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[0:01] Back again to bring you through all the
[0:03] advanced tips and tricks for playing
[0:05] discipline for both mythic plus and for
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[1:26] today's video and let's get into disc in
[1:29] mythic plus as it has changed quite a
[1:31] bit like we mentioned in our previous
[1:33] video to now be focusing more on shields
[1:35] and shadow mends, but there is quite a
[1:37] bit of nuance about this. One of the
[1:39] things is about how you use penance.
[1:41] [music] For one thing, you are running
[1:43] encroaching shadows and revel in
[1:45] darkness so that your damaging penance
[1:47] does spread shadow word pain. Now this
[1:49] is crazy important because your shadow
[1:51] mend is procking based on the number of
[1:55] shadow word pains that you have out. And
[1:57] so, it's enormously important on trash
[2:00] pulls to be spreading around lots of
[2:03] Shadow Word pain. But, that also can
[2:05] take a lot of GCDs to do so. So, pretty
[2:07] much on high density packs, high
[2:10] quantity packs that are going out there,
[2:12] you want to be hitting pennants
[2:14] offensively as much as you possibly can.
[2:17] And this is going to feed you a wealth
[2:19] of Shadow Mend procs that you are
[2:20] basically using as your primary healing
[2:22] effect. And so, you have two main areas
[2:25] where your healing comes from in
[2:26] dungeons on trash pulls. One is your
[2:29] Shadow Mend, and the other is your Void
[2:32] Shield. And so, you're really making
[2:34] sure you're focusing on hitting the fat
[2:36] Void Shield often onto yourself to take
[2:39] advantage of Prophet's Will, where your
[2:41] shields are 30% stronger on yourself,
[2:44] because then that basically just
[2:45] isolates one person out of the equation.
[2:48] You never really have to worry about
[2:50] healing yourself, and then two more
[2:51] shields go out. One of them might cleave
[2:54] onto the tank, it might not. And then
[2:56] you have one other person who usually
[2:58] has a huge shield, and you don't have to
[3:00] worry about healing that person, and you
[3:03] can instead spend your Shadow Mends on
[3:04] the other two or three people after
[3:06] that. And so, this is a huge area where
[3:10] Shadow Mends and like big single target
[3:12] healing comes into play. And if you have
[3:14] enough mobs with Shadow Word pain on
[3:16] them, then you're going to have
[3:19] basically infinite Shadow Mend procs.
[3:21] Now, if you get into like chain pulling
[3:23] situations where you're not having
[3:26] enough dot spread for your Shadow Word
[3:28] pains, feel free to manually apply some
[3:30] more when you really need to. But, a lot
[3:33] of times, if you just keep on hitting
[3:35] offensive pennants, you will spread
[3:37] around enough of them to get the full
[3:39] coverage that you need to. When it comes
[3:41] to your mana economy, this is a big
[3:44] frustrating area, I know, for a lot of
[3:45] disc players, but it's kind of built off
[3:47] of a couple of like core principles that
[3:50] you want to do.
[3:51] Casting more Shadow Word Pain does
[3:54] actually have kind of a negative
[3:55] downside to your mana. It's not an
[3:57] enormous amount, but it does cost more
[4:00] mana than casting the Penances does.
[4:02] Casting lots of regular Power Word
[4:04] Shield absolutely drains your mana in a
[4:07] huge way. And casting lots of Flash
[4:09] Heals can be a pretty large mana drain
[4:12] as well, but it's something you often
[4:13] have to do when you are starting to run
[4:15] dry from your Shadow Mend procs. And so,
[4:18] there's situations where you prefer not
[4:21] to do certain things, but you kind of
[4:23] get forced into it when you don't have
[4:25] as many resources on hand. So, the
[4:27] offensive Penances on trash, Void
[4:29] Shield, and Shadow Mend are kind of
[4:31] carrying a lot of your healing, and then
[4:33] you're using your Flash Heals in between
[4:35] to make sure you supplement the rest of
[4:37] your output. You do want to make sure
[4:39] you're using your Mind Blast on cool
[4:40] down, cuz that'll also buff the damage
[4:42] and healing of your Penance, and you
[4:44] Shadow Word Death on targets when
[4:45] they're sub 20% health. But, you don't
[4:47] really need to seek out execute targets
[4:50] the way you did before, because your
[4:51] atonement healing is just not as strong
[4:53] as it was previously. Another big mana
[4:55] tip is that you don't really cast a lot
[4:57] of Radiance. So, Evangelism
[4:59] automatically applies a Radiance
[5:01] whenever you cast it, which is great.
