Discipline Priest M+ Guide Season 3

-Big thanks to Clandon, writer of the Disc guide on Icy Veins, for providing "peer review" by helping provide edits for the script of this video!
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0:00 Intro
0:09 Why Priest?
0:48 Why Disc?
1:16 Atonement
2:36 Gear/Stat Priority/Tier
4:02 Trinkets
4:55 Embellishments
5:21 Spell Changes
6:52 Ultimate Penitence
8:15 Talents
9:14 Rotation
10:14 Mindbender rotation
11:20 Rotation Logic
12:55 ST Atonement
13:14 Rapture
13:48 Uppies Rotation
14:37 Defensive Uppies
14:55 Spot Healing and Downtime
17:01 Defensives and External Cooldowns
19:47 Outro

[@FeralKobold]

I've gone from doing the literal opposite of what I should have on holy to being my guilds top healer and even making rank 1 in the world holy priest on normal mode aberrus in the last week of 10.1 and from flailing and struggling to understand disc in low keys (like actually low, like +7) to confidently doing +18s because of you're guides and videos over the last few months while I learned the game. I don't even know if I'd be playing priest anymore if I didn't find your videos and now it's my forever class so thank you ♥

[@ragnongaming]

This filled my heart this morning, more than you could know. Hearing that I’m making an impact that makes teaching, both online and in real life, worth it. Thank you so much, and I’m so happy to hear that you are finding much better success, and that I could be a stepping stone along your priest journey ♥️

[@RyftingGames]

Your videos have gotten me from being terrified to try out disc priest and only playing holy in low keys, to timing the highest keys I’ve ever done while also having fun playing a spec I never thought I’d be good enough to play. I absolutely LOVE your videos and come back to them any time I don’t understand something about priest. Thank you so much for teaching me how to play a class I now love more than anything

[@ragnongaming]

That’s so awesome! Congrats 💯

[@KirkpatrickSounds]

Great guide! Started playing Disc for the first time a week ago and loving it so far. This guide has helped a lot 🙏🏻

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! Glad to hear it was helpful, and that you are enjoying disc 😀

[@shestewa6581]

You structured this and explained this amazingly well! I think people looking to learn the spec will get great mileage out of it - will recommend it to people who might need it! Only one little quibble - at 3:30ish you mentioned the 2 set extending an atonement when you cast smite OR penance, but as far as I’m aware, penance only gets the increased damage, and it’s only smite that extends. Again, great guide!

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you! I tried to release a polished product due to the influx of new players to disc, so glad to hear it is coming across that way 😀. Good catch on the 2-set, I had thought both smite and penance benefitted from both effects, but it’s only the damage that applies to both, only smite extends. 👍

[@Falzerexe]

Really like the logic sections behind the rotation. Been trying to get into Disc this season and this is really helping the mental barrier of getting there!

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! I agree, understanding the mentality helps tremendously. Once you understand the "why", it's much easier to remember and execute the "what" and "how". Best of luck on your Disc journey!

[@cesarrull8223]

Literally I've seen tons of disc priest videos to try to understand this spec and swap from holy to disc this season, and THIS is the Best and most complete and clarifying guide of them all. Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a wonderful guide! 🎉

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you for the kind comment, I’m glad you are finding it helpful!

[@Excaliber158]

Absolutely love it. Got the UI set up the same way you do, but the atonement WA kept making me miss the volcanic below me so I had to move it. Awesome video, relaxing voice, great instruction.

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! Yeah, it’s always a good idea to move WAs around to fit the rest of your setup. Thanks for watching 🙂

[@Lother1n]

Amazing and well structured guide, thank you for your effort!

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you!

[@diegoanniballo]

After watching many disc guides, I can say that this is the clearest and most well-done. Thank you so much.

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you!

[@nogylopp]

Love your stuff man! Disc priests are insane right now.

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! For sure, Disc is both very strong and fun currently

[@TheGoatLocker]

Awesome guide man, really impressed with the level of detail.

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you!

[@ersaytan8617]

Thanks for detailed explanations and your effort to make this video

[@ragnongaming]

You’re welcome, thanks for watching!

[@edijesus6554]

Thank you fornyou video. Every video I watched never explained about downtime on what to do when Mind bender is not up or when how to proper spot heal. Very helpful and here I go trying to learn maybe a new maim 😊

[@ragnongaming]

Awesome, glad you found the info you were looking for! Best of luck with disc 💯

[@marktucci2774]

Great video man! For a beginner like me this is a lifesaver. Thank you

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks, great to hear it!

