Discipline Priest Raid Guide & Uldir Raid Tips - Battle for Azeroth 8.1

By AutomaticJak Updated: 2018/12/03

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Taloc

MOTHER

Fetid Devourer

Zek'voz

Vectis

Zul

Mythrax

G'huun

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Watch out for allies running out of the groups with Plasma Discharge as they will require spot healing

Start ramping up before Cudgel of Gore to quickly reverse the damage on the group. On Mythic, you can ramp up just as the first Hardened Arteries goes out and if you extend with you can maintain Atonements for the Cudgel of Gore damage that follows.

Damage from Cudgel of Gore is based off of proximity to the impact zone. Use Power Word: Barrier to help mitigate this damage.

During the Powered Down phase, keep an eye on the tank that is soaking the Volatile Droplet. These adds will knock you back when soaked, so standing back to let the tank soak, then having Leap of Faith at the ready is excellent for ensuring the tank will not get knocked off the elevator. See video above for examples

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This encounter focuses primarily on healers working together to rotate through healing cooldowns as players pass through the Defense Grid. This video highlights <Future's> strategy of sending large groups at the start of each room.

WIth this strategy Discipline can ramp up shortly before the encounter begins and have total raid coverage to allow a full party (5) of players to pass through at the start.

Ideal time to use Power Word: Barrier is when you are sending a large group and the raid is able to stack easily. Look for large party movement ideally before or after any Purifying Flame go out.

On Mythic, whenever a healer moves through the Defense Grid a Endemic Virus debuff will go out onto a player. We assigned the first healer that passed through the Grid to dispel all Endemic Virus the rest of the fight and call out the player afflicted by it to run out of the group for a dispel.

If a player with Endemic Virus is dispelled in the group, use Mass Dispel to dispel the Spreading Epidemic that apply to any allies.

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Atonement application to targets with

Discipline Priest Talents and Top Builds for Zek'voz

15	Mind Blast
30	Angelic Feather
45
60	Shining Force
75	Sins of the Many
90	Halo
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Zek'voz Discipline Priest Tips

Ideal ramp period is as Silithid Warrior spawn and the raid stacks up. The bleeds applied by these mobs paired with the Titan Spark damage on the raid make for a strong time big healing.
Halo is generally the pick on this encounter. On Mythic mode, it is frequent to hard crowd control Nerubian Voidweaver with Hunter Traps and the like, so the damage from Halo can break these mobs out prematurely. Divine Star is a good pick if the raid stacks frequently in between Eye Beam. Otherwise go Purge the Wicked.
Watch for allies affected by Roiling Deceit as they will need priority healing as they move out their clouds.

Discipline Priest Talents and Top Builds for Vectis

15	Mind Blast
30	Angelic Feather
45
60	Shining Force
75	Sins of the Many
90	Halo
100

Vectis Discipline Priest Tips

This encounter is built upon healer cooldown rotations similar to MOTHER, but requires greater spot healing attention than MOTHER in between bursts.
When organizing your ramp window with other healers ensure that you have a complete ramp before a Contagion / Immunosuppression combo and utilize other raid cooldowns around your .
Watch the timers for Gestate and begin applying Atonements 8-10 seconds before Gestate to have near raid-wide coverage before the mobs casts Immunosuppression followed by the boss casting Contagion.
On Mythic, ensure that targets over 6 stacks of Lingering Infection especially have Atonements up before Contagion is cast as they will receive Bursting Lesions and require additional healing.
On Mythic, do not try to cover every single combo that goes out, instead, focus on having the strongest ramp possible for specific windows, then provide priority healing to tanks and high stack players in between those windows.
During the intermission, spotheal as needed on allies with Omega Vector or

Discipline Priest Talents and Top Builds for Zul

15 Mind Blast
30 Angelic Feather
45
60 Shining Force
75 Sins of the Many
90 Divine Star
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Zul Discipline Priest Tips
- Halo is a common choice on this encounter but, like Zek'voz, priority targets can be hard crowd-controlled which can make Halo difficult to use. There is nothing keeping the raid from stacking on this encounter, so consider taking Divine Star if the group can properly stack for it, otherwise use Purge the Wicked.
- Begin ramping 3-5 seconds before the Dark Revelation goes out. When players are affected by it, they will have 10 seconds to get out of the group before the detonation, giving you plenty of time to prepare.
- When Dark Revelation or Deathwish detonates, Minion of Zul will spawn around the detonation location. Use Mass Dispel or Dispel Magic if the former is on cooldown to destroy the minions before they reach the raid.
- If a Congeal Blood spawns, you can utilize Shining Force to knock them far away from the raid. These mobs kill themselves over time so it will be more efficient to knock the mob away and slow it, rather than force your DPS players to hard focus it before it reaches the boss.
- To mitigate and reduce the burst damage from Deathwish, you can use Leap of Faith on one of the affected players while dispelling the other to desync the damage bursts. If you group is prepared for the incoming damage you can simply dispel and Power Word: Barrier instead.
- Priority healing targets in this encounter are players soaking Pool of Darkness and the tanks affected by Rupturing Blood
Discipline Priest Talents and Top Builds for Mythrax

