Master Class: Disc Priest Midnight Season 1

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[00:01] Back again to bring you through all the

[00:03] advanced tips and tricks for playing

[00:05] discipline for both mythic plus and for

[00:07] raids. Now that I've cleared the raid,

[00:09] now that I pugged up to 3700 and we're

[00:11] working on some higher keys as well. I

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[01:26] today's video and let's get into disc in

[01:29] mythic plus as it has changed quite a

[01:31] bit like we mentioned in our previous

[01:33] video to now be focusing more on shields

[01:35] and shadow mends, but there is quite a

[01:37] bit of nuance about this. One of the

[01:39] things is about how you use penance.

[01:41] [music] For one thing, you are running

[01:43] encroaching shadows and revel in

[01:45] darkness so that your damaging penance

[01:47] does spread shadow word pain. Now this

[01:49] is crazy important because your shadow

[01:51] mend is procking based on the number of

[01:55] shadow word pains that you have out. And

[01:57] so, it's enormously important on trash

[02:00] pulls to be spreading around lots of

[02:03] Shadow Word pain. But, that also can

[02:05] take a lot of GCDs to do so. So, pretty

[02:07] much on high density packs, high

[02:10] quantity packs that are going out there,

[02:12] you want to be hitting pennants

[02:14] offensively as much as you possibly can.

[02:17] And this is going to feed you a wealth

[02:19] of Shadow Mend procs that you are

[02:20] basically using as your primary healing

[02:22] effect. And so, you have two main areas

[02:25] where your healing comes from in

[02:26] dungeons on trash pulls. One is your

[02:29] Shadow Mend, and the other is your Void

[02:32] Shield. And so, you're really making

[02:34] sure you're focusing on hitting the fat

[02:36] Void Shield often onto yourself to take

[02:39] advantage of Prophet's Will, where your

[02:41] shields are 30% stronger on yourself,

[02:44] because then that basically just

[02:45] isolates one person out of the equation.

[02:48] You never really have to worry about

[02:50] healing yourself, and then two more

[02:51] shields go out. One of them might cleave

[02:54] onto the tank, it might not. And then

[02:56] you have one other person who usually

[02:58] has a huge shield, and you don't have to

[03:00] worry about healing that person, and you

[03:03] can instead spend your Shadow Mends on

[03:04] the other two or three people after

[03:06] that. And so, this is a huge area where

[03:10] Shadow Mends and like big single target

[03:12] healing comes into play. And if you have

[03:14] enough mobs with Shadow Word pain on

[03:16] them, then you're going to have

[03:19] basically infinite Shadow Mend procs.

[03:21] Now, if you get into like chain pulling

[03:23] situations where you're not having

[03:26] enough dot spread for your Shadow Word

[03:28] pains, feel free to manually apply some

[03:30] more when you really need to. But, a lot

[03:33] of times, if you just keep on hitting

[03:35] offensive pennants, you will spread

[03:37] around enough of them to get the full

[03:39] coverage that you need to. When it comes

[03:41] to your mana economy, this is a big

[03:44] frustrating area, I know, for a lot of

[03:45] disc players, but it's kind of built off

[03:47] of a couple of like core principles that

[03:50] you want to do.

[03:51] Casting more Shadow Word Pain does

[03:54] actually have kind of a negative

[03:55] downside to your mana. It's not an

[03:57] enormous amount, but it does cost more

[04:00] mana than casting the Penances does.

[04:02] Casting lots of regular Power Word

[04:04] Shield absolutely drains your mana in a

[04:07] huge way. And casting lots of Flash

[04:09] Heals can be a pretty large mana drain

[04:12] as well, but it's something you often

[04:13] have to do when you are starting to run

[04:15] dry from your Shadow Mend procs. And so,

[04:18] there's situations where you prefer not

[04:21] to do certain things, but you kind of

[04:23] get forced into it when you don't have

[04:25] as many resources on hand. So, the

[04:27] offensive Penances on trash, Void

[04:29] Shield, and Shadow Mend are kind of

[04:31] carrying a lot of your healing, and then

[04:33] you're using your Flash Heals in between

[04:35] to make sure you supplement the rest of

[04:37] your output. You do want to make sure

[04:39] you're using your Mind Blast on cool

[04:40] down, cuz that'll also buff the damage

[04:42] and healing of your Penance, and you

[04:44] Shadow Word Death on targets when

[04:45] they're sub 20% health. But, you don't

[04:47] really need to seek out execute targets

[04:50] the way you did before, because your

[04:51] atonement healing is just not as strong

[04:53] as it was previously. Another big mana

[04:55] tip is that you don't really cast a lot

[04:57] of Radiance. So, Evangelism

[04:59] automatically applies a Radiance

[05:01] whenever you cast it, which is great.

[05:02] Also benefits from Harsh Discipline, but

[05:04] after you cast Evangelism, you get two

[05:06] casts of Radiance that are instant cast

[05:08] and cost 40% less mana. Now, what you

[05:11] want to do is you want to use your

[05:13] defensive Penances in between pulls or

[05:16] your Void Shields, if you can, in

[05:18] between pulls or

[05:20] whenever there's actually like

[05:21] atonements expiring, to basically mini

[05:23] game manage your atonements on five

[05:25] players. And that way, you don't have to

[05:27] cast as many Radiance, and so often,

[05:30] I'll cast about three Radiance between

[05:32] an Evangelism. I'll cast the first one

[05:34] when you cast an Evangelism, it casts a

[05:35] Radiance, and then I have two that are

[05:37] discounted by 40%, and that's most of

[05:40] the Radiance casts that I will be doing.

