Holy Paladin Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents - The War Within (11.0.2) (2024)

Last updated on Aug 21, 2024 at 18:20by Mytholxgy25 comments

General Information

On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Holy Paladin in World of Warcraft —The War Within (11.0.2). We also have default talent lists for various types of content, such as raiding or Mythic+.If you play with Warmode on, we have your PvP talents covered as well.

If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Holy Paladin talents.

Best The War WithinTalents for Holy Paladins

Note that these builds are generic recommendations for various content. For more specific recommendations for the Raid and Mythic+, check out the dedicated pages below.

Best Holy Paladin Mythic+ Talents for The War WithinBest Holy Paladin Raid Talents

Best Builds for Holy Paladin

Raid - MeleeRaid - CastingMythic+Delves/Pre-Season Dungeon BuildTalents Explained

Raid - Melee

Raid - Casting

This is the build you will be playing the majority of the time. It focuses on Holy Shock, Holy Light and Infusion of Light. The goalis to press Holy Shock as much as possible, spending Holy Power whenever you can,and consuming Infusion of Light when you cannot do the other two actions.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the bestbuild directly into your game!

Mythic+ Talents

The Mythic+ build is your standard melee-centric build that emphasizes heavyuse of Crusader Strike for increased value of Holy Shock (thanksto Crusader's Might) and Holy Power spenders.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the bestbuild directly into your game!

Delves/Pre-Season Dungeon Build

This build focuses on optimizing damage while maintaining the standardMythic+ talents. If you ever are in need of additional healing, you can looktowards dropping some damage talents in favor of more healing.

Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the bestbuild directly into your game!

Talents Explained

Note that we do not explain EVERY Talent in the tree on this page. We onlyexplain Talents that are part of our optimal builds or may be confusing to use.For full details and explanations of every Talent, please visit our Spells pagevia the button below.

Holy Paladin War Within Spell Glossary

2.1.

Class Talents

2.1.1.

Row 1-4

Divine Steed	Being a relatively slow class, this is a mandatory talent allowing youto increase your overall movement speed.
Cavalier	With movement speed being a concern, this Talent further increases your overallmovement speed options.
Improved Cleanse	Being able to dispel more types of debuffs is useful no matter the type ofcontent you are participating in.
Greater Judgment	Increases the power of Judgment by a significant margin, turning itinto an ability that deals a decent amount of damage while providing healing.
Fist of Justice	While not being the default selection, this Talent provides a different form ofcrowd control that can be useful depending on what you are doing.
Blinding Light	Repentance gives you a form of hard crowd control, and this Talent insteadgives you the ability to interrupt multiple enemies at once, disorienting them.
Repentance/td>	While not being the default selection, this Talent provides a different form ofcrowd control that can be useful depending on what you are doing.
Rebuke	Allows you to interrupt an enemy, which can be very important in small-group contentor PvP. Any time a healer can bring an extra interrupt will be valuable. While notas common in raiding, it can still be selected as the majority of the middle rowsare utility-focused.

2.1.2.

Row 5-7

Avenging Wrath	This is your primary healing cooldown, allowing you to increase your overallhealing and damage for some time.
Blessing of Sacrifice	External damage reduction cooldowns are extremely powerful in every form ofcontent. Being able to reduce the damage one of your party members takes willalways be useful.
Holy Aegis	One of the few throughput-increasing talents in the middle rows of the class tree.
Unbreakable Spirit	Reduces the cooldown of your major defensive abilities, which will allow youto feel much tankier.
Improved Blessing of Protection	While not always useful, in some cases having the reduced cooldown canbe life-saving as you will have more frequent access to this ability.
Sacrifice of the Just	Reduces the cooldown of Blessing of Sacrifice which can be very usefulwhen you need to press it frequently.
Echoing Blessings	Increases the power of Blessing of Freedom and Blessing of Sacrifice.

2.1.3.

Row 8-10

Of Dusk and Dawn	This ability provides a large healing and damage increase that you will be able to makeconstant use of.
Divine Purpose	The goal of Holy Paladin is to spend as much time in Avenging Wrath aspossible. This ability allows you to spend more Holy Power, thus increasingthe potential procs of Awakening.
Strength of Conviction	Primarily strong in Mythic+ and PVP where you will be casting more Word of Glorys than Light of Dawns.
Vanguard's Momentum	Despite being a capstone, this Talent is outshined in nearly every circ*mstance. In PVPit has the potential to give you the ability to burst down an enemy quickly, but itwill likely not see much use.

