Best Holy Paladin Talent Tree Builds - Midnight

By HolyClarius Updated: 2026/08/12

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Raid - Virtue (Recommended)

M+ - Virtue (Recommended)

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Raid - Virtue
M+ - Virtue
Delves (Recommended)		Beacon of Faith builds use less mana which lets you use Holy Light more often, and it is generally easier to play. The Beacon of Virtue builds provide stronger burst healing and more overall HPS, assuming you can get good value out of using Beacon of Virtue close to on cooldown. If you feel like you are overhealing significantly, I recommend the Beacon of Faith builds. For progress raiding and high keys, there should be enough damage to justify the Virtue builds, but expect the recommended build to change later in the Season. Best Holy Paladin Raid Builds is the best Hero Talent tree for raiding because it significantly enhances our core spells in Holy Shock and Eternal Flame. Check the "Talent Explanations" tab for more talent choices and explanations. heading=false] Here I go over some of the alternative talent choices you can opt for. Glistening Radiance and Saved by the Light These two talents aren't great, but they are kinda the "best of the rest" and thus you can easily swap them for Divine Favor and Protection of Tyr. With high overhealing, Glistening Radiance will do quite a lot, but on progress if you are getting Innervate, you might be better off with Divine Favor and Protection of Tyr. Seraphic Barrier Seraphic Barrier looks great on the meters, but you have to keep in mind that it actually reduces the healing of your Holy Power spenders. Due to the lost Beacon transfer, this talent is a raw HPS loss, and it is only good if your Holy Power spenders and Beacons are overhealing 30-35% or more. If you are swapping to Seraphic Barrier, you should also consider swapping to Beacon of Faith because it reduces how much healing you can get out in your Virtue windows. Beacon of Faith vs Beacon of Virtue Beacon of Virtue is the default option here, because it does more overall HPS and it makes your healing profile more bursty which is usually more useful than a flat healing profile. Beacon of Faith is more mana efficient and is easier to play, but will generally perform worse. If you are not able to get good value out of Virtue close to on cooldown, you should play Beacon of Faith. Moment of Compassion Moment of Compassion is a good option when playing Beacon of Virtue. With it, you should be casting all your Flash of Lights on the player with Beacon of the Savior, or on targets with Beacon of Virtue. If you are playing Beacon of Faith, you should swap to Resplendent Light. Liberation Liberation is a pure DPS talent that does not provide any benefits to your healing. It is a very good talent for providing damage while healing, but when you actually want to deal damage, even on single target, you should be using Shield of the Righteous as it does practically the same damage, and it grants a lot of mana return. Unending Light and If you take these talents, Light of Dawn will be slightly stronger than Eternal Flame, but it is not worth spending 3 talent points to achieve that. Eternal Flame is a more useful healing profile and with Beacon of Virtue, you would be using Eternal Flame regardless of talent choice, because Light of Dawn transfers healing to Beacons at half rate. Call of the Righteous This talent can be taken instead of Rising Sunlight and Truth Prevails if damage timers on a boss lines up well with 90 second cooldown on Wings, but it is generally a healing loss. Best Holy Paladin Mythic+ Builds is better than in Mythic+ because it provides stronger reactive healing. If you do not feel like you need the extra throughput, you can consider running instead as it will provide more damage. heading=false] Further Details Crusader's Might and Liberation Liberation is a pure DPS talent that does not provide any benefits to your healing. It is a very good talent for providing damage while healing, but when you actually want to deal damage, even on single target, you should be using Shield of the Righteous as it does practically the same damage, and it grants a lot of mana return. Crusader's Might is not worth running. Beacon of Faith vs Beacon of Virtue While both options are viable, Beacon of Virtue is the default option as it provides more burst healing, but limits how many Holy Lights you can cast due to the increased mana expenditure. Beacon of Faith is also completely fine if you do not feel like you need the burst healing from Virtue. If you choose to swap to Beacon of Faith, you should also swap from Pillars of Light to Rising Sunlight. Best Holy Paladin Delves Build In Delves, will be the better option because it provides more passive self-healing and defensiveness. You want to use as many of your resources, spells, and cooldowns to deal damage as possible. Keep a Beacon on yourself and use the occasional Infusion of Light proc to cast a powerful Flash of Light on yourself as needed. heading=false] Holy Paladin Leveling Builds If you're searching for advice on both the best talents to pick while leveling and the optimal order in which to take them, our leveling tips page has got you covered. There, you will find information about different leveling talent builds, the recommended order in which to pick them, and information about your spec's rotation and cooldowns. Holy Paladin Leveling Tips Our Holy Paladin guides are always updated with the latest information from in-game experience, simulations, and logs. 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Comments

Comment by Cdaw

Getting Avenging Light and Light's Grace, then standing while healing yourself with Holy Light will be a new way doing quests as a holy paladin.

