Should I play disc or holy priest?

Holy priest is a lot easier and a lot more straightforward. Disc is significantly better for 5 man content for a multitude of reasons (Holy is much more indexed toward AoE healing, has no real defensive external, and does less damage).

How hard is disc priest WoW?

Disc is more challenging to play, but offers better healing and damage than Holy does, and brings two damage reductions to the board as well. It suffers from people taking unexpected damage (Resto druid does somewhat as well) but it’s not the worst healer for m+. That’s either Holy priest or Resto shaman.

Are disc priests good in Shadowlands?

Disc priest are very strong in raids, currently middling in dungeons. Resto druids have been the most consistently good in m+ because their kit is very well suited. Holy pallies are currently good too. Anyone’s guess how the tuning will shake out in Shadowlands.

How is holy priest Shadowlands?

Holy Priest in Shadowlands does not have any monumental changes to the playstyle or structure. While they lack a specific niche, they make up for it in great raid-oriented tools and cooldowns, which have only grown in Shadowlands with the addition of Circle of Healing to the baseline kit.

Are holy priests good?

For Raids they are very good, they have strong throughput and a very versatile kit that can both AOE and single target / spot heal very well and it’s specially good in larger groups due to the scaling of Hymn and Salvation.

Can shadow priests use smite?

Smite is a spell for non-shadow priests. Once you get Shadowform at level 40, you can’t cast smite anyway. Same for holy fire. You can do a smiter spec in holy/disc that can make it a good spell, but that’s using very advanced gear.

Does shadow priest have smite?

Smite is available for Shadow in 9.0 but will take you out of shadowform don’t use it.

What is a smite priest?

A smite priest could be your best healer and, on fights when you have too many healers, a middle of the pack dps. Neah, ret paladins bring more than all the other 3 classes you described. Smite priests are about as meme tier as a dps resto druid.

What is the best priest spec?

For a total beginner to the class, although each specialization has strengths and weaknesses, we recommend Shadow as the best Priest leveling spec. Shadow is the only DPS specialization a Priest has, so it automatically becomes the best option for leveling.

Are discipline priests good healers?

Healing through dealing damage allows Discipline Priests to contribute to the raid’s DPS while still performing well as a healer. Discipline Priests provide very significant, on-demand AoE burst healing on a very short cooldown.