Disc Priest – Sample Builds
Posted On Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 By Jay
Scito te ipsum
Latin for “Know thyself.”
When choosing to spec your priest discipline, one should ask yourself what you want to accomplish? Another important question is what am I good at? And more importantly “What do I enjoy doing?” Discipline isn’t as marred with specific roles like pally prot vs pally holy, but it can at times be as trying. You’ll get compared to Holy Priests alot. Just remember that Disc Priest is about survivability. If that means surviving social stigma as well, so be it!
41 20 0 Solid Pve Spec
- Silent Resolve provides needed threat reduction.
- Improved Divine Spirit for that extra dmg and healing to ALL beneficiaries of the buff.
- Mental Agility, Mental Strength and Meditation. These are all staples of the disc build.
- Standard Healing talents.
- Power Infusion: Great for that added spell haste.
- Pain Suppression: To keep folks alive you KNOW are going to be healed by someone else.
if I wanted to raid as a disc spec, I would follow this route. There’s much needed threat reduction and all the useful spells in disc. Improved PW:S, Improved PW:F and Improved Spirit for your buffing pleasure. The problem with this spec is that you may as well go the standard hybrid build if you want to raid heal. Disc is all about surviving encounters, it isn’t about highly efficient heal output.
23 38 0 Closer to Standard Holy Raid Spec
I don’t have terribly much to offer in regards to this spec. Its a really strong raiding spec. If this is your cup of tea, GREAT! I really love seeing priests in raids. I can’t speak to it as I’ve never rolled holy. Ever. I did experiment with a crit smite build for fun, but that’s about it. Enjoy your raiding! Note: spirit is really important for raid priests. Intelligence got a buff in 2.4 due to:
Spirit-Based Mana Regeneration: This system has been adjusted so that as your intellect rises, you will regenerate more mana per point of spirit.
So gear well!
42 19 0 My Current Spec
- Absolution: Key talent. As a disc pvp, you dispel. You dispel and you dispel. Dispel is a potent heal. Preventing damage is key in the arena. Its why CC classes are uber strong and why shamans have a hard time in 2v2 and 3v3.
- Improved Mana Burn: Controlling a targets mana pool is an effective CC. When a target is avoiding you to conserve their pool they aren’t able to do whatever they want. Terrain control is a key in martial victory. MB is one way to do that.
- Focused Power. Mass Dispel gets rid of ice block and pally self bubble. It also dispels multiple times within its radius.
- Focused Will: You don’t want to get crit ever. When it happens, this talent further mitigates AFTER crit damage. The key word is after crit.
- Blessed Recovery: Earn back 25% of a crit hit afterwards. Pretty jazzy.
- Reflective Shield: I’m in the Disc camp that likes this spell. It returns a % of damage back at the attacker. Your shield at 70 with some decent healing gear is about 1.5 absorption. RS does 750 back at the attacker. That’s not bad.
- Mental Agility, Mental Strength and Meditation. These are all staples of the disc build.
- Standard Healing talents.
- Power Infusion: Great for bursting down a target. I rarely use it on myself.
- Pain Suppression: Great burst and focus fire mitigation. I’ve saved many a person with this talent. It is also the crown of the disc tree.
I really like this spec and settled on it. The key disc talents are there. The one below trades reflective shield for silent resolve and more spell warding. Silent resolve is useful for preventing dispels. Since its only 40% most dispels will get through though.
41 20 0 Another PVP build.
Enjoys(EN JO OY Z!
