Having no problems at all doing so. No mana issues, etc. Damage looks good. Healing fine.
But I wonder how disc is going to play in M+. The “experts” having been giving it low marks.
I’ve been running a penance build and it’s amazing
I’m on mobile so I don’t have the Talents infront of me but look at my Heston priest for them
Basically you can rattle off 4 smites and then 8 bolts of penance for massive dmg or healing. It’s a super easy ramp to do and there are a ton of abilities that work together for it including powering up a strong flash heal.
I’m low ilvl but I have been pumping heals like crazy with it.
Said it elsewhere but im running Jaks dark disc set up mostly and loving it. No mana issues and it deals with the pulsing damage. I barely flash heal. Mostly if its a free surge procs. They finally have it where you are fully dpsing all the damage up and not spamming heals all day.
There is a lot of pulsing damage in these dungeons and the longer shadow cov talents and enduring luminescence allow you to do a raid style evang ramp f you get what i mean. Schisim into HD pen, into halo into smite into mind games sort of thing or whatever order you want to run in using with twilight Equilib.
I will comment also that pws is no longer my top heal anymore. Atonement is, which is refreshing to see. Also nice to see smite my 3rd top dps ability. Taking Word of the pious with weal and woe and Ti gives some strong smite damage
Discipline Priest Dragonflight Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft (wowhead.com)
is what im running
Is halo finally being buffed by shadow covenant? Because it wasn’t in prepatch still. Haven’t bothered to check.
Edit: Nope, it isn’t.
Hadnt thought of it. More that it becomes shadow so counts for TE. ITs still a very chunky heal. I wont be going back to divine star
Yeah, it doesn’t get buffed by shadow covenant either.
Halo AND Dstar’s shadow forms get no benefit of either shadow covenant or TE it seems. 
And yeah I basically only run halo too. It’s a big mana save in packs, and a nicer heal tool.
Ive been running an aegis build, walked through all m0 pugs. People thought i was a god.
15 to 20k dps throughout. Zero deaths
I forsee a big nerf
yeah i dont think blizz will be tuning the healers based upon mythic zero. would be like raid tuning through lfr. There is a reason druid and evoker are top 2 healers, we arent there at a level yet where thats the case.
Yeah, no way they nerf Disc dungeon besides accidentally nerfing it due to raid.
It’s simply not powerful enough to do that.
I’ve been preaching that it’s the best disc’s ever been - but it’s still not top tier. I went through M0s on my evoker and was doing near 30k DPS as I got gear, and I started at about 12k. Only done heroics on my priest but I was doing ~10k.
If anything disc needs to be buffed. Like why not make atonement simply do more healing when it is on fewer targets? Or something like that. Or have a talent that offers this?
Word is Disc healing is weak vs other healers in five mans in high keys. Sad really. And so people probably will take that as meaning it bites. Hence, you will get fewer and fewer invites the higher you go.
I wonder if Holy will be good or not. The “experts” are all ranking holy higher than disc, but it has lost its top stop to other healers–notably resto druid and evoker. Sad. Very sad.
Edit: On a side note, Evoker is kind of cool. It is also super easy vs disc–at least that is my take. I am curious about how it will actually be in high keys.
Fully agree there. No more (so far) ST heal spam. All dps to boost the health pools back up. Im loving the new HD actually. I now prefer it more then the other one for keys. can proc it twice in a schism window as it stands currently.
I AM more curious to know what the other healers top burst healing is, because my feeling is healing wins the day now not healer dps tho yes evoker doing 3 times disc will count
Evoker is really easy, to be honest. You have incredible mobility. Your healing is really pretty easy as well. And your damage is good.
You can also kick.
Disc in comparison is hard work.
Your healing output is mediocre. Your damage output is good. But the big one:
Your mobility does not compare, although it is not too bad when you are not healing–outside of penance and applying dots. But I mean, you are a healer. So, like. I mean, think about it. You have to plant for most of your damage spells. You have to plant for flash heal.