Comment by tanknix

The level 30 tier talents are out of order. Should be Unbreakable Spirit, Cavalier, then Rule of Law.

Comment by Voxine

Light's Hammer Works With the Minor Power The Well of Existence from Calibrated Existence Gauge and makes it a very nice Addition to the Talent, both for Gathering the Overhealing and Releasing the Stored Healing. :)

Comment by Techhead7890

Tier 7 is broken, it should link to the holy version which gives 20% free casts.

Comment by Straata

The guide in several places references a Holy Light build, yet there is no example or link to said build.

Comment by DamianIroneard

Man this guide needs to go through a rework to delete outdated information and update current.

Comment by Apollomantis

I mean for the time being it seems like it's best to just use the current necrolord build TBH, given it still works just as well as any other build, and in theory should be stronger in comparison to pure tree builds.

Comment by pdcampbell93

This build is great! but it does not import. it gives an error saying its not up to date so you have to manually do it all. just FYI. Specifically the Mythic + build i didnt try the others.

Comment by Apollomantis

Curious to see which build will pull ahead raiding and M+ wise, my money is on the melee build personally, given it offer a healthy amount of HPS and DPS, which is crucial when it comes to prog.

Comment by Intrspace

Why do you pick Sanctified Wrath in the Avenging Crusader build? You yourself wrote that Holy Shock is a lower priority than Crusader Strike and Judgment, so why would a 40% reduced cooldown on Holy Shock matter? I run Seal of Order instead. It is good overall and even makes Crusader Strike cooldown a little faster
And that's not the only choice that looks very strange to me. But perhaps it makes more sense in raids. I don't raid :p

Comment by Spilledstars

Tried to ask the talent calculator about this Bestow Faith that you speak of, but either they renamed it or made it baseline? Because it doesn't seem to be there.

Comment by Ianto

Hello! Thank you very much for the guide, and your work.
I think you're missing a ranged heal build. Really mid-range, to take advantage of the mastery
I share you my talent tree. I am doing Mytics +22 and it works great for me. Stats haste>versa>mastery>crit

https://www.wowhead.com/talent-calc/paladin/holy/DAOERQRUUFkVUWYFFCUQOVVVBVUQYhAUCFRCBU

Comment by xb3au

How are you not taking Blessing of Freedom with entangling affix?

Comment by Numericus

My talent tree in game doesn't have the Echoed Blessings talent to choose.

Comment by Samiumi

I am dearly sorry to bother, but- The Holy Paladin Talent Tree isn't up to date. ^^

Comment by johnboyzear

Under the Standard build for raiding, it says:

With this build you can choose to take Merciful Auras over Blessing of Summer if you prefer, but it is not recommended for progress as Blessing of Summer constitutes a large portion of our damage.

I'm hung up on this because I'm not sure if I'm supposed to read "our damage" as "the Paladin that casts Blessing of Summer" or "the group's damage". Does Blessing of Summer's holy damage count for the caster or the target it was cast on?

Comment by moardotzz

Another terrible guide, by clarius, what else is new

Comment by Rmewz

No light of the martyr and beyond?
HS is your n1 source. The downside or absorb is easily outhealed compared to the massive boost to hs you get.

I think the paladin discord went a bit too much on this matter.

Comment by basicbreeze943

Can we get an update pls on some of these? They leave 1 talent on left talent tree open, not sure if intended.

Comment by Aggrophobic

It is just me, or does Divine Toll now consume one of the Rising Sun procs, so we only get one "charge" after it's cast?

Comment by Lynexia1

Why do any of these builds use divine toll when it's is objectively worse than prism for healing and damage in every way?

Comment by Lynexia1

I just hate beacon of virtue so much. I will just never use it because it's just such a dumb choice specially with the apex beacon existing there will only ever be 2 people in M+ that don't have a beacon...

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