Holy Paladin PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight / Patch 10.1.)
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
Below is the talent build you should use in PvP:
Talents Summary
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.
Paladin Talent Tree Highlights
Some important spells to note in the Paladin talent tree:
Blinding Light/
Repentance.
Blinding Light is great if your team already has a lot of stuns and a diminishing return with
Repentance, like RMP. Important note:
Repentance shares a diminishing return with spells like
Polymorph. You should not take Repentance when playing with a Mage.
Cavalier is an important talent for a few reasons. You should use this talent if you will be the primary target or push in for crowd control on large maps. This will help get crowd control and run away so teams cannot swap to you. If they do swap to you, you will have an additional charge of
Divine Steed to quickly get away.
Sanctified Wrath makes your
Avenging Wrath even stronger by reducing
Holy Shock's cooldown while it is active.
Holy Paladin Talent Tree Highlights
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.
Inflorescence of the Sunwell gives your
Infusion of Light procs an additional charge and reduces the Mana cost of
Flash of Light. This is important so you can have multiple procs active simultaneously and not miss out on healing.
Glimmer of Light makes it so
Holy Shock puts a debuff on an enemy or buff on your teammates. When you use Holy Shock, it will heal your teammates and damage enemies. This will break crowd control if Glimmer of Light is on an enemy.
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
Blessed Hands makes your
Blessing of Freedom and
Blessing of Protection now have an additional
charge. This gives you additional utility for your teammates and gives you
multiple defenses. Abilities like Blessing of Freedom and
Blessing of Protection are already strong, but with 2 charges, you will
have much utility during an arena match.
Aura of Reckoning can gain stacks when you
or a teammate is critically hit. At 100 stacks, your next melee ability will
deal 200% increased damage, will critically strike, and activate
Avenging Wrath.
Situational PvP Talents
Ultimate Sacrifice makes it so that your
Blessing of Sacrifice
will now transfer 50% of all damage to you. You can use this to negate a team's
entire burst if you heal yourself while it is active. You can also use
this before a crowd control like
Polymorph or
Fear, so they
break from damage.
Cleanse the Weak makes it so that when you dispel a teammate
affected by your aura, all of your teammates 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
- 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).
This guide has been written by Mysticall, a seasoned PvP player who has repeatedly achieved 3000 rating. You can watch his stream on Twitch, and you can also check out his YouTube channel.
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