Holy Paladin Healing Easy Mode — Midnight Season 1
On this page, we explain how to easily play Holy Paladin in World of Warcraft — Midnight Season 1, using the simplest rotation, talent tree, stat priority, gear setup, etc., without sacrificing performance.
Foreword
This section is intended for players who are new to the game or class, have no intentions of raiding Mythic difficulty or simply want a more straightforward way to play their specialization without being overwhelmed by the numerous priorities and active abilities that need to be taken into consideration for optimal play.
The Basics of Holy Paladin in Midnight
Holy Paladins do best at passively supporting tanks with their beacons and single-target healing in general. In addition to this, Holy Paladins are peculiar because they have many tools at their disposal that allow them to handle various encounter mechanics in ways that other healers cannot.
If you are completely new to Holy Paladin and need more information on the abilities available to you, you can check out our Spell Summary page.
Beginner's Guide to Holy Paladin in Midnight
Beginner
Herald of the Sun Build for Holy Paladin
This build focuses on a very standard rotation of building Holy Power through
Holy Shock
and
Flash of Light while spending it with either
Light of Dawn.
As always the goal is to generate as much Holy Power as possible while ensuring
that you are not wasting any by not spending it.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!
Beginner Mythic+ Build for Holy Paladin
This build is designed for those who want to play a fairly simple Mythic+-focused build, and it is also useful in Delves if you want to heal there.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!
Basic Playstyle for Holy Paladins
Below, we will break down your overall priorities depending on the form of content you find yourself doing.
Raid Healing
This rotation will assume that you are playing the recommended raid build and would not change regardless of if you have access to your tier bonus. For more in-depth information please consult with the rotation page for additional rotations depending on your desired build.
- Cast
Holy Shock as much as possible. - Consume Holy Power with
Eternal Flame for Single-Target healing or
Light of Dawn for AoE healing. - Cast
Flash of Light when you do not have 3 Holy Power and cannot Holy Shock. - Cast
Holy Light for big healing, just don't do it too much or you
will run out of mana extremely quickly.
5-Man Healing
5-man healing is very similar to raiding rotations, with the exception that you will
be casting
Word of Glory (or
Eternal Flame if
Herald of the Sun) much
more frequently. This rotation will assume that you are playing the recommended Mythic+ build.
- Use
Holy Shock as your primary healing spell. - Consume Holy Power with
Word of Glory (or
Eternal Flame if
Herald of the Sun). - Cast
Flash of Light when you do not have 3 Holy Power and cannot Holy Shock. - Cast
Holy Light for big healing single-target healing.
While doing dungeons, you can rely on
Holy Light much more because you
are able to drink in between pulls. This means that you will not be as concerned
about mana as you would be in Raid.
Apex Talent
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.
Beacon of the Savior is largely a passive effect that you do not need to worry about significantly. In general
treat it as having a 3rd
Beacon of Light and you can largely ignore it. That being said, because you do additional
healing to your Beacon of the Savior, it isn't a big deal if you find yourself directly healing your Savior target like
it typically would with a Beacon of the Light target.
Season 1 Tier Set
The Midnight Season 1 tier set is fairly straight forward for Holy Paladin. It will provide the following bonuses:
Paladin Holy 12.0 Class Set 2pc — Increases your
Holy Shock healing.
Paladin Holy 12.0 Class Set 4pc —
Holy Shock transfers an additional
percentage of healing into
Beacon of Light.
This tier set will not impact your rotation but it will provide you with a nice
boost to your overall healing. It is important to note that the 4-set bonus (
Paladin Holy 12.0 Class Set 4pc)
will apply to every form of
Beacon of Light. This means
Beacon of Virtue,
Beacon of Faith and
Beacon of the Savior all benefit from the bonus.
Combat Assistant
Added in Patch 11.1.7, the combat assistant is a one-button ability intended to cast your rotational
abilities. Unfortunately for healer specs, this does not function well. As a Holy Paladin, the combat
assistant will not cast healing spells, it will not cast
Holy Shock, and it will not
spend holy power. This makes it fairly unusable. The only situation in which you could use it is when
focused entirely on dealing damage, and even then you would still need to cast your other abilities
on your own.
Stat Priority for Holy Paladin in Midnight
The general stat priority for a Holy Paladin is seen below. This is very much a rough guideline and is designed for players who do not wish to sim their character through QuestionablyEpic.
- Mastery
- Haste
- Critical Strike
- Versatility
While the stat priority for classes is normally the same for both the Easy Mode page and our full guide, subtle differences can still occur. If you want to see the full explanation of the stat priority, as well as the absolute top choices for the priority, head to our full stats page below.
Changelog
- 16 Mar. 2026: Updated for Midnight Season 1.
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight 12.0.1.
- 10 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight Pre-Patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Page overhauled.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Page updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Reviewd and Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Page Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 18 Apr. 2024: Reviewd for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Stat priority updated.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 07 Aug. 2023: Updated talent recommendations.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Talent recommendation updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Mytholxgy, a former RWF progression raider and analyst for Pieces and Liquid. He is also a Templar in the Paladin Class Discord, as well as one of the class experts in the Evoker Discord. You can reach him on Twitter and watch him stream occasionally on Twitch.
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