2.2.

Spec Talents

2.2.1.

Row 1-4

Light's Conviction	Having an extra charge of Holy Shock creates a large amount of rotationalflexibility in every build, making it a necessity.
Beacon of the Lightbringer	In order to help make Holy Paladin mastery a bit more consistent when spread out,this Talent increases the area you are able to effectively reach.
Awestruck	With Critical Strike being the best stat for Paladin, this talent gainsa lot of value, increasing the amount of healing we are able to do withour most frequently casted abilities: Holy Shock, Flash of Light andthe less frequent Holy Light.
Tower of Radiance	Given the emphasis placed on consuming Infusion of Light, we can consistentlygenerate more Holy Power thanks to this Talent.
Resplendent Light	Casting Holy Light is quite powerful, especially when under the effectsof Infusion of Light. This Talent makes it even stronger when you are stackedand able to cleave your allies.
Moment of Compassion	This talent is extremely weak unless you are playing Beacon of Virtue.When combined with Virtue, it becomes a key talent as it has great synergy with Divine Revelations.

2.2.2.

Row 5-7

Imbued Infusions	The main goal of Holy Paladin is to cast as many Holy Shocks as possible.This Talent enables one to cast more by consuming Infusions.
Divine Revelations	This point is one of the first you will look to drop when needing extra points elsewhere.It has very strong synergy with Flash of Light, but the mana return from Holy Lightand Judgment may be unneeded.
Light of the Martyr	>While above a certain health threshold, your Holy Shock will dealadditional healing but also place a healing absorb shield on yourself ( Beacon of Light cannot be usedto remove this healing absorb).
Bestow Light	>Further amplifies the benefits of Light of the Martyr.
Breaking Dawn	Breaking Dawn is the most flexible talent point in the talent tree. Whenever youare very stacked up, you will want to replace this talent point with something like Righteous Judgment for extra damage. However, if you are very spread out,you may want to put a second talent point into this.
Righteous Judgment	Provides a very high passive damage increase. Whenever you have an extra talent point,this Talent can be beneficial to select to increase your damage output.

2.2.3.

Row 8-10

Beacon of Faith	Holy Paladin does a lot of its healing through beacon; having two of them just increases your overall output.
Barrier of Faith	While this can be overwhelming at first glance, it can simply be treated as another beacon.Apply it to a target every 30 seconds who is likely to take a good amount of damage andforget about it.
Tyr's Deliverance	Powerful cooldown that increases the healing of 3 core abilities: Holy Light, Flash of Light and most importantly Holy Shock.
Beacon of Virtue	In situations where you do not have two good Beacon of Light targets or simply need more AoE healing, this Talent can be selected instead of Beacon of Faith.
Rising Sunlight	Gives Avenging Wrath and Divine Toll an extra benefit, massivelyincreasing their overall power.

2.3.

Mythic+

In order to perform to the best of your ability in Mythic+, it is recommendedthat you visit our Mythic+ specific page in order to better understand howto play the spec.

Holy Paladin Mythic+ Guide

Rotation for Holy Paladin

While healers do not follow strict rotations, there is still a priority listthat you will want to familiarize yourself with. This will allow you to get themost out of your abilities in every form of content.

Holy Rotation Guide

Changelog

30 Aug. 2024: Talent builds updated.
27 Aug. 2024: Delve build added.
21 Aug. 2024: Reviewd and Updated for The War Within.
23 Jul. 2024: Page Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
15 Jan. 2024: Talent recommendations updated.
13 Nov. 2023: Mythic+ talent recommendations updated.
06 Nov. 2023: Page Updated for 10.2.
04 Sep. 2023: Formatting updates.
07 Aug. 2023: Updated talent recommendations.
17 Jul. 2023: Mythic+ talent recommendation updated.
10 Jul. 2023: Talent recommendations updated for 10.1.5.
01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
22 Feb. 2023: M+ Talent recommendation updated.
24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.

Show less