Holy Paladin PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (Season 1)

Last updated on Nov 13, 2024 at 08:19 by Mysticall 13 comments

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.

1.

Talent Choices for Holy Paladins

Below is the talent build you should use in PvP:

2.

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.

2.1.

Paladin Talent Tree Highlights

Some important spells to note in the Paladin talent tree:

  • Blinding Light Icon Blinding Light/Repentance Icon Repentance. Blinding Light Icon Blinding Light is great if your team already has a lot of stuns and a diminishing return with Repentance Icon Repentance, like RMP. Important note: Repentance Icon Repentance shares a diminishing return with spells like Polymorph Icon Polymorph. You should not take Repentance when playing with a Mage.
  • Blessing of Protection Icon Blessing of Protection/Improved Blessing of Protection Icon 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 Icon Empyreal Ward makes Lay on Hands Icon 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.
2.2.

Holy Paladin Talent Tree Highlights

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

  • Saved by the Light Icon 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 Icon Inflorescence of the Sunwell gives your Infusion of Light Icon Infusion of Light procs an additional charge and reduces the Mana cost of Flash of Light Icon Flash of Light. This is important so you can have multiple procs active simultaneously and not miss out on healing.
  • Tyr's Deliverance Icon 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 Icon Holy Light, Flash of Light Icon Flash of Light, and Holy Shock Icon Holy Shock.
3.

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.

3.1.

Mandatory PvP Talents

Blessed Hands Icon Blessed Hands makes your Blessing of Freedom Icon Blessing of Freedom and Blessing of Protection Icon 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.

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

3.2.

Situational PvP Talents

Searing Glare Icon 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.

Denounce Icon 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 Icon Shield of the Righteous. This is great versus specializations, like Fire Mage, that heavily rely on dealing critical strikes.

Cleanse the Weak Icon 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 Icon Vampiric Touch on multiple teammates in one global cooldown.

4.

Changelog

  • 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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