Welcome to Skill-Capped’s Discipline Priest PvP Guide for Cataclysm
All sections for Discipline Priest PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal race, talents, glyphs, gear, professions and macros. This will help you have a good understanding on Discipline Priest in PvP for Cataclysm, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will give a brief overview of Discipline Priest in PvP for Cataclysm Season 9.
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Why Discipline Priest?
Discipline Priest is an extremely powerful healer specialization throughout the Cataclysm expansion. Discipline Priest has an exceptional toolkit for sustained healing, team utility, and defensives, making this specialization extremely powerful in Cataclysm Season 9.
Starting with Disciplines Priest’s healing breakdown, Priests want to apply Power Word: Shield first, as this is one of the strongest abilities Discipline Priest has to offer. Discipline Priest’s primary healing spells, Flash Heal, Heal, and Penance, are buffed with a Critical Strike modifier by the talent, Renewed Hope. Also, Discipline Priests receive 14% Spell Haste when using Power Word: Shield from Borrowed Time, making it easier to cast direct heals for a short period of time.
Discipline Priest provides multiple spells that do well with team utility. Cataclysm has introduced the spell, Leap of Faith, which is used in crucial moments to save your teammates during kill opportunities or to land kills on your opponents. Mass Dispel, when paired with with Glyph of Mass Dispel, makes your cast very quick and difficult to land interrupts on when dispelling immunities, such as Ice Block and Divine Shield.
Looking at Discipline Priest’s defensive toolkit, there are a lot of cooldowns available to prevent their friendly targets from falling behind in an arena match. Pain Suppression and Power Word: Barrier are powerful defensives that Discipline Priests always use during arena matches. Pain Suppression is extremely valuable as it allows Discipline Priests to press a damage reduction on a friendly target while in Crowd Control. This is effective when paired with the Glyph of Desperation, which is mandatory for all Discipline Priests. Also, having Power Word: Barrier is a great defensive for reacting immediately to burst damage, or can be preemptively used when anticipating Crowd Control.
The best specializations to play with are Marksmanship Hunters, Frost Mages, Fire Mages, and Subtlety Rogues. Cataclysm also brings a complete rework to healer dispels. All dispels remove a magical debuff effect off your teammate, a drastic change to specific classes having a magic debuff dispel. Discipline Priests receive 2 magic debuff dispels for every Dispel Magic pressed, making Discipline Priest dispels more powerful than other healers.
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