Discipline Priest PvP build (31/0/20)

How to play it

• Blackout stuns off Shadow Word: Pain ticks; Improved Psychic Scream for a faster Fear and Shadow Weaving for your own damage.
• Fear Ward is trainable for every race now; use it on yourself before a Warrior or Warlock reaches you.

Talents taken

Discipline (31)

• Twin Disciplines 5/5: Increases the damage and healing of your instant cast spells by 5%.
• Silent Resolve 3/3: Reduces the threat generated by your spells by 30% and reduces the duration of Stun, Fear, and Silence effects inflicted on you by 15%.
• Mental Strength 5/5: Increases your total Intellect by 10%.
• Martyrdom 2/2: Gives you a 100% chance to gain Focused Casting for 6 sec after being the victim of a melee or ranged critical strike. The Focused Casting effect prevents you from losing casting time when taking damage and increases your resistance to Interrupt effects by 20%.
• Mental Agility 3/3: Reduces the mana cost of your Smite, Holy Fire, and instant cast spells by 10%.
• Inner Focus 1/1: When activated, reduces the Mana cost of your next spell by 100% and increases its critical effect chance by 25% if it is a non-periodic spell and capable of a critical effect.
• Improved Power Word: Shield 3/3: Increases the damage absorbed by your Power Word: Shield by 20%.
• Improved Mana Burn 2/2: Reduces the casting time of your Mana Burn spell by 1.0 sec.
• Soul Warding 1/1: Reduces the cooldown on your Power Word: Shield spell by 4 sec and reduces its mana cost by 15%.
• Penance 1/1: Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing 44 Holy damage to an enemy, or 133 healing to an ally, instantly and every 1 sec for 2 sec.
• Renewed Hope 2/5: Your heals from Flash Heal, Lesser Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, and Penance gain 4% increased critical strike chance when cast on targets with Weakened Soul, and reduce the remaining duration of Weakened Soul on their target by 2 sec.
• Divine Aegis 2/3: Your non-periodic critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 10% of the amount healed. Shields up to 1,200 damage and lasts 12 sec.
• Power Infusion 1/1: Infuses the target with power, increasing their spell damage and healing done by 20% for 15 sec.

Shadow (20)

• Shadow Focus 3/5: Improves your chance to hit with Shadow spells by 3%.
• Blackout 5/5: Gives your Shadow damage spells a 10% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
• Improved Mind Blast 2/5: Reduces the cooldown of your Mind Blast spell by 1 sec.
• Improved Shadow Word: Pain 2/2: Increases the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain spell by 6 sec.
• Shadow Reach 2/2: Increases the range of your offensive Shadow spells by 20%.
• Improved Psychic Scream 2/2: Reduces the cooldown of your Psychic Scream spell by 4 sec.
• Mind Flay 1/1: Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing 63 Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing their movement speed by 50%.
• Shadow Weaving 3/3: Your Shadow damage spells have a 100% chance to increase the Shadow damage the target takes from you by 2% for 15 sec, stacking up to 5 times.

Point order by level

First point at level 10 (set the Talented perk in the calculator if you start earlier).