[0:00] Holy Paladin blossom, incredible single
[0:02] target healing in midnight with both
[0:04] casted spells and your holy power
[0:06] spenders blasting up health bars quickly
[0:09] and working with their beacons to cleave
[0:11] that output onto other allies in the
[0:14] process. They are constantly relied upon
[0:16] to be the main single target healer for
[0:18] their raid team and are very strong in
[0:20] this M plus season. Hey, what's going on
[0:22] guys? It's Jack here to bring you my
[0:23] guide for Holy Paladin for both mythic
[0:25] plus and raid and of course reminding
[0:27] you to like and subscribe. The builds
[0:29] for Holy Paladin are pretty similar for
[0:32] raids and keys with a couple of
[0:33] differences. They're both playing Herald
[0:35] of the Sun, which offers some very great
[0:38] bonuses to their spenders and multiple
[0:41] different ways to increase your single
[0:43] target healing. In a mythic plus
[0:44] environment, you're running with the
[0:45] talent moment of compassion where your
[0:48] flashlight is healing for 50% additional
[0:51] when cast on an ally that is affected by
[0:53] your Beacon of Light. You are running
[0:55] the double Beacon talent, which is
[0:57] allowing you to put up two beacons on
[0:59] two different allies
[1:00] and your Apex talent Beacon of the
[1:02] Savior also works with this talent
[1:04] moment of compassion allowing you to
[1:06] drop some enormous single target healing
[1:09] if you flash heal a target that has this
[1:11] Beacon of the Savior buff on them.
[1:13] There's a massive amount of emphasis on
[1:16] buffing up Holy Light with talents like
[1:18] Divine Overload which increase Holy
[1:20] Light's healing by 30% while increasing
[1:22] its mana cost by 20% and this results in
[1:26] Holy Light being the strongest casted
[1:28] spammable single target heal in the game
[1:31] but at a very high mana cost. To help
[1:33] with this, you have some talents like
[1:35] Hand of Divinity where after you
[1:36] activate your Avenging Wrath, your
[1:38] wings, you then get two Holy Lights you
[1:40] can cast at half mana and they will be
[1:43] instant cast. You're also be getting a
[1:45] lot of Infusion of Light procs which
[1:47] come from casting your Holy Shock Holy
[1:50] Power builder spell. This Infusion of
[1:53] Light which is going to arc around your
[1:54] character is going to allow you to cast
[1:56] your flash heal for more healing with
[1:59] talents like divine revelations. So,
[2:01] you're always using your infusion of
[2:03] light procs on flash of light. Now,
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[3:14] and let's continue. The big fundamentals
[3:16] for playing holy paladin are always
[3:18] going to be about spending your holy
[3:20] power and not overcapping. You can hold
[3:23] five holy power at a time, and every
[3:25] time you hit a spending spell, which
[3:27] could be light of dawn for AoE healing,
[3:29] eternal flame for single target healing,
[3:31] or shield of the righteous for damage,
[3:33] you're always going to be spending three
[3:35] holy power at a time. You're generating
[3:38] holy power with spells like holy shock,
[3:41] flash of light, or holy light. You can
[3:43] also take advantage of judgment, but
[3:45] that'll basically be during downtime
[3:47] when nothing happens. So, in a mythic
[3:48] plus environment, you're always using
[3:51] your spenders for healing on eternal
[3:53] flame. You are not casting light of
[3:55] dawn. If you need to do some additional
[3:58] damage, you would be spending it on
[3:59] shield of the righteous. Holy light is
[4:01] your most powerful single target heal,
[4:03] and it's also your emergency healing
[4:05] button in a dungeon environment. You do
[4:07] expect to use it quite a bit, but don't
[4:09] always use it as your very first spell
[4:12] because it can cost an enormous amount
[4:14] of mana. Your infusion of light procs,
[4:16] as we mentioned before, should always be
[4:18] utilized on flash. And if the target of
[4:21] your beacon of the savior is also low
[4:23] HP, then you can prefer to cast it on
[4:25] that beacon of the savior target because
[4:27] it benefits from the bonus healing of
[4:29] moment of compassion. In low to mid
[4:32] damage periods, you always want to be
[4:33] using your holy shock to build up your
[4:35] holy power and of course spending it on
[4:37] eternal flame for those low to mid
[4:40] damage levels. Holy light should
[4:41] predominantly be utilized for very high
[4:44] damage periods where you need to just
[4:46] muscle heal through your problems. If
[4:48] there's nothing really going on or say
[4:50] light damage and you don't have access
[4:52] to your holy shocks, you could use
[4:54] judgment if there's not any healing
[4:56] going on or you could use flash of light
[4:58] and hard cast it, which means you're
[4:59] just fully casting the spell without the
[5:02] infusion of light buffs.