[05:42] And that way, you don't have to pay the

[05:44] full price of 13,000 mana for your Power

[05:47] radiance to actually have that cast go

[05:49] out and you have the discount and you

[05:51] benefit from your harsh discipline in

[05:53] the process. It's a nice way to further

[05:56] reduce the costs and not pay full price

[05:59] for a lot of different things. Now the

[06:00] question comes when you're on a boss

[06:02] fight or you know, maybe a couple

[06:04] targets and you don't have a lot of

[06:05] shadow mans, well what do you do then?

[06:07] And that's where you want to maintain

[06:09] your shadow repairs as best as you

[06:10] possibly can and start using more

[06:13] defensive pennants to start kind of

[06:15] closing the gap for your lack of

[06:16] resources. And this is where, you know,

[06:18] almost every single time you're on a

[06:20] boss fight, you're just using pure

[06:22] defensive friendly pennants cast onto

[06:25] your allies to maintain that atonement.

[06:28] And also when you get into like raw

[06:30] ticking encounters like Lura, you have

[06:32] to be really stingy with when you are

[06:35] casting those defensive pennants because

[06:38] when you defensive pennants, you also

[06:39] heal everybody with atonement on them

[06:41] thanks to the contrition passive built

[06:42] into pennants. And so on the rot fights,

[06:45] you actually have to kind of take your

[06:46] time and make sure you're not

[06:48] overhealing as much with those pennants

[06:49] casts and even potentially pulling your

[06:51] pennants charges so that you can kind of

[06:53] send them back to back for like high

[06:55] damage periods to quickly reverse that

[06:57] incoming damage on your allies. That's

[06:59] also where you can take advantage of

[07:00] like your void shield casts, kind of

[07:02] time them better for specific moments

[07:05] that are going to be going out onto the

[07:07] party. And when your cool downs are

[07:09] coming into use, evangelism is going to

[07:11] give you Archangel with our talent set

[07:13] up and this is increasing your healing

[07:16] and shielding by 15%. And so this is

[07:19] where during your cool downs, you can be

[07:21] more aggressive with a regular power

[07:23] word shield when you need to.

[07:24] Understanding that it's going to do a

[07:26] lot more healing, but it also could be

[07:28] good to just cast it on yourself in a

[07:30] rot encounter so that way you could heal

[07:32] other people more directly with your

[07:34] pennants is for example.

[07:35] >> [music]

[07:35] >> And that allows you to take advantage of

[07:37] profits will. Another thing to keep in

[07:39] mind is that the binding heals talent

[07:41] where 20% of flash heal output also

[07:44] heals you, works with shadow mend. And

[07:47] so, if you can bias your shadow mend and

[07:50] flash heals towards other people to

[07:52] benefit from the binding heals for

[07:53] yourself, that's really good. And then

[07:55] you bias your void shield and power

[07:58] shield casts onto yourself to benefit

[08:00] from prophet's will. Now, that's also

[08:02] really good. And that's a huge area for

[08:05] uh garfrost or lura, where you can get

[08:07] extra mana efficiency and basically just

[08:09] make your healing effects stronger

[08:11] overall, and that helps you just better

[08:14] heal those encounters. It's leaning on

[08:16] those extra effects that heal you for a

[08:19] bit more. Since they nerfed a lot of

[08:21] your atonement output in 12.0.5,

[08:23] ultimate penitence is pretty crappy, but

[08:26] so is barrier. And so, I would still

[08:27] recommend running uppies and still

[08:29] recommend [music] targeting an enemy

[08:31] when you cast it, but you predominantly

[08:34] use it as a defensive. Uh you can try to

[08:37] use it at moments where there's also

[08:39] like decently high damage, but I'm

[08:41] pretty much looking for areas where I

[08:42] send it as a personal cool down or as a

[08:45] personal defensive to make sure that I

[08:47] just survive. A big thing with ultimate

[08:50] penitence is that it also makes you

[08:51] immune to knockbacks and crowd control

[08:53] effects. So, if you're walking into seat

[08:55] of the triumvirate, for example, a lot

[08:57] of groups are pulling double subjugator

[08:59] at the start of the run. And that's the

[09:01] only time they're running double

[09:02] subjugator. Now, you can use phantasm

[09:04] and fade to remove that effect, but

[09:07] since they get pulled at different

[09:08] times, they come out at different times,

[09:10] and so you'd have to tank one of them

[09:12] and then hit it as the second one gets

[09:14] applied, which is enormously dangerous.

[09:17] So, instead, you can basically just

[09:19] start spreading around your shadowed

[09:20] pains, hit uppies, you immune the first

[09:23] one, and you're still in the air when

[09:24] the second one goes out, and you've

[09:25] immune both of them, and you're

[09:27] chilling, you're happy. If any bolts go

[09:29] out, well, you have 100% of HP shield,

[09:31] and you're just safe. Beyond that, you

[09:33] have your pain suppressions that you're

[09:34] also casting a decent amount of shields

[09:36] on. Like I mentioned, you don't want to

[09:37] be overly aggressive with your power of

[09:39] shields to hurt your mana economy, but

[09:41] you can use your pain subs on yourself

[09:44] or on other people quite aggressively as

[09:46] you need to at this level of keys. Some

[09:48] other things I really like to take

[09:49] advantage of from like a utility angle

[09:51] is I love running with Augur of Vocals

[09:53] because you can get the Worm Stone cast

[09:55] from them and [music] this is an ability

[09:58] you can just drag onto your action bars

[09:59] 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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