Discipline Priest Leveling Guide - TBC Classic

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Depending on your mana levels, you can rush another mob or wait for a while. grants mana while casting, but 5 seconds after your last successful cast, the amount regenerated is doubled. Manage this mechanic to squeeze as much mana as needed!

You may use the global cooldown downtime of instant spells to strafe away from the mob a little. This delays the mob catching up with you, granting an additional second or two of casting without pushback. Make sure to use strafe movement (running to the sides, which can be keybound in the keybinds menu) and never walk backwards, as it is much slower.

Spirit is generally considered a useless stat, but this is not the case for Priests. Spirit Tap scales with Spirit and is a major source of regeneration, making the stat definitely worth stacking.

Always keep your buffs up. Even if appears unassuming, it prevents some incoming damage and is not consumed when shielded. can now be accessed by all races, so make sure to make good use of this spell, especially on heavily contested PvP servers.

Comments

Comment by Ziboo

Is this suppose to be a leveling guide for 1-70 or just 60-70? Sadly, I'm not seeing much that will help someone new to the class/starting fresh.

Comment by Puupi

A poor talent build chosen for this guide. Disc excels as a solo build with 40/0/11. Basically shadow priest without mana issues. Shadow becomes viable/better after 63 when they can get Meditation, too.

Comment by Reluvathel

"Discipline Priest is a mediocre healer in dungeons" My experience is drastically different from this. If anything is mediocre, this guide is. Discipline is *designed* for healing multiple people at once, which is exactly what you'll be doing in dungeons. The guide says "The Discipline talent tree offers breadth of defensive talents, which greatly enhance survivability" which seems like it would be a point in favor of its viability in healing dungeons, yet in the very next sentence says "The Holy talent tree, on the other hand, forgoes a lot of utility and survivability, but in turn greatly improves potency of healing spells and helps with mana efficiency.". Mana efficiency is the hallmark of the discipline tree. Discipline for Priests is like Holy for Paladins. It's all about enduring--you know, like the capstone ability.

Some specifics: if this is a levelling guide, where is wand specialization? The argument given is that Spirit Tap is also available, but this isn't zero sum. You can take both. And when you're out of mana, you really want your wand to be capable. Where is Healing Focus? Why did you take Martyrdom but not Focused Will? Crits are rare in PVE, and beyond that this split between the two talents is inconsistent. It's also clear that the talent build makes the assumption that discipline priests will never do dungeons, given this, and also given the lack of talents like Improved Renew, Inspiration, and Silent Resolve (see also Healing Focus, listed above).

I question the wisdom of the self-declared "Pope of Priest Classic Discord" given how misguided this guide is. Perhaps they never succeeded with healing as Discipline, but I regularly find myself at full mana after pulls with everyone at full health but drinking while I'm jumping around waiting. I'm not even that great. I haven't played in years and my gear is random dungeon blues and greens. I'm not trying to brag, here, just sharing an anecdote that I'm out of practice and don't have the best gear and yet I'm doing really well with Discipline with many different groups.

Comment by Gordolfo

I am leveling a Blood elf priest as discipline, so far 37 hours and level 28. I decided to spend 2 points on spirit Tab and one on Blackout for the occasional mana regen and stun. The rest points on Discipline: Full Wand Specialization, Improved Power Word: Shield. In my gear, I look for spirit and damage + healing.

I normally MB, SW:P, Shield then I use the Wand until the NPC is dead. If my shield breaks I cast on my Renew, and run until I can cast another shield. Now that I am level 28 I am adding Holy Fire and Inner Focus. I haven't had any problems questing and healing in dungeons.

I don't feel that I am staying behind if compare to leveling my warrior, or rogue.

Comment by Mous3rat

Says that wand spec is a viable talent yet none of the leveling builds pickup wand spec? Talent choices are just bad.

Discipline Priest Leveling Guide - TBC Classic

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