[5:04] That could also be used during low to
[5:05] mid damage periods. You always want to
[5:07] make sure you're utilizing your divine
[5:09] toll on cool down. Not only is it a
[5:11] short CD, but it also has a very high
[5:13] chance to give you infusion of light
[5:15] procs to help you heal more efficiently
[5:18] with those infusion of light procs being
[5:20] spent on flash of light. Now, if you
[5:23] target an enemy with the spell, it will
[5:24] cast it on enemies. You cast it onto an
[5:26] ally, it'll prefer to target your allies
[5:29] first. You always want to make sure
[5:30] you're not capped on holy power already
[5:32] before you utilize divine toll to take
[5:35] advantage of the five holy power that
[5:37] it's going to generate. There's a lot of
[5:38] times where it'll do a light amount of
[5:40] healing to your entire party. So, if you
[5:43] need to utilize the spell in advance of
[5:45] very bursty damage, feel free to do so.
[5:48] Your Avenging Wrath is not a massive
[5:50] cool down like it's been over the years,
[5:51] but it also lasts a very long time. And
[5:54] when you activate it, you also are
[5:56] getting access to those double instant
[5:59] cast Holy Lights through your Hand of
[6:01] Divinity talent. So, you want to make
[6:03] sure you're utilizing your wings
[6:04] frequently and at moments where you
[6:07] think you could take advantage of those
[6:08] Hand of Divinity procs. Cuz then you can
[6:11] heal so much more efficiently with your
[6:14] resources, and that'll also open things
[6:17] up a little bit later on for if you have
[6:19] a better mana economy, you can be more
[6:21] aggressively casting Holy Lights when
[6:23] you get into a dangerous position. The
[6:25] Hand of Divinity buff lasts for 20
[6:27] seconds while your wings with the
[6:28] Sanctified Wrath talent lasts for 30.
[6:30] So, you have a lot of time to spend
[6:32] those resources, so feel free to be
[6:34] aggressive with your wings. Aura Mastery
[6:36] is your defensive cool down for your
[6:38] entire party, buffing up your devotion
[6:41] aura to give damage reduction to your
[6:43] allies for 8 seconds. You always want to
[6:45] make sure you're utilizing this before
[6:47] damage is going out. So, if you know,
[6:48] especially for a bursty damage situation
[6:51] that is coming up, make sure you use it
[6:53] well in advance so that when the damage
[6:54] is actually happening, you're casting
[6:56] the Holy Lights or Flash or as needed to
[6:58] keep everybody healthy. Paladin also has
[7:01] access to a wealth of utility spells
[7:04] that can really make a massive impact on
[7:06] how much healing you have to do onto
[7:08] your allies. One of which is your
[7:09] Blessing of Sacrifice, which is
[7:11] transferring damage that an ally is
[7:13] taking and putting it onto you. Now,
[7:16] this can be kind of scary, especially if
[7:18] somebody's getting absolutely trucked,
[7:20] but you can also mitigate this by
[7:22] utilizing your Divine Shield to
[7:24] completely just immune any of that
[7:25] damage going out. But, spells like
[7:28] Divine Protection do not mitigate that
[7:30] damage. So, if you're putting up
[7:32] Blessing of Sacrifice on somebody, make
[7:34] sure you're utilizing your Eternal Flame
[7:36] on yourself because you're also healing
[7:38] yourself for more with your Eternal
[7:40] Flame, which can also be really helpful
[7:41] for when you have to deal with the
[7:43] negative healing absorb that light of
[7:45] the martyr is putting on to you. Now,
[7:47] light of the martyr increases your holy
[7:48] shock healing, but when you're casting
[7:50] the spell, it also starts stacking up a
[7:52] negative absorb, which cannot be healed
[7:55] through your beacons. So, you can't put
[7:56] beacon on yourself to just passively
[7:59] deal with this. You will have to heal
[8:01] yourself more than your other allies as
[8:03] a result. One great way to do it is
[8:05] during downtime be using that eternal
[8:07] flame onto yourself so you always have a
[8:09] small hot ticking away and slowly
[8:11] munching up that negative healing
[8:13] absorb. So, if you can't put your
[8:15] beacons on yourself, that means you got
[8:16] to put them on somebody else. And
[8:19] often really high-level players are
[8:21] going to be putting both their beacons
[8:22] in a party on ranged players that are
[8:25] squishier. Things like boomkins, mages,
[8:28] hunters, things along those lines are
[8:30] always great targets for your beacons.
