Holy Paladin Leveling Guide from 1 to 90 — Midnight Season 1

Paladin is one of the best leveling classes in the game. You have extreme versatility in the fact that you can either tank or heal dungeons while also swapping to DPS for solo questing.

At lower levels, you will often have the easiest time leveling up by playing Holy or Prot and queueing for dungeons due to the nearly instant queue time. Even if you find yourself uncomfortable healing or tanking, early leveling dungeons aren't too difficult, so they are a good opportunity to learn! At higher levels where questing becomes faster and, in some cases, mandatory (expansion campaign), you will want to spec into either Ret or Prot as they offer much higher damage than Holy.

If you are just starting your journey into Midnight, we have a Level 80 import string for you. You can follow the point-by-point allocation of the below tree once you start gaining levels in Midnight.

If this is your first character, or you simply want to find out more about leveling in WoW in general, we got you covered!

When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.

When using Heirloom items to help increase leveling speed, you will generally want to use as many Haste pieces as possible, to help combat the very low secondary stats you are likely to have. This will increase the speed of your rotation and help to prevent things from feeling slow and clunky. For more information about Heirlooms, you can visit our dedicated guide.

When leveling in Midnight, many of the consumables you used throughout the War Within will continue to be valuable. Make sure that you always have a flash active: Flask of Tempered Swiftness. As well as plenty of potions that can be helpful: Tempered Potion. At the end of the expansion many players will try to sell off their remaining stash of consumables so you can often find cheap ones to help you speed up your leveling!

Your first talent point unlocks at Level 10.

This is the recommended talent build:

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When you first create your Paladin, you will only have one ability available to you: Crusader Strike. At level 2, you will unlock Shield of the Righteous, and at level 3, you gain Judgment. At level 10, you can officially spec into Holy.

Once you reach level 10, you will be able to queue for dungeons. If you plan on leveling as Holy, you will want to make use of the dungeon finder tool. It will be by far the most efficient way to level up when playing Holy. If you are interested in an in-depth rotation breakdown, you can check out our rotation page. Otherwise, we have a summary of how to use some of the healing spells available to Holy Paladin:

• Cast Holy Shock as much as possible.
• Cast Judgment as much as possible.
• Cast Word of Glory if you have 3 Holy Power and your target is in need of healing.
• Cast Light of Dawn if you have 3 Holy Power and you have 3 or more allies in need of healing.
• Cast Flash of Light if you cannot do any of the above.
• Use your DPS rotation (detailed below) if no healing is required.

The DPS Rotation is fairly simple and should be used when no healing is needed, or you are questing.

• Use Holy Shock on cooldown.
• Use Judgment on cooldown.
• If you are fighting multiple targets, you can choose to drop Consecration. (Once you gain access to Righteous Judgment, simply pressing Judgment will drop Consecration).
• Consume Holy Power with Shield of the Righteous when no healing is necessary.

While most classes received spec abilities that were specific to what they wanted to play, Paladin is relatively generic. Despite specializing in Holy, you gain access to the majority of your healing abilities before you reach level 10 and have the opportunity to select Holy. That being said, there are still important cooldowns and utility abilities unique to Holy, which you will only unlock once you begin leveling up as Holy.

To prevent cluttering the guide with a lot of the same information, we recommend you take a look at our dedicated spell page, which will provide you with more in-depth information on Holy Paladin spells.

Here, you will find information on the best PvP talents for both leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content.

1. Avenging Light is excellent in group content, as it provides free damage to your party. Holy Light is an ability you will likely use a lot, and Avenging Light will cause it to damage enemies whenever you choose to heal an ally with Holy Light.
2. Light's Grace makes one of your main abilities ( Holy Light), significantly stronger. This talent will not have much use in solo play, but it is excellent when healing allies.
3. Darkest before the Dawn allows you to stack up your Light of Dawn to do quite a bit more healing. As you will not be casting this ability very frequently, it makes it even stronger when you do choose to use it to keep your group healthy.

Holy Paladin unfortunately does not have any strong solo leveling PvP talents. Most of their benefits will only be seen while playing in group content. PvP talents not listed above are not worth considering as they do not provide use outside of very niche situations.