Discipline Priest Healing Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.0.5)

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.

For assistance with gearing your Discipline Priest for Mythic+ or other content, please look at our gearing guide.

Your primary playstyle in Mythic Plus will revolve around rotating between casting Power Word: Radiance followed by a cast sequence of DPS spells to utilize the Atonement provided. Single target applications of atonement are generally not nearly as valuable due to how powerful Radiance is, but occasional use of Flash Heal with Surge of Light and Power Word: Shield will be utilized. Renew is not a very strong spell in Mythic Plus content and should rarely be utilized outside of niche scenarios.

Your DPS windows following your Radiance casts will often involve a Shadowfiend/ Mindbender and Mind Blast window giving you multiple, significant amplifiers to your offensive spells, making your Atonement healing very significant. When you find targets in execute range, Shadow Word: Death becomes a very powerful spell providing significant damage and healing through Atonement.

The main difference between healing in dungeons versus raids is that a single cast of Power Word: Radiance covers the entire group. Due to this, ramping does not exist as it does for raiding. This allows Discipline to be a much more reactive spec like other healers. We can still benefit from applying shields/damage reductions early, but it is much easier to heal unexpected damage comparatively. Due to this, the misconception that Discipline Priest can not handle mistakes from your group or unexpected damage is largely untrue.

Discipline's healing rotation remains the same for Normal, Heroic, and Mythic dungeons. For more information about the Discipline Priest healing rotation, refer to the Rotation page.

For more information on talents as well as alternative talent suggestions for various scenarios, please refer back to the talents page.

This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depth explanations of all Priest Abilities and Talents, including these, check out our Spells page.

Dungeons	Affixes
Ara-Kara, City of Echoes	Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
City of Threads	Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
The Dawnbreaker	Xal'atath's Bargain: Oblivion
Grim Batol	Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
Mists of Tirna Scithe
The Necrotic Wake
Siege of Boralus
The Stonevault

Based on the selections above, you should run the following class talents:

• Purify Disease
• Mass Dispel
• Dominate Mind
• Shackle Undead
• Psychic Voice
• Phantasm
• There are no specific talent suggestions for the Xal'atath's Bargain: Oblivion affix.
• There are no specific talent suggestions for Grim Batol.
• There are no specific talent suggestions for The Stonevault.

The primary difference you may see between Discipline Priests gearing for Raid content versus Mythic Plus content is that oftentimes, Discipline players may look towards DPS trinkets to push their damage contribution further when they feel like they already have enough healing to handle the required amount for the specific dungeon and key level they are attempting. This is a very personal decision and not something you should default to doing in all cases. When you are just starting out especially, I would recommend sticking to healing or stat proc trinkets first and only shifting to a DPS trinket or two situationally and when you are more comfortable with the specialization.

Keep in mind that the damage from DPS trinkets DOES NOT heal through Atonement, so you are strictly using it for DPS and not healing.

For information on what DPS trinkets can be valuable to include when running Mythic Plus, take a look at our gear page.