Been leveling Disc Priest and love the healing mechanic of the class.
My Intent is to do some M+ and raids but I was wondering how efficient is Disc Priest to solo end game Pve content?
Things take a while to die but you are basically unstoppable
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Like for questing? Assuming you are pretty well geared?! It pumps. Just pull a ton of mobs and aoe down with Holy Nova spam. Safer than pure dps and your damage pumps.
As for single target? I dunno, but you can do anywhere from 30k to 70k dps killing mobs. You can also Dominate Mind and get a mob pumping for you as well.
Fade is also handy to sidestep mobs.
Ez pz and fast if you know what you are doing. But gear dependent.
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Efficient? its not. If you can play shadow its faster. I leveled as disc in BFA if i remember correctly. or was it legion with LW heating up. One of the two. The only time disc s better is if you are fighting high powered elites.
Its slow and tedious, its not like you are a pally
Like I all ways say - suggested 3 players or one pally
It’s about to be a lot better with mindbender/IE buffs in next patch. But you’re still a healer. So it’s not gonna be very fast regardless. The best solo specs are tanks.
In the current patch it’s the slowest by far at killing anything, but it doesn’t die unless you go crazy.
My priest isn’t even geared and easily does 50k dps out questing in the world. Just do a mindbender + twilight equilibrium build. Drop PW solace for pain and suffering. It absolutely pumps. Not great for healing pugs though so beware.
Edit Here’s the build I use to quest:
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You’re not doing 50k while soloing an elite.
Other healers can do more ST damage than disc while still sustaining.
Sure, with an IE build we can pull a few mobs and blast them after we’ve got our catchup gear pre-dungeons, but it’s still not a quick class for soloing anything but packs of normal mobs - which still a couple other healers can do better.
Agree to disagree. I’m definitely soloing better on my priest than my monk or pally. The issue with disc is you lose a lot of dps when you heal compared to pally but this isn’t a big deal in world content.
and… none of it is faster just going shadow and aoe pulling everything that dies like a second later
Most of the mobs only have 200-400k hp so you can kill them pretty fast.
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how you lose dps when you heal? disc heal doing dps cast healing spell that no playstile of the classs
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Sins of the Many, but I have no idea what difference it makes to get atonement on yourself, say by simply casting a renew on yourself now and again!! That said, the tooltip literally reads: Your damage is increased by up to 40%, diminishing for each ally affected by your atonement.
Second, the time you spend casting a heal and/or a spell to get atonement on yourself is lost time doing dps, such as by casting a Mind Blast instead.
I dunno if that answers your question fully as it is a little incomprehensible.
Also, Holy Paladin damage reduction via Judgement can mean no healing yourself needed!
Anything that doesn’t one-shot you makes you stronger.
Really, I can’t play any other class these days. Even the OP FOTM ones…
I struggle to get to 20k DPS. Clearly Im doing many things wrong.
I play Mindbender and blast with it. That is, you cast mind blast with it. Also I pull a lot, hit PI and then spam Holy Nova. You can pump doing both of those.
It is gear dependent though. Most of my priests are well geared.
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That also means 20 seconds every 2 minutes. Sustained damage is there much ?
I also run the damage PVP talent WM on. It’s called Dark Angel. I’d also recommend the talent Words of the Pious. As for sustained, 30-50 k dps is my average across five priests 438-446 when questing without pots, phials, food buffs, that kind of thing. I’d also recommend the pvp trinkets.
On big pulls with damage pots, a phial, etc. I’ve seen the meters top 100k dps at the peak. In M+ that is.
Edit: Single target while questing I have hit 192k dps on single targets and averaged a minimum of 110k dps or so–no pots or extra buffs, just PI (or no PI if on CD) + my buttons. That is at the 440+ ilevel and pretty high haste. This I saw on a few toons doing the Zaralek Cavern quest called Ending their Watch–where the mobs have high health vs dying fast.
Also, Mindbender is only a one minute CD.
So with end game PVE and PVP gear and with WM on you can start to get some reasonable damage 
I mean, FWIW this is all changing next patch.
Disc is easily still the top damage healer of next patch.
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