Discipline Priest Gearing Guide

The War Within Season 2 Discipline Priest Tier Set:

• (2) Set Bonus: Your healing spells have a chance to apply Insurance! to their targets that heals them over 15 sec. Insurance! is consumed if an ally drops below 40% health to heal them.
• (4) Set Bonus: When your Power Word: Shield is completely absorbed on an ally, they are granted Insurance! at 40% effectiveness. Allies with your Insurance! or absorption effects receive 15% increased healing from you.

Both of these tierpiece effects are just passive increases that are nice and they do add a nice throughput bonus for us, but neither of them will have an effect on your gameplay or decision making in this season.

Unfortunately healers do not have the same amount of access to running sims for your character as both tanks and dps have, I would recommend that you always prioritize equipping the highest item level gear in your slots, and try to target pieces with haste. Below are some recommendations to help you target the right loot pieces from different content.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

This season a large majority of our good trinket options will come from the new raid Liberation of Undermine, with 4 of our 5 recommended trinket options coming from the raid and only 1 of them coming out of a dungeon, it is heavily recommended that this tier you try your best to obtain the trinkets from the raid as they are far superior from other options you could get. Below is an ordered list of our recommended trinkets.

House of Cards - This trinket drops from the boss One-Armed Bandit in the new raid Liberation of Undermine, it is by far our strongest option for an on use to pair up with evangelism, it's the only trinket that shares the same cooldown as our big ramp and it has a very solid stat budget to come alongside with it, we highly recommend trying to obtain this trinket as one of your highest priorities.

Eye of Kezan - This trinket drops from the boss Gallywix in the new raid Liberation of Undermine, it is the best passive stat stick you can get in the game at the moment, however this trinket is going to be very heavily contested as every class and spec can and will want to use it this tier. This trinket is made to get better as the fight goes on, so on very short kill timers there might be better options in other trinkets.

Mister Pick-Me-Up - This trinket drops from the boss Sprockenmonger Lockenstock in the new raid Liberation of Undermine. This is a fairly easy to get ahold of trinket that still provides a lot of throughput, you could end up using this trinket for quite some time if you don't happen to loot other alternatives.

Mug’s Moxie Jug - This trinket drops from the boss Mug’Zee in the new raid Liberation of Undermine. This is an alternative stat stick option to Eye of Kezan in case you're not able to get a hold of one early on, it will provide slightly lower overall throughput than Mister Pick-Me-Up but these trinkets are fairly even.

Carved Blazikon Wax - This trinket drops from the dungeon Darkflame Cleft. This is our only m+ option for a solid trinket, it is a versatility passive stat stick trinket, it provides a decent amount of stats, but seeing as versatility isn't one of our best stats it's hard to value this trinket any higher than any of the good raid options.

Currently our best embellishment looks to be the Darkmoon Sigils, specifically Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension looks to be performing the best, this embellishment can only be put on main hand and offhand, we’d recommend for most Discipline Priests to craft this early on, unless you loot a very strong mythic weapon in one of your first raids, as you’d then miss out on a potential early power spike.

If crafting a weapon doesn't seem good for your character we recommend crafting either the Woven Dusk or Woven Dawn sets as they provide a valuable bonus, do keep in mind that this requires you to commit both of your sparks to gain value from it, so this is not worth it if you only want to spend 1 spark on an armor slot.

Cyrce’s Circlet

Patch 11.0.7 gave us a new ring option with 3 different types of socket options in Thunder, Wind and Sea sockets, you can only choose to socket 1 of each type of gem in this ring, and here are our recommendations for which sockets to put in the ring.

Thunder Gem Slot

Stormbringer's Runed Citrine, this is our recommended option for the thunder socket in most situations, it provides a decent amount of stat, and it has always been hard for Discipline Priest to justify equipping special rings like these due to the stat loss, thankfully this option makes up for this drawback a bit.

Roaring War-Queen's Citrine, this option for the thunder socket is only something we would recommend equipping if you don't care much about your own gain, but instead want to make your dps do more damage as it has a chance to proc your allies gems and make their throughput higher.

We currently don't see a scenario where either Thunderlord's Crackling Citrine or Storm Sewer's Citrine proves useful and would at the current time not recommend socketing either of these in your Thunder slot.

Wind Gem Slot

Windsinger's Runed Citrine is one of our recommended options for your wind gem, we recommend this option as a very consistent option as you will always gain a lot of value from it, compared to the other recommended gem which is very proc dependent.

Legendary Skipper's Citrine is our other recommended option for your wind gem, this gem has the highest potential out of the 2 recommended gems, but it comes with the downside of having quite high variance.

We would currently not recommend equipping Squall Sailor's Citrine in any situations, but Old Salt's Bardic Citrine might have some potential in the future, but it is hard to tell at the current time.

Sea Gem Slot

Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine should currently be your sea gem of choice, it gives a good chunk of mastery which is one of our better stats for pure healing throughput and empowers your other 2 gems.

Mariner's Hallowed Citrine, Seabed Leviathan's Citrine and Undersea Overseer's Citrine are currently not tuned to a level where we can recommend equipping them over the recommended option in any scenarios.