[5:02] Also benefits from Harsh Discipline, but
[5:04] after you cast Evangelism, you get two
[5:06] casts of Radiance that are instant cast
[5:08] and cost 40% less mana. Now, what you
[5:11] want to do is you want to use your
[5:13] defensive Penances in between pulls or
[5:16] your Void Shields, if you can, in
[5:18] between pulls or
[5:20] whenever there's actually like
[5:21] atonements expiring, to basically mini
[5:23] game manage your atonements on five
[5:25] players. And that way, you don't have to
[5:27] cast as many Radiance, and so often,
[5:30] I'll cast about three Radiance between
[5:32] an Evangelism. I'll cast the first one
[5:34] when you cast an Evangelism, it casts a
[5:35] Radiance, and then I have two that are
[5:37] discounted by 40%, and that's most of
[5:40] the Radiance casts that I will be doing.
[5:42] And that way, you don't have to pay the
[5:44] full price of 13,000 mana for your Power
[5:47] radiance to actually have that cast go
[5:49] out and you have the discount and you
[5:51] benefit from your harsh discipline in
[5:53] the process. It's a nice way to further
[5:56] reduce the costs and not pay full price
[5:59] for a lot of different things. Now the
[6:00] question comes when you're on a boss
[6:02] fight or you know, maybe a couple
[6:04] targets and you don't have a lot of
[6:05] shadow mans, well what do you do then?
[6:07] And that's where you want to maintain
[6:09] your shadow repairs as best as you
[6:10] possibly can and start using more
[6:13] defensive pennants to start kind of
[6:15] closing the gap for your lack of
[6:16] resources. And this is where, you know,
[6:18] almost every single time you're on a
[6:20] boss fight, you're just using pure
[6:22] defensive friendly pennants cast onto
[6:25] your allies to maintain that atonement.
[6:28] And also when you get into like raw
[6:30] ticking encounters like Lura, you have
[6:32] to be really stingy with when you are
[6:35] casting those defensive pennants because
[6:38] when you defensive pennants, you also
[6:39] heal everybody with atonement on them
[6:41] thanks to the contrition passive built
[6:42] into pennants. And so on the rot fights,
[6:45] you actually have to kind of take your
[6:46] time and make sure you're not
[6:48] overhealing as much with those pennants
[6:49] casts and even potentially pulling your
[6:51] pennants charges so that you can kind of
[6:53] send them back to back for like high
[6:55] damage periods to quickly reverse that
[6:57] incoming damage on your allies. That's
[6:59] also where you can take advantage of
[7:00] like your void shield casts, kind of
[7:02] time them better for specific moments
[7:05] that are going to be going out onto the
[7:07] party. And when your cool downs are
[7:09] coming into use, evangelism is going to
[7:11] give you Archangel with our talent set
[7:13] up and this is increasing your healing
[7:16] and shielding by 15%. And so this is
[7:19] where during your cool downs, you can be
[7:21] more aggressive with a regular power
[7:23] word shield when you need to.
[7:24] Understanding that it's going to do a
[7:26] lot more healing, but it also could be
[7:28] good to just cast it on yourself in a
[7:30] rot encounter so that way you could heal
[7:32] other people more directly with your
[7:34] pennants is for example.
