Holy Paladin Healing Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.1.7)

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.

• In most groups, healers won't be expected to run out and deal with the mechanics during the intermisson. While you can always help if the group is healthy, your priority should be on keeping the group stable through the intermission first and foremost.

• When possible, try to CC and help kill the adds to prevent them from reaching the boss. Due to the largely predictable damage on this fight, it should be fairly easy for you to help with add control.

• Similar to other bosses in this dungeon, the damage intake is entirely predictable. You should aim to have CDs up for each AoE burst, otherwise you can help to do the primary mechanic of riding bees and sending them into the kegs. This will allow DPS to have more uptime on the boss.
• In general you want to position close to melee and to your tank. When adds spawn, it is very easy for you to pick up healer aggro and get meleed. You can avoid this by positioning close to the boss and the tank.

• Trash leading into the first boss will deal heavy tank and party damage. Make frequent use of Blessing of Sacrifice on your tank and other party members to help reduce damage taken.
• Careless Hopgoblin will target a player and charge them, upon hitting a wall they will deal a large amount of groupwide damage. It is important that you keep players healthy before these charges.

• When a player gets targetted by Luring Candleflame, they will take high amounts of damage. Blessing of Sacrifice can be helpful in reducing their damage taken and making it more manageable to heal.

• This boss requires a very high HPS output. You will want to rotate through cooldowns and keep in mind that players will drop to low HP naturally. Due to the fight not having any major damage spikes, it is entirely okay to leave players at low HP for periods of time while you rotate cooldowns and wait for them to come back off CD.

• Eternal Darkness will deal massive amounts of damage to your party, you will want to have a cooldown for each time this ability is cast.
• You will need to use a defensive cast for each Shadowblast cast. If a party member does not have a defensive, then you can use Blessing of Sacrifice on them to help live the mechanic.
• Due to the fight being very low damage outside of Eternal Darkness, Healers are often asked to be the players to run out and pick up candles from various points in the room, returning them to the safe zone allowing your group to have more uptime on the candle.

• Rank Overseer will do a circle effect that knocks back mobs. These knockbacked mobs can pull other mobs but if you CC the mobs they will not be knocked back, meaning that you should use whatever form of CC you have available to keep mobs from being knocked away into other trash packs.
• Torchsnarl will pick up a player and that player will take massive amounts of damage as they will be unable to avoid the flame frontal. Make sure to prioritize healing on them as much as possible.
• Creeping Shadow is one of the hardest hitting debuffs in the game. You will need to dispel your tanks as much as possible when they get this debuff leading up to the final boss.

• Due to the low damage intake on this boss, healers will often be the players tasked with running around the room to knock bombs into the boss. When you have 5/6 kncoked in, you can wait a few seconds on the 6th bomb to maximize the damage buff provided from knocking bombs in.

• If a player gets meleed multiple times by the fixated add, you can use Blessing of Protection to remove the debuff.

• This dungeon has an insane amount of kicks, stops, and dispels required. You will be needing to help manage CC throughout the dungeon and dispel as much as possible. For example, Iced Spritzer and Toxic Blades need to be stopped and interrupted as much as possible or a player is nearly always going to die.
• Transmute: Enemy to Goo needs to be kicked otherwise party members will become CC'd. If this does go on a player, it can always be dispelled and should be dispelled as soon as possible.

• Once all adds on the boss are defeated, the boss will start dealing massive AoE damage until the adds are respawned. This will require healing cooldowns and defensives to manage. Outside of this phase, you should do your best to help interrupt and kill the adds.

• Kinetic Explosive Gel will need to be dispelled very quickly. That being said, when it is dispelled it will clear bombs that the player is next to meaning that you should give the player with the debuff a second or two to position themself. If no bombs are active when the debuff is applied, you can dispel it instantly.

• This boss is one of the hardest to heal this season. It will deal constant damage to players affected by Awaken the Swamp, as well as during each cast of Mudslide. Thankfully, healers cannot get this mechanic if all 5 players are alive meaning that you can focus on healing instead of following your partner. Keep in mind though if a player dies you will start to be targetted by the ability. It is worth noting that on keys +10 and likely slightly above, you can take a few ticks of Rushing Tide in case you need to keep players alive. If you do end up taking ticks, it is recommended that you also use a defensive to be safe.

• At times, Venture Co. Architect will cast Nailed, rooting a player. While movement-impairing removal abilities such as Blessing of Freedom can help with this, it isn't always guaranteed they will be available. You will often need to use a defensive or spam heal players who remain rooted if fire begins to spawn under them.
• Bubbles will deal massive party-wide damage in the form of Backwash. You will need to plan cooldowns for the initial burst damage it deals, followed by the DoT it leaves on players.

• This boss deals very little group-wide damage, but does deal massive damage to the tanks. Make sure that you keep consistent healing on them and aren't afraid to use external cooldowns on them as necessary.

• Sacrificial Pyre will spawn throughout the fight and will need to be soaked. Each time it is soaked the party will take a bit of damage and the player who soaked it will be given a stacking debuff. While tanks will soak many stacks themselves, other players will also need to soak throughout the fight and will require priority healing.
• Castigator's Shield will be thrown at players and is very dangerous. You will need to move out of the ground very quickly and make sure that players are topped before the cast goes off, otherwise low health players will be at risk of dying.

