Mists of Pandaria Classic Holy Paladin Talent Builds

Holy Paladin has two primary builds with only one key change. One build will focus on Eternal Flame where the other will focus on Selfless Healer. Due to these talents being on the same row, it makes it very easy to swap between the two builds. However, these builds will play very differently rotationally and it is recommended that you visit the dedicated rotation page to fully understand how gameplay will look like.

Our recommended build focuses on Selfless Healer and casting Judgment as much as possible to maximize the value it provides. With this build, you should see a noticeable increase in your casts per minute due to the consistent increased casting speed as well as additional holy power that you can spend on Word of Glory or Light of Dawn. It is recommended that you also visit our rotation page to ensure you understand the differences in rotation that using Selfless Healer will cause. Additionally, if you find yourself needing single target or priority healing, you can opt for a Eternal Flame focused playstyle instead.

In this section we will go over some of the key talents you will use when you are playing a Holy Paladin. Be sure to understand your most important talents as they are vital to play the build to its fullest strength.

• Eternal Flame — this talent replaces your Word of Glory ability and will be your primary way of consuming Holy Power when playing an EF focused build. This ability deals a large amount of healing upfront and leaves a HoT effect on the player.

• Selfless Healer — This talent directly competes with Eternal Flame and will change your rotation significantly when talented into. Judgment will now generate Holy Power as well as reduce the cast time and increase the healing of your next casted ability. It is important than when you do spec into this talent, you are casting Judgment off cooldown as much as possible.

• Holy Avenger — causes your Holy Power generating abilities to grant 3 Holy Power instead of 1 for the cooldown duration. You will want to use this during large damage windows to increase the amount of times you are able to cast either Eternal Flame or Light of Dawn.

• Light's Hammer — allows you to place a hammer on the ground radiating healing and damage. It is important that when using this ability, you are saving it for when you know the enmies or your allies are unlikely to move, that way you are able to stay in the radius as long as possible, maximizing the output.

Glyphs were revamped in Mists of Pandaria and no longer provide you a large throughput increase. The most notable ones will be listed below:

• Glyph of Divine Plea — allows you more access to Divine Plea while also decreasing the amount of mana you regain. More access tends to line up for better kill times and more consistent mana.
• Glyph of Beacon of Light — removes the global cooldown of Beacon of Light, allowing you to quickly swap it during combat. This can be useful anytime you are on an encounter where it can be beneficial to move your Beacon around.
• Glyph of Light of Dawn — while not very useful in Eternal Flame builds or when in a 25-man group, this glyph can be useful in 10m raids where you may need additional AoE healing.
• Glyph of Flash of Light m‐ places a buff on targets healed by Flash of Light, increasing your next heal on them by 10%. This is only useful in small group settings or when you find yourself casting Flash of Light often, which should be rare.

Minor glyphs typically provide no benefits. Your choices will typically depend on what quality of life increase is the most meaningful for you.