World of Warcraft: Forever Holy Paladin - Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities

Welcome to our Rotation page for Holy Paladins. On this page, you will find everything you need to know about playing a Holy Paladin, including standard rotations and tips to help increase your performance.

Holy Paladins specialize at single-target healing and excelling on the class requires choosing the best spell for every situation you are in. Most of the time you will find yourself relying on the highly efficient Flash of Light for the majority of your healing, while weaving in Light's Vigil for dangerous AoE moments and Holy Light with procs.

In addition to keeping players alive, as a Paladin you are responsible for providing very powerful buffs to your party. Blessings such as Blessing of Kings provide a huge boost to your group, while Auras such as Devotion Aura help reduce everyone's damage taken. Additionally, you have a large amount of utility at your disposal with spells like Blessing of Freedom and Blessing of Protection. Both of these abilities can be used to get out of very dangerous situations that you or your party members may find yourselves in.

Mastering Holy Paladin requires an understanding of how to best juggle all of your different single-target abilities while buffing your allies with the appropriate buffs, significantly increasing the power of your group. On this page, you will find out exactly how to do that.

While DPS and Tanks have very strict rotations that need to be fully followed to optimize your damage, Healers do not. Playing a Healer optimally means following a priority list rather than a strict rotation, with you choosing the best spell to cast based on the situation you are in. The overall priority for Holy Paladin will be as follows:

• Maintain Oath of Light on your Tank at all times.
• Use Seal of Light if no other Paladin is, otherwise use Seal of Wisdom.
• Cast Light's Vigil to prepare for AoE damage, follow it up by casting Holy Shock on the same target for large AoE healing.
• Cast Flash of Light as your primary healing ability.
• Consume Infusion of Light with Holy Light.
• Cast Holy Shock when a player is in danger and you won't have time to get a cast off.
• Use Lay on Hands in desperate situations where you have no other choices. Remember it will consume all of your remaining Mana!

While Holy Paladin has a very straight forward playstyle, relying heavily on the use of Flash of Light, it typically needs to involve other spells during very heavy damage as Flash of Light will rarely provide enough healing alone. This is where Holy Light and Light's Vigil can help. When you have Infusion of Light, Holy Light becomes a very quick way to output a large amount of healing, but of course with a heavier Mana cost than Flash of Light.

Light's Vigil offers some of the best healing in the entire kit, but at an extremely expensive cost. It is best used before damage goes out; that way you can quickly cast Holy Shock right after the damage hits for a large burst of AoE healing. That being said, it can still be appropriate to cast when facing heavy sustained AoE damage.

Excelling as a Holy Paladin means getting as much value out of Light's Vigil as possible without running out of Mana. It can be a tricky balancing act that requires a lot of practice. One of the best pieces of advice that can be offered is to keep an eye on the Health of the enemies you are facing. The lower that health is, the more aggressive you can be with your Mana. You typically want to avoid dumping a large amount of Mana when you will be in combat for an extended period of time, but at the same time, if you know that you will have downtime coming up to regen some extra Mana, you can continue to be aggressive.

While your priority as a Holy Paladin will always be on keeping players alive, you can still help your group by dealing damage when no healing is needed. Just keep in mind that you need to be careful with your Mana to ensure you are not wasting too much on damage spells to the point you have none left for healing. Your overall damage priority will be as follows:

• Swap your Seal to Seal of Righteousness to output extra damage.
• Make sure that you are in melee range and auto attacking.
• Cast Judgement and Holy Strike on cooldown.
• Keep Consecration active.
• Cast Exorcism when possible.

In order to better understand your healing rotation and how each spell fits into the Holy Paladin kit, it can be beneficial to learn the Healing per Mana (HPM) and Healing per Cast Time (HPCT) of each ability. HPM will refer to how much healing a spell does divided by the amount of mana required to cast it. This measures how efficient a spell is to cast. While a spell may not offer the most amount of healing by itself, it can offer the most amount of healing per mana spent, leading to it being a more efficient choice. Healing per Cast time works similarly and tells you how much healing a spell will provide divide by the cast time.

When determining the best spells to cast, we are often looking at the HPM. The chart below provides information on the HPM of each spell with +715 healing, 315 int, 4% spell crit, and assumes standard healing talents (shoutout to DoubleZug):

Spell	HPM	HPCT
Flash of Light	5.75	498
Holy Light	4.15	1018
Light's Vigil	4.44	2898
Holy Shock	2.79	501

With this information, we can see that Holy Shock is a very inefficient spell to cast, offering very little healing for the amount of Mana it costs. Flash of Light reigns supreme in term of the healing it provides and the Mana it costs. Light's Vigil performs very well with HPM and HPCT, but it also has such an expensive cost that it needs to have very high HPM. It is not an ability you will be able to make frequent use of, and you will need to balance its usage to survive an entire fight.

Paladins offer some of the best utility out of any class and understanding how best to use it can be the difference maker in a good paladin and a great one. Below we will discuss some of the important abilities you have at your disposal to give your group the highest odds of succeeding:

• Blessing of Freedom grants your target immunity to movement impairing effects. If your target is already rooted or frozen in place, casting it will remove these debuffs. This ability is extremely valuable in PvP situations specifically, but also has its uses in regular PvE content, i.e. when a melee DPS is rooted in place while out of melee range.
• Blessing of Protection causes the target to become immune to any physical damage for its short duration. However, when you cast this on a player, they will be unable to attack or deal physical damage. Typically this is best used on casters or healers who have aggro and need to continue healing or get enemies off them, including yourself.
• Divine Intervention is one of the more iconic Paladin abilities, allowing you to sacrifice yourself in order to remove your target from combat. Typically this is used when your party or raid is about to wipe. You will cast the ability on a Healer so that after the wipe they can start resurrecting players without everyone needing to run back from the graveyard.
• Voice of Truth grants immunity to silence and interrupt effects for a short duration. During difficult moments, this can be valuable to use to help ensure you are getting casts off. Especially valuable in PvP settings.

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