Discipline Priest Raid Tips

By AutomaticJak Last Updated: 2018/06/26 Changelog Patch: 10.1.7

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Try to learn as much of the fight beforehand. Watch videos, watch streams, go over logs, all to recognize damage patterns.

Separate your raid cooldowns (Tranquility, Revival, Aura Mastery, Power Word: Barrier, Divine Hymn, Healing Tide Totem) with your other healers, unless otherwise required. On progression, your cds are precious and must be divvied up.

Minimize your own damage taken by maximizing your positioning.

Antorus the Burning Throne Specific Tips

Keep an eye on positioning throughout the raid, clustering Decimation together and quickly spreading out to cover Annihilation soaks. Stand next to the Annihilation if someone is already soaking when empowered so you can quickly jump into the 2nd soak that is required on Mythic.

Prepare your Atonements via /Power Word: Shieldbefore Decimation hits the raid

Focus Rapture Power Word: Shield's on tanks and then the raid before Decimation. Try to ramp up when there is around 8 seconds left on the timer for Decimation, that should give you sufficient time to prepare your burst. Watch the timing of your Light's Wrath

Heavy tank healing is required on this fight, healers likely will be split into two teams. Coordinate externals with the tanks and ensure tanks are aware of which healers and externals that they have available.

On Mythic, you will receive a debuff for Fire or Shadow reducing the damage you take from either spell type. When splitting Siphoned damage with the fire debuff, it is most important to stay stacked, even if you must run through the patches left behind from Molten Touch

Stay spread during Enflamed debuff and rotate through raid cooldowns if players are poorly spread or, ideally, use them during Siphoned. Stay as a group, rotate through raid cooldowns and make sure the tanks are a key focus.

Entropic Mine will expire over time. Utilize the low healing required on the first pod to have a single player with strong defensives pop two Entropic Mine at a time at a constant rate. Using a raid cooldown early on will save healer mana for later in the fight

Players will receive a Psychic Scarring debuff preventing them from entering pods again. Focus healing targets inside pods at all times.

Rotate through healing cooldowns to deal with Fusillade's on pods 2 and 3. Pacing your mana is key with Discipline.

Producing strong Evangelism's every pod is extremely important. Work with your healers to plan out when others will be using their cooldowns so that you do not overlap.

On a first kill, it can be helpful to save Power Word: Barrier for any Fusillade that you do not have a Felshield to cover. Otherwise plan as a raid cooldown with your team

Prepare with your other healers to heal through Collapsing World's while keeping an eye on the additional raid damage that will hit after Reality Tear debuff expires on the tanks.

Take advantage of Shining Force to knock adds from portals into melee or into the boss to allow those mobs to be killed rapidly.

Rotate through healing cooldowns to deal with Fusillade's on pods 2 and 3. Pacing your mana is key with Discipline.

Producing strong Evangelism by starting your rampup halfway through the Felstorm Barrage to have a 18+ Atones out before Collapsing World expires.

This fight has a low overall HPS requirement but coordination is still extremely important

"Marry" tanks to healers so that the latter always will follow the former so that dps'ers know where to find the healers.

When healers, on mythic, are entering the Sentinax ensure that there is always one healer with each major group.

Constantly check in on other healers' locations so that the raid always knows where to find healers and to ensure no group is without one.

DIspels are incredibly important. Ensure players are out of the raid when you dispel Sleep Canister but do so quickly. Tanks often will be clearing the Stasis Trap when crossing the bridge, dispel them immediately so they can clear another.

Power Word: Barrier is extremely powerful for dealing with Blastwire clears. This video's strategy involved many Blastwire being detonated close together while the raid grouped together under Barrier to reduce damage taken.

Make sure at least one healer is in range of players affected by Empowered Pulse Grenade when crossing the bridge

Priest Healers are not spectacular on healing across the bridge, allow more suitable healers like Druids to use cooldowns and large amounts of their mana while healing on the bridge while other healers focus on platform healing.

You can use Rapture while crossing the bridge ONLY IF you are close to halfway across and will make use of the subsequent Atones that are applied via shielding. Using Rapture early so that the Atones expire before you can reach the boss is wasteful and not recommended!

Stay close to the inner ring of the boss so that you are basically touching him. This will allow you to dodge MOST Diabolic Bombs that appear on the encounter.

While difficult, it is extremely powerful if you can time your Evangelism for when multiple Diabolic Bomb will detonate close together. Watch your timers for when the next bombs will spawn and time your Penance for when the bombs move towards the tanks on the opposite side of the room

Avoid the lanterns created by Reverberating Strike, grouping most of the raid in between spawned lanterns will help avoid Bombs and make it easier for raid members to stack or spread for Annihilator mechanics depending on your kill order

Rapture can be excellent to use when your raid merges together again near the end of the Initialization phase, allowing sufficient Atones to be applied during ticking damage. Healing during intermission is simply single Power Word: Radiance use/PW: Shield use on cooldown and Penance/Smite into the Annihilators.

Clarity of Will is very powerful for keeping targets with Misery alive.

Necrotic Embrace can deal quite a bit of damage. Focus healing targets affected by the debuff and shield them after it expires.

Trying to maintain constant Atones will oom you on this encounter. Focus on getting large Evangelisms and shielding targets with Misery as needed.

Focus healing targets with Fulminating Pulse and Chilled Blood. Spread healers so that both sides will be covered constantly over the course of the fight.

Use Shining Force to knock back Spectral Army of Norgannon and clear a path for your team if needed.

Storm of Darkness and Orb of Frost are strong times to get big Evangelisms. Coordinate with other healers on when you will utilize raid cooldowns so they do not overlap.

Switch targets to help kill Titan's torments as they spawn, especially Machinations of Aman'Thul.

Stay in safe zones during storm, run out your Fulminating Pulse as late as possible so it does not hit other players.

On mythic, two different groups will split Flame Rend damage. Pre-cast PW: Radiance so that it hits just after the Flame Rend hits the group is excellent for rapidly topping off groups

Use Shining Force to knock back Blazing Eruption and keep adds from walking into the boss, or help an add move into the boss.

The intermission is the standard time to use Evangelism but keep in mind other players raid cooldowns and avoid overlaps. Barrier can be excellent for Flame Rends or intermissions depending on the groups needs and how easily everyone can get stacked up.

Stay spread to avoid Scorching Blaze or Ravenous Blaze on Mythic difficulty from splashing onto other players.

Focus on topping off your raid from Tortured Rage only when you are at your strongest, so, when you are able to have both PWR charges available to pair with Evangelism OR Light's Wrath to sustain the entire raid.

Haste/Versatility buff is superior for dealing more damage, an important factor when progressing on Mythic.

Prepare for Soulbomb and Soulburst by watching debuff timers, you should have plenty of time to cover the raid in Atones before the bursts go out. Rotate through raid cooldowns to ensure that there is no overlap and that Rage's and Soulbombs have strong cooldowns to cover them.

Stay stacked when possible in the final phase to make it easier on AOE healing and stacking for Barrier. Mythic video available soon

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