[7:35] >> [music]
[7:35] >> And that allows you to take advantage of
[7:37] profits will. Another thing to keep in
[7:39] mind is that the binding heals talent
[7:41] where 20% of flash heal output also
[7:44] heals you, works with shadow mend. And
[7:47] so, if you can bias your shadow mend and
[7:50] flash heals towards other people to
[7:52] benefit from the binding heals for
[7:53] yourself, that's really good. And then
[7:55] you bias your void shield and power
[7:58] shield casts onto yourself to benefit
[8:00] from prophet's will. Now, that's also
[8:02] really good. And that's a huge area for
[8:05] uh garfrost or lura, where you can get
[8:07] extra mana efficiency and basically just
[8:09] make your healing effects stronger
[8:11] overall, and that helps you just better
[8:14] heal those encounters. It's leaning on
[8:16] those extra effects that heal you for a
[8:19] bit more. Since they nerfed a lot of
[8:21] your atonement output in 12.0.5,
[8:23] ultimate penitence is pretty crappy, but
[8:26] so is barrier. And so, I would still
[8:27] recommend running uppies and still
[8:29] recommend [music] targeting an enemy
[8:31] when you cast it, but you predominantly
[8:34] use it as a defensive. Uh you can try to
[8:37] use it at moments where there's also
[8:39] like decently high damage, but I'm
[8:41] pretty much looking for areas where I
[8:42] send it as a personal cool down or as a
[8:45] personal defensive to make sure that I
[8:47] just survive. A big thing with ultimate
[8:50] penitence is that it also makes you
[8:51] immune to knockbacks and crowd control
[8:53] effects. So, if you're walking into seat
[8:55] of the triumvirate, for example, a lot
[8:57] of groups are pulling double subjugator
[8:59] at the start of the run. And that's the
[9:01] only time they're running double
[9:02] subjugator. Now, you can use phantasm
[9:04] and fade to remove that effect, but
[9:07] since they get pulled at different
[9:08] times, they come out at different times,
[9:10] and so you'd have to tank one of them
[9:12] and then hit it as the second one gets
[9:14] applied, which is enormously dangerous.
[9:17] So, instead, you can basically just
[9:19] start spreading around your shadowed
[9:20] pains, hit uppies, you immune the first
[9:23] one, and you're still in the air when
[9:24] the second one goes out, and you've
[9:25] immune both of them, and you're
[9:27] chilling, you're happy. If any bolts go
[9:29] out, well, you have 100% of HP shield,
[9:31] and you're just safe. Beyond that, you
[9:33] have your pain suppressions that you're
[9:34] also casting a decent amount of shields
[9:36] on. Like I mentioned, you don't want to
[9:37] be overly aggressive with your power of
[9:39] shields to hurt your mana economy, but
[9:41] you can use your pain subs on yourself
[9:44] or on other people quite aggressively as
[9:46] you need to at this level of keys. Some
[9:48] other things I really like to take
[9:49] advantage of from like a utility angle
[9:51] is I love running with Augur of Vocals
[9:53] because you can get the Worm Stone cast
[9:55] from them and [music] this is an ability
[9:58] you can just drag onto your action bars
[9:59] and you can teleport to the Augur of
[10:01] Vocals up to 100 yards away. And so a
[10:04] lot of times I'll just use that to
[10:05] drink. And so whenever I'm kind of
[10:07] hanging back, I just say, "Hey, you guys
[10:09] go ahead." I drink and then when I kind
[10:11] of have an eye on my map or my mini map,
[10:13] I'll see when they're about 100 yards
[10:14] away and then I'll hit the cast and you
[10:16] can also hit it while you're moving. If
[10:18] you see that they are running away from
[10:19] you, you can run and cast it to catch up
[10:23] and then you'll teleport onto the Augur
[10:25] of Vocals location and be able to rejoin
[10:27] the pull immediately. You also have some
[10:29] really fun utility with Dominate Mind
[10:32] where the best use of it is in Seat of
[10:34] Triumph on the first boss. You can use
[10:37] it on the blobs that are trying to
[10:39] travel into the boss and this is going
[10:41] to allow the blobs to just impact the
[10:43] boss while they're friendly and then
[10:45] that is going to make it so that the
[10:48] damaging effect of the explosion doesn't
[10:50] actually do any sort of damage as well.
[10:52] There's a couple other ones that require
[10:55] you to like manage your pet and like
[10:57] move it around that can be a little bit
[10:59] more dangerous. One of them is putting
[11:01] it onto the Magisters with the mages
[11:04] that cast polymorph which at the time of
[11:06] this video is not breaking on damage.
