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General Information
On this page, we present the viable talent choices for Holy Paladins in World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth 8.0.1. We detail what each of the talents do and in which situations they should be taken.
The other pages of our Holy Paladin guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.
About Our Author
This guide has been written by Holy Paladin Theorycrafter Adamselene. He currently raids with War Front of Kel'Thuzad-US. You can find him on the Hammer of Wrath class Discord and the most up to date version of “The Light and How to Swing It” — the spreadsheet he maintains with Rhyno — can be found here.
1. Talent Choices for Holy Paladin
| Level | Choices | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 |
✔
Crusader's Might
|
✔
Bestow Faith
|
?
Light's Hammer
|
| 30 |
?
Unbreakable Spirit
|
?
Cavalier
|
✔
Rule of Law
|
| 45 |
?
Fist of Justice
|
?
Repentance
|
?
Blinding Light
|
| 60 |
✔
Devotion Aura
|
?
Aura of Sacrifice
|
?
Aura of Mercy
|
| 75 |
✔
Judgment of Light
|
✔
Holy Prism
|
✔
Holy Avenger
|
| 90 |
✔
Sanctified Wrath
|
✔
Avenging Crusader
|
?
Awakening
|
| 100 |
?
Divine Purpose
|
✔
Beacon of Faith
|
✔
Beacon of Virtue
|
Talents can be freely changed when out of combat and in a rested XP area
(such as an inn or a capital city). Moreover, 
Tome of the Tranquil Mind
and 
Codex of the Tranquil Mind can be used to temporarily allow
players to change talents anywhere, as long as they are out of
combat.
2. Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents for Holy Paladins
|
✔
Crusader's Might
|
✔
Bestow Faith
|
?
Light's Hammer
|
Crusader's Might causes 
Crusader Strike to reduce the
cooldown of 
Holy Shock and 
Light of Dawn by 1.5
seconds.
Bestow Faith is an active ability with a 12-second cooldown. It
places a 5-second buff on an ally, which heals them at the end of the 5
seconds (but which does nothing until then).
Light's Hammer is an active ability with a 1-minute cooldown. It
allows you to place a hammer on the ground at the targeted location, which
lasts for 14 seconds. Every 2 seconds, it damages enemies within 10 yards,
and heals up to 6 allies in the same radius.
For pure healing output, the best talent in this tier is
Bestow Faith.
Crusader's Might is a viable progression talent on many fights,
especially fights with very predictable damage or mechanics.
Light's Hammer could be used on encounters where a large number of
stacked raid members will sustain damage. It is quite poor on fights where the
raid must spread out or move out of the active area. It is also fairly
expensive compared to the Mana-efficient Bestow Faith.
For dungeon content, we recommend Bestow Faith as the default
choice, with Crusader's Might as a possible option in case you want
to deal additional damage (in addition to its healing benefit).
3. Tier 2 (Level 30) Talents for Holy Paladins
|
?
Unbreakable Spirit
|
?
Cavalier
|
✔
Rule of Law
|
Unbreakable Spirit passively reduces the cooldown of your
Divine Shield, 
Divine Protection, and
Lay on Hands by 30%.
Cavalier causes your Divine Steed to have 2 charges.
Rule of Law is an active ability with 2 charges and a 30-second
recharge time. It increases the range of your heals and your
Mastery: Lightbringer by 50% for 10 seconds. Regarding the Mastery
range increase, your Mastery causes your healing to have full effectiveness on
targets that are within 10 yards of you, with the effectiveness decreasing the
farther away they are beyond that point. While Rule of Law is active, the
maximum effectiveness radius is extended by 50%, to 15 yards, and only after
that does your healing start to decrease.
In raids, we believe that the best choice is Rule of Law, which
not only provides you with increased maximum range, but more importantly also
increases the maximum effectiveness radius of your
Mastery: Lightbringer to 15 yards. Note that this is also the only
talent in this tier that increases overall healing done.
Unbreakable Spirit might be worth taking instead, but only
if there are survivability issues that require more frequent use of
Divine Shield or 
Divine Protection.
Finally, Cavalier is a poor choice for raid content in general,
but it could work for fights where you absolutely need increased mobility.
In dungeons, all three talents are viable, but we recommend taking
Cavalier by default, especially for Mythic+ content.
Unbreakable Spirit has the same caveats as for raid content, while
Rule of Law will only prove useful in exceptional cases where the
group is spread out.
