Holy Paladin PvP Talents and Builds — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Below is the talent build you should use in PvP:

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

Some important spells to note in the Paladin talent tree:

• Blinding Light. Normally, you will play with teammates that do not have a fear diminishing return. Blinding Light is a great way for you to extend crowd control chains on enemy healers.
• Blessing of Protection/ Improved Blessing of Protection are vital talents to have. This is a powerful cooldown against any team that has melee damage or stuns.
• Empyreal Ward makes Lay on Hands a crucial cooldown, even late in dampening. This talent not only grants the target increased armor, but makes Lay on Hands ignore healing reduction effects.
• Mobility from Divine Steed, Blessing of Freedom, and Unbound Freedom are all crucial spells to help you kite enemies that target you or when pushing in for crowd control.

Some important spells to note in the Holy Paladin Talent tree:

• Saved by the Light is a crucial talent to have in every matchup. This provides a large absorption shield on a teammate that gets low on health and is great for when you are stuck in crowd control. This is also based on your health, so as the expansion goes on, it will get stronger.
• Ringing of the Heavens - after activating Aura Mastery you also cast a Divine Toll at 100% effectiveness. This is a very powerful spell that not only makes you immune to interrupts, but now gives you instant healing. This also has great synergy with the PvP talent Divine Vision.
• Inflorescence of the Sunwell gives your Infusion of Light procs an additional charge. This is important so you can have multiple procs active simultaneously and not miss out on healing.
• Tyr's Deliverance is one of your best cooldowns. This puts a HoT on any teammates you have and they will take increased healing from your Holy Light, Flash of Light, and Holy Shock.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents, each has uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.

Divine Vision increases the range of your Aura by 30 yards and reduces the cooldown of Aura Mastery by 60 seconds. This is great for increasing your team's passive survivability and being able to use Aura Mastery more often.

Searing Glare causes enemies to miss their spells and attacks for 4 seconds. This is a great talent if you can time it correctly. Use this against teams that will be within 25 yards of you and time it for when they use their burst cooldowns.

Blessing of Spellwarding blesses a party or raid member, granting immunity to magical damage and harmful effects for 10 seconds. Cannot be used on a target with Forbearance. Causes Forbearance for 30 seconds. Shares a cooldown with Blessing of Protection. This is recommended to play if you are queueing into a team with 2 casters on it.

Denounce is used on an enemy and prevents the target from causing critical effects for the next 8 seconds. This replaces Shield of the Righteous. This is great versus specializations, like Fire Mage, that heavily rely on dealing critical strikes.

Cleanse the Weak makes it so that when you dispel a teammate affected by your Aura, one of your teammate's with the same DoT will have it dispelled. This is crucial versus specializations like Shadow Priest or Elemental Shaman. This will allow you to dispel Vampiric Touch on multiple teammates in one global cooldown.