Holy Paladin Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight Season 1

Note that these builds are generic recommendations for various content. For more specific recommendations for the Raid and Mythic+, check out the dedicated pages below.

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Best Builds for Holy Paladin

Herald of the Sun Standard Lightsmith Avenging Crusader Herald of the Sun Mythic+ Lightsmith Mythic+ Delves Talents Explained

2.1.

Herald of the Sun Standard

This is your standard Holy Paladin build. You will primarily be rotating between casting Holy Shock and Flash of Light to build Holy Power before spending with Light of Dawn or Eternal Flame. Because Flash of Light also generates a Holy Power and does not have a cooldown, you will often find yourself using it heavily to help continue the building and spending cycle. Many talents are set in stone but you could consider changing between Beacon of Faith and Beacon of Virtue depending on the fight and your playstyle. When playing Beacon of Virtue, you will also want to change Rising Sunlight to Pillars of Light.

FAQShould I Play Liberation?

Liberation offers a decent damage boost at the expense of some healing. You may see high level Holy Paladins competing in the Race to World First with this talent, but they are often in situations where they need to absolutely minmax their damage as hard as possible in order to kill it with the gear they have. Every other level of player will often benefit more from just having more healing, but if you are interested in minmaxing your damage at the expense of healing, you can certainly talent into this ability.

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2.2.

Lightsmith Avenging Crusader

It is important to note that Lightsmith and Avenging Crusader are not as powerful as the standard Herald of the Sun builds. Choosing to play this will result in a noticeable healing loss but for players who really enjoy the playstyle, we wanted to make sure they had a build they can utilize.

This build focuses on the synergy between Hammer and Anvil and the Avenging Crusader talents. Both of these place heavy emphasis on casting Judgment as frequently as possible. This becomes your most important ability. That does not mean you will want to stop spending Holy Power, but you should aim to keep Judgment on cooldown as much as possible. During your Avenging Crusader, you will also regain access to Crusader Strike which will become a high priority ability. In order to maximize your output with this build, it is important that you have a good understanding of the rotational differences between this and a standard build.

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2.3.

Mythic+ Talents

The Mythic+ build sacrifices minor healing to increase your damage. This is achieved through taking talents that increase the benefit of Shield of the Righteous. During downtime and when only minor healing is needed, you will tend to spend Holy Power with Shield of the Righteous. Just be careful of difficult moments where it may be better to save Holy Power for an upcoming damage window.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

2.4.

Mythic+ Talents

The Mythic+ build sacrifices minor healing to increase your damage. This is achieved through taking talents that increase the benefit of Shield of the Righteous. During downtime and when only minor healing is needed, you will tend to spend Holy Power with Shield of the Righteous. Just be careful of difficult moments where it may be better to save Holy Power for an upcoming damage window.

This build plays exactly the same as the Herald of the Sun Mythic+ build, but with Lightsmith instead.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

2.5.

Delves

This build focuses on optimizing damage while maintaining the standard Mythic+ talents to help you increase the speed of Delves. If you ever are in need of additional healing, you can look towards dropping some damage talents in favor of more healing.

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2.6.

Talents Explained

For a breakdown of the key talents that allow Holy Paladin to function, it is important that you read the Spell Glossary. While this won't breakdown every single talent, it will help you to understand the key abilities and passives.

Holy Paladin Midnight Spell Glossary

In Midnight, you will gain access to Beacon of the Savior, the new Apex talent. This ability has 3 separate ranks that all increase its power. Below we will break down what each individual rank does:

• Rank 1 — While in combat, you will gain an additional beacon called Beacon of the Savior. This beacon will automatically be placed on the lowest health ally and will transfer to the new lowest health ally if it heals a player above 50% or another ally drops below 50%.
• Rank 2 — Increases the amount of healing transferred by Beacon of the Savior and increases the amount of healing you do to the target with Beacon of the Savior.
• Rank 3 — Every 8 seconds or when Beacon of the Savior transfers, an absorb shield is placed on the target that also provides damage reduction until the shield is broken.

The most important aspect of Beacon of the Savior is that it also benefits from any talents that amplify Beacon of Light. This means that Commanding Light, Saved by the Light, Light's Protection and even Beacon of the Lightbringer all buff Beacon of the Savior. This effectively means that you have an extra Beacon at all times. Additionally, due Rank 2 of Beacon of the Savior also increasing the healing you do to Savior targets, it is significantly less punishing than normal to heal directly into your Beacon of the Savior. At some times it can even be beneficial compared to standard beacons where you tend to avoid healing into them.

Holy Paladin gets to pick between two distinct Hero Talent choices: Herald of the Sun and Lightsmith.

Herald of the Sun tends to be the stronger choice for both raiding and Mythic+. While it may offer slightly less damage than the alternative choice, in increases the healing output of Avenging Wrath thanks to Sun's Avatar. Additionally, you gain access to Dawnlight which helps to add throughput during your main cooldown, as well as outside of it.

Lightsmith emphasizes the use of Judgment due to Hammer and Anvil. While this isn't controllable healing, it is still extremely powerful. This has very high synergy with Avenging Crusader builds, and you will often be utilizing this Hero Talent when playing Avenging Crusader. While Lightsmith may be weaker at the moment, it can provide a nice DPS increase for players who are looking to deal as much damage as possible.

Some talents will require you to play in a particular way to get the most out of them. You can find more information on how your rotation will look after selecting your talents on our rotation page below.

War Mode offers several benefits for you in the open world.

• PvP talents enabled in the outdoor world.
• At least 10% increase in World Quest rewards at maximum level.
• 10% more experience gained while leveling.
• Earn Conquest Points, which can reward gear every week.

With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is recommended to enable the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at maximum level. However, you will be available for open-world PvP, and the possibility of being "ganked" while leveling or doing World Quests exists.

In this section, we will rank the PvP talents best for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content. Below is a ranking of all PvP Talents for Holy Paladin

1. Blessed Hands gives you an extra charge of Blessing of Freedom and Blessing of Protection, making it extremely powerful.
2. Divine Vision increases the range of your Aura while also reducing the cooldown of Aura Mastery, making it very helpful in increasing survivability.
3. Searing Glare can be quite difficult to use, but also can boost your own survivability when timed well.

You can consider the other options essentially down to preference.

For details on how to play in Holy Paladin PvP, please visit our Holy Paladin PvP page.