4. Tier 3 (Level 45) Talents for Holy Paladins
|
?
Fist of Justice
|
?
Repentance
|
?
Blinding Light
|
Fist of Justice causes your 
Judgment to reduce the remaining cooldown of 
Hammer of Justice by 10 seconds.
Repentance is an active ability with an 15-second cooldown. It is a form of crowd-control that incapacitates the target for up to 1 minute. Damage done will break the effect. Repentance can only be used against Humanoids, Demons, Undead, Dragonkin, and Giants.
Blinding Light is an active ability with an 90-second cooldown.
It disorients all enemies within a 10-yard radius around you for 6 seconds. Non-holy damage done to them will break the disorient effect.
The talents in this tier are completely situational, and you should choose them based on the requirements of the encounter.
That said, you will generally prefer Blinding Light for the
additional interrupt; in Mythic+ dungeons especially, the mass interrupt is
extremely useful. Alternatively, it can be nice to use Repentance
for crowd-control in some situations (like Ilysanna Ravencrest in Black Rook
Hold, or when you value the fact that Repentance can allow you to skip some
trash packs), but Blinding Light is typically better.
5. Tier 4 (Level 60) Talents for Holy Paladins
|
✔
Devotion Aura
|
?
Aura of Sacrifice
|
?
Aura of Mercy
|
Devotion Aura is an aura that causes allies within 10 yards to take
10% reduced damage, split over the number of allies affected by the aura
(2 allies means that each one takes 5% reduced damage, and so on). During
Aura Mastery, all allies within 40 yards benefit from the full
damage reduction (20% for each player).
Aura of Sacrifice is an aura that redirects 10% of all damage taken
by allies within 10 yards of you to you, whenever you are above 75% health.
During Aura Mastery, 30% of all damage taken in range is redirected
to the Paladin and reduced by 75%. This effect ends when the Paladin drops
below 75% health regardless of remaining Aura Mastery duration.
Aura of Mercy is an aura that causes you to heal 3 injured allies
within 10 yards every second for a modest amount. During
Aura Mastery, all allies within 40 yards are healed, and the healing
amount is doubled.
All 3 talents in this tier are viable, depending on the situation.
If a particular event may kill raid members, the 20% raid-wide damage
reduction provided by Devotion Aura during 
Aura Mastery
is both unique and invaluable. In addition its passive effect will prevent a
substantial amount of damage taken. As such, Devotion Aura should be considered
the default talent pick for this row.
Aura of Sacrifice is a damage reduction cooldown that can be
stronger than Devotion Aura but has a weaker passive effect and is
not guaranteed to last the full duration. If your raid needs the extra damage
reduction, Aura of Sacrifice can provide over Devotion Aura enough to also use
your Divine Shield or a Protection Paladin's
Blessing of Spellwarding to guarantee its full effectiveness, it is a
powerful option.
If no damage events call for the raid-wide damage reduction
of Devotion Aura, Aura of Mercy provides significant amounts of free
healing over the course of the encounter, and useful raid healing during
Aura Mastery.
In Mythic+ dungeons, Devotion Aura is typically most useful,
because with at most 5 and as few as 1 or 2 players inside the 10-yard aura,
each affected member will gain significant damage reduction. It can be
particularly useful for high-end Mythic+ with extremely high tank damage, by
simply staying near the tank to provide constant damage reduction.
6. Tier 5 (Level 75) Talents for Holy Paladins
|
✔
Judgment of Light
|
✔
Holy Prism
|
✔
Holy Avenger
|
Judgment of Light causes Judgment to apply a debuff with 25
charges to the target, called Judgment of Light. When the target is attacked,
the attacker is healed and one charge is consumed.
Holy Prism is an active ability with a 20-second cooldown. It
allows you to target an ally or an enemy. When cast at an ally, it heals the
target and damages 5 enemies within 15 yards of them. When cast at an enemy,
it damages them and heals 5 allies within 15 yards of them.
Holy Avenger is an active ability with a 90-second cooldown that
increases your haste and the healing of your Holy Shock by 30% for 20
seconds.
For progression, we recommend Judgment of Light for Mana
sustainability, or Holy Avenger for another healing cooldown.
Holy Prism is competitive, but it is less Mana-efficient than either
of the other talents on this row. As such it should only be used on boss
fights that are relatively short and whose damage patterns or positioning
particularly suit Holy Prism.
