PvE Discipline Priest Healer Rotation & Cooldowns

wotlk pve discipline priest healer rotation cooldowns
  • Author: Amery
  • Date: August 16, 2022
  • Updated: August 16, 2022
  • Expansion: WotLK Classic

As Discipline Priests our healing rotation is extremely simple to follow as it’s more of a priority on how you should be healing with certain abilities being way ahead of others.

25 man Raids rotation

  1. Power Word: Shield – Most Used ability, spam on anyone who doesn’t have Weakened Soul
  2. Penance – Burst heal, should be used on tank or low health group member
  3. Prayer of Mending (POM) – Heal that bounces multiple times before it runs out and Heals on damage taken
  4. Flash Heal – Most used Raw Heal as it’s affected by talents
  5. Renew – only useful on tanks
  6. Binding Heal – Heals you and your target, heavy mana cost though.
  7. Prayer of Healing – Only actual Raid Heal, useful when 3 people in group take damage

10 man Raids and Group Content rotation

  1. Power Word: Shield – Most Used ability, spam on anyone who doesn’t have Weakened Soul
  2. Penance – Burst heal, should be used on tank or low health group member
  3. Prayer of Mending (POM) – Heal that bounces multiple times before it runs out and Heals on damage taken
  4. Prayer of Healing – Only actual Raid Heal, useful when 3 people in group take damage
  5. Flash Heal – Most used Raw Heal as it’s affected by talents
  6. Renew – only useful on tanks
  7. Binding Heal – Heals you and your target, heavy mana cost though.

Abilities Overview

In this section of the guide, we will go through each separate ability and explain how to properly use it.

  • Power Word: Shield: You can always spam this spell, so no brainer that it should be your most used ability. Any raid member that doesn’t have Weakened Soul on them should be shielded instantly, as you’re the only healer who can prevent damage ahead of time.
  • Penance: Depending on the situation this ability should be used off CD most of the time. As this is our burst heal. This should be used on Tanks when they are about to take massive damage or on any when they are lower on health and shield won’t be enough to save them.
  • Prayer of Mending: When there is Constant damage this ability is amazing to have bouncing around anytime it can be used. Think of it as 5 heals in 1 GCD.
  • Renew: Only really good as a Heal over time (HoT) on the tanks, otherwise it won’t be used much in 25 man or 10 man content.
  • Binding Heal: Priest equivalent of Beacon of Light. Amazing spell to use when both you and your raid need healing, be wary this spell costs nearly double as much as Flash heal so not a spell to be reckless with.
  • Prayer of Healing: While this spell is amazing for group content or 10m raids, it falls behind in 25m raids as other healers have way better raid heals than you do with this spell also having fairly little use outside of group content or 10m raid environments.
  • Rapture: This spell is the main mana regen tool of a Disc priest, this ability has a 12s ICD (internal Cooldown). Whenever your Power Word: Shield is fully absorbed or dispelled you gain 2.5% of your total mana back, you may have to make tweaks in your healing rotation to proc this ability anytime it is off cooldown in order to make full use of it but also make sure to heal people and not wait till rapture is off cooldown to start healing again.
  • Power Infusion: As this spell doesn’t stack with Bloodlust/Heroism but does stack with Berserking, Wrath of Air Totem, Swift Retribution and Improved Moonkin Form there are several ways to use this ability. One such way is by boosting heals, the main healers you’d want to boost are the Holy Paladin’s as they are the Main tank healers (Unless their Holy Light is near 1s cast time!), Restoration Shaman if any raid damage is going out, Holy Priest as long as they aren’t Renew Spammers, and Finally Restoration druid’s as they get the least benefit (besides disc priests of course!).
  • Power Infusion for DPS: This buff also has a major benefit in helping boost overall raid damage with the following Priority being who should get the buff first to last with skill of player over writing priority:
    1. Torment the Weak Fire Mage
    2. Affliction Warlock (When boss is below 25% Health)
    3. Shadow Priest
    4. Balance Druids (Only when Eclipse (Lunar) is active)
    5. Demonology Warlocks (when in metamorphosis)
    6. Arcane Mages (Only outside of Icy Veins since they don’t stack)
    7. Elemental Shamans
  • Pain Suppression: This spell is pretty straightforward as it’s an extra defensive CD. Always talk with tanks before hand so you don’t overwrite one of their abilities with this one or use it on anyone else in the raid that needs an ability to save them.

 

About the Author

Amery

Hey guys! My name is Amery and here is a little something about me: I've been playing WoW for about 15 years now. With that experience, I wanted to share all the things I have learned over the years.
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