Holy Paladin Healing Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

The class tree for Holy Paladin provides many strong abilities that can help to increase utility, damage, and even throughput. One of the most notable increases comes from Divine Toll. One of the historical problems for Holy Paladin in M+ is a lack of healing outside of Avenging Wrath. By having an extra cooldown, you are able to gain an extra tool to deal with difficult situations. Due to the short cooldown, you should aim to make frequent use of this ability.

One of the harder choices when creating a talent build will come from deciding between Crusader's Might and Liberation. Crusaders Might offers a significantly improved rotation, ensuring that you always have access to a core ability. That being said, Liberation offers an absurdly high amount of damage that will be highly desired in a Mythic+ setting. Currently, we will default to a Crusaders Might choice but if you find yourself wanting to optimize damage, you should not hesitate to swap to Liberation.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

In higher keys, you will often see players sacrificing overall healing to increase their damage output, or increase survivability. Talents such as Liberation will be sought after even though they may not provide as large of a healing boost. Additional talents such as Call of the Righteous may be useful in Mythic+ where having more frequent access to a cooldown is better than a longer duration cooldown. As the meta solidifies, the build will be updated to reflect what top players end up using.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

Rebuke is your "kick" and your most important bit of utility in Mythic+, used to stop enemy casts for the benefit of the group and especially the tank. It is highly recommended to use a Focus Kick macro for this.

• /stopcasting
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@focus,exists,nodead][@mouseover,exists,nodead] [] Rebuke

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you have no Focus target, and your target if you have neither of those.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro.

• /focus [@mouseover]

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.

Hammer of Justice is your primary "stop". This will stun your target for a small duration, preventing them from casting any abilities.

Repentance is a crowd-control ability but will only work against certain specific types of enemies. Using it will not place you in combat.

Blinding Light is an Area of Effect that disorients enemies within 10 yards. The effect breaks when non-Holy damage is done to the target(s). It can also be used to interrupt the spell-casting of one or more enemies and is considered your primary "AoE stop". Again just keep in mind that enemies will instantly start casting/attacking right after in a dungeon setting, so you will only be able to stop a single set of interrupts/casts.

• Blessing of Protection will remove bleeds and other physical damage over time effects such as Grievous, as well as preventing all physical damage to the target for 10 seconds. It is often used on melee DPS players who might pull threat from your tank.
• Blessing of Freedom will remove or prevent the application of movement-impairing effects, including many that cannot be dispelled with Cleanse.
• Devotion Aura is a very strong defensive ability for yourself and your group. Use of Aura Mastery with it can prevent large amounts of damage and save party members from very large damage spikes, especially those who lack defensive abilities. Try to stand within range of the tank when possible for maximum benefit.

Blinding Light, Hammer of Justice and even Rebuke can be used to help deal with this affix.

Aim to use Divine Steed to help soak orbs more easily.

Cleanse's can be used to remove Void Rift.