Holy Paladin Healing Spell List and Glossary — 12.0.5

If you are new to Holy, this is a great place to start to get an understanding of how the spec works. On this page we will discuss what abilities you have, what they are used for within the specialization, how they interact with each other and also with important cooldowns. If you already have experience with Holy and are comfortable with it in the current expansion, it is recommended you skip this section and move on to the rest of the guide.

You have two primary resources as a Holy Paladin, with the first being Mana. The majority of your spells cost Mana, and ensuring you do not run out of it throughout each encounter is crucial to being able to heal competitively. The second resource comes in the form of Holy Power. You generate Holy Power by using abilities like Holy Shock, Flash of Light, or even Judgment. Once you have generated 3 Holy Power, you can then spend it on abilities like Word of Glory and Light of Dawn. In order to be successful as a Holy Paladin, you need to ensure you are generating and spending Holy Power, as well as Mana, as efficiently as possible.

Note that this page simply lists all the different abilities, assuming you are at max level. If you are leveling, check out our dedicated Holy Paladin Leveling page, which has detailed information on when you unlock all of these abilities.

Here are all of the active Paladin Abilities in Midnight separated by type. Key passives that play a large role in your rotation will also be listed at the bottom.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Holy Shock	HS/Shock	Generates 1 Holy Power and can be used to either heal or damage an enemy.
Word of Glory	WoG	Heals an ally for a large amount but costs 3 Holy Power.
Eternal Flame	EF	As Herald of the Sun, replaces Word of Glory, heals an ally for a large upfront amount, then also places a HoT on them.
Light of Dawn	LoD	Costs 3 Holy Power and will heal 5 allies in front of you in a cone.
Judgment	Judge	Deals damage to an enemy and grants 1 Holy Power.
Flash of Light	FoL	Extremely quick ability that costs very little mana but also does not heal for much.
Holy Light	HL	Slightly slower than Flash of Light, this ability deals massive healing but has a very high mana cost.
Beacon of Light	BoL/Beacon	Can be placed on an ally, causing a percentage of your total healing is done to replicate to them.
Beacon of Virtue	BoV/Virtue	Replaces Beacon of Light and places beacons on 4 allies for a short duration when cast.
Holy Armaments	-	This ability replaces Divine Toll for Lightsmith players. It has two effects that rotate, one providing a shield for players and the other causing your spells to deal additional healing/damage and radiate to nearby players.
Cleanse	Dispel	Allows you to dispel a poison, disease, or magical effect from an ally.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Shield of the Righteous	SoTR	Deals damage to enemies in front of you, but costs 3 Holy Power. This ability will reduce the cooldown of Holy Shock by 2 seconds and refund a small amount of mana. Generally you will only cast this ability when you have nothing else to do.
Consecration	-	Creates a ground effect that will deal continuous damage to anyone inside the radius. When talented into Righteous Judgment, Judgment will now drop Consecration and you will lose the ability to cast Consecration yourself.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Divine Protection	-	Reduces damage taken when used.
Divine Shield	DS/Bubble	When used, you will be immune to all forms of damage.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Divine Steed	Horse	Increases movement speed by a large percentage for a short duration.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Intercession	BRez	Allows you to resurrect an ally during combat.
Blessing of Protection	BoP	Causes an ally to be immune to physical damage and some harmful effects for 10 seconds.
Blessing of Freedom	BoF/Freedom	Causes your target to be immune to movement-impairing effects for 8 seconds.
Hammer of Justice	HoJ	Allows you to stun an enemy.
Blinding Light	BL	Disorients enemies caught by its effect for up to 6 seconds. Most damage will break this effect.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Avenging Wrath	AW/Wings	Increases your healing, damage, and critical strike chance for a long duration. This is your primary cooldown and you will have many talents in both the Herald of the Sun and Lightsmith talent trees that boost its power further.
Avenging Crusader	AC/Melee Wings	Modifies your Avenging Wrath causing it to gain different effects. Instead of increasing your healing/damage, you gain Crusader Strike which will replaces Avenging Crusader during the cooldown. Both Judgment and Crusader Strike as well as your auto attack damage will additionally heal nearby targets.
Divine Toll	DT/Toll	Casts 5 Holy Shocks at the same time. Casting on an enemy will cause the Holy Shocks to prioritize dealing with damage. If you cast on an ally, the ability will prioritize healing.
Holy Prism	HP/Prism	Can be used to either deal damage to enemies around you while providing a strong single-target heal, or less healing but spread among 5 targets while doing more damage.
Aura Mastery	AM	Empowers your chosen aura, granting an extra effect for a short duration. This will be used in combination with Devotion Aura to provide your entire party/raid with a damage reduction during tough moments.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Beacon of the Savior	Savior	This is the new Apex Talent for Holy Paladin. It will apply an additional Beacon to the lowest health player, constantly bouncing around to new players. This beacon will work identical to other beacons, granting you all the same effects and also benefits from every Beacon-increasing talent.
Crusader's Might	CM	Causes Holy Shock to reduce the cooldown of Judgment, and Crusader Strike reduces the cooldown of Judgment when using Avenging Crusader.
Empyrean Legacy	-	Judgment critical strikes cause your next Word of Glory to also cast Light of Dawn.
Glorious Dawn	GD	Holy Shock has a chance to refund a charge. It also deals more healing.
Dawnlight		When playing Herald of the Sun, casting Holy Prism or Barrier of Faith will cause your next 2 Holy Power spending abilities to buff a player with Dawnlight.
Hammer and Anvil	-	When playing Lightsmith, Judgment critical strikes deal healing around the target.

For more information on how to use these abilities together in your rotation, please read our rotation page.