Discipline Priest Leveling Guide - Midnight

By AutomaticJak Updated: 2026/02/25

Discipline Priest Leveling in AtonementPower Word: BarrierPain SuppressionShadow Word: Pain Level 80 to 90 Talent Order

Discipline Priest Leveling Tips for

Use Fade alongside Shadowfiend to divert attention away from yourself if you're in danger.

Always use Mind Blast and Penance on cooldown while leveling.

and Psychic Scream are solid tools to reduce damage taken by shutting down enemies.

Use Fade and Mind Soothe to dodge around enemies that you don't need to fight.

If you are using Dominate Mind to take control of mobs whilst leveling, make sure it won't expire during a large or dangerous pull.

Best Discipline Priest Talent Builds for Leveling in Below are two tabs you can clickUse the copy button below for a level 80 talent build to start leveling in Midnight

Discipline - 80+

The War Within Discipline Spec Tree

Pathing Notes

Your spec tree is the most important part of building your Discipline Priest, as it covers all of the additional abilities needed to really flesh out the rotation. As such pathing here is quite important early to make sure you build a solid rotation, and afterward is mostly about refining that core based on preference.

First follow the right path of the tree until you reach Revel in Darkness
Afterward fill out the middle including Ultimate Penitence.
Take Evangelism and damage bonuses
Finally go all the way down to Searing Light and fill out from there.

The War Within Priest Class Tree

Pathing Notes

The Priest Class tree, on the other hand, is much looser, mostly adding some additional utility and self-healing to keep you healthy throughout your adventures. Things are a lot more freeform aside from a couple of key talents, but a roughly guided path through is as follows:

First, grab your damage and crowd control Psychic Scream talents.
Continue grabbing damage and crowd control Void Tendrils.
Down the left side of the tree to fill out Desperate Prayer.
Finally grab your remaining defensive talents Improved Fade and Translucent Image.

Discipline Priest Leveling Rotation in Discipline Priest Leveling Damage Rotation

Always cast Power Word: Shield on yourself going into mob pulls.

Multi-DoT with Shadow Word: Pain when gathering mobs.

Follow up with Mind Blast, Penance and Smite to damage.

Use Holy Nova for large quantities of enemies.

Use Shadow Word: Death to execute enemies.

Discipline Priest Dungeon Rotation

Maintain/refresh Shadow Word: Pain. It is much stronger in Midnight PrePatch so you will want to make sure you are applying at least one and then letting Penance spread the DoT.

Use Evangelism (or Power Word: Radiance if Evang is on cd) to apply Atonements to allies and gain Archangel.

Cast Penance

Cast Mind Blast

Cast Penance

Cast Shadow Word: Death if in execute range for any enemy

Spam Smite and use Penance on cooldown.

Use Power Word: Shield on cooldown during downtime.

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Comments

Comment by Shadow12000

I have to say that I'm disappointed with the leveling guides for every healer spec on wowhead. None of them mention how to heal through dungeons at all, even though that would be the most efficient and fastest way to level for most classes that have a healing spec available. It's also the best way for a healer to efficiently learn how to heal as their spec, rather than jumping in at max level with a ton of abilities to try and learn how to properly use all at once. This doesn't apply as much to disc as it's more or less learning how to properly apply and make use of atonement, but still it would be worth mentioning for any budding disc priests to know. Please consider adding a section for healing in dungeons.

Comment by Shishkabobs

The talent tree for disc is no longer accurate due to some skills having been removed and the talent tree path no longer displays the actual talent tree path as of the 1st November 2025.

Comment by justgiz

The level 80 starting build link is using Voidweaver, while the guide for 81+ talent choice list says get Oracle talents. So which one is it?

Discipline Priest Leveling Guide - Midnight

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