How to Play Holy Paladin During Dragonflight Launch

By HolyClarius Updated: 2023/11/07

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Notes on the Melee Build

This build should be familiar to anyone who has played Holy Paladin in Shadowlands. The goal of the melee build is to optimize Holy Power generation while spreading Glimmer of Light.

The upsides of this build is that you will be a lot more mobile and do more damage. Your most important spells will be Holy Shock, Hammer of Wrath and Crusader Strike. It can be hard to maintain your mana if you do not allow yourself to deviate from this priority as Crusader Strike can be quite mana intensive. Pick up Judgment of Light and Golden Path for access to a couple of very efficient healing spells in Consecration and Judgment.

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Notes on the Caster Build

A lot of Holy Paladin will probably shudder at even reading the word “caster” in the same sentence as Holy Paladin, but I urge you to try it out. The point of the build is to make use of the fact that Tower of Radiance and Infusion of Light gives us the ability to generate 2 Holy Power with each Holy Light cast.

While the playstyle of casting Holy Light on the Beacon of Light target so much could rightly be described as “degenerate”. It is not as bad if you simply try view it as a Holy Power generator and ignore the overhealing you will be doing with Holy Light.

The goal of the build will be similar to the melee build. It is to spread Glimmer of Light using Sanctified Wrath and Divine Toll, and maximize our Holy Power generation through Holy Light.

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Notes on the M+ build

Overall, the new talent trees add a lot of good stuff Holy Paladin in a Mythic+ setting. Notably, we are able to get both Blinding Light or Repentance, and Fist of Justice, which significantly increases our potential mob control . Rebuke will also be a very nice addition to any Mythic+ group. We also get access to a 1 minute cooldown Blessing of Sacrifice when combined with Sacrifice of the Just, this will be incredibly powerful when we also add Echoing Blessings this essentially makes Blessing of Sacrifice a ~41% damage reduction.

When it comes to healing intensive situations in Mythic+ you will need to make use of your Infusion of Light procs to cast Flash of Light on your one of allies that need healing the most, as this is simply the only way too keep up with healing in some high damage situations. With all the talents that buff Flash of Light picked, it becomes a very chunky heal.

You will be spending your time in melee for Consecration and Crusader Strike, and to enable using Rebuke. As such, you can view this build as a sort of Hybrid build; you will be using Hammer of Wrath and Crusader Strike during low healing requirement periods, but you will be casting Flash of Light if things start to look more dire.

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Notes on the Maraad’s build

This build is almost exactly the same as in Shadowlands, with the notable differences of adding Sanctified Wrath and Divine Toll on top. The build focuses on optimizing Holy Power generation through Holy Shock, Hammer of Wrath and Crusader Strike due to the fact that Maraad's Dying Breath is dependent on casting Light of Dawn. This build shines in situations that require significant spot healing and it is almost unmatched in spot healing potential.