Discipline Priest Stats – Shadowlands

Quick Glance Priorities

Secondary Stats Priority

Always keep in mind that all gear has an associated item level with it that changes the amount of stats available on the gear piece. All secondaries scale worse than both Intellect and Stamina. This means that items that are an item level upgrade are usually better.

All secondary stats are very close for healing output.

1. Haste
2. Critical Strike
3. Versatility
4. Mastery

The majority of performance increases will come from gameplay improvements. Casting the correct spells at the appropriate time will do exponentially more for you than extremely minor stat changes. The best way to do this is by analysing logs and damage patterns. We're always about and happy to help in the WarcraftPriest Discord.

How Do These Stats Affect Our Spells?

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Gear

No best in slot lists will be provided here. Gearing is all about taking the highest item level options you can obtain. This is due to intellect being considerably more valuable than secondary stats. On top of this, secondaries also start to receive diminishing returns after you start reaching specific levels of that stat. Meaning that hard focussing one specific stat is even less of a priority.

If you would like to see all the available gear to us at the highest item levels, please check out this gear spreadsheet.

Tier Set

There are now tier set bonuses to obtain as of 9.2. The Discipline set is as follows:

• Two set - From Dusk: Casting Power Word:Shield or Shadowmend has a 15% chance to make your next cast of Shadow Mend have no cost or cast time. The Atonement applied by these Shadow Mends grant an extra 2 seconds of Atonement.
  • The extra seconds just balance out the GCD shift from and instant Shadow Mend.
    • Currently bugged and 2 stacks are consumed.

Our thoughts: This two set is mostly underwhelming and actively has anti-synergy with our kit. It's still a net gain over standard gear and additional mana is welcomed

• Four set - Till Dawn: Power of the Dark Side increases the effectiveness of Penance by an additional 45% and is triggered when Power Word: Radiance is cast.
  • PotDS now stacks to two.
  • This bonus damage and healing is also applied to PotDS gained from our DoT ticks.

Our thoughts: This bonus is how powerful penance should be without external bonuses. It's strong and something to obtain as a priority. It opens up some interesting gameplay options (most namely Venthyr within raids).

What is stat DR? - show more

Stat DR means that when you reach a certain stat % threshold you will start to gain fewer stats per point from gear.

• From 0 - 30% there is no penalty;
• From 30 - 39% there's a 10% penalty;
• From 39 - 47% there's a 20% penalty;
• From 47 - 54% there's a 30% penalty;
• From 54 - 66%, there's a 40% penalty.
• From 66 - 126%, there's a 50% penalty.
• 126% is the max amount you can get from gear.

Here is a table of when the first penalty starts for us:

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Consumables

There are a large number of consumables to be aware of most of which are just the standard stat increases.

Gems

• Straddling Jewel Doublet - 13 Speed.
• Versatile Jewel Doublet - 12 Versatility.
• Deadly Jewel Doublet - 12 Critical Strike.
• Masterful Jewel Doublet - 12 Mastery.
• Quick Jewel Doublet - 12 Haste.
• Revitalizing Jewel Doublet - 133 health every 10 seconds.
• Deadly Jewel Cluster - 16 Critical Strike.
• Versatile Jewel Cluster - 16 Versatility.
• Masterful Jewel Cluster - 16 Mastery.
• Quick Jewel Cluster - 16 Haste.

Food

• Pickled Meat Smoothie - 14 Stamina.
• Sweet Silvergill Sausages - 18 Versatility.
• Butterscotch Marinated Ribs - 18 Critical Strike.
• Meaty Apple Dumplings - 18 Mastery.
• Cinnamon Bonefish Stew - 18 Haste.
• Banana Beef Pudding - 22 Stamina.
• Steak a la Mode - 30 Versatility.
• Tenebrous Crown Roast Aspic - 30 Haste.
• Spinefin Souffle and Fries - 30 Critical Strike.
• Iridescent Ravioli with Apple Sauce - 30 Mastery.
• Surprisingly Palatable Feast - 18 Intellect.
• Feast of Gluttonous Hedonism - 20 Intellect.

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Oils

These oils are extremely minor additional output so you can freely choose between either.

• Embalmer's Oil - Apply to a weapon for 1 hour, giving you a high chance to heal yourself for 330 when you deal damage or healing. If already at full health, instead grants an absorb shield for 330.
• Shadowcore Oil - Apply to a weapon for 60 min, giving you a high chance to deal an additional 220 Shadow damage when you damage an enemy.

Armour Kits

• Desolate Armour Kit - Increase the stamina of an item worn on the chest by 16 for 2 hrs.
• Heavy Desolate Armour Kit - Increase the stamina of an item worn on the chest by 32 for 2 hrs.

Flask

• Spectral Flask of Stamina - 105 Stamina.
• Spectral Flask of Power - 70 Intellect.
• Eternal Cauldron - Creates a cauldron that raid members can use to gain the benefit of a flask appropriate to their class and talents. Cauldron has 30 uses and lasts for 10 min. 70 Intellect.