[8:33] And that'll also make sure they're
[8:34] constantly getting healing transferred
[8:36] to them. You can absolutely directly
[8:39] heal those beacon targets if you need
[8:41] to, but it's often better to make sure
[8:43] you're healing the player that does not
[8:44] have a beacon if everybody is taking
[8:47] equal amounts of damage. Another big
[8:49] benefit to putting your beacons on
[8:50] ranged players is your mastery. The
[8:52] beacon of the lightbringer is not only
[8:54] increasing your healing based on the
[8:56] positioning of your character, but also
[8:58] where your beacons are located. And so,
[9:00] if you are in melee predominantly as the
[9:02] holy paladin, you put up your beacons
[9:04] onto ranged players, it's going to make
[9:06] it that much easier to have full mastery
[9:08] value for allies at range. Blessing of
[9:11] protection will help make an ally immune
[9:13] to physical damage, of which there is a
[9:15] lot in these dungeons. It also will
[9:18] remove a lot of the bleeds that are
[9:20] going out. And so, if you're into a
[9:21] dungeon like say Seat of the
[9:23] Triumvirate, which is putting out bleeds
[9:25] onto allies, you can very quickly just
[9:27] pop that target, completely remove the
[9:29] bleed, and not have to worry about them
[9:31] for a few seconds. There's also a lot of
[9:33] damage reduction that can be granted by
[9:35] utilizing blessing of freedom. Now,
[9:38] blessing of freedom is going to remove
[9:39] roots and snares. Snares are basically
[9:41] slowing effects. And there's some damage
[9:44] mechanics like in Seat of the
[9:45] Triumvirate with the subjugator mobs
[9:48] that are casting a snare onto the entire
[9:50] party. And so, if you're running with
[9:52] certain talents like unbound freedom
[9:54] where you can cast a freedom onto an
[9:56] ally and it also cast it onto yourself,
[9:58] then you can immune two out of the five
[10:00] players from any of that incoming
[10:01] damage, making it a very powerful talent
[10:04] choice for a mythic plus environment.
[10:06] But, the competing talent, echoing
[10:08] blessings, also will make spells like
[10:10] blessing of protection grant some damage
[10:12] reduction. So, you could run with
[10:14] echoing blessings instead in some
[10:16] instances and bop an ally and grant them
[10:19] 15% damage reduction even if it's going
[10:21] to be magic damage. That also has a
[10:23] really good use case.
[10:25] Keep in mind that your beacon of the
[10:26] savior target does take additional
[10:28] healing. So, if you know that they are
[10:30] in danger, you can drop some very huge
[10:32] single target heals with both Flash of
[10:34] Light and Holy Light to make sure that
[10:36] they are in a healthy position. A lot of
[10:38] times that you'll see in keys is that
[10:39] the beacon will jump around constantly
[10:42] and you're usually having it align with
[10:44] the most injured target. Once you've
[10:46] topped somebody off with say like a big
[10:48] Holy Light cast, then the beacon will be
[10:50] jumping to somebody else who's in need
[10:52] and whatever healing spells that you're
[10:53] putting out onto that target are also
[10:55] going to be buffed by 20%. Dealing
[10:57] damage as a paladin is quite simple. If
[10:59] there's not much going on, feel free to
[11:00] be utilizing your judgment aggressively.