[@DubbelM072]

Very nice video and well explained. Loved the mellow voice and good vibes music. Thanks =)

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you ♥️

[@mecanizm]

Logged in just to say this is the best of the top 10 popular disc videos on youtube. You are a gifted teacher, creator and player.

[@ragnongaming]

That means a lot, thank you so much ♥️

[@tomdeberlanger2283]

Wauw. Stumbled upon this guide, new to disc priest. But this guide is the best and most understandable class guide i've ever seen in years. Thank you

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you, that’s awesome to hear!

[@palliatorMD]

Excellently executed. Its clear, well paced with good visuals and a perfect radio/podcasty/audiobook voice. Will definitely be following closely. Question: in M+ with large packs, i find that i want to lock onto my target debuffed by mindblast to get bonus dmg but with so many packs i kind just cast smite/penance on any of the mobs i can instead of prio dmging the caster and debuffed mobs. Do people use some kind of focus macro to avoid this? Cheers!

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you so much! For your question, I personally don’t use a focus macro for my mind blasted target, although I’ve heard that recommended by some. I use focus for my PI macro. What I typically do is dot things up as the pull is being rounded up, then pick a target that is going to have high enough health to survive my full mind blast duration, and stay targeted on him until the pull is done (or he dies). It can be helpful to do this on a priority target to help with your dps, but if that prio target has the same health as the rest of the pack, it might die quickly making you lose value on your mind blast. Being able to effectively heal is the priority, so I find it more reliable to just pick a high hp target. Some examples of this that comes to mind are the geodes in Neltharion’s Lair last season, or the Reanimation Totems in Atal’Dazar; they are top priority targets for those pulls, but they would make a terrible primary target for disc because they die before you can really even begin your pet window. So long story short, I’d recommend just dotting at the start of a pull, then pick a high HP target to finish the rest of the pull with.

[@rabidelfman]

Nice guide, just a couple things to add: Fyrakk trinket, the admirdrassil blossom, is an excellent stat stick that is an excellent single target low HP big heal (which is something disc really lacks outside of pw: life, which is normally specced out of these days anyway). It's frequently done a solid 14-15% of my healing overall in an m+ dungeon. A better build for a beginner, and I think all around in general, is dropping uppies and twilight equilibrium in favor of 2/2 blaze of light - more penance damage, which is your most cast spell outside of smite. I did not think about using it for bursting weeks, that was absolute hell with pugs. I'll have to remember that.

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! Great points, I can see that Blossom is rising in the ranks of trinkets being used on Subcreation; I’ll have to get my hands on one. I see your points for your build alternative, that’s definitely an option. I’ve just found enough use cases where I’m glad I have Uppies available to warrant still bringing it, but it could definitely be easily cut to trade for the more consistent throughout from Blaze. Thanks for watching man 💯

[@coppertenson4014]

Not even playing wow atm but this vid is so well done - great job!

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you!

[@umer889]

Thank you so much

[@bjornv6232]

Thank you for this awesome guide , very calm and clear Can you please tell me what addon is that vertical bar on the right with the moving spells in it going down ? Thank you !

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! It’s a WeakAura called Raid Ability Timeline; it’s a visual reskin of BigWigs

[@bjornv6232]

@@ragnongaming thank you sir

[@robFT108]

Great video. I’ve just switched from playing shadow to attempting discipline and didn’t do to bad in my first Amirdrassil run. What’s the sliding buttons towards the bottom of your UI? Is it showing buttons pressed or next spell in your rotation?

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks, and nice! It’s what ability I’ve just pressed. I’ve also got it tracked in the window to the left, but I figure it’s easier for viewers to keep their eyes central

[@hellmage85]

I like your dungeon WA for like spread and stuff, I looked at your google sheet, im assuming those are provided by atrocity? Great video, new to disc this season and never played it so stuff like this is helpful!

[@ragnongaming]

Most are, the vocal cues for “spread”, etc are triggered by an additional addon called SharedMedia_Causese, which you can find at this link. It unlocks sound cues used by many addons and weakauras that aren’t included by default. www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/sharedmedia_causese

[@ragnongaming]

I tried to designate on the spreadsheet which portions were supplied by atrocity and which were separately added, but in the end it might be worth just doing a quick double check if you have everything on the spreadsheet, and install any that are missing. Let me know if you have trouble, I’m happy to help!

[@Sssoneca]

Hey, great vid. is it worth it to hold mind bender when my Mind blast is on CD or should i use it anyway?

