Hello forum dwellers, first of all I hope you are all enjoying the rep and xp boost, I know I have and it encouraged me to try out priest for the first time since wotlk, now for my question, I decided to try out discipline priest and I quite enjoy it so far. but I have no idea how to RP her except wanting to try and go for a flagellant type of character, how applicable would this be to a disc priest lorewise?
Lorewise, we know of Archbishop Benedictus being one of the main characters that has proven that you can wield the shadow as well as the Light. In the chronicles, it is said that he turned to the void because he lost faith in the Light and what it could do. He kept using it through what is said in the book to be âsheer willpowerâ, even if he used the void.
Though, to my knowledge, thereâs no flagellant type of discipline priest belonging to the Church of the Holy Light. There might be some in the Scarlet Crusade, though I know nothing about that so I canât confirm nor deny.
Mind you, this does not stop you from roleplaying one if you want, necessarily. There are some things that a person can adopt in terms of belief that arenât necessarily corresponding to the right way of seeing things, for example: void elves are spawns of Nâzoth in the Alliance and just want to kill us all. That phrase is far from the lore truth but it does not stop a character from seeing it that way.
Disc priests basically just use both Light and Shadow at the moment, as far as I know.
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They strike a balance between two opposing forces
they somehow stand in that very thin line that separate the two forces without falling to one or the other.
that is all I know.
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Well yeah! Hence why it requires discipline. Even so, thatâs about how far my knowledge goes on priest RP, anyway.
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Disc priests are the most âcombatâ styled priest, relying on dealing damage and healing at the same time. I suppose it will depend on how you style this flagellant style of gameplay.
Do you harness the power of shadow and then sear yourself with Light for using it?
Are you performing personal sacrifices to mend others?
Are you preaching as you attack?
Lots of factors.
One could look at how they by default use shadow to heal and light to damage
a little odd, donât you think?
even reading their spell names and main mechanic of atonement, something would suggest a bit of a warped perception of the world to put it lightly, that is alas only headcanon and I lack any solid proof to confirm anything.
Anduinâs done it too. He uses some shadow spells (notably Mind Control) during MoP.
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Yep, hence why I said one of the main characters. 
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So what I was thinking, to go into more detail, is that she only uses the light but self-flagellation is what increases her faith in the Light, or like getting hurt increases her faith, (which is a thing in game if I understand it correctly, look up the passive ability Focused Will : )
I donât know I just get that kind of feeling about disc priest when looking at some of their talents, etc. (Purge the Wicked; replaces Shadow word Pain with a more holy looking ability, Masochism, Sins of the Many. etc.)
And he used Psychic Scream at some point too. Cant remember exactly when.
you know the interesting application here is. since he seems to have changed to a more paladin style, is he now a disc paladin?
I dunno, he is kinda whatever the writers want him to be, seeing as he used the Holy priest ability Divine Hymn in the BfA trailer.
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this is true, still interesting, but that can wait for another topic.
I think your idea is solid, the spells and their ability kit play in your favour.
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Thanks man, Iâll give it some more thought and detail and hopefully get into RPing this character soon : )
Didnât the Scarlet Onslaught have Raven-Priests who used both Light and Shadow to?
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