% health shields you for 900. Once a minute.
Pain Suppression also breaks stuns and fears on its target, and can be cast while feared.
Penance lands 5 times over 2.5 sec.
Mana Burn is instant, but has a 12 sec cooldown.
Psychic Scream also silences them for 2 sec.
Learn Power Infusion: an ally deals 20% more damage for 15 sec.
Learn Leap of Faith: pull an ally up to 32 m away to your side, out of any root.
Learn Life Swap: you and an ally trade health, each left with the share of health the other had.
Discipline spells
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penance | Holy | 300 | Instant | 12 s | 30 m |
| Pain Suppression | Holy | — | Instant | 90 s | 30 m |
Spells taught by talents (row 5)
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Infusion | Holy | — | Instant | 120 s | 30 m |
| Leap of Faith | Holy | 200 | Instant | 60 s | 32 m |
| Life Swap | Holy | — | Instant | 120 s | 30 m |
Spells every Priest knows
The first eight are the action bar a new character starts with; swap spells on your bar in Spells & Talents (N). ★ = starting bar.
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Heal ★ | Holy | 440 | 1.5 s | — | 30 m |
| Heal ★ | Holy | 300 | 3 s | — | 30 m |
| Renew ★ | Holy | 250 | Instant | — | 30 m |
| Power Word: Shield ★ | Holy | 350 | Instant | — | 30 m |
| Dispel Magic ★ | Holy | 200 | Instant | 8 s | 30 m |
| Psychic Scream ★ | Shadow | 300 | Instant | 30 s | Self |
| Smite ★ | Holy | 250 | 2 s | — | 30 m |
| Shadow Word: Pain ★ | Shadow | 200 | Instant | — | 30 m |
| Fear Ward | Holy | 150 | Instant | 60 s | 30 m |
| Mana Burn | Shadow | 250 | 2.5 s | — | 30 m |
| Mind Blast | Shadow | 350 | 1.5 s | 8 s | 30 m |
| Shadow Word: Death | Shadow | 250 | Instant | 12 s | 30 m |
Recommended Discipline Priest build
Recommended builds for this spec are still being tested. To be added.
Spell names, costs, cooldowns and talent text are read from the game client (v0.21, checked 2026-10-30). The developer calls the numbers “first-pass tuning”, so expect them to change.