- Author: Amery
- Date: August 16, 2022
- Updated: August 16, 2022
- Expansion: WotLK Classic
Professions are a crucial part of your World of Warcraft character, potentially offering a large boost to your damage, healing or survivability, while also allowing you to generate some gold.
This section will cover some of your best options for professions as a Discipline Priest.
Best Professions
Discipline Priests have a ton of variety in what professions they can choose with Jewelcrafting being one of the best, With Engineering and Tailoring being the next best. You could also go for any of the 46 sp professions for the 2nd profession slot
As a Tailor, you gain access to the Lightweave Embroidery cloak enchant, a proc which gives you +295 spell power for 15 seconds with a 45 second internal cooldown. This translates into a possible +98 spell power bonus on average if it procs exactly every 45 seconds, or a +74 spell power bonus on average if it procs every 60 seconds, which is absolutely massive.
However, there is an opportunity cost attached to this bonus, as it prohibits you from using the standard cloak enchant, Enchant Cloak – Greater Speed, making it slightly weaker in practice. This trade-off is still very much worth it for us however, as you can cover a large part of your raid in larger shields during this proc’s 15 second duration, which will be a very powerful bonus for Disc Priests.
Tailoring is pretty weak on the gold generation side, unfortunately, so the cloak enchant is the main benefit. However, there’s also some useful cloth gear you can craft yourself, which can be very useful for fresh level 80 characters, saving you some gold by not having to buy it on the Auction House.
Engineering is the king of professions for PvE content, offering a vast, vast array of different benefits.
The main benefit of Engineering lies in the Hyperspeed Accelerators gloves enchant, which gives +340 haste rating for 12 seconds, on a 1 minute cooldown. This translates into a ~10% casting speed increase with a 20% uptime, which is amazing as we get very close to the GCD cap with just this effect and our Borrowed Time talent. Using the Accelerators when your Lightweave Embroidery enchant procs in order to quickly cover your raid in massive shields will be a very powerful trick you can use as a Disc Priest.
Additionally, as an Engineer you have access to the Nitro Boosts boots enchant, passively giving +24 crit rating and coming with an on-use effect which massively increases your speed for 5 seconds, allowing you to move out of dangerous AoE effects, catch up to your target quickly or catch up to your group when you get distracted looking at cats on your other monitor and so much more. This gadget is especially beneficial for Discipline Priests as we lack any form of mobility, and thus being able to blast off at a moment’s notice is huge for us.
Furthermore, Engineers also gain access to a superior cloak enchant in Springy Arachnoweave. This is better than the standard Enchant Cloak – Greater Speed enchant that everyone else has to use, but bear in mind that it is worse than the Tailoring cloak enchant, Lightweave Embroidery, so you’d only use it if your 2nd profession isn’t Tailoring. The slow fall effect is useless for us as we have Levitate, but it’s always fun to use.
Finally, just like in previous expansions, Engineers can use powerful explosives such as Saronite Bombs and Global Thermal Sapper Charges.
Useful Professions
The following professions are considered viable, but offer a lesser benefit compared to the best professions, so they’re not recommended. If you’re not focused on making your character 100% optimal, you can use any of these professions just fine.
Jewelcrafting is an extremely potent profession for most classes / specs and that includes Discipline Priests. Not only do you gain access to powerful, Jewelcrafter-unique gems, but you also get to sell gems to others, giving you a modest income through this profession.
The main benefit of Jewelcrafting is the Jewelcrafter-unique gems, Dragon’s Eye, which are more powerful than regular gems, but are limited to 3 equipped at a time. The main ones you’ll be crafting as a Shadow Priest are Runed Dragon’s Eye or Quick Dragon’s Eye, and using 3 of those will result in a +48 spell power or +42 haste rating increase compared to using regular epic gems, Runed Cardinal Ruby / Quick King’s Amber. This is 1 spell power better than what Alchemy offers, and 2 spell power better than what other professions offer, which isn’t large, but you get additional flexibility in what bonus you want to use.