[11:08] But the downside for using that is that
[11:12] whenever you set any mob free that has
[11:14] like a regular aggro table, they will
[11:16] try to kill you. They will really try to
[11:18] kill you. It's like you put out an omega
[11:21] taunt onto the enemy. And so you have to
[11:24] be very, very careful with that
[11:25] potentially killing you because you
[11:26] might fade, you might release it or
[11:28] might get let go, you might be far away
[11:30] and you might hit fade, but it will keep
[11:32] on trying to go back and kill you later
[11:34] on and often at random times. So, the
[11:37] other dominate minds, whether you're
[11:38] trying to grab it on like the magisters,
[11:41] uh whether you're grabbing like an
[11:42] engineer, so you're not dealing with
[11:43] some of the damage effects, you still
[11:45] have to kill them later on. You don't
[11:47] usually hold on to them forever and they
[11:49] also try to kill you. So, be very, very
[11:52] careful with dominate mind. Shackled
[11:53] Undead is really good in both first boss
[11:56] of Seat of the Triumvirate for the
[11:57] blobs. You can basically like dominate
[11:59] mind one, shackle the other, and then
[12:01] dominate the shackled one later on to
[12:04] get that cleared, too. Or you can also
[12:06] use it in Pit of Saron for uh gosh, it's
[12:09] like the the nether caster. As he's
[12:11] casting a nether burst, it's this zero
[12:13] HP mob that's attached to like the lich
[12:16] resser. That's also a good one to take
[12:18] advantage of, as well. Now, raids is
[12:20] really interesting because you have to
[12:22] play a little differently on each of the
[12:24] fights depending on how powerful your
[12:25] execute value is. Now, you're always
[12:27] running the pet package with Death
[12:29] Torment, inescapable torment, shadow
[12:32] fiend to generate pets, but [music] some
[12:35] fights like the paladins encounter, your
[12:37] mana is in a really nasty spot because
[12:39] you don't have frequent execute value.
[12:41] But, when you get to the Crown of the
[12:42] Cosmos, Beleren, and Midnight Falls, you
[12:45] have a wealth of different opportunities
[12:48] for you to get execute value, which
[12:50] makes your mana economy stronger, which
[12:52] can help influence a lot of your
[12:53] decisions. So, let's start with paladins
[12:55] because that fight is really, really
[12:57] nasty and frustrating to play with. One
[13:00] of the things on this encounter is that
[13:02] the damage starts ramping up whenever
[13:03] one of the paladins dies, which also
[13:05] coincides with when you get execute
[13:07] value. So, whenever you have a constant
[13:10] perma sub 20% target, your mana kind of
[13:13] flattens and you are constantly getting
[13:15] enough mana to really suit most of your
[13:18] needs unless you're trying to be super
[13:20] aggressive and get like 20 player
[13:21] atonements out all the time, which can
[13:24] be possible. So, what you really need on
[13:26] an encounter like Paladins
[13:28] is to pace yourself until you get there.
[13:32] And so, you're able to do that basically
[13:34] by playing super passive. And so, all of
[13:37] your Penances are going to be used
[13:38] defensively in a rating environment. And
[13:41] [music] when you're playing a more
[13:42] passive play style, you're basically
[13:44] just always having your defensive
[13:46] Penance apply a new Atonement or refresh
[13:49] an expiring one, and you'll be able to
[13:51] spend your Surge procs as you're going
[13:54] to get them, but you're not really
[13:56] applying a lot of other Atonements. So,
[13:59] one of the things that comes into play
[14:00] whenever you're applying Atonements onto
[14:02] everybody is the mana cost
[14:03] considerations. So, Flash Heal is by far
[14:06] your most expensive on its own, costing
[14:09] 9,000 mana to apply Atonement to you and
[14:12] one other person thanks to the Binding
[14:14] Heal's talent. So, it's actually 4,500
[14:16] mana per person if it's a fresh
[14:19] Atonement on yourself or like a refresh.
