Priest Discipline Talents Builds

Discipline Talents

• §         Unbreakable Will - x/5 points
  Increases your chance to resist Stun, Fear, and Silence effects by 3%.
• ·        Excellent
• ·        Maxed: 5 points increases your chance to resist Stun, Fear and Silence effects by 15%
• §         Silent Resolve - x/5 point
  Reduces the threat generated by your damage spells by 4%.
• ·        Worthless
• ·        As with the Shadow damage aggro reduction talent, this one is largely a waste. You will typically be solo or PvP when doing damage as a Priest
• §         Wand Specialization - x/5 point
  Increases your damage with Wands by 5%.
• ·        Worthless
• ·        Priests seldom use their wand as their main attack, most of your damage will be Shadow, or staff.  If you do use a wand for something to do in instances, you still will not be doing enough damage with it, even with this talent to really make a difference.
• §          Martyrdom - x/2 points
  Gives you a 50% chance to gain the Focused Casting effect that lasts for 6 seconds after being the victim of a critical strike. The Focused Casting effect prevents you from losing casting time when taking damage.
• ·        Satisfactory
• ·        This talent has promise in a PvP setting; however most people will find better talents to spend their points on. As a Priest, you do not want to get hit, and this only works if you not only get hit, but get hit with a crit.
• §         Improved Power Word: Shield - x/3 point
  Reduces the duration of your Power Word: Shield's Weakened Soul effect by 5 seconds.
• ·        Excellent
• ·        Maxed: 3 points reduces the duration of your Power Word: Shields Weakened Soul effect by 15 seconds
• ·        Essential for any build
• §         Improved Power Word: Fortitude - x/2 point
  Increases the effect of your Power Word: Fortitude and Prayer of Fortitude spells by 15%.
• ·        Excellent
• ·        Maxed: 2 points increases the effect of your Power Word: Fortitude spells by 30%
• ·        At level 60 this converts your 54 point Stamina buff into a 70 point Stamina buff.
• ·        Note that currently there is a display bug with your buffs, and the additional effects of this will not show up on players buff icons, nevertheless it is active.
• §         Focused Casting - x/1 point
  While active, you no longer lose casting time from taking damage. Lasts 8 seconds.
• ·        Satisfactory
• ·        Mostly useful for PvP
• ·        In PvE, you want to avoid being hit, and will do so with Fade/fear/shield.
• §         Mental Agility - x/5 points
  Reduces the mana cost of your instant cast spells by 2%.
• ·        Excellent
• ·        Maxed: 5 points reduces the mana cost of your instant cast spells by 10%
• ·        Applies to Renew, buffs, psychic scream, SW:P, PW:S among others
• §         Improved Inner Fire - x/3 point
  Increases the effects of your Inner Fire spell by 15%.
• ·        Satisfactory
• ·        This is a nice talent, however it is hard to find 3 points to spare for it, especially when you consider that as a Priest you are focused on avoiding being hit. At level 60 it will add about 500 armor, which will not make a significant difference to mobs that hit you for 500 a hit at times.
• §         Mental Strength - x/5 points
  Increases your maximum Mana by 2%.
• ·        Excellent
• ·        Maxed: 5 points increases your maximum Mana by 10%
• ·        Shadow Priests usually do not have the points to acquire this talent
• ·        Essential for Holy Priests  
• ·        At Level 60 with top end gear this talent provides approximately 700 extra mana.
• §         Improved Mana Burn - x/2 point
  Reduces the casting time of your Mana Burn spell by 0.3 seconds.
• ·        Satisfactory
• ·        Maxed:  2 points reduces the casting time of Mana Burn casting time from 3 seconds to 2.4 seconds. This might be useful in PvP but typically, I find that except for some hybrids, most casters have too much mana for this to be truly effective. If you PvP a lot, and can find 2 points to spare then it is a good choice,
• §          Meditation - x/5 points
  Allows 3% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
• ·        Worthless
• ·        This talent sounds good at first look, but with diminishing returns on Spirit, it is not really worth 5 points in my book. Unless you are using a pure Spirit build, which is a bad idea anyway, you will typically regen about 70 mana per tic, or 35 mana per second under normal circumstances. Maxed, this talent allows you to regen 15% of that during casting which equates to roughly 5 mana per second. At level 60, Flash Heal is 380 mana, so it would take you roughly 76 seconds to regain enough mana to cast one 1000 point heal. These 5 points are better used elsewhere.
• §          Inner Focus - x/1 point
  When activated reduces the Mana cost of your next spell by 100% and increases its critical effect chance by 25% if it is capable of a critical effect.
• ·        Excellent
• ·        If used correctly it is like adding 800+ mana to your mana pool.
• ·        Essential for Holy Priests.
• §         Force of Will - x/5 point
  Increases your spell damage by 1% and the critical strike chance of your offensive spells by 1%.
• ·        Worthless
• ·        This talent would be good for a Shadow build, if it were not so far down in the tree.
• §         Divine Spirit - x/1 point
  Holy power infuses the target, increasing their Spirit by 23 for 30 minutes.
• ·        Worthless
• ·        With the diminishing returns of Spirit, and the 5 second rule, it just is not effective enough to justify 5 points, let alone all the points you have to put into the Discipline tree to get to it.