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! If you are only ever using Mind Blast as your first cast after Bender, they should always line up well. I don’t think it’s beneficial to use Mind Blast outside of Mindbender, so hold Mind Blast instead of holding Mindbender.

[@gerlachwitz123]

what a relaxing voice. great video!

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks!

[@michaelgray1223]

New Disc Preist Ty soo much!

[@ragnongaming]

Awesome, hope you’re enjoying disc!

[@OlivesPriest]

This is what i've been waiting for

[@ragnongaming]

Awesome! Sorry for the delay, I wanted to release a polished product due to how many new people there are to disc this season

[@BigJonGrady]

Great streamlined video! Would love a shadow version!

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! Last time I truly played shadow in any meaningful way was Castle Nathria, so I wouldn’t be in a place to make a worthwhile video anytime soon, but who knows as the season drags on! I do like being competent on all specs of whatever I’m playing, so maybe down the road after progression as a side project 🤷‍♂️

[@metalmach1ne748]

Subbed and thank you.

[@Lxerm]

Awsome, will you make one for raiding as well? Or any tips on how to keep atonement on 20 people vs 5

[@ragnongaming]

Yes, planning to make guides in this style for both Holy and Disc for M+ and raid :D

[@cedricvillani8502]

exactly! switch to holy in a raid

[@jpvillainous4211]

Thanks for the refresher! I started pushing 20+ keys at 450 ilvl last night because my friends needed a healer. Only thing I had issues with was getting one-shot by random target mechanics. I started banking 1 instant flash of light and fade to act as a mini wall to survive these moments. Is there something you’d do differently in my shoes? (Besides get gear 😂; working on that one)

[@ragnongaming]

Right on! Depends on what the mechanics that you are talking about are. Some are unavoidable and should just be healed through, and some should be outplayed. 450 in 20s is pretty low though, so that's definitely a factor

[@cedricvillani8502]

on a 20? so you were carried lol

[@rainbowshine_j]

best guide, tyvm :D

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks for watching!

[@karsor6442]

If you are running twilight equilibreum would it not be better to weave smites in between your shadow spells during mindbender?

[@ragnongaming]

You’d think so, but all of the big brains I trust that research the spec have said that it’s more important to do your regular rotation. TE is just for a little extra value on some of your heaviest hitting spells when it lines up, not something you need to focus on anymore. It’s some good extra value for a 1 point node, but you can choose to drop it entirely too for something else

[@skewjowns]

Hey Ragnon, thanks for the guide. I've got a TON of questions for you. 1. What addon/WA are you using that shows the atonement buff as a little yellow square in the top left corner of your raid frames? 2. Can you give me an example of when/how you might use Dominate Mind? Finally gave it a shot the other night and wiped my team... 3. I'm absolutely struggling in 13s and 14s with a 465 gear score. 465 should be high enough to manage these, right?

[@ragnongaming]

Hey, thanks for watching! 1. It’s a function in ElvUI with tracking auras. I don’t exactly remember how to set it up off the top of my head with not being at my computer, but if you Google “tracking atonement with ElvUI you should be able to find steps on how to enable it. 2. There aren’t any super obvious use cases for Dominate Mind this season compared to previous seasons. The primary way I use it is for my Spitefuls that are fixating me, and during Incoporeal weeks. There are probably some niche use cases for it that I’m not aware of, but I typically avoid using it outside of those affixes. 3. Yes, 465 should be high enough, but also realize that lower keys are often times harder than higher keys as a healer. In lower keys with less experienced players, everyone is missing kicks, standing in fire, taking extra avoidable damage, their dps is lower causing packs to last for longer, etc., which can sometimes result in you needing to heal for significantly more than you would in a coordinated group, even in a much higher key. This can become a harmful excuse if you aren’t careful, but I recommend looking at things that wipe the group or cause deaths individually and research if it is avoidable damage, or was it your responsibility to heal. In 13s and 14s, I can almost guarantee it’s not a healing problem.

[@skewjowns]

@@ragnongaming Awesome, thanks for the helpful answers!

[@kurometchi]

I have been forced to start playing disc priest by my friends, and I pugged a +5 WM earlier and I was having the hardest time trying to heal through jagged nettles. I have been playing rsham for like 2 years, which is legit the easiest healer spec to learn, so I'm not used to the whole doing damage to heal mechs of disc and just end up spot healing everyone lmao but it's also because I feel like my dmg is almost nonexistent, maybe I have just been doing my rotation wrong, I realized I use Mind Blast at the wrong times lol but hopefully I can improve after seeing your guide, thank you!!