[14:22] But,
[14:23] if you have 4,500 mana from a Surge of
[14:25] Light proc, which makes it cost half as
[14:27] much, then 2,250-ish is a really good
[14:31] cost to spend to apply Atonement to you
[14:33] and one other person. Your other options
[14:35] are Plea at 5,500 mana or Power Word:
[14:39] Shield, which gives you a longer-lasting
[14:41] Atonement thanks to the Indemnity
[14:43] talent, but it costs 6,500 mana. Now,
[14:46] this is where casting lots of Penance at
[14:49] 4,000 mana to give you that extra
[14:51] Atonement application is extremely
[14:53] mana-efficient. And of course, you're
[14:55] having a lot of healing coming from that
[14:57] since the second part of Penance is that
[14:59] whenever you heal with it, you use it
[15:01] defensively, you are healing everybody
[15:03] with Atonement for it as well, and
[15:05] that's part of the Contrition passive
[15:06] that comes into play. And so, your
[15:08] single-target Atonement application when
[15:10] you play very passively is defensive
[15:13] Penance and Surge of Light Flash Heals.
[15:15] But when you want to get more
[15:16] aggressive, that's when you start
[15:18] weaving in the Power Word: Shield and
[15:20] the Plea casts to really build up your
[15:22] atonements onto the raid before big
[15:25] damage goes out.
[15:26] Now, one of the big things you want to
[15:28] keep in mind for when you need to set up
[15:31] these atonements is you need to have a
[15:33] very good reason for applying all of
[15:35] them. On paladins, it's sacred tolls and
[15:38] searing radiences, which are like the
[15:39] big damage mechanics, and the searing
[15:42] radiences are the war chaplain send
[15:44] channel, which can last for quite a
[15:46] while and do a whole bunch of damage.
[15:48] Most of the time you're going to have
[15:50] your evangelisms applied for those
[15:52] specific moments, but sometimes in that
[15:54] fight you don't. And so those are some
[15:55] of the key moments where you can really
[15:57] scale up a lot of your atonement count
[15:59] and be a lot more efficient.
[16:02] The other thing though is that you need
[16:03] to make sure you have the damage
[16:04] abilities on hand to render value from
[16:07] that. And so that's where a lot of my
[16:09] game play in raids is if I don't have a
[16:12] specific mechanic that I am setting up
[16:14] for that moment, I'll usually be holding
[16:17] on to one charge of penance, and then
[16:19] only sending a penance cast just before
[16:23] the penance is over cap. So that means
[16:26] you have two full stacks of penance and
[16:28] have not used them. I never am sitting
[16:30] on two stacks of penance ever.
[16:33] At all. You are just never ever doing
[16:35] that. And you're always in a rating
[16:37] environment using it on your allies.
[16:40] And so a lot of times what I do is in
[16:42] between ramps, I'll keep a charge of
[16:45] penance in case somebody drops low or is
[16:48] in danger, I can just instantly send it
[16:50] off into them. Or I'm just making sure
[16:52] that if I'm about to get my second
[16:54] charge of penance, I just hit it onto a
[16:55] new target that does not have atonement
[16:58] or the atonement is expiring. Which is
[17:00] why on my raid frames, I have the raid
[17:02] frames go gray when they have atonement,
[17:04] but I also have an indicator that glows
[17:06] red when the atonement is about to
[17:08] expire. Because you can both refresh
[17:11] that with the extra penances, and you
[17:13] can do this while you have a 20 player
[17:15] ramp out, which is also really helpful,
[17:17] or you can just do it whenever you're
[17:19] sending out a penitence to make sure
[17:20] that you don't over cap. Both of them
[17:22] are really helpful to make sure you're
[17:24] as efficient as you can with your
[17:25] resources. Now, when you're trying to
[17:27] render a lot of value out of your ramps,
[17:29] you have applied, you know, full 20
[17:31] atonements, and we can start with like
[17:32] midnight falls. At the beginning of the
[17:34] encounter, I will hit my penitences and
[17:37] build up full stacks of wheel and woe
[17:40] and force a proc out of your void
[17:42] shield. Then I will flash shield into a
[17:45] void shield cast, which applies five
[17:47] atonements in total and applies those
[17:49] void shields, which go into the boss
[17:51] fight. Now, if you start the boss fight,
[17:53] it also restarts your void shield setup,
[17:56] and so if you were holding a void shield
[17:59] cast, it resets it when the boss fight
[18:01] starts. But if you pre-cast it, it keeps
[18:04] [music] it, and so you're able to get
[18:06] that extra prep value.