Evoker on the other hand? You do your Dream Breath most of the time-- and really have to only plant for a short time if you like–all depending. But either way you then can dance around while it ticks away healing.
Vs other healers disc is nothing special. I mean think about it. Druid has fantastic mobility, shammy as well. Mistweaver is pretty good. Even paladin is not bad now. But disc? The bulk of your healing via atonement comes from your damage spells like Smite, Mind Blast, Mind Games–all which require planting. Radiance as well. Ok, you have your dot, which does healing that way. You have renew–which I use, but a lot say dont. You have penance, which does give you a window to move…
I dunno. I love playing disc, but it really has nothing to compensate for the drawbacks–mainly mediocre healing and lackluster mobility. PI? Damage reduction? I dunno.
Worth noting that neither of these are bad, especially right now. DR is very good actually. And PI can grant ~5-10k dps to your group, more if you’re using it well.
My biggest concern for Disc is that we probably need a bit more tuning on Sins of the Many, or some way to increase atonement a bit in dungeon. We do OK healing, but it’s nothing spectacular, and damage is going to catch up to us eventually unless we take stuff like contrition, but then our damage is phenominally bad.
Side note - finished all my M0s and got like next to no gear on my priest. Blizz doesn’t want me playing it this xpac it seems.
It’s just that other specs do way more for way less effort
All healers will be mythic viable unless pushing very high keys so don’t worry about it
My top atonement heals my friend is penance, and ptw when i look my damage breakdown. Followed by smite
I think this xpac highlights priest is in trouble with no interrupt. Those dungeons with aoe fears. Lots of interrupts in these dungeons
That, maybe sins to 50% or a buff to shadow covs heal and damage buff. Also power word life to me feels lacking. I hit it and barely see the health pools move. Maybe revert the aeigs pws nerf back to 50% Stuff that wont affect us so much in raid
True on both counts. Actually, rapture is super potent as well–and in my case saved entire groups at times; also the tank when spammed over and over a few times.
And as for that one dps who stands in fire whenever its there or the ranged that is always out of range–totally not a problem for disc–but for Evoker? Not the case. I’m not sure of the whys and wherefores but rapture (in my case) feels really strong and is a real lifesaver used well. Playing Evoker you just dont have that kind of thing. You kind of go, “Oh, I did all I could. The guy died. Oh well.” And with disc, you go: “Rapture will do it. Maybe time for a pain supp.” Then you go: “Dropping a dome. We are gonna manage this mess somehow. I can feel it.” And then you do.
My first run I joined a pretty bad group. I had a really hard time and got no gear.
Then today, after gearing a bit more I made my own group after listing with a gear minimum. Two on my F list joined and we got a solid tank and invited one more. My first run I got gear. The second one I also got some.
I wouldnt worry about not getting much 372 gear at this stage. Once M+ opens you can spam it and you will gear up and forget about now. I did some pvp for 353 gear and imagine you will be able to upgrade it even higher soon. With pvp gear you can also choose the slot you need vs running one dungeon over and over.
Anyhow, good luck.
disc’s problem is only mana at higher keys imo, I’ve felt the healing is pretty nice and the playstyle is so much fun right now, it’s an upgrade from SL disc in my opinion .
Probably it’s getting “low” marks because of mana issues and because preservation evoker dmg is broken and their rotation is extremely easy
Edit: DL to SL
Life for me has been critting for 130k in both disc and shadow, it feels nice, maybe the dps pops a heal or something making yours not hit under the 35% threshold but I keep topping my evoker friend to 90% with it, I love it.
From what i understand, and thats all it is, hearsay, is that the healing requirements at highest key levels may be tough for disc to meet.
I tried a new build in every dungeon, settled on what I was doing on beta, which was weal and woe/expiation/harsh discipline.
Void summoner/inescapable torment is the most hot garbage thing Blizzard has ever put out. 4 points is such a heavy investment into what amounts to worse than several of our talents before it. Please get that out of our tree.