[@ragnongaming]

It’s definitely a big mentality adjustment from all of the other healers! I have no doubt that you’ll get it in no time 🙂

[@nofoxgiven6561]

Comparing all the healers of someone was new and wanted a straight forward healer I recommend holy priest over anything else, while disc this season seems pretty good usually I can’t wrap my head around playing it every season and just stick with ol reliable haha.

[@ragnongaming]

Holy is always a vibe

[@kurometchi]

@@nofoxgiven6561 Yeah tbf I have been looking into holy for the past few days but I still have no idea what I'm doing LOL I was a dumdum and my first try at it was in raid, needless to say I got carried through the entirety of normal even with 460ilvl, my brain is coded for rsham and when I have to do something different I just go full derp mode, will probably run a few low keys with it just to get the gist of it, but it does definitely look easier than disc (at least for my tiny brain)

[@ragnongaming]

I’m in the process of getting my holy M+ video ready, but in the meantime my guide from last season is almost completely still relevant if you wanted to check it out.

[@bilby7654321]

Great guide as always, but i got just one question, saw your armory and got a little confused on why it seems like you dumping haste? It shows 15% on your profile

[@ragnongaming]

I’m logged off in my holy raid set from raid last night

[@ragnongaming]

I think my disc set has around 22% haste so far, and I’d love to be around 30-35%.

[@cedricvillani8502]

I figured you played Holy when raiding@@ragnongaming

[@ragnongaming]

@cedricvillani8502 I’ve done both this season. I’m enjoying holy more currently, double disc priest is too much of a headache imo, and since our other priest prefers disc and I prefer holy, it works out. Still have been doing double disc for Smolderon prog, and will for Tindral too most likely, but I’ll be holy for Fyrakk so I’m focusing mostly on gearing and prepping for that 🙂

[@user-tm8vc8zz6k]

What UI is that I’m trying to find a decent UI to use as I usually just use basic WoW UI but the way you have health bars and set up is really nice and seems more helpful than the way I have.

[@ragnongaming]

It’s a full UI package by Atrocity named AUI. I have a video guide on how to install it, but unfortunately it’s behind a paywall. If you sub to Atrocity’s twitch, you can get it. I just throw my twitch prime at him every now and then to update it, it’s well worth it imo because it’s all really well set up out of the gate for all of my characters

[@Mitro6616]

Do you have an updated spreadsheet with Disc Keybinds?

[@ragnongaming]

Sorry, it’s pretty out of date currently due to me focusing on holy with Fyrakk prog. Now that we’re done I’m going to be focusing more on m+ and will get it updated likely this week

[@Mitro6616]

@@ragnongaming Awesome thank you so much! Your guides are incredible.

[@ragnongaming]

Thank you! 😀

[@marcuscalundan3842]

Would be awesome to see some commentary gameplay’! Love the vid

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! I can see if I can get a couple made this week. It probably won’t be until around the weekend; I usually don’t have time to run keys during the week

[@marcuscalundan3842]

@@ragnongaming fair enough! Commentary gameplay, on maybe some full dungeon runs of some hard to heal encounters(how to heal x boss videos) is also awesome content for a new healer

[@joshreeder6881]

Will you make a brewmaster monk tanking guide like this please your video is great

[@ragnongaming]

Lol, not likely in the near future unfortunately, but thank you! 😆

[@greddy97eclipse]

Nice!

[@christinahart9162]

I was trying to watch this while at the gym. But I didn't have my headphones so just had Google auto closed caption on. Apparently disc priest talk sounds like German and Japanese.... Ha. You give me hope that I might some day play a disc priest.

[@ragnongaming]

Lol! I’ve been thinking that I should start manually adding closed captioning instead of the auto generated one, now I have more incentive. 😆

[@DerMOFFU]

That interface is ElvUI or the default of wow?

[@ragnongaming]

It’s an ElvUI profile made by Atrocity, called AUI. He has it behind a paywall, and you can get it by subbing to him on twitch. I have a video guide on setting it up from start to finish

[@Reflexecske1994]

Still best guide out there

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks!

[@Dyllyboy]

A fucking 1 guide. bravo

[@itachimaki2187]

Love that they have given disc some attention and buffs and all but damn, i feel like they made disc easier than holy. I woulda preferred buffs that raise the skill ceiling without raising the floor so high. It went from being what I would consider as the arcane mages of healing to one of the most simple specs in the game.

