Priest Hero Talents — The War Within (11.1.0)

This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Discipline Priest, check out our Talents page:

Oracle will be your go-to Hero Talent choice in raiding content, providing massive windows of burst healing via Evangelism, Shadowfiend, and Premonition of Piety/ Premonition of Insight. The longer Atonement duration, the strong overheal redistribution effect of Piety, and the ability to tailor the output window to the incoming mechanic via controlling when you send the Insight Penance casts gives you incredible windows of healing to cover the hardest moments of the fight with ease.

Your ability to talent into Inner Focus and Divine Aegis combined with the slightly stronger Power Word: Shield's via Preventive Measures and Weal and Woe give you the ability to spot heal incredibly well.

Voidweaver is not very far behind in potential HPS, but fills quite a different role. Where Oracle is so heavily focused on maximizing its Evangelism window, Voidweaver brings a much flatter healing profile providing much more frequent burst HPS with Mindbender and Entropic Rift. While your peaks will not be as strong as what Oracle is capable of, your overall HPS will be fairly competitive.

Voidweaver will be your default Hero Tree Talent choice for Mythic Plus content as a Discipline Priest. Voidweaver provides significant burst via the Entropic Rift itself, Void Blast being a significant upgrade to Smite, and Voidheart being a large Atonement buff. With all of these tools being tied to Mind Blast, you will have access to them very frequently to meet the constant incoming damage requirements of a Mythic Plus Environment.

While Voidweaver will remain the default choice due to the ease of use and constant raw HPS to match what most keys will throw at you, Oracle is an alternative for very high keys or keys where you need a heavy emphasis on single target healing. Leaning much heavier into Power Word: Shield as a button, Oracle provides massive single target healing combined with solid AoE HPS during one of their various CDs. Needing to properly cycle and utilize your various Premonitions with your other cooldowns ( Evangelism, Ultimate Penitence, Power Word: Barrier, etc) increases the difficulty of the tree as you can find yourself with nothing available very easily.

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Best Hero Talent Builds for Discipline Priest

Voidweaver Oracle

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Best Voidweaver Build for Discipline Priest

Voidweaver does not have many choices to make in the tree. No Escape can have niche usage if there are adds that need to be slowed, but by default taking the movement speed increase via Dark Energy will be the better choice with how low mobility Priest already is. Voidwraith is a significantly stronger version of our existing pets Shadowfiend and Mindbender and will almost always be the better choice compared to Depth of Shadows. In both Raid and Mythic+ Darkening Horizon is taken to increase the amount of time you get to spend in the first throwing out powerful Void Blasts.

From a defensive perspective within Voidweaver, Void Leech will be your default choice, but Embrace the Shadow has potential in situations where a large amount of the damage taken is Shadow damage.

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Best Oracle Build for Discipline Priest

For choices within Oracle for raiding, Waste No Time will often be an HPS loss due to front loading the Power Word: Radiance Atonement's to the beginning of the GCD instead of the end, so unless its enabling you to cast Radiance's where you would otherwise be unable to cast them, it is harmful to be talented into Waste No Time. For Mythic + content, Waste no Time still does not provide huge value but is more fine to run. Divine Feathers will be the default option for personal movement speed. The actual effect of being able to give your feather to another person can potentially be utilized, but you need to ensure that the party member you're trying to give the feather to doesn't avoid the feather somehow resulting in you not getting your much needed mobility. As a result, its highly recommended to just continue using the Angelic Feather's for yourself and talenting into Divine Feathers for the additional 10% movement speed. Save the Day can be used depending on the scenario if Double Leap of Faith has value.

Perfect Vision will be the default here in raid to allow Premonition to line up well with Evangelism. In scenarios where Evangelism is not being used on cooldown and is being held to 2 minutes or slightly longer, Fatebender can be taken instead to provide a significant power increase to the various buffs. In Mythic + content, you will still default to Perfect Vision for more frequent access to your Premonitions, but you have the option of swapping to Fatebender if you know for sure you do not need the shorter Cooldown with very pre-planned out usages. Defensively Prophet's Will is a solid default option, increasing the effectiveness of spot healing used on yourself. Desperate Measures can be a solid option as well if you find yourself never casting on yourself and would prefer a small buff to Angelic Bulwark and Desperate Prayer instead.

Almost no changes occur rotation-wise when playing Voidweaver as most of the value happens passively. There are a few things to keep in mind, however.

• Many situations with no pet active can now be covered solely with a Mind Blast window due to the various Voidweaver effects it activates.

The Main changes for Oracle revolve around when and how to utilize the various Premonition buffs.

• With Perfect Vision allowing Premonition to be a 45 second cooldown, you end up with two charges of Premonition available for every Evangelism cast.
• Due to the order of the buffs, if you utilize the Premonition charges in groups of two with each Evangelism, you will have Premonition of Piety and Premonition of Insight available every time either via themselves or via Clairvoyance.
• Premonition of Insight will result in you being able to send many Penance casts rapidly in your Evangelism window.

Oracle also has a much higher emphasis on throwing out Power Word: Shield's due to the interaction between Twinsight and Weal and Woe. Twinsight bolts contributing means that with Twinsight and Castigation, each Penance is by default 7 stacks of Weal and Woe without including any Harsh Discipline stacks. As a result, your Weal and Woe empowered Shields are incredibly strong.