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Potions

• Spiritual Healing Potion - Restores 10000 health.
• Spiritual Mana Potion - Restores 6000 mana.
• Spiritual Rejuvenation Potion - Restores 10000 health and 2500 mana.
• Potion of Spiritual Clarity - Puts the imbiber in an elevated state of focus where they can restore up to 10000 mana over 10 sec, but they are defenceless until their focus is broken.
• Potion of Spectral Intellect - 190 Intellect for 25 seconds.
• Potion of Deathly Fixation - Your damaging spells and abilities have a chance to apply Deathly Fixation to your target, dealing 43 Shadow damage over 8 sec and stacking up to 5 times. Upon reaching 5 stacks, Deathly Fixation explodes, dealing 985 Shadow damage to the target. If you consume this potion while your weapon is augmented with Shadowcore Oil, the explosion damage is increased by 10%. Lasts 25 sec.
• Potion of Empowered Exorcisms - Your damaging spells and abilities have a chance erupt your target's anima, dealing up to 934 Shadow damage to all enemies within 10 yards of the target. If you consume this potion while your weapon is augmented with Shadowcore Oil, the additional damage and range is increased by 20%. Lasts 25 sec.
• Potion of Phantom Fire - Your attacks and spells have a chance to send out a fiery projection at your target dealing 3130 Shadowflame damage. If you consume this potion while your weapon is augmented with Shadowcore Oil, the additional damage is increased by 10%. Lasts 25 sec.
• Potion of Sacrificial Anima - Your next 4 mana consuming spells or abilities will consume 7% of your health instead of using mana. If you consume this potion while your weapon is augmented with Embalmer's Oil, the amount of health consumed is decreased by 2%. Lasts 25 secs.
  • When used 2 casts prior to a double radiance, it will grant the same mana as the Channeling mana pot.
• Potion of Divine Awakening - Your healing spells are increased by up to 2937, based on the target's missing health. If you consume this potion while your weapon is augmented with Embalmer's Oil, the additional healing is increased by 10%. Lasts 25 sec.

Utility Potions

• Potion of the Hidden Spirit - The imbiber gains invisibility for 18 sec.
• Potion of Shaded Sight - Slightly increases your stealth detection for 10 min.
• Potion of Soul Purity - Attempts to remove one curse, one disease and one poison from the imbiber.
•  Potion of Unhindered Passing - Makes you immune to stun and movement impairing effects for the next 5 sec.  Does not remove effects already on the imbiber.
• Potion of Specter Swiftness - Increases your movement speed while dead by 100%. Only usable in the Shadowlands. Lasts 2 min.
• Potion of the Psychopomp's Speed - Increases movement speed by 70%.  Lasts 8 sec.  Ineffective above level 60.
• Potion of Hardened Shadows - Infuses your body with resilient energy, increasing your Armor by 275 for 25 sec.

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Enchants

Weapon Enchants

• Celestial Guidance - Sometimes increase your intellect by 5% when attacking, or using spells and abilities.
• Ascended Vigor - Sometimes increase your healing received by 12% for 10 sec when taking damage.
• Eternal Grace - Sometimes cause a burst of healing on the target of your helpful spells and abilities, healing for health split evenly amongst nearby allies.
• Lightless Force - Have a chance to send out a wave of Shadow energy in front of you, striking the first 5 enemies when using offensive spells and abilities.
• Sinful Revelation - Sometimes cause your attacks to reveal the sins of your target, causing them to suffer an additional 6% damage from you for 10 sec.
  • Damage increase does not transfer through to Atonement healing.

Ring Enchants

• Bargain of Critical Strike - 12 Critical Strike.
• Bargain of Haste - 12 Haste.
• Bargain of Mastery - 12 Mastery.
• Bargain of Versatility - 12 versatility.
• Tenet of Critical Strike - 16 Critical Strike.
• Tenet of Haste - 16 Haste.
• Tenet of Mastery - 16 Mastery.
• Tenet of Versatility - 16 Versatility.

Feet Enchants

• Soul Treads - Reduce falling damage by 10%.

Glove Enchants

• Shadowlands Gathering - Increases the speed of gathering.

Wrist Enchants

• Shaded Hearthing - Hearthstone cooldown reduced by 5 minutes.
• Illuminated Soul - 10 Intellect.
• Eternal Intellect - 15 Intellect.

Chest Enchants

• Eternal Bounds - 20 Intellect and 6% additional mana pool.
• Eternal Stats - 30 to all stats.
• Eternal Insight - 20 Intellect and a chance to deal additional shadow damage.
• Sacred Stats - 20 to all stats.

Cloak Enchants

• Fortified Avoidance - 20 Stamina and 30 Avoidance.
• Fortified Leech - 20 Stamina and 30 Leech
• Fortified Speed - 20 Stamina and 30 Speed.
• Soul Vitality - 30 Stamina.