15 Mind Blast
30 Angelic Feather
45
60 Shining Force
75 Sins of the Many
90 Halo
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Mythrax Discipline Priest Tips
- Priority ramp up time is 2-4 seconds before Imminent Ruin goes out. This debuff lasts 10 seconds allowing for plenty of time to prepare. Make sure the debuffed targets are prioritized with Atonement application as they frequently will take the heaviest damage from the hit.
- Staying spread out is key on this encounters to reduce the damage that Oblivion Sphere will deal to players when broken out. This mechanic can also ruin your ramp up timings, so stay spread out. Often your ramp up for Imminent Ruin will align with Oblivion Sphere allowing you to easily counter both mechanics.
- Rapture should be used frequently but is especially excellent for shielding allies during the intermission who are, or are likely to be, affected by the Vision of Madness channeling Mind Flay. Even when interrupted, and especially on Mythic, these adds frequently recast allowing for easy absorption of shields and strong Atonement value after the shield is depleted.
- Shining Force makes for an excellent tool to knock out players inside Oblivion Sphere. Just be careful as to where you are knocking that player as the distance of Shining Force's knockback is substantial and could cause a player to be blasted from one orb to another.
- On Mythic difficulty, you will want your ramp up windows to most closely align with the additional mob's Void Echoes casts as they will frequently occur during Imminent Ruin which result in massive damage to the raid.
Discipline Priest Talents and Top Builds for G'huun

15 Mind Blast
30 Angelic Feather
45
60 Shining Force
75 Sins of the Many
90 Halo
100

G'huun Discipline Priest Tips
- Holy Nova is an excellent tool to quickly damage Amorphous Cyst and reduce their radius.
- When running Power Matrix to the conduit, you can utilize Leap of Faith BEFORE the player is rooted to move them closer to their objective, potentially saving you from receiving the debuff for touching the Power Matrix, allowing you to assist on multiple conduit runs.
- The first Reorigination Blast will be your first major ramp up and you can hit the embedded G'huun in the wall to heal the group or on Mythic you can find a high health Spawn of G'huun to focus.
- During the 2nd and 3rd phases, ensure the healers are appropriately spread out to heal tanks and other raid members. Ideally work to ramp up near the height of Putrid Blood stacks, before the Blood Feast goes out that will remove those stacks.
- In Mythic your raid will often maintain stacks of Putrid Blood and have minimal members of the group drop their stacks on the first Blood Feast. So ideal ramp times will be during the first add of each phase so that you can heal through the Putrid Blood and the Mind-Numbing Chatter casts from the Gibbering Horror
Good Azerite Traits for Raids

Key traits to target for Discipline in a raiding environment:

Archive of the Titans - Offers a stacking Intellect buff and enables the Reorigination Array effect. Recently buffed, this trait is a priority and will be the strongest Tier-1 trait that Discipline will have access to in Uldir, this trait stacks.

Enduring Luminescence - Offering additional duration to Atonement applied through PWR offers a significant increase in healing potential in and out of windows. Ideally, have exactly one Azerite piece with this trait on it

Laser Matrix - A less steady and predictable Uldir Azerite trait but also enables Reorigination Array. Not as powerful as Archive of the Titans but can be worth pursuing to ensure the Reorigination Array buff is held.

Finding your Best Next Upgrade

While it is important to know how your gear should look like at the end of the tier, the next step is almost as important. With that in mind, Raidbots have created a tool to allow you to plan for your near future: the Droptimizer. The Droptimizer simulates your current gear against every single other piece of gear in a raid or dungeon, showing you which pieces would provide the largest immediate DPS upgrade for you.

That said, it is not a tool focused on finding your best-in-slot items from the new raid. The Droptimizer only looks to one item at a time, finding you which pieces are the largest upgrade, compared to your current gear. With that, the Droptimizer also calculates which bosses offer the best odds in providing you with a strong upgrade. Note: the Droptimizer ignores Titanforging mechanics.
Simulate your Character with the Droptimizer

Note that SimulationCraft, Raidbots, and the Droptimizer are community tools created and maintained by players like you and are only functional for DPS purposes.

Raid Tools and Analyzing Your Performance

There are many ways to getting better at raiding, and while understanding the encounter and your specialization's role within it is one of the most important ones, being able to review your performance will help you better understand what is happening, what went right, and what went wrong.

Logging is a powerful tool which allows you to make a record of everything that happened during an encounter. WarcraftLogs uses that record to create analytical charts detailing the positioning, damage dealt and taken, who had which buffs and debuffs, even a full real-time replay of the entire encounter. Check out our full WarcraftLogs Guide to see what the number one raiding resource can do for you.

WoWAnalyzer is more personal. It uses the same WarcraftLogs report to create a detailed analysis of a single player's performance, with less emphasis on what happened during the encounter and more tailored to improving that specific player's rotation, cooldown use, survivability, and role (tanking, healing, damage dealing). Give our WoWAnalyzer Guide a read, and find out how it can help you improve.

Raidbots is a simulation site, which allows you to simulate your character under a variety of conditions, create stat weights, compare gear choices, talents, and much more. It is a web interface for SimulationCraft, a long-running simulation project maintained by prominent community theorycrafters, made even more accessible through the simplicity of Raidbots format and dedicated servers. See our detailed Raidbots Guide to learn more.

Deadly Boss Mods and BigWigs are all-important encounter addons, with customizable alerts, countdowns, and timers to help you preempt and react to important encounter mechanics. Find out more with our Deadly Boss Mods and BigWigs guides.

Additionally, there are many Addons, WeakAuras, and other tools which can help you improve your gameplay, focus on important encounter mechanics, or just simplify your UI to make it easier to see what's happening during an encounter. All this and more can be found on our Discipline Priest Addons and WeakAuras guide pages.

Discipline Priest Raid Guide & Uldir Raid Tips - Battle for Azeroth 8.1

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