A Look Back at Discipline Priest in Dragonflight & War Within Wishlist - Editorial
With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Discipline Priest Writer, AutomaticJak, offers a retrospective highlighting Discipline's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.
Dragonflight Retrospectives & War Within Wishlists
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Discipline Retrospective & War Within Wishlist
Discipline Priest has received a ton of attention in Dragonflight as the spec has undergone multiple overhauls to properly merge together the correct amount of Shadow and Light spells for a balanced form that is not overly bloated. The latest overhaul has placed Discipline in an incredibly powerful position for Raid and Mythic+ though there are some areas that still could use some attention entering into The War Within.
Discipline's Overall Gameplay
«Modern» (since Legion) Discipline has primarily focused on ramping (applying Raid-wide Atonements for brief periods of time) to burst healing across the raid to counter boss damage. It is an immobile spec with historically high mana costs to applying Atonements and has used a variety of abilities from sister specs like Shadow to convert damage into healing. In Dragonflight in particular the talent trees brought a mixture of abilities from Shadowlands and from the Shadow spec to Discipline creating massive button bloat and a variety of
