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Holy Paladin guide

HealerPaladin · WoW Forever

Beta guide, level 30. The WoW Forever beta stops at level 30, so this guide and its build cover levels 1 to 30. We update it for level 60 after launch on November 4.

Holy Paladin is a plate-wearing healer with big, efficient single target heals. Forever helps its mana a lot: Reverence keeps 30% of your mana regeneration going while you cast, and Illumination refunds mana on crits. Holy Shock gives you an instant heal for emergencies and moving, and Light's Vigil is your one group heal.

Strengths

  • Very hard to kill: plate, Divine Shield and self heals
  • Excellent single target healing on the tank
  • Blessings, Cleanse and bubbles bring lots of group utility

Weaknesses

  • Mostly reactive: no heals over time or shields to get ahead of damage
  • Little group healing (Light's Vigil is expensive)
  • Low mobility

Talent build (level 30) 21/0/0

Holy 21 points

  • Divine Intellect5/5
  • Healing Light3/3
  • Spiritual Focus2/2
  • Reverence3/3
  • Purifying Power2/2
  • Illumination5/5
  • Holy Shock1/1

21 points in Holy: Divine Intellect for mana, Healing Light for bigger heals, Reverence and Illumination to keep your mana up, Purifying Power for cheap Cleanses, and Holy Shock at 30. Divine Favor and Light's Vigil come after launch.

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Key talents

Reverence
New in Forever: 30% of your mana regeneration continues while you cast.
Illumination
Your heal crits refund mana.
Holy Shock
Instant heal or damage. Your answer to sudden spikes and to healing on the move.
Healing Light
+12% healing on Holy Light, Flash of Light and Holy Shock.
Spiritual Focus
Your heals lose much less cast time when you get hit.

New in Forever: Holy talents

  • Voice of TruthGrants you immunity to Silence and Interrupt effects for 6 sec.
  • ReverenceAllows 30% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
  • Purifying PowerReduces the mana cost of your Cleanse and Purify spells by 20% and reduces the cooldown of your Exorcism and Holy Wrath spells by 33%.
  • Infusion of LightYour Holy Shock and Flash of Light critical hits reduce the cast time of your next Holy Light cast within 15 sec by 1.0 sec.
  • Divine PrecisionImproves your chance to hit with Holy spells by 18%.
  • Consecrated GroundGives your Holy spells 10% increased damage against the first 4 enemies that enter your Consecration.
  • Light's VigilApplies Light's Vigil to the target for 30 sec. Your next Holy Shock cast on them triggers no cooldown and causes enemy targets to suffer 175 to 189 Holy damage and refund 75% of Light's Vigil's Mana cost, or allied targets to heal their party for 325 to 343. You may only have one Light's Vigil active per party.

Rotation

  1. Keep a Seal up, usually Seal of Wisdom for mana.
  2. Flash of Light for light, steady damage.
  3. Holy Light for big incoming hits: start casting a little early.
  4. Holy Shock when someone may die before a cast finishes, or while you move.
  5. Cancel heals you no longer need instead of wasting mana.

Cooldowns

Lay on Hands
Full heal on a target, but drains all your mana.
Divine Shield
Your own emergency button.
Blessing of Protection
Saves a player who pulled aggro from physical hits.

Stats

Healing power first, then Intellect (mana and crit) and crit (bigger heals and more Illumination refunds). Spirit is better than in Classic thanks to Reverence.

Best races

Alliance

Human
Ruthless: +1% crit with spells and attacks, plus 10% more Spirit.
Dwarf
Stoneform: cleanses bleeds, poisons and diseases and cuts physical damage by 10%. Artisan's Precision adds 1% hit.

Horde

Undead
The only Horde Paladin. Touch of the Grave drains health on hits, Will of the Forsaken breaks fear.

Professions

Blacksmithing is close to essential early for plate with healing stats. Engineering or Alchemy as the second.

Leveling

Holy is slow to level alone. Level as Retribution and switch to Holy for dungeons: groups always want a Paladin healer.