Holy Paladin Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Dragonflight 10.2

This is the build you will be playing the majority of the time. It focuses on Holy Shock, Glimmer of Light and Infusion of Light. The goal is to press Holy Shock as much as possible while reducing the cooldown of it with Imbued Infusions.

It is also important to note that your final talent point will be spent on either Awakening, Relentless Inquisitor, or Inflorescence of the Sunwell. Realistically, these three talents are all extremely competitive with each other , and you can largely take the Talent that you prefer. Inflorescence of the Sunwell has a slightly lower ceiling for output than the other talents, but it can smooth out the rotation by a significant margin and is generally considered the most fun choice. Awakening is very strong when you have tough damage checks every minute. That way, you can line the proc up with Daybreak and Divine Toll. Otherwise, the Talent can be lackluster and just another thing to worry about.

Aura of Mercy is selected over Blessing of Summer due to the the fact that it is much easier to use and provides a decent amount of extra healing. Overall, it is weaker than Blessing of Summer, but if you aren't playing in a coordinated group, or you find yourself forgetting to hit the button, then you will want to use Aura of Mercy instead.

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Similar to previous patches, the Avenging Crusader build focuses on casting as many Crusader Strikes and Judgments during the Avenging Crusade window. It also takes Beacon of Virtue and Moment of Compassion to give you some high-value Virtue windows.

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The Mythic+ build is your standard melee-centric build that emphasizes heavy use of Crusader Strike for increased value of Holy Shock and Glimmer of Light. It adds a lot of powerful cooldowns, such as Tyr's Deliverance, Divine Toll and Daybreak to make difficult healing much easier to manage and give you more power outside of Avenging Wrath.

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Note that we do not explain EVERY Talent in the tree on this page. We only explain Talents that are part of our optimal builds or may be confusing to use. For full details and explanations of every Talent, please visit our Spells page via the button below.

Divine Steed	Being a relatively slow class, this is a mandatory talent allowing you to increase your overall movement speed.
Cavalier	With movement speed being a concern, this Talent further increases your overall movement speed options.
Improved Cleanse	Being able to dispel more types of debuffs is useful no matter the type of content you are participating in.
Greater Judgment	Increases the power of Judgment by a significant margin, turning it into an ability that deals a decent amount of damage while providing healing.
Fist of Justice	While not being the default selection, this Talent provides a different form of crowd control that can be useful depending on what you are doing.
Blinding Light	Repentance gives you a form of hard crowd control, and this Talent instead gives you the ability to interrupt multiple enemies at once, disorienting them.
Repentance/td>	While not being the default selection, this Talent provides a different form of crowd control that can be useful depending on what you are doing.
Rebuke	Allows you to interrupt an enemy, which can be very important in small-group content or PvP. Any time a healer can bring an extra interrupt will be valuable. While not as common in raiding, it can still be selected as the majority of the middle rows are utility-focused.

Avenging Wrath	This is your primary healing cooldown, allowing you to increase your overall healing and damage for a period of time.
Blessing of Sacrifice	External damage reduction cooldowns are extremely powerful in every form of content. Being able to reduce the damage one of your party members takes will always be useful.
Holy Aegis	One of the few throughput-increasing talents in the middle rows of the class tree.
Unbreakable Spirit	Reduces the cooldown of your major defensive abilities, which will allow you to feel much tankier.
Improved Blessing of Protection	While not always useful, in some cases having the reduced cooldown can be life-saving as you will have more frequent access to this ability.
Sacrifice of the Just	Reduces the cooldown of Blessing of Sacrifice which can be very useful when you need to press it frequently.
Echoing Blessings	Increases the power of Blessing of Freedom and Blessing of Sacrifice.

Divine Toll	Strong burst healing on a relatively short cooldown. This ability also provides you with a large amount of Holy Power.
Of Dusk and Dawn	This ability provides a large healing and damage increase that you will be able to make constant use of.
Divine Purpose	The goal of Holy Paladin is to spend as much time in Avenging Wrath as possible. This ability allows you to spend more Holy Power, thus increasing the potential procs of Awakening.
Strength of Conviction	Primarily strong in Mythic+ and PVP where you will be casting more Word of Glorys than Light of Dawns.
Vanguard's Momentum	Despite being a capstone, this Talent is outshined in nearly every circumstance. In PVP it has the potential to give you the ability to burst down an enemy quickly, but it will likely not see much use.

Light's Conviction	Having an extra charge of Holy Shock creates a large amount of rotational flexibility in every build, making it a necessity.
Beacon of the Lightbringer	In order to help make Holy Paladin mastery a bit more consistent when spread out, this Talent increases the area you are able to effectively reach.
Awestruck	With Critical Strike being the best stat for Paladin, this talent gains a lot of value, increasing the amount of healing we are able to do with our most frequently casted abilities: Holy Shock, Flash of Light and the less frequent Holy Light.
Holy Infusion	While Crusader Strike may have dropped significantly in priority, the ability to generate 2 Holy Power instead of 1 during a filler global is extremely powerful and can really help smooth out the rotation when you have a bad luck streak generating Infusion of Light.
Resplendent Light	Casting Holy Light is quite powerful, especially when under the effects of Infusion of Light. This Talent makes it even stronger when you are stacked and able to cleave your allies.
Moment of Compassion	This talent is extremely weak unless you are playing Beacon of Virtue. When combined with Virtue, it becomes a key talent as it has great synergy with Divine Revelations.

Illumination	Glimmer of Light is a key component of the build, and it is significantly weaker without the extra targets.
Imbued Infusions	The main goal of Holy Paladin is to cast as many Holy Shocks as possible. This Talent enables to cast more by consuming Infusions.
Tower of Radiance	Given the emphasis placed on consuming Infusion of Light, we can consistently generate more Holy Power thanks to this Talent.
Divine Revelations	This point is one of the first you will look to drop when needing extra points elsewhere. It has very strong synergy with Flash of Light, but the mana return from Holy Light and Judgment may be unneeded.
Breaking Dawn	Breaking Dawn is the most flexible talent point in the talent tree. Whenever you are very stacked up, you will want to replace this talent point with something like Righteous Judgment for extra damage. However, if you are very spread out, you may want to put a second talent point into this.
Righteous Judgment	Provides a very high passive damage increase. Whenever you have an extra talent point, this Talent can be beneficial to select to increase your damage output.

Beacon of Faith	Holy Paladin does a lot of its healing through beacon; having two of them just increases your overall output.
Daybreak	This is an extremely strong cooldown, allowing you to trigger all your active Glimmer of Lights the moment damage happens. It also restores mana.
Barrier of Faith	While this can be overwhelming at first glance, it can simply be treated as another beacon. Apply it to a target every 30 seconds who is likely to take a good amount of damage and forget about it.
Tyr's Deliverance	Powerful cooldown that increases the healing of 3 core abilities: Holy Light, Flash of Light and most importantly Holy Shock.
Boundless Salvation	In situations where you do not have two good Beacon of Light targets or simply need more AoE healing, this Talent can be selected instead of Beacon of Faith.
Beacon of Virtue	In every form of content you can often benefit from an extra rank for your empower abilities. Dream Breath is the only one unlikely to benefit much.
Maraad's Dying Breath	>When faced with encounters that require high single-target healing, this will allow you to handle the healing much easier.