Mists of Pandaria Classic Holy Paladin Leveling

Holy is not recommended for solo leveling as it is much slower at killing enemies than the other specializations. If you want to level as Holy, we suggest playing almost entirely in dungeons as a healer. If you are interested in the fastest solo leveling experience with a caster playstyle, check out our Retribution Paladin Leveling Guide.

In Mists of Pandaria, talent trees were revamped to become much simpler. Very few talents will be massively impactful in your leveling experience, but some can increase movement speed as well as damage output, allowing you to kill enemies faster and progress through quests or dungeons at a faster pace. Key recommended talents will be broken down below:

1. Speed of Light — Increases your movement speed significantly.
2. Eternal Flame — The HoT effect will allow you to focus more on outputting damage to speed things up.
3. Holy Avenger — an additional cooldown, allowing you to output damage and healing at a faster pace.
4. Light's Hammer — similar to Holy Avenger, gives you an addiitional cooldown.

In your Major Glyphs we recommend Glyph of Denounce will give you more access to Denounce, increasing your damage output. Glyph of Protector of the Innocent will give you additional self-healing if you are leveling with a party or find yourself in dungeons. Finally, Glyph of Flash of Light increases the healing you do to players after casting Flash of Light on them, while largely unimpactful, there aren't many great choices left for the final slot.

Minor glyphs will not increase your leveling speed, but Glyph of Righteous Retreat will allow you to pull off the famous "bubble hearth", meaning that you press Divine Shield followed by your Hearthstone to get wherever you are going faster.

The leveling rotation for Holy Paladin will be fairly simple, especially when focused on dealing damage to speed up kills. Generally you will want to make sure you are casting Holy Shock as much as possible for either damage or healing. When you want to fully commit to dealing damage, you can also follow this by casting Denounce or other DPS abilities such as Crusader Strike. When healing, you should aim to generate and spend holy power as much as possible. This means casting Holy Shock and Holy Radiance to generate Holy Power, followed by Eternal Flame or Light of Dawn to heal your party members.

Congratulations on hitting Level 90 in Mists of Pandaria! Now that your leveling process is over, you can learn more about Level-90 Holy Paladin gameplay by reading our fully detailed guide below.