Atonement Discipline PvE Guide
This guide covers:
1. Requirements
2. Talents
3. Glyphs
4. Rotation
5. Gemming
6. Reforges
7. BiS List
1. Requirements
- DS 4set bonus or ilvl 392+ *
- a party/raid that understands you will be focusing on absorbs and support instead of straight off healing (recount-linkers NOT welcome)
knowledge of the boss mechanics - A good main healer in your raid, you will be doing more 'support' than 'healing'
*you may use this at lower item levels, however low stats will not make your job healing easy
2. Talents
required talents optional talents
Discipline:
there are 5 optional cooldowns/talents in this tree, you must use at least three points in them
Holy:
Shadow:
- Darkness - More haste - useful but optional
- Veiled Shadows - lowers cooldown on Fade and Shadowfiend - optional
3. Glyphs:
Prime:
- Penance - Penance has 2sec lower cooldown
- Power Word: Shield - heals target for 20% of absorbsion value
- Power Word: Barrier - increases healing taken*
- Flash Heal - increases critical chance to targets at/under 25% hp*
*switch between barrier and flash heal glyphs depending on the encounter
- Divine Accuracy - with this you need 0 hit rating and never miss
- Mass Dispel - cast time from 1.5>0.5 seconds, saves time, saves lives
- Smite - target takes 20% more damage while HF dot is up
- Levitate, Fortitude and Fading are somewhat more useful to us, no major differences apart from sometimes using a little less mana and not requiring reagents
4. Rotation
- As a priest healer you assume your primary job is to spam Prayer of Healing and Greater Heal but you are Atonement, your primary healing abilities are Holy Fire and Smite on the mob/boss you are fighting.
- Atonement is a so-called smart heal so overhealing with it is nearly impossible, it will heal anyone (including hunter/death knight pets!) in range of the boss.
- So that's your time filler... but when when the raid takes massive damage you pop your Power Word: Barrier, Archangel and start casting your Prayer of Healing to heal/stack shield with Divine Aegis.
- You should ALWAYS keep PW:S on the tanks, it is your mana regen ability and a helpful absorb
- Penance... 3 heals over a few seconds... nothing too powerful, except that it stacks your Grace on the target!! increasing the healing the person takes from you by 24%!
- This makes your urgent healing (someone is on 1% hp!?!!) rotation look like this: PW:S to keep them from dying on the spot, Archangel, Penance to stack Grace, Flash Heal them until Weakened Soul is down (Strength of Soul talent comes in handy) or their hp is full, reshield, continue spamming Holy Fire/Smite on your enemy
- PW:S on people with low hp
- PW:S on people who are about to take damage (crystal runners on morchok, debuff on zonozz etc.)
5. Gemming
6. Reforge/Stat Priority
Intelect > Mastery => Haste > Spirit
you will get more than enough spirit from T13 items, even if you reforge them to nearly full mastery, following that, haste depends on your gear, T13 again provides nearly enough of it and your first order of buisness will be to reforge out of spirit into mastery so you end up between 2k and 2.5k spirit, add a few Reckless gems if you don't feel comfortable with your haste levels. Mastery increases your shield power and with the DS 4set that becomes an even more important stat
7. BiS Items
- Head - Cowl of Dying Light
- Neck - Petrified Fungal Heart
- Shoulder - Mantle of Dying Light
- Chest - Robes of Dying Light
- Back - Woundlicker Cover
- Wrist - Bracers of the Banished
- Weapon - Maw of the Dragonlord or Vagaries of Time
- OffHand - Ledger of Revolting Rituals
- Wand - Finger of Zon'ozz
- Gloves - Handwraps of Dying Light
- Belt - Cord of the Slain Champion
- Pants - Legwraps of Dying Light
- Feet - Janglespur Jackboots
- Ring1 - Signet of Suturing
- Ring2 - Ring of the Riven
- Trinket1 - Windward Heart
- Trinket2 - Insignia of the Corrupted Mind*
- Trinket3 - Seal of the Seven Signs*
- Trinket4 - Will of Unbinding*
*Switch trinkets according to fight requirements, Seal and Insignia haste boosts stack!
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