Holy Paladin Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — 12.0.5

This is your standard Holy Paladin build. You will primarily be rotating between casting Holy Shock and Flash of Light to build Holy Power before spending with Light of Dawn or Eternal Flame. Because Flash of Light also generates a Holy Power and does not have a cooldown, you will often find yourself using it heavily to help continue the building and spending cycle. Many talents are set in stone but you could consider changing between Beacon of Faith and Beacon of Virtue depending on the fight and your playstyle. When playing Beacon of Virtue, you will also want to change Rising Sunlight to Pillars of Light.

FAQShould I Play Liberation?

Liberation offers a decent damage boost at the expense of some healing. You may see high level Holy Paladins competing in the Race to World First with this talent, but they are often in situations where they need to absolutely minmax their damage as hard as possible in order to kill it with the gear they have. Every other level of player will often benefit more from just having more healing, but if you are interested in minmaxing your damage at the expense of healing, you can certainly talent into this ability.

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This build differs from a standard build by talenting into Truth Prevails and Empyrean Legacy. While also focusing on using Infusion of Light with Judgment to generate 2 Holy Power. When Judgment is on cooldown, you should use your extra Infusion of Light proc on Flash of Light.

Additionally, when playing this build it may be worth swapping the talent point from Empyrean Legacy into Divine Overload in certain situations. On a fight with significant healing absorbs or you find yourself being fed a ton of InnervateS, you will gain much more value from Divine Overload. Due to the increased amount of Holy Light casts you will be doing, this will provide more value than the talent point in Empyrean Legacy.

FAQShould I Play Liberation?

Liberation offers a decent damage boost at the expense of some healing. You may see high level Holy Paladins competing in the Race to World First with this talent, but they are often in situations where they need to absolutely minmax their damage as hard as possible in order to kill it with the gear they have. Every other level of player will often benefit more from just having more healing, but if you are interested in minmaxing your damage at the expense of healing, you can certainly talent into this ability.

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

It is important to note that Lightsmith and Avenging Crusader are not as powerful as the standard Herald of the Sun builds. Choosing to play this will result in a noticeable healing loss but for players who really enjoy the playstyle, we wanted to make sure they had a build they can utilize.

This build focuses on the synergy between Hammer and Anvil and the Avenging Crusader talents. Both of these place heavy emphasis on casting Judgment as frequently as possible. This becomes your most important ability. That does not mean you will want to stop spending Holy Power, but you should aim to keep Judgment on cooldown as much as possible. During your Avenging Crusader, you will also regain access to Crusader Strike which will become a high priority ability. In order to maximize your output with this build, it is important that you have a good understanding of the rotational differences between this and a standard build.

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The Mythic+ build sacrifices minor healing to increase your damage. This is achieved through taking talents that increase the benefit of Shield of the Righteous. During downtime and when only minor healing is needed, you will tend to spend Holy Power with Shield of the Righteous. Just be careful of difficult moments where it may be better to save Holy Power for an upcoming damage window.

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The Mythic+ build sacrifices minor healing to increase your damage. This is achieved through taking talents that increase the benefit of Shield of the Righteous. During downtime and when only minor healing is needed, you will tend to spend Holy Power with Shield of the Righteous. Just be careful of difficult moments where it may be better to save Holy Power for an upcoming damage window.

This build plays exactly the same as the Herald of the Sun Mythic+ build, but with Lightsmith instead.

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This build focuses on optimizing damage while maintaining the standard Mythic+ talents to help you increase the speed of Delves. If you ever are in need of additional healing, you can look towards dropping some damage talents in favor of more healing.

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For a breakdown of the key talents that allow Holy Paladin to function, it is important that you read the Spell Glossary. While this won't breakdown every single talent, it will help you to understand the key abilities and passives.