In Mythic+ dungeons, again, all 3 talents are viable, although we believe
Holy Avenger is the best choice for high end Mythic+ progression, as
it allows you to rotate between Holy Avenger and 
Avenging Wrath
and have a cooldown up for every single trash pack.
7. Tier 6 (Level 90) Talents for Holy Paladins
|
✔
Sanctified Wrath
|
✔
Avenging Crusader
|
?
Awakening
|
Sanctified Wrath increases the duration of
Avenging Wrath by 25%, and reduces the cooldown of
Holy Shock by 50% while Avenging Wrath is active.
Avenging Crusader is a two minute cooldown with a 20 second
duration that replaces Avenging Wrath. When Avenging Crusader
is active your Judgment and Crusader Strike have
their cooldowns reduced by 30% and any damage you deal with them will heal 3
injured allies for 250% of the damage dealt, each.
Awakening gives Light of Dawn a 15% chance to trigger
the Avenging Wrath buff for 10 seconds. If Avenging Wrath is
already active, the duration will be extended by 10 seconds.
We recommend Avenging Crusader in a raid environment, as long
as you have a target for your 
Judgment and
Crusader Strike while the raid is taking significant damage. If
that is not the case, then Sanctified Wrath is the better option.
Awakening is only useful if the raid is taking very consistent
sustained damage and is stacked up well enough to make good and regular use of
Light of Dawn.
For Mythic+ dungeons Sanctified Wrath is the superior choice,
even though it provides slightly less healing, because the healing it does is
entirely under the Paladin's control. Furthermore, Sanctified Wrath allows the
Paladin to do more damage than Avenging Crusader.
8. Tier 7 (Level 100) Talents for Holy Paladins
|
?
Divine Purpose
|
✔
Beacon of Faith
|
✔
Beacon of Virtue
|
Divine Purpose causes Light of Dawn and
Holy Shock to have a 20% chance to not trigger their cooldowns, and
to make their next cast (within seconds) free of cost.
Beacon of Faith is an active ability with no cooldown.
It allows you to place a second 
Beacon of Light on a different target.
The second Beacon target will receive the same healing as the first one, but
both beacons have 30% reduced efficiency (when compared to not using this
talent).
Beacon of Virtue replaces Beacon of Light. It has a
15-second cooldown, and it lasts 8 seconds. It allows you to place a Beacon of
Light on the target, which also affects 3 injured allies within 30 yards. All
4 targets are healed for 40% of all healing you do for the 8-second duration.
Your 
Flash of Light and 
Holy Light casts on these targets
will refund 25% of their Mana cost.
For progression raiding, Beacon of Faith is the recommended talent
on this row. Having a Beacon for each tank is incredibly powerful. It removes
the need to swap your Beacon between tanks during the encounter; as well as
providing support to both tanks if they are both taking damage at the same
time.
Divine Purpose will be useful on encounters where only one
tank at a time ever takes damage, or you are consistently out of range of one
of the tanks.
For Mythic+ dungeons, Beacon of Virtue is highly recommended, and
we consider it by far the best talent in almost every situation.
9. PvP Talents (War Mode)
In Battle for Azeroth, there will be the option to enable "War Mode". Enabling War Mode grants the following benefits:
- PvP talents are enabled in the outdoor world.
- 10% increase in World Quest rewards at max level.
- 10% more experience gained while leveling.
- Earn Conquest Points which can reward gear every week.
With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is recommended to enable the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at max level. However, doing so will enable PvP combat, and the possibility of being attacked by members of the opposite faction while leveling or doing World Quests exists.
9.1. General PvP Talents
Adaptation automatically removes loss of control effects longer
than 5 seconds.
Relentless reduces the duration of crowd control effects by
20%, rather than removing them.
Gladiator's Medallion is an ability that removes all
movement impairing and all loss of control effects when used.
We recommend 
Adaptation for levelling and questing with War Mode
active since it will trigger automatically when you are in a long crowd
control.
9.2. Holy Paladin PvP Talents
While the talents below might not be the best for purely open world PvP combat, we believe them to be a solid compromise for both PvE and PvP combat in a small group if you have War Mode enabled.
Light's Grace provides an incredibly powerful boost to your
Holy Light as well as a damage reduction.- Avenging Light will increase your damage while you heal yourself
or your group.
Divine Favor gives you a large emergency heal on a relatively
short cooldown.
10. Changelog
- 13 Aug. 2018: Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
- 23 Jul. 2018: Corrected the Devotion Aura Passive Value.
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