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Paladin Specialization PvE Guides
Basics	Talents	Skill Rotation
Cooldowns	Stat Priority	Best Professions
Best In Slot Gear

Holy Paladin Basics In Wrath Classic

While other classes still outshine in terms of raw AOE healing, Holy Paladins are still the toast of the town for Classic Wrath of the Lich King. Holy Paladins top our WotLK PvE Healing Tier List due to insane output and efficiency. Do they excel at anything and everything? No, but that doesn't matter thanks to their single target healing arsenal and the all-new Beacon of Light.

This guide will focus specifically on level 80 content and abilities. It will be updated throughout the Wrath of the Lich King expansion as more content rolls out.

Important New and Reworked Talents and Abilities

Beacon of Light - One of the best capstone and spec-defining talents in all of Classic Wrath of the Lich King. Beacon of Light is what Holy Paladins have been waiting for since the start of Classic WoW. I could write up thousands of words singing this talent's virtue, but I'll leave it at this: it's really, really good.

Divine Plea - While we won't be seeing the original, completely broken version of Divine Plea, it's still a pretty efficient way to regenerate mana.

Avenging Wrath - A pretty impressive cooldown to help buff your healing spells during critical moments in an encounter.

Aura Mastery - Another solid cooldown to increase the effectiveness on your auras. It's particularly useful in fights that emphasize resistance.

Sacred Shield - It gives your targets a mini-Power Word: Shield

Holy Shock - Now has a six-second cooldown.

Talent Build for Holy Paladins in WotLK

This is the default talent build for Holy Paladins as they begin endgame content Wrath of the Lich King Classic, complete with the ideal glyphs as well.

There may be some slight deviations if you're running multiple Holy Paladins. Otherwise, this is the bread and butter talent build.

The last minor glyph slot is generally going to be for whatever blessing you're assigned to give out.

Holy Paladin Skill Rotation

As a healer, you don't really have a "rotation" like DPS or tanks. Instead, there's generally a preferred heal to cast in certain situations, as well as some setup before the encounter begins.

Pre-Pull Checklist

• Target the appropriate person with Beacon of Light.
• Make sure Judgements of the Pure is activate and always up.
• Apply Sacred Shield on the assigned target and make sure it's always up.

Important Spells/Abilities During Fights

• Timing your Divine Plea is important, as you don't want to reduce your heals during moments of heavy damage.
• Holy Light is your bread and butter heal.
• If you have to move, use Holy Shock or an instant Flash of Light.

As long as your healing targets don't die, you've done your job.

Important Holy Paladin Cooldown To Use

Holy Paladins have a nice balance of cooldowns that enhance their own abilities while offering solid utility to the party.

• Avenging Wrath - This is a great way to pump out serious healing when you need it, but it also triggers Forbearance, which prevents you from casting some key abilities.
• Lay on Hands - The ultimate "oh crap" button. It doesn't cost mana anymore either!
• Aura Mastery - I alluded to this being key in resistance fights earlier. Beyond that, it's just a great way to mitigate incoming damage.
• Divine Shield - Another key cooldown to help prevent incoming damage, but this also causes enemies to ignore you. Helpful to use during tank swaps.
• Divine Illumination - Another solid way to be mana efficient.
• Divine Favor - A great way to ensure you get a good burst heal off when you need it.
• Divine Guardian - An incredibly handy damage mitigation ability for your raid or party.
• Divine Sacrifice - Another solid group mitigation tool, though this one redirects the damage to you.
• Seal of Wisdom - Because of Seal of Wisdom, you want to be attacking the boss with melee swings whenever possible.

Divine Plea

Divine Plea gets its own section because of how important it is to Holy Paladins in Classic Wrath of the Lich King.

Ideally, whenever a fight has an intermission or a low damage output, you'll use it as the healing reduction won't penalize you. Not every fight gives you an obvious window, however. Patchwerk, for example, is constant damage throughout the entire encounter. One thing you can do to help deal with these types of fights is to ensure that your prioritize healing target will still be maintaining the proper amount of heals when you pop Divine Plea. This can be done in a variety of ways, such as other healers using their cooldowns, you yourself popping your personal cooldowns, or even the tank popping damage mitigation cooldowns.

There will definitely be a bit of trial and error until you find the happy balance. At the end of the day, what's most important is that the boss goes down and you pick up that sweet, sweet loot.

WotLK Holy Paladin Stat Priority

The most important stats for Holy Paladins in Wrath of the Lich King Classic are as follows:

1. Intellect
2. Haste Rating
3. Mana per 5 seconds regenerated
4. Spell Power
5. Critical Strike Rating

Best Wrath Professions for Holy Paladins

• Jewelcrafting is universally accepted as one of the best professions for Holy Paladins in Classic Wrath. It helps you min/max your stats with the profession-specific gem cuts.
• Blacksmithing is regarded as the second best profession in part due to being able to add additional sockets which, again, helps you min/max stats. Together, the JC/BS combo allows Holy Paladins to add an impressive amount of Intellect, which is your most important stat.
• Some will argue that Engineering is the preferred second option. In addition to its utility, it gives you the Nitro Boost enchant. Ultimately, I'd prefer to get more of your best that than some of your worst stat.

Best In Slot Holy Pally Gear Pre-Raid and Phase 1 WotLK

To find the best-in-slot (BiS) gear for both Pre-Raid and Phase 1 of the expansion check out the article below. It highlights a number of suitable options for each equipable item slot. There are also best-in-slot lists for all Paladin specializations at the top of the article.

• Holy Paladin: Best in Slot Gear Pre-Raid & Phase 1
• Holy Paladin: Best In Slot Gear Phase 2