Welcome to Skill Capped’s Discipline Priest PvP Guide for The War Within 11.0

All sections for Discipline Priest PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Discipline Priests in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section provides a brief overview of Discipline Priests in The War Within.

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What’s New

What’s New for Discipline Priests in The War Within?

As we enter onward into the new expansion, a lot of changes have undergone our way, and Priests are no exception to this. Focusing on their talent changes, our class talent tree is the only one where we notice some new spells mixed in, especially Phantom Reach. This talent assists us with avoiding enemy control, while also making ourselves less likely to be a vulnerable target, as we can heal and deal damage at a further distance.

Starting with the bread and butter of The War Within, we have our Hero talents, giving us two completely new trees inside of our talent pane that give us a more exciting playstyle. For Discipline Priests, we receive two we can choose from; Oracle and Voidweaver.

Oracle is our recommend pick as it strengthens our healing spells with more flavorful utility, which makes it less likely for us to fall behind on our momentum. Voidweaver, on the other hand, is considered more exclusive in 2v2 and RBG settings where you want to pump the damage charts and create massive pressure.

Starting with Oracle, we receive our hallmark talent, Premonition. Not only is this talent quite similar to Paladin’s Blessing of the Seasons, as it cycles through spells in it’s own specific fashion, but we make our overall healing a bit easier to manage. Depending on which spell you use, this may require a bit more thought to benefit the most out of it.

Here are the abilities we receive from Premonition in sequential order:

Premonition of Insight for a 7 second cooldown reduction on your next three spells, making it extremely versatile in terms of how you choose to use this. We cover how to best use this spell in our current up to date course guide, available to check out for all subscribed Skill Capped members.
Premonition of Piety for some nice buffs to our healing when active, as well as some bonus splash healing to injured players when we overheal targets.
Premonition of Solace for a non-purgeable shield on any target you heal.
Premonition of Clairvoyance, allowing you to use all three at once.

Switching gears to Voidweaver, this build is all about your Atonement healing and delivering some hefty burst damage. The hallmark node we receive in this tree is Entropic Rift, which is an orb we summon from our Mind Blast, and moves to the target we used Mind Blast on. Upon expiration, this explodes for some solid AoE damage thanks to our endcap node, Collapsing Void, making this quite exciting as a hero build if you enjoy the Atonement aspect of Discipline Priest.

Overall, Discipline Priest continues to fulfill its role as a tempo-based healer, meaning that you’ll want to constantly keep your teammates healthy by constantly throwing out huge Power Word: Shields from Weal and Woe, while also weaving in Pain Suppression, Rapture, and Barrier so you can occasionally dish in more damage and overwhelm the opposing team. From what we receive now in our Hero talent pane, this makes our healing a bit easier to manage, making our rotation feel more fluid and impactful in the arena.