[11:03] This will be proccing a consecrate at
[11:04] the target's location through the
[11:06] righteous judgment talent. And you want
[11:08] to make sure you're just hitting your
[11:09] spenders on Shield of the Righteous,
[11:11] which with our talents for M plus are
[11:13] also going to be stacking up buffs for
[11:15] Shining Righteousness, which is going to
[11:17] give you a chance to proc Divine Purpose
[11:19] through your Shield of the Righteous
[11:21] casts. That Divine Purpose can be a proc
[11:23] that you can spend on either more Shield
[11:25] of the Righteous for more damage, which
[11:26] can help you regen mana, or you could
[11:28] utilize it on an Eternal Flame. Now, we
[11:30] know that paladin brings phenomenal
[11:32] amounts of single target healing, but
[11:34] how do you deal with different damage
[11:35] scenarios? In a rot environment, that's
[11:37] probably one of the best scenarios for
[11:39] Paladin because you get to fully
[11:41] leverage the beacon transfers
[11:43] themselves. When everybody is taking
[11:45] equal damage, you're able to focus on
[11:47] your Holy Shock, Eternal Flames,
[11:49] Infusion of Light procs, sent on Flash
[11:51] of Light, or even Holy Light if ticking
[11:53] damage gets really bad on those players
[11:56] that do not have beacon and take
[11:57] advantage of the beacon transfers for
[11:59] your Beacon of the Savior and your
[12:01] Beacon of Light and Faith. Now, if you
[12:03] get into some bursty damage scenarios,
[12:06] this is where you start taking advantage
[12:07] of your Blessing of Protection, your
[12:09] Divine Shield, your personal immunity,
[12:12] and huge amounts of Holy Light to
[12:14] completely mitigate big damage
[12:16] mechanics. Just being able to hit your
[12:18] Divine Shield and sacrificing somebody
[12:20] is a great way to take two targets out
[12:23] of five, and maybe even not even
[12:24] including the tanks, you take two
[12:26] targets out of four that you don't have
[12:29] to worry about healing, and you can then
[12:30] focus on the other ones. I said it
[12:32] before and I'll say it again, while you
[12:34] ideally don't heal the targets of your
[12:36] beacons, if they're in danger, feel free
[12:39] to fully send whatever is necessary to
[12:41] keep them alive. A lot of times, if I
[12:43] know that the beacon targets with Faith
[12:46] and with Light are going to be taking
[12:48] constant damage, directly putting
[12:50] Eternal Flames onto them, directly
[12:52] casting Holy Lights or Flash as needed
[12:54] is perfectly fine. You want to take
[12:57] advantage of the beacon transfers when
[12:59] you can, but keep in mind that those
[13:01] alone are often not going to be enough
[13:03] at higher level content to keep them
[13:05] healthy. One major tip I would give for
[13:07] Paladins is that while you have those
[13:09] fundamentals that are very important
[13:11] about not overcapping your Holy Power or
[13:14] making sure you're avoiding healing your
[13:15] beacons for max output, keep in mind
[13:18] that these are also guidelines, and they
[13:20] are meant to be broken at higher level
[13:21] content when you are forced into very
[13:23] dangerous situations. If, for example,
[13:26] you have enormous amounts of burst
[13:27] damage onto the party, yeah, you're
[13:29] going to overcap on Holy Power and just
[13:31] spam Holy Lights, no matter what, to get
[13:33] yourself through that problem. Now, it's
[13:35] going to destroy your mana economy, but
[13:37] sometimes that's what has to happen to
[13:39] keep everybody alive. Ideally, you're
[13:41] not casting on Beacon targets, but if
[13:43] they're the most injured target, slam
[13:44] down the Holy Lights or Flash, whatever
[13:46] is needed to keep them healthy. Your
[13:49] Holy Shocks, it might often feel like
[13:50] you need to be utilizing those on
[13:52] cooldown, but if you need to cast higher
[13:54] priority higher power spells, then your
[13:56] Holy Shocks are going to sit unused as a
[13:59] result. And so, keep in mind the
[14:01] guidelines, but understand that they are
[14:03] just guidelines to assist you with
[14:05] better play, and sometimes you need to
[14:07] throw the entire kitchen sink at a
[14:08] problem to make sure you deal with it.
[14:11] And Paladin is one of the best healers
[14:12] to scale up their healing in dangerous
[14:14] situations
[14:16] to make sure that those things don't
[14:18] spiral out of control into a wipe. When
[14:20] it comes to stats, for maximum output,
[14:22] Paladins are preferring Mastery,
[14:25] followed by Crit, which is equal to
[14:26] Haste, and then Versatility. If you were
[14:29] trying to min-max your damage, you could
[14:30] probably be dropping your Mastery and
[14:32] working on just focusing Crit and Haste
[14:34] instead, but early on, I think
[14:36] maximizing your output with Mastery is
[14:38] probably going to be a good play both
[14:39] for raids and for keys, because the stat
[14:41] priority is going to be the same for
[14:43] both. When it comes to a raiding
[14:44] environment, a lot of these fundamentals
[14:46] remain the same, but there's a couple of
[14:47] key differences when it comes to your
[14:49] talent selection. One of which is not
[14:51] running Moment of Compassion, and
[14:53] instead running Resplendent Light, where
[14:56] your Holy Light is healing up to five
[14:57] allies within 12 yards for 8% of Holy
[15:01] Light's healing. This can cause a great
[15:03] amount of splash output. You're also
[15:05] dropping a few different talents in
[15:07] favor of those that are buffing up your
[15:09] Light of Dawn healing. Taking talents
[15:10] like Unending Light or Breaking Dawn to
[15:13] further crank up the output of your
[15:15] Light of Dawn, which means that you're
[15:17] not going to be utilizing much of any
[15:19] Eternal Flame in a raid, and instead
[15:22] you'll be casting lots of light of dawn.