[18:08] Now, how void shield works is it is a
[18:10] deck of cards system, which means that
[18:13] every single time a fight starts, then
[18:15] you have basically a three cards in your
[18:19] hand you could kind of think of whenever
[18:21] you cast penitence. And so,
[18:23] your first cast of penitence, let's say
[18:25] it does not proc your void shield, then
[18:27] that means that it has drawn the not
[18:30] void shield card, right? And you have
[18:32] two cards left in your deck. Now, I'm
[18:34] not going to play the Monty Hall
[18:35] scenario and tell you which card to draw
[18:37] or anything along those lines, but
[18:39] basically for your own understanding,
[18:41] you have a 50/50 shot of either getting
[18:44] a penitence after that or not getting
[18:46] it. And a really interesting thing is,
[18:48] let's say you go back to back on not
[18:50] getting a void shield cast, the third
[18:53] one is guaranteed to be a void shield,
[18:55] but then you also start a new deck of
[18:57] cards afterwards, and that's how you can
[18:59] get those back to back void shield
[19:01] casts. There's some people who are
[19:02] working on some add-ons and some tools
[19:04] to be able to better track it. If I have
[19:05] a link, I'll link it in the description
[19:07] down below if I can get it. If it's not
[19:08] there, I don't have it at the moment.
[19:09] But the way you want to think about it
[19:11] is that if you have that void shield
[19:14] proc on hand, keep in mind it soaks up a
[19:16] ton of damage, applies a lot of
[19:18] atonements, and is going to produce a
[19:20] lot of atonement healing thanks to your
[19:21] apex talents cuz that third tier of your
[19:23] apex talent is super powerful.
[19:26] And you also need to make sure that you
[19:28] are not casting other penances over top
[19:31] of it cuz even if you are tracking it,
[19:33] you could kind of know there's some
[19:34] areas where you could get away with it
[19:36] in the deck of cards system if you went
[19:37] like back-to-back on void shield casts.
[19:40] Yes, it's true, but you also want to
[19:41] make sure that unless you're super
[19:43] heavily tracking it, you're taking
[19:44] advantage of the void shields, but you
[19:46] can make sure, especially if you're
[19:48] proccing it when you have 20 atonements
[19:50] out, that if there's still enough damage
[19:53] happening on the party, it can be really
[19:55] good to just drop that void shield onto
[19:57] the group instead of casting, you know,
[19:59] a smite or something along those lines
[20:01] to get that void shield value. And your
[20:03] timing for your abilities also matters a
[20:06] lot. So, whenever you spawn your mind
[20:09] bender that comes from evangelism,
[20:10] right? And so, this is a key area where
[20:12] you want to take advantage of
[20:14] inescapable torment. And so, this
[20:16] passive is causing your shadow or death,
[20:18] mind blast, and penance to all trigger
[20:20] an additional attack out of your pet,
[20:22] and make sure it extends its duration.
[20:24] So, those additional attacks do
[20:26] tremendously larger damage than the just
[20:30] basic pet attacks. So, you will use
[20:33] shadow or death if you have a pet out,
[20:36] whether it's mind bender or shadow
[20:37] fiend.
[20:38] You will use it in either of those
[20:40] scenarios, or if a target is sub 20%,
[20:44] or you can hit it as an instant global
[20:47] if nothing else is going on. But the big
[20:50] thing that a lot of people make a
[20:51] mistake on is when they hit their
[20:53] evangelism, they'll hit that first
[20:55] shadow or death, but they don't hit the
[20:57] second one. Cuz your shadow or death has
[20:58] a 10-second cool down no matter what.