[@ragnongaming]

Completely agree, I’ve had so many people tell me that they swapped from Holy to Disc just because it’s so much more chill; you just do the rotation over and over and everyone lives. I still think that the skill floor is pretty high for raid though

[@itachimaki2187]

@@ragnongaming kinda. Micro managing atonement’s and radiance position. Most fun I’ve had raiding was alternating ramps with another disc.

[@sleeperandthejest]

Just an fyi, blossom of admidrisal trinket is easily the best trinket. It usually does around 10-15% of healing in raid and m+

[@ragnongaming]

It's definitely rising in ranks, and is very valuable in M+ for the additional spot healing power, but be careful about rating it based solely off of the % healing done, just like seedling. The value of other trinkets aren't shown as easily in Details/logs, but that doesn't mean that they don't result in higher overall hps output. Not saying you're wrong, just saying to be careful using the 10-15% healing metric because it's not the whole picture.

[@sleeperandthejest]

@@ragnongaming yeah youre absolutely correct. I think some of the dungeon trinkets have incredible uptime which would amount to huge healing over the course of a fight. I just enjoy being able to see blossom in play, you can actually see it healing people for a nice amount of passive healing.

[@ragnongaming]

@sleeperandthejest For sure!

[@peaceofhell1]

Interesting plater profile uve got :) its public? Can i have a link?

[@ragnongaming]

Thanks! It’s a part of a full UI made by Atrocity, which you can get by subbing to his twitch channel. I have a video guide setting it up if you want to check it out

[@user-tv1ls2th4k]

I sub his twich channel and how i can get it now? ^^ Amaizing UI@@ragnongaming

[@Hvnreign]

why is your brightness cycling? it make it difficult to watch the video

[@ragnongaming]

It’s a WeakAura to show that shadow covenant is active. I like it, it frees up space on my screen, and is a very clear visual cue that I am within my pet window. Sorry you’re having trouble viewing with it

[@dixiekongfan1]

Imo Priest is not good for pugs because you have to rely on your allies to kick. The AOE fear is not enough. On fortified weeks 1 volley would hit the entire team for like 60-70%. Yes you can use rapture/barrier but another healer can just interrupt and prevent 5 million+ damage

[@ragnongaming]

It’s definitely a very kick-heavy season, and that’s a huge sore spot for priest in general. At least Holy has chastise as something extra to help, but disc is out of luck. My solution is to do my best to compensate for that when forming the group, knowing that I can’t help with kicks. Bringing melee dps, Prot pal or VDH, shaman, rogues for all of the additional CC, Aug for the extra survivability in general in addition to their CC, etc. There are plenty of dps players out there who don’t mind that priest don’t have a kick, as long as they get PI 😆

[@ganisecen9254]

plss do raids with disc priest

[@ragnongaming]

Coming soon! Planning to do M+ and raid guides for both specs

[@bakerz7269]

Every piece of gear i get has Mastery. Frustrating

[@ragnongaming]

Yeah, haste is pretty scarce this season it seems. Lots of vers and mastery everywhere. I think crafted rings will be a pretty good solution once we start getting extra sparks beyond our embellishments. They are a few item levels lower than maxed out mythic track gear, but they’ll be a really good solution to fix stat priority. That’s what I’m planning on using my 3rd spark on tomorrow anyway

[@coops1992]

I wonder what the chinese 3550 io disc would think of this guide xD

[@ragnongaming]

Why do you say that?

[@crispybaconmatters7160]

"strong utility"..imma stop you there dawg...we have almost no utility...

[@ragnongaming]

God comp last season included priest for a reason 🙃

[@ragnongaming]

But if you’re doing low enough keys where you’re just holding W and never doing any skips, not relying on mass dispel for huge pulls with bursting stacks or for any of the other dungeon specific uses, and not bringing meta dps that are meta in part due to PI, then sure I’ll agree with you

[@fabiusque4266]

This guide is kinda nice, but it would be like 3 times better if you wouldnt try to just read a written guide out loud, including headlines. If I wanna have a guide in a form thats basically 1:1 the written one, I am going to read one myself. If I look for a video, I wanna get a video guid and stuff thats usually not in the written guides. 6/10

[@ragnongaming]

Cool

[@MRPC5]

Sorry man, but I got that feeling of searching "lasagna recipe" and the first page I click starts off with "What is lasagna?" I just can't.

[@ragnongaming]

Cool story

[@ragnongaming]

Best of luck with your lasagna and disc priest!

[@Daniel-kn9xr]

Without our old tier set I find myself OOM when hardcasting radiance all the time and no OP mana trinket anymore

[@ragnongaming]

Can definitely be an adjustment compared to last tier for sure