• While this boss deals a decent amount of damage throughout the fight, the last 50% is where it tends to be the scariest. DPS will need to break the shield as quickly as possible to reduce raid damage and to minimize add spawns. It is recommended that you have cooldowns available for this point of the fight to reduce risk of deaths.

• Impale will be applied to players early into the dungeon, this bleed deals a ton of damage but can also be removed by Blessing of Protection.
• If you or a party member finds themselves rooted by Caltrops, they will take massive amounts of damage over time. This effect however can be removed through abilities that break roots ( Blessing of Freedom), also stopping the damage taken.
• War Lynx will apply a bleed debuff that can be removed through Blessing of Protection.
• After the first boss, you will deal with some of the most difficult trash in this season, Ardent Paladins. These will cast Sacred Toll, dealing a massive amount of party damage. Many pulls will include two paladins and even three at times during larger pulls. You will need to keep an eye out for these casts to not only sure players are healthy before the casts go off, but to also heal players quickly between each cast.
• It should be mentioned that much of the trash in the room before the final boss will be pulled as you enter combat with the final boss. The miniboss specifically as well as the two packs on either side of the stairs leading to the final boss will aggro if you attempt to skip them.

• While this dungeon is fairly easy for healers, this boss can be deceptively challenging. While its damage is fairly low, healers often have huge troubles until they understand the range limitations of the fight. It is important that as a healer you stand in the center of the boss platform, allowing DPS to flank to your left, right, and behind you each time pillars spawn. In most cases you won't want to be the one to break pillars to ensure you can reach everyone, if players die you will however have to move to pillars. It is important that throughout the fight you move around to be in range of players, and that DPS players also move inwards to help you reach them. You should aim to dispel players outside of melee and again be flexible in the sense that you need to move around to reach players.

• Most of the trash in this dungeon is fairly straightforward with nothing notable to consider. Throughout the dungeon each pack will deal quite a bit of damage, but no pack is more notable than the others in terms of what to prioritize for healing CDs. Try to rotate through what you have, not holding onto any one cooldown too long.

• This boss will require quite a bit of movement as well as frequent dispels. The general rule of thumb is to not overuse space while also being sure to spread from allies at all times to prevent debuffs from going out while you are stacked, resulting in immediate deaths.

• While dodging orbs can be overwhelming at first, especially when you need to position for adds spawning, it is important to keep in mind that no matter where you stand, the adds will spawn at the edge of the room. This means that if orbs are blocking the very back of the room, you can stand in melee and still have your add spawn at the very edge, making the dodging much more manageable.

• This boss has two very dangerous overlaps that you will need to keep in mind. When the boss casts Manifest Death and Grasping Rift at the same time, the party will require massive healing to deal with the DoT as well as the large burst that comes at the end when adds spawn. This generally only happens every other set of pull-ins, making it so that you can safely stack CDs for the sets that line-up. While it depends on damage, you are likely to only have to deal with this overlap twice throughout the fight. Finally, when the boss transitions below 50% HP, she will do a massive AoE effect. As long as players are healthy then you should be in no danger, just try to keep everyone healthy before the cast finishes.

• In Gorechop's wing, you will have to deal with a ton of diseases and interrupts. When you do not have an interrupt available, do not hesitate to use other forms of crowd control to help prevent casts from going off.
• In Xav's wing, you will have two trash packs that have Shambling Arbalest in them. While these shoot random players for large amounts of damage, they also cast Jagged Quarrel which will leave a massive bleed on players. You can use Blessing of Protection to deal with it, but you will still need to heal through most of the casts.

• Throughout the fight, Blazing Chomp will be cast on the tank. This will deal a massive amount of damage to party members. If players are not healthy before you dispel, they will die. If you wait too long to dispel, the tank will die from the damage it deals. This fight is a constant game of quickly topping players off after Explosive Leap and before dispelling Blazing Chomp.

• Outside of dodging and healing debuffs, what tends to give players the most trouble comes from the pull-in mechanic: Magneto-Arm. This deals increased damage the closer you are to it, meaning that while you are healing you should also be making a constant effort to run away from where you are being pulled in, if you get too close you will die almost instantly and the damage will be completely unhealable.

• Prior to the first boss, Bomb Tonks will cast Detonate, each pack has multiple of these mobs meaning that you will not only need to help interrupt the cast, but you will also need to use as many stops as possible to prevent casts from going off.
• Before reaching KUJ0, you will have multiple trash packs that deal high amounts of damage while also leaving healing absorbs. You will need to manage this with cooldowns and large throughput abilities. After dealing with these pakcs, you will have dogs that apply Fiery Jaws. These dogs will spam cast this ability on various players and you will be unable to dispel all of them. It is possible for players to get multiple stacks resulting in them bleeding out very quickly. You will need to dispel as much as possible while also prioritizing the players in the most danger.
• Throughout the rest of the dungeon, you will have many debuffs and large single-target damage effects to manage. Short Out is one of the hardest abilities to heal, but it can be reduced by standing in the shields that spawn at times.

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.