[21:01] And so, even if you get no other
[21:02] extensions, you can always hit that
[21:04] second shadow or death and proc another
[21:06] inescapable torment that results in more
[21:08] mana, that results in more damage, that
[21:10] results in more healing for you. And it
[21:12] is a really big mistake that I see a lot
[21:14] of people take advantage of. Another one
[21:16] is that they try to be too perfect with
[21:19] their Shadow Fiend procs. Shadow Fiend
[21:21] spawns whenever you hit a Shadow Word
[21:22] Death on a target sub 20% and a lot of
[21:25] times on like Crown of the Cosmos or
[21:29] perfectly hit Shadow Word Deaths so it
[21:31] aligns with their damage. Now, that's
[21:33] nice to do and it might have even been a
[21:35] little better to do when you had
[21:37] expiation still, but we're not in that
[21:39] world any longer. And so, [music] if
[21:41] it's a choice between maybe getting a
[21:43] second Shadow Word Death with execute
[21:45] value or getting one at a perfect time,
[21:48] you want to go for two at every single
[21:50] opportunity because you can render a lot
[21:52] more of your value by taking advantage
[21:55] of your Inescapable Torment procs to
[21:57] result in additional healing. And
[21:59] whenever you know that you actually
[22:01] spawned that pet on fights like Crown of
[22:03] the Cosmos, for example, I'll try to
[22:05] snipe a really fast execute on the pull
[22:07] on some of those little blobs. Well, you
[22:09] also have your penance and your mind
[22:11] blast as follow-up that really render a
[22:13] lot of your atonement value by procing
[22:16] the Inescapable Torment from your pets,
[22:18] which results in a ton of additional
[22:20] healing. So, when you're playing really
[22:22] conservatively on paladins, you also
[22:24] playing really aggressively on Crown,
[22:26] Bellor Ren, and Midnight Falls. On
[22:29] Crown, phase one gives you blob execute
[22:32] value and execute value on any of those
[22:35] lieutenants.
[22:37] Phase two, you get execute value on the
[22:40] small ads that are spawned and basically
[22:41] put into execute range right away and
[22:44] you can always get two Shadow Word
[22:46] Deaths before the beams can potentially
[22:49] kill them off, but sometimes they don't
[22:52] always get cleaved down and you get even
[22:54] longer value. And I'm not saying you
[22:56] should do it, but it's quite favorable
[22:58] if for some reason the mob gets put out
[23:01] of the pull and you can keep on hitting
[23:03] Shadow Word Death on it. That's pretty
[23:05] helpful as well.
[23:07] Uh in the final phase, you have
[23:09] Rifts and Simulacrums and the
[23:11] lieutenants that spawn and respawn that
[23:13] you can also get a lot of Shadow Word
[23:14] Death value out of. So, that means that
[23:16] you're getting a lot of mana economy
[23:18] consistently. And this is where you want
[23:20] to be more aggressive with utilizing
[23:22] your Power Word Shields with the
[23:23] expectation that you're going to regen
[23:26] more mana. That's how you really
[23:28] leverage your output. It's just crank
[23:31] way more healing than other people. On
[23:33] Beleren, usually on like the pull, I
[23:35] will only have like one Shadow Word
[23:36] Death to get value out of the
[23:39] convergence that is doing like the color
[23:42] swap mechanic. And so, sometimes what
[23:44] I'll do is I'll actually delay my Shadow
[23:45] Word Death because I know I'm only going
[23:47] to get one for like healing value and
[23:49] I'll try to snipe it at like the very
[23:51] tail end so I have like a defensive
[23:53] penance into Mind Blast into defensive
[23:55] penance into a Shadow Word Death to try
[23:57] to capture that like last bit of
[23:59] healing. That could be pretty nice for
[24:01] like a little bit of sniping, but if you
[24:03] used your Shadow Word Death on cool
[24:04] down, then it also gives you some extra
[24:05] attacks which can give you some extra
[24:07] mana. But, whenever you're playing
[24:09] Beleren, you should always be sniping
[24:11] executes on both the embers and the eggs
[24:14] every single time the second the
[24:16] opportunity kind of comes around because
[24:18] there is a little bit of like 50/50
[24:20] chance on Beleren that you can snipe an
[24:21] execute on the eggs or on the embers
[24:24] when the heal absorbs come out and get
[24:26] the healing that way. But, a lot of
[24:28] times, especially as damage gets better,
[24:30] you really just snipe the execute the
[24:31] second that it's available and you just
[24:33] rip your healing uh for those absorbs
[24:36] with like a mini ramp whenever you
[24:37] possibly can. Mid Eye Falls is great.
[24:39] There is so much value in where,
[24:42] especially near the end of the
[24:43] encounter, you kind of get all of your
[24:45] mana back.
