Classic Holy Paladin Healer Guide (2024)

Last updated on Dec 02, 2020 at 01:29by Impakt13 comments

As the champions of the light, Paladins bring powerful blessings, potent heals, andan array of auras that make them excellent at supporting a raid group. Paladinsare also clad in plate armor, making them quite durable and hard to kill inPvP. Perhaps most importantly though, Paladins have a wide array of powerfulcooldowns, some of which are considered to be among the most powerful in the game.

Holy Paladins are exceptionally good in both PvP and PvE. Most raid groups willlook for at least 4 Paladins to ensure that the raid can make use of the powerfulbuffs that they bring, including Blessing of Might, Blessing of Wisdom,and Blessing of Salvation. These buffs are so powerful that many peopleconsider Alliance to be the superior faction simply due to how strong Paladinsare. While Holy Paladins do not bring AoE healing like priests, their singletarget healing with Flash of Light and Holy Light is quite good,and they make up for the slightly lower healing output by being the most Manaefficient healer in the game.

In PvP, Holy Paladins are incredibly strong due to their amazing survivability.With plate armor, strong healing, and an array of powerful cooldowns, Paladins areideal healers for supporting melee in the middle of a fight. They can stay in thebattle, healing and supporting a Warrior while not needing to worry about dyingnearly as much as a Priest or Shaman would. As a Holy Paladin, you should have notrouble finding a group for both raiding and PvP.

Although the Season of Mastery brings with it a number ofchanges to how you may experience the content of WoW Classic, these tweaks donot include any adjustments to how you play Holy Paladin. As such, this guidewill cover all you need to know regardless of which version of Classic you wishto play.

However, due to certain pieces of content from later Phases now being availableat an earlier date, gearing recommendations for Holy Paladin will be different.Because of this, we have created additional pages detailing your best in slotitems for both pre-raid gear and the current raids available.

• Strong single-target healing;
• High Mana efficiency;
• Powerful cooldowns;
• Strong utility;
• Durable in PvP;
• Relatively easy to gear.

• No multi-target healing;
• Limited damage options as Holy;
• Low mobility;

Paladins are an Alliance only class, meaning you must be Alliance to play aPaladin. Within the Alliance, Paladins can choose to be either Humanor Dwarf.

Humans are the worse of the two races for Holy, almost entirely because of thepower of Dwarf's Stoneform. As a Human, you do get some nice bonusessuch as 5% Spirit, but Holy Paladins already are the most Mana efficient healers,and do not use Spirit as a means of Mana regeneration while in combat. Diplomacy is a nice quality of life racial since reputation grindingwill make up a portion of your time, but you can live without it. Perceptionis strong against Rogues, but you have to activate it to use it, which means youneed to predict when a Rogue or stealthed target is near, making it hard to use.

• Diplomacy increases your reputation gains by 10%.
• The Human Spirit increases your Spirit by 5%.
• Mace Specialization increases your weapon skill with maces by 5.
• Sword Specialization increases your weapon skill with swords by 5.
• Perception is a 3-minute cooldown that increases your stealthdetection for 20 seconds, making it easier to spot stealthed units near you.

Dwarf is the best race for PvP and PvE entirely due to the power of Stoneform.In raids, Stone Form gives you an 8-second immunity to any bleed, poison, or disease,which can be incredibly important in some raids. In AQ40, poisons are incrediblycommon, making Stoneform invaluable on many bosses. While it will not be meaningfulin every raid and dungeon, when it is usable, it is incredibly powerful. In PvP,Stoneform is a game-changing ability against Rogues and Warriors, and can countertheir bleeds and poisons that could potentially kill you. Specifically againstRogues, Blind is considered a poison effect, giving you a free counteragainst one of their best control spells.

• Find Treasure allows you to sense nearby treasure, showing it on yourminimap.
• Frost Resistance increases your frost resistance by 10.
• Gun Specialization increases your weapon skill with guns by 5. Thisis useless for Paladins since you cannot use guns.
• Stoneform is a 3-minute cooldown that makes you immune to bleed,poison, and disease effects for 8 seconds, while also increasing your armorby 10% while active.

PvE: Dwarf

PvP: Dwarf

The best profession to have as a Holy is Engineering. It provides powerfulitems that you can use in both PvE and PvP content to either deal damage or helpyou get out of a tough spot. There are several unique items accessible only throughEngineering that are considered to be some of the strongest utility items in thegame.

While Engineering is a great profession, probably the moreimportant thing to think about is how you plan to make gold. Gold is incrediblyimportant in WoW Classic for a number of reasons and will be quite hard to comeby, especially at the start. Check out the Paladin Goldmaking sectionfor more information on other potential professions for making gold.