Tier Sets
The War Within Season 1 Tier Set:
- (2) Set Bonus: Atonement healing increased by 5%.
- (4) Set Bonus: Smite and Penance increase the damage of your next Mind Blast by 25% or absorb amount of your next Power Word: Shield by 15%, up to 3 times.
The 2 piece is a nice small passive hps gain that has 0 impact on your gameplay, and the 4 piece is currently very lackluster and is not worth playing around in neither raid nor mythic+, outside of niche situations where a large Power Word: Shield is needed to survive one shots.The 4 piece is currently considered so weak that you should equip higher item level options to break your 4 set bonus for early weeks of the tier.
discipline priest Best in Slot Gear
Unfortunately healers do not have the same amount of access to running sims for your character as both tanks and dps have, I would recommend that you always prioritize equipping the highest item level gear in your slots, and try to target pieces with haste. Below are some recommendations to help you target the right loot pieces from different content.
Discipline Priest Overall Best Gear List
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Living Luster’s Semblance | The Silken Court or The Catalyst |
| Neck | Sureki Zealot’s Insignia | Sikran |
| Shoulders | Living Luster’s Dominion | Rasha’nan or The Catalyst |
| Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha’nan |
| Chest | Living Luster’s Raiment | Broodtwister Ovi’nax or The Catalyst |
| Wrist | Skeinspinner’s Duplicitous Cuffs | The Silken Court |
| Gloves | Tricksprite Gloves | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
| Belt | Cord of the Pious Warder | Siege of Boralus |
| Legs | Living Luster’s Trousers | Nexus-Princess Ky’veza or The Catalyst |
| Boots | Assimilated Eggshell Slippers | Broodtwister Ovi’nax |
| Ring | Key to the Unseeming | The Bloodbound Horror |
| Ring | Circle of Bone | Grim Batol |
| Trinket | Unbound Changeling | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
| Trinket | Spymaster’s Web | The Silken Court |
| Main Hand | Wand of Untainted Power | Grim Batol |
| Off Hand | Pail of Preserved Obscurity | City of Threads |
Best Gear from Raiding
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Living Luster’s Semblance | The Silken Court |
| Neck | Sureki Zealot’s Insignia | Sikran |
| Shoulders | Living Luster’s Dominion | Rasha’nan |
| Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha’nan |
| Chest | Living Luster’s Raiment | Broodtwister Ovi’nax |
| Wrist | Skeinspinner’s Duplicitous Cuffs | The Silken Court |
| Gloves | Bindings of the Starless Night | Nexus-Princess Ky’veza |
| Belt | Acrid Ascendant’s Sash | Queen Ansurek |
| Legs | Living Luster’s Trousers | Nexus-Princess Ky’veza |
| Boots | Assimilated Eggshell Slippers | Broodtwister Ovi’nax |
| Ring | Key to the Unseeming | The Bloodbound Horror |
| Ring | Writhing Ringworm | Broodtwister Ovi’nax |
| Trinket | Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg | Broodtwister Ovi’nax |
| Trinket | Spymaster’s Web | The Silken Court |
| Main Hand | Takazj’s Entropic Edict | The Silken Court |
Best Gear from Mythic+
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Living Luster’s Semblance | The Catalyst |
| Neck | “Emergency Stop” Keychain | The Stonevault |
| Shoulders | Living Luster’s Dominion | The Catalyst |
| Cloak | Anvilhide Cape | The Stonevault |
| Chest | Living Luster’s Raiment | The Catalyst |
| Wrist | Vitriolic Veinwoven Wraps | City of Threads |
| Gloves | Tricksprite Gloves | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
| Belt | Cord of the Pious Warder | Siege of Boralus |
| Legs | Living Luster’s Trousers | The Catalyst |
| Boots | Tainted Earthshard Walkers | The Stonevault |
| Ring | Circle of Bone | Grim Batol |
| Ring | Band of the Ancient Dredger | Siege of Boralus |
| Trinket | Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj | The Dawnbreaker |
| Trinket | Unbound Changeling | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
| Main Hand | Wand of Untainted Power | Grim Batol |
| Off Hand | Pail of Preserved Obscurity | City of Threads |
Trinkets
New expansion means a lot of new trinkets, it can be a pretty daunting task to figure out which ones are good and which ones are not worth picking up, especially without sims being available for healers. For raid we’d recommend going with 1 on use trinket in the form of either Spymaster’s Web or Forged Gladiator’s Badge of Ferocity and then combining it with any of the passive stat stick options. For dungeons we recommend playing 2 passive trinkets, it’s likely that a specific trinket will be seen as useful for m+ later on in the season and it’s very easy to replace either of your passive trinkets if this ends up being the case.
Spymaster’s Web - This trinket drops from the boss The Silken Court in the new raid Nerub-ar Palace, and it's seen as our strongest option for an on use trinket, mainly due to the flexibility it provides since you determine whenever you want to use your stacks. It does come with the potential downside of you losing all your stacks in case you die.
Forged Gladiator’s Badge of Ferocity - This trinket is purchased for Conquest that is gained from pvp, and it should be seen as an alternative option until you're able to get Spymaster’s Web at a higher or similar item level, the trinket provides similar stat values to Spymaster’s but it has little to no flexibility, and is therefore seen as an inferior option.
Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj - This trinket drops from the dungeon The Dawnbreaker and is one of our better options for a passive trinket, it is currently on par with Unbound Changeling, and it will be one of the trinkets you should aim to get before mythic dungeons launch in the heroic week.
Unbound Changeling - This trinket drops from the dungeon Mists of Tirna Scithe, it's currently our best passive trinket, you should set this trinket to grant haste by eating the corresponding food. Unfortunately this trinket will not be available on the launch of the expansion so you will have to wait a bit before farming for it.
Ara-kara Sacbrood - This trinket drops from the dungeon Ara-kara City of Echoes, and is currently the option we recommend as a 2nd trinket alongside Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj during the first 2 weeks of the expansions launch, you should aim to replace this trinket with either an on use trinket or the Unbound Changeling as soon as possible.
Embellishments
Currently our best embellishment looks to be the Darkmoon Sigils, specifically Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension looks to be performing the best, this embellishment can only be put on main hand and offhand, we’d recommend for most Discipline Priests to craft this early on, unless you loot a very strong mythic weapon in one of your first raids, as you’d then miss out on a potential early power spike.
If crafting a weapon doesn't seem good for your character we recommend crafting either the Woven Dusk or Woven Dawn sets as they provide a valuable bonus, do keep in mind that this requires you to commit both of your sparks to gain value from it, so this is not worth it if you only want to spend 1 spark on an armor slot.