Holy Paladin PvP Talents and Builds — 12.0.5
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Holy Paladin and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Holy Paladin PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Holy Paladins
Midnight PvP Talent Builds for Holy Paladin in Arena
This talent build will give you the most overall healing output, as well as damage.
Avenging Crusader is an extremely powerful healing cooldown now that allows you to heal through damage while active.
This is the overall best healing build for Holy Paladins in Battleground Blitz.
PvP Talents for Holy Paladins
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.
Mandatory PvP Talents
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.
Situational PvP Talents
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.
Spreading the Word gives your allies a bonus effect are you use
Blessing of Protection or
Blessing of Freedom. This is a crucial
talent to take to give your team extra ways to reduce damage or remove slows.
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.
Changelog
- 20 Apr. 2026: Updated talents for Patch 12.0.5.
- 23 Mar. 2026: Updated recommended talents.
- Updated recommended PvP talents.
- 16 Mar. 2026: Reviewed page for Midnight Season 1.
- Updated recommended talents.
- Updated recommended bg blitz talents.
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated talents for Midnight.
- Updated recommended talents.
- Updated page styling.
- 23 Jan. 2026: Updated recommended talents.
- 19 Jan. 2026: Updated for Midnight Pre-Patch.
- Updated recommended talents.
- Updated talents summary.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 27 Aug. 2025: Updated recommended talents.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
- Updated recommended talents.
- Updated PvP talents.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for patch 11.1.5.
- 28 Mar. 2025: Updated recommended talents.
- 13 Mar. 2025: Updated recommended talents.
- 03 Mar. 2025: Updated recommended talents.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated recommended talents.
- Updated recommended PvP talents.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 13 Nov. 2024: Updated Talents.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 22 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 12 Sep. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 23 Aug. 2024: Updated Hero Talents.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 26 Jul. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- Updated Recommended PvP Talents.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 12 Jul. 2023: Updated Recommended Talent.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 07 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- Updated Talent Tree.
- Updated Talent Calculator.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated Best talent build.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Pre-patch.
- 01 Aug. 2022: Reviewed for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
- Updated Best PvP Talents.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Updated PvP Talents.
- 02 Jul. 2021: Updated PvP Talents.
- 08 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 23 Dec. 2020: Updated Tiers 5 and 6 Regular Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 26 Oct. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- 25 Oct. 2020: Updated Tier 2 Regular talent.
- 15 Oct. 2020: Updated Tier 3 Regular talent.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch (Patch 9.0.1).
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