[15:25] So, your fundamentals are going to look
[15:26] very similar in that you want to be
[15:28] utilizing your holy shocks as much as
[15:30] you possibly can, spending them this
[15:31] time on light of dawn instead of eternal
[15:33] flame, still using your infusion of
[15:35] light procs on your flash of light,
[15:37] utilizing holy light as needed,
[15:39] especially for those huge healing
[15:42] absorbs that are present throughout this
[15:44] entire raid. And if there's not much
[15:47] going on, you could be utilizing a hard
[15:49] casted flash of light for some holy
[15:51] power and some decent healing. Or if
[15:53] there's absolutely nothing going on,
[15:55] then you could utilize a judgment. What
[15:57] makes paladin really special in a raid
[15:59] is how you're able to even out health
[16:00] bars very rapidly. A lot of times what
[16:03] I'm looking for when it comes to a raid
[16:05] is making sure that I have infusion of
[16:07] lights ready to go for whenever another
[16:10] round of burst damage goes out. Cuz a
[16:12] lot of times that happens in these
[16:13] encounters is a big burst of damage goes
[16:15] out, and then ticking damage or rot
[16:17] damage is going to follow. And so,
[16:20] certain players are going to be much
[16:21] lower than others, or they're going to
[16:24] have negative healing absorbs on them,
[16:25] and that's your primary role to play in
[16:28] the raid is evening out these health
[16:30] bars. Now, that might mean, again like
[16:32] we talked about in the M+ section, that
[16:33] your beacon targets are directly
[16:35] affected by these absorbs or by these
[16:37] mechanics. Rather than spending an extra
[16:38] global to move the beacon to somebody
[16:41] else, and then I start healing that
[16:42] target with the absorb, I'm just
[16:44] slamming healing into that target trying
[16:47] to push up their health bars as fast as
[16:48] I possibly can before moving on to the
[16:51] next person. Paladin has such a
[16:52] propensity to just
[16:54] blast massive single target healing into
[16:56] people that you don't want to spend lots
[16:58] of extra globals worrying about your
[16:59] setup or worrying about the perfect
[17:01] transfers. You instead just need to
[17:03] clear those negative absorbs, work
[17:06] through those dots or heavy bleed damage
[17:09] that can go out onto allies, and even
[17:11] out the health bars. In raids, you're
[17:13] often sitting in like melee range or I
[17:15] call like pseudo melee range where
[17:17] you're just outside of auto attack range
[17:19] for example, putting up beacons on, you
[17:22] know, shadow priest, mage, hunter,
[17:24] boomkins, classes like that they're
[17:26] going to be squishier and making sure
[17:28] you're always in a solid position to
[17:30] plant and cast. You know, something like
[17:32] the paladins encounter like the light
[17:34] blind vanguard can be enormously
[17:36] difficult to just sit there and cast if
[17:38] you're moving around or trying to dodge
[17:41] hammers or something along those lines.
[17:43] And so those are great opportunities to
[17:44] bubble, plant your feet and just be
[17:47] casting holy lights and flash of lights
[17:49] in high damage scenarios. A lot of times
[17:51] what happens is you're hitting your
[17:53] wings as you're getting ready for
[17:55] incoming damage, spending those hand of
[17:57] divinity's on anybody that needs big
[17:59] prio output and then kind of
[18:01] supplementing with holy shock and light
[18:04] of dawns for like the mid levels of
[18:06] damage to play more mana efficiently. I
[18:08] am hard casting lots of flash of light
[18:11] in raids because it's very mana
[18:13] efficient and it does you a solid amount
[18:15] of output while also generating more
[18:17] holy power for you. For trinkets and
[18:20] additional raid and M plus tips, I
[18:21] highly recommend checking out Clarus's
[18:23] guide on Wowhead linked in description
[18:25] down below. And huge thank you to our
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[18:32] as well. Thanks so much for watching
[18:33] guys. Hope you all enjoyed it. I'll
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