As an Alchemist, you gain access to the Mixology passive effect, which increases the effectiveness of flasks and elixirs you consume, but only if you can craft them yourself. This results in a +47 spell power increase when using Flask of the Frost Wyrm, our preferred flask. This is 1 spell power better than what most other professions offer — truly a huge boost! 😛
Alchemy is one of the best professions for gold generation, as potions, flasks and elixirs are always relevant and in high demand.
Blacksmiths can add 2 extra gem sockets to their gear — 1 on wrists, and 1 on hands. Socketing 2x Runed Cardinal Ruby into them translates into a +46 spell power bonus, while socketing 2x Quick King’s Amber results in +40 haste rating. The spell power bonus ties Inscription, Enchanting and Leatherworking, and is only marginally worse than what the “better” professions offer. However, the fact that you can socket any type of gem you need into those 2 extra sockets means Blacksmithing has the highest flexibility of any of the professions in the Useful Professions list.
Priests cannot use plate armor, so the extra sockets is all you get, and Blacksmithing is pretty poor for gold generation as well.
As an Enchanter you gain access to the Enchant Ring – Greater Spellpower enchant, which you can apply to both of your rings for a +46 spell power boost. This bonus ties Inscription, Leatherworking and Blacksmithing, and is only marginally worse than what the “better” professions offer, so if you enjoy Enchanting, it’s a very viable choice.
You also get to enchant your own equipment without needing to tip another enchanter, which results in a neat amount of gold saved, on top of the gold you can generate by enchanting others.
As a Scribe, you gain access to the Master’s Inscription of the Storm shoulder enchant, which provides a +46 spell power increase over the standard enchant available to everyone, Greater Inscription of the Storm. This bonus ties Enchanting, Leatherworking and Blacksmithing, and is only marginally worse than what the “better” professions offer, so if you enjoy Inscription, it’s a very viable choice.
Scribes also get to make Glyphs & scrolls, providing a nice source of income, but many will argue that the real benefit in Inscription comes in not having to grind The Sons of Hodir reputation for the shoulder enchants!
As a Leatherworker you gain access to the Fur Lining – Spell Power bracer enchant, which proves a +46 spell power increase over the standard enchant available to everyone, Enchant Bracers – Superior Spellpower. This bonus ties Inscription, Enchanting and Blacksmithing, and is only marginally worse than what the “better” professions offer, so if you enjoy Leatherworking, it’s a very viable choice — though we’d generally recommend one of the other options.
There are sadly no other useful benefits gained from Leatherworking as you can’t even use leather armor, and you generally don’t get to make much or a profit with it either.
Skinners gain access to the Master of Anatomy passive, which offers a +40 crit rating boost. This is weaker than all of the other professions mentioned in this list, but at least it’s something.
Skinning is generally not that good at gold generation either, so it’s overall not a great profession.
Sub-Par Professions
The following professions do not offer any healing-increasing benefits and are thus not considered viable for Discipline Priests in PvE.
Herbalists gain the Lifeblood active skill, which heals you for 3600 over 5 seconds, with a 3-minute cooldown. This can occasionally come in handy, particularly while leveling, farming, or questing, but will generally never be enough to save you in a dungeon or raid.
On the flipside, Herbalism is one of the strongest professions for gold generation, as herbs are used in Alchemy and Inscription, and thus always in demand. This makes it a good profession to have on an alt, particularly a Druid, Rogue or Hunter.
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Best Profession is Ingi and Leather with at 72Spellpower at Barcer and not 46.You have to fix that.
Leatherworking only provides an additional 46sp over the next best option which is why it’s part of the useful professions since all but 2 professions give an additional 46sp > the next best enchant (minus JC which gives 48sp instead of 46)
The best possible professions if you don’t want to mess with spellpower flucuation is Engineering and Jewelcrafting for pure Spellpower, Leatherworking gives 2 spellpower less, however – it add the possibility of adding drums of speed to your group.
The tailoring enchant does not proc off everything disc priests use but is better on paper, in practice however things are slightly different.
, the 46SP mention is the BONUS spellpower you receive from having the LW profession, not the enchant itself.
naturally JC gems x3 give a bonus of 48SP compared to their epic gem counterpart