Discipline Priest Azerite Traits, Azerite Armor, and Heart of Azeroth - Shadowlands 9.0.2

By AutomaticJak Updated: 2020/09/29

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Best Azerite Traits for Discipline PriestAzerite Effect Tier ListNote:Updated for Patch 8.3Ring 1 - Outer RingS Tier:

Enduring Luminescence - Ideal Azerite build will have 1x Enduring Luminescence for the extended duration. Note: the Heal effect stacks but not the + duration.

Depth of the Shadows - Additional Atonement duration to all Shadow Mend casts , as well as a buff to the healing quantity make this a valuable trait to have one of. Also an ideal azerite trait to have at least one of one the outer ring.

Death Throes - Primary "stackable" trait for raid and mythic+. This shadow trait works with Discipline and offers a significant increase in Shadow Word: Pain or Purge damage, which is often one of our top Atonement heals. This trait versus Heart of Darkness will depend on whether more damage or more healing is needed. Incredibly powerful on the many multi-dot friendly encounters that Ny'alotha has, but on single target Heart of Darkness will likely be better HPS.

Heart of Darkness - This is the raid trait from Ny'alotha. While it has a corruption requirement, this is removed during the prepatch. This trait will continue to see strong use.

A Tier:

Meticulous Scheming - Buff that offers a short window to active a lengthy haste proc for 20 seconds.

Blood Rite - While unlikely to extend the duration consistently in raid fights, can offer a solid haste proc to a haste hungry spec and good power in 5mans.

Swirling Sands - Solid critical strike increase with an opportunity to extend the duration.

Blightborne Infusion - Solid secondary stat increase.

Sudden Revelation - Replaced Gift of Forgiveness in Patch 8.1, offers small cooldown reduction to Power Word: Radiance. Stacking multiple traits DOES NOT increase the cooldown reduction but when you use Power Word: Radiance and receive the buff from this trait you can hold multiple charges of the buff at a time. Decent for raid, very powerful for Mythic+ where you can use this buff to great effect on trash mobs to maximize your damage.

Arcane Heart - Raid trait from the Eternal Palace and World Bosses. After the nerf to the uptime (not being able to accumulate progress while the buff is up) this uptime is significantly impacted for healers in this burst healing environment of EP.

B Tier:

Weal and Woe - Rewards frequent Penance usage either offensively or defensively, but due to the spell's low value this trait is less valuable.

Unstable Catalyst - Solid Primary stat increase with an often disruptive positional requirement.

Moment of Repose - Holds a very high scaling level, but overall too underpowered to see strong use.

Ring 2 - Middle RingS Tier:

Synergistic Growth - Solid mastery with excellent control over the proc. Allows you to further empower a strong ramp up and will have very strong uptime.

Concentrated Mending - HoT that accelerates over the duration, offering solid healing.

Blessed Portents - Mimicking the Highfather's effect from Antorus, this trait offers powerful progression healing in a form that is often life-saving. Loses value as encounters move into farm content where players are less likely to drop low enough to trigger it.

Blood Siphon - Offering flat increase to Leech and Mastery

Overwhelming Power - Good increase to haste that decays over time.

A Tier:

On My Way - Consistent stat increase.

Woundbinder - Haste proc for a Haste-hungry spec. Some concern over uptime as this trait only gets stronger as targets more frequently drop lower.

Ephemeral Recovery - Flat mana regen whenever you drop below a certain mana threshold. High potential if you are able to bounce back from that point and get a 2nd proc from the trait which will be difficult to do on fast encounters. Situational usage.

Earthlink - Decent primary stat increase though decay and variance can be an issue for a spec that thrives on ramping for specific damage effects

Savior - Solid potential for increasing healing on low health targets. Uptime can be a concern early on in an expansion where there is considerably less burst damage effects

B Tier:

Bracing Chill - Trait with solid potential but requires you to almost chase the effect to continue the heal effect.

Ring 3 - Inner RingS Tier:

Resounding Protection - Consistent and strong effective health increase.

Impassive Visage - Reliable heal effect whenever damage is taken with a small internal cooldown. Higher overall HPS than the trait above but shielding often has higher value due to surviving certain deadly mechanics.

Sanctum - Powerful absorb on a low cooldown with Fade, only absorbs magic damage. The control of this azerite can make it especially valuable so that you always have a good personal for when damage goes out.

