Priest Discipline Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Shadow Word: Pain 2 Power InfusionOff-GCD 3 Power InfusionOff-GCD 4 Power Word: Radiance 5 Mind Blast 6 Penance 7 Void Shield 8 Void Blast 9 Void Blast 10 Void Blast 11 Penance 12 Void Blast 13 Void Shield 14 Void Blast 15 Void Blast

1 Smite 2 Shadow Word: Pain 3 Mind Blast 4 Penance 5 Void Shield 6 Void Blast 7 Hex Lord's DoomOff-GCD 8 Void Blast 9 Void Blast 10 Void Blast 11 Penance 12 Power InfusionOff-GCD 13 Power InfusionOff-GCD 14 Void Shield 15 Void Blast

1 Shadow Word: Pain 2 Power InfusionOff-GCD 3 Power InfusionOff-GCD 4 Mind Blast 5 Void Shield 6 Penance 7 Void Blast 8 Void Blast 9 Power Word: Shield 10 Void Blast 11 Void Blast 12 Penance 13 Void Blast 14 Void Blast 15 Void Shield

#showtooltip Shadow Word: Pain
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Power Infusion
/cast Shadow Word: Pain

Ability	Top-player CPM
Smite	24.1
Penance	9.0
Void Shield	6.5
Mind Blast	4.3
Power Word: Radiance	4.0
Flash Heal	3.2
Power Word: Shield	2.2
Hex Lord's DoomOff-GCD	1.6
Power InfusionOff-GCD	1.2
FadeOff-GCD	1.0
Shadow Word: Pain	0.9
Purify	0.7
EvangelismOff-GCD	0.7
Angelic Feather	0.6

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Shadow Word: Pain 2 Penance 3 Power Word: Shield 4 Shadow Word: Pain 5 Penance 6 Void Shield 7 Shadow Word: Pain 8 Desperate PrayerOff-GCD 9 Power Word: Radiance 10 EvangelismOff-GCD 11 Pain SuppressionOff-GCD 12 Penance 13 Power Word: Shield 14 Shadow Mend 15 Penance

1 Angelic Feather 2 Shadow Word: Pain 3 Angelic Feather 4 Shadow Word: Pain 5 Penance 6 Shadow Word: Pain 7 Power Word: Radiance 8 EvangelismOff-GCD 9 Void Shield 10 Penance 11 Mind Blast 12 Smite 13 Void Shield 14 Penance 15 Smite

1 Angelic Feather 2 Shadow Word: Pain 3 Power Word: Radiance 4 EvangelismOff-GCD 5 Penance 6 Power Word: Shield 7 Power InfusionOff-GCD 8 Power InfusionOff-GCD 9 Mind Blast 10 Penance 11 FadeOff-GCD 12 Void Shield 13 Smite 14 Smite 15 Penance

#showtooltip Angelic Feather
/cast Evangelism
/cast Power Infusion
/cast Angelic Feather

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip Power Word: Shield
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Power Word: Shield

#showtooltip Penance
/cast [harm] Penance

#showtooltip Penance
/cast [@mouseover,help] Penance

#showtooltip Smite
/cast [nochanneling:Penance] Smite

#showtooltip Angelic Feather
/cast [@player] Angelic Feather
/stopspelltarget

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Smite	24.1
2	Penance	9.0
3	Void Shield	6.5
4	Shadow Mend	4.7
5	Mind Blast	4.3
Z	Power Word: Radiance	4.0
X	Flash Heal	3.2
C	Power Word: Shield	2.2
V	Shadow Word: Pain	1.7
R	Hex Lord's DoomOff-GCD	1.6
F	Power InfusionOff-GCD	1.2
T	Shadow Word: Death	1.2
G	FadeOff-GCD	1.1
Shift+1	Angelic Feather	0.9
Shift+2	Purify	0.7
Shift+3	EvangelismOff-GCD	0.7