[24:46] >> [music]
[24:46] >> And so, whenever the termination
[24:48] matrices come out, you can always Shadow
[24:50] Word Death off of those. And so, I use a
[24:52] mouseover macro so I can just mouse over
[24:55] the boss frame and hit Shadow Word death
[24:57] onto it every single time. And that way
[25:00] I'm able to get the follow-up output out
[25:03] of penance, mind blast, penance again,
[25:05] that's all procing the inescapable
[25:07] torment setup, and that's producing a
[25:09] huge amount of healing and mana return
[25:11] for me to keep everyone healthy.
[25:13] With the intermission, that's a huge
[25:15] area that requires a ton of healing, but
[25:17] honestly, once you get out of the
[25:19] intermission, the fight gets like
[25:21] really, really chill. And so phase two
[25:23] into like early phase three, you don't
[25:26] really have to be as overly aggressive
[25:27] with your atonement application as phase
[25:29] one and the intermission. And so once
[25:32] you get into phase three, you get into
[25:34] execute extremely quickly, and then it's
[25:36] basically like you could solo heal your
[25:38] side and not have to worry about mana
[25:41] whatsoever because you can easily
[25:43] maintain 10 atonements, just keep on
[25:45] hitting defensive penances into people
[25:46] whose atonements are about to expire,
[25:49] and keep everyone super healthy. And so
[25:51] a lot of like the game for midnight
[25:53] falls is actually being more more
[25:55] aggressive with your mana in phase one
[25:56] and in the intermission. And then being
[25:59] like pretty conservative in like phase
[26:01] two, be a little more aggressive if
[26:03] you're if you're really needing to if
[26:04] some cool downs are not doing what
[26:06] they're supposed to be doing, but the
[26:07] damage in phase two is usually not that
[26:09] bad compared to the other phases before
[26:11] it. Couple like side probe tips, if
[26:14] you're taking advantage of Dracthyr in
[26:17] raids, which you really should, uh
[26:18] ultimate penance is insane because
[26:20] ultimate penance will push you up into
[26:22] the air. And so when you're on paladins
[26:25] with the execution sentences sending
[26:27] hammers all over the place, you can hit
[26:29] your glide and you can basically just
[26:31] glide above the hammers for a little
[26:35] while as you find like a safe landing
[26:36] spot, and that'll help you out a lot. On
[26:39] Crown of the Cosmos, you can use the
[26:40] double jump to jump across the gaps very
[26:43] easily. That is just super valuable. You
[26:46] also can avoid any of the uh fall damage
[26:49] that happens going into the
[26:50] intermission.
[26:51] And when it comes into Oh, yeah,
[26:54] Midnight Falls when you're leaving phase
[26:56] two and you're getting knocked out of
[26:58] the Darkwell, you definitely want to use
[27:00] that double jump to quickly get into
[27:01] position for your crystal, and that
[27:03] helps you get back together with the
[27:05] rest of the group. You can also take
[27:07] advantage of Fantasm in the Crown of the
[27:09] Cosmos intermission. And what this will
[27:11] do is it'll remove the slowing effect
[27:14] that the boss is applying to you, and
[27:15] then you could basically just run free
[27:17] for the rest of the intermission. It
[27:18] completely trivializes that mechanic.
[27:21] And then you can kind of just keep your
[27:22] eyes up and look around for grips to
[27:24] help people as well. I do run the talent
[27:27] Save the Day for pretty much everything,
[27:29] and I would recommend running it all the
[27:30] time because helping people on Crown of
[27:32] the Cosmos with their movement, helping
[27:34] somebody who's out of position, uh and
[27:36] then of course having your grips for the
[27:38] crystals on Midnight Falls uh is
[27:41] insanely valuable. I'm able to grip a
[27:42] third crystal thanks to Time Spiral. So,
[27:45] Save the Day gives me a second, and then
[27:47] Time Spiral gives me a third cast of my
[27:50] grip. And so, that's how I'm able to
[27:52] just do all of that. So, those are my
[27:54] tips for Discipline Priest in season
[27:56] one. Let me know if you guys have any
[27:57] other sort of questions in the comments
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