Vampiric Speed - Situationally valuable, encouraged on add-heavy encounters where you can receive constant healing.

A Tier:

Gemhide - Especially powerful against physical AoE damage with armor and avoidance increases

Longstrider - Good mobility increase but lacks defensive value

Twist Magic - Very high potential when offensively Purging buffs from enemies. Extremely niche usage.

B Tier:

Azerite Fortification - PvP oriented, situational value

Bulwark of the Masses - Niche value, especially in a raiding environment

Self Reliance - Range requirement for optimal healing value, niche value.

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Season 2 Changes
With the start of Season 2 and the coming of Battle of Dazar'alor, pieces that previously had four rings will now have five. This new ring comes before the Ring 1 and offer two different spec traits for each specialization. Note that Items from Uldir weren't updated with this change.

Ring 0 contains Spec powers and is the first section available on each item and will likely be available to select as soon as you acquire a given piece of gear, contain traits based on your class specs. This ring is a new feature, found on Armor starting with Season 2, and requires only 15 levels on your Heart of Azeroth to be unlocked regardless of the gear.

Ring 1 contains Spec/Zone powers and is the second section available on each item and will likely be available to select as soon as you acquire a given piece of gear, contain traits based on your class specs and source of the trait.

Ring 2 contain Role powers, based on the roles your class can perform. It is only found on epic-level gear (340 or higher). Lower-level armor won't have this ring.

Ring 3 contains Defensive/Utility powers and is the last set of choices available in the piece;

Final Ring always has Azerite Empowered, which increases the item level of the armor piece it is in by 5 item level. The effect, in turn, increases the power from all previous rings.

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Extra penance damage and DoT duration

Depth of the Shadows Buffing Shadow Mend healing through DoT damage.

Gift of Forgiveness Smite buff for maintaining a small amount of Atonements

Moment of Repose Pain Suppression applying Atonement and healing for a small amount.

Weal and Woe Consistent bonuses from Penance for Smite or PW:Shield

Enduring Luminescence Additional Radiance healing along with a slight increase in Atonement duration applied.

Role Enhancing Powersitem level 340 or above

Earthlink Azerite energy courses through you, reaching a high primary stat value and then diminishing down to a lower value primary stat, cycling every 6 sec.

Blood Siphon Increases your Mastery and your Leech.

Lifespeed Increases your Haste and your Avoidance.

On My Way Increases your Versatility and your Speed.

Unstable Flames Your damaging abilities have a chance to grant critical strike rating for 5 sec. This effect stacks up to 5 times.

Heed My Call Your damaging abilities have a chance to deal Nature damage to your target, and Nature damage to enemies within 3 yards of that target.

Synergistic Growth Casting your multi-target healing spell grants you Mastery for 10 sec. This cannot occur more than once every 30 sec.

Ephemeral Recovery When you go below 20% mana, you gain 5051 mana. Can occur once every 3 min.

Blessed Portents Your healing spells have a chance to apply Blessed Portents for 20 sec. When the ally falls below 50% health, Blessed Portents is consumed and instantly restores health.

Bracing Chill Your heals have a chance to apply Bracing Chill. Healing a target with Bracing Chill will heal and move Bracing Chill to a nearby ally (up to 6 times).

Concentrated Mending Your healing effects have a chance to grant the target additional healing every 2 sec for 12 sec. This effect doubles every 2 sec.

Savior Your heals on targets below 35% health have a chance to heal.

Woundbinder Your healing effects have a chance to increase your Haste for 6 sec. Healing lower health targets will grant you more Haste.

Azerite Globules Your damaging abilities have a chance to implant an Azerite Globule on your enemies. When an enemy collects 3 Azerite Globules, they explode, dealing damage to nearby enemies.

Gutripper Your damaging abilities have a chance to deal Physical damage to the target. Gutripper occurs much more often against targets below 30% health.

Elemental Whirl Your damaging abilities have a chance to grant you Elemental Whirl, increasing your Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery, or Versatility for 10 sec.

Overwhelming Power Your damaging abilities have a chance to grant you 25 applications of Overwhelming Power. Each stack of Overwhelming Power grants Haste. An application of Overwhelming Power is removed every 1 sec or whenever you take damage.