Holy Paladin Mythic+ and Raid Guide Midnight Season 1

[00:00] Holy Paladin blossom, incredible single

[00:02] target healing in midnight with both

[00:04] casted spells and your holy power

[00:06] spenders blasting up health bars quickly

[00:09] and working with their beacons to cleave

[00:11] that output onto other allies in the

[00:14] process. They are constantly relied upon

[00:16] to be the main single target healer for

[00:18] their raid team and are very strong in

[00:20] this M plus season. Hey, what's going on

[00:22] guys? It's Jack here to bring you my

[00:23] guide for Holy Paladin for both mythic

[00:25] plus and raid and of course reminding

[00:27] you to like and subscribe. The builds

[00:29] for Holy Paladin are pretty similar for

[00:32] raids and keys with a couple of

[00:33] differences. They're both playing Herald

[00:35] of the Sun, which offers some very great

[00:38] bonuses to their spenders and multiple

[00:41] different ways to increase your single

[00:43] target healing. In a mythic plus

[00:44] environment, you're running with the

[00:45] talent moment of compassion where your

[00:48] flashlight is healing for 50% additional

[00:51] when cast on an ally that is affected by

[00:53] your Beacon of Light. You are running

[00:55] the double Beacon talent, which is

[00:57] allowing you to put up two beacons on

[00:59] two different allies

[01:00] and your Apex talent Beacon of the

[01:02] Savior also works with this talent

[01:04] moment of compassion allowing you to

[01:06] drop some enormous single target healing

[01:09] if you flash heal a target that has this

[01:11] Beacon of the Savior buff on them.

[01:13] There's a massive amount of emphasis on

[01:16] buffing up Holy Light with talents like

[01:18] Divine Overload which increase Holy

[01:20] Light's healing by 30% while increasing

[01:22] its mana cost by 20% and this results in

[01:26] Holy Light being the strongest casted

[01:28] spammable single target heal in the game

[01:31] but at a very high mana cost. To help

[01:33] with this, you have some talents like

[01:35] Hand of Divinity where after you

[01:36] activate your Avenging Wrath, your

[01:38] wings, you then get two Holy Lights you

[01:40] can cast at half mana and they will be

[01:43] instant cast. You're also be getting a

[01:45] lot of Infusion of Light procs which

[01:47] come from casting your Holy Shock Holy

[01:50] Power builder spell. This Infusion of

[01:53] Light which is going to arc around your

[01:54] character is going to allow you to cast

[01:56] your flash heal for more healing with

[01:59] talents like divine revelations. So,

[02:01] you're always using your infusion of

[02:03] light procs on flash of light. Now,

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[03:14] and let's continue. The big fundamentals

[03:16] for playing holy paladin are always

[03:18] going to be about spending your holy

[03:20] power and not overcapping. You can hold

[03:23] five holy power at a time, and every

[03:25] time you hit a spending spell, which

[03:27] could be light of dawn for AoE healing,

[03:29] eternal flame for single target healing,

[03:31] or shield of the righteous for damage,

[03:33] you're always going to be spending three

[03:35] holy power at a time. You're generating

[03:38] holy power with spells like holy shock,

[03:41] flash of light, or holy light. You can

[03:43] also take advantage of judgment, but

[03:45] that'll basically be during downtime

[03:47] when nothing happens. So, in a mythic

[03:48] plus environment, you're always using

[03:51] your spenders for healing on eternal

[03:53] flame. You are not casting light of

[03:55] dawn. If you need to do some additional

[03:58] damage, you would be spending it on

[03:59] shield of the righteous. Holy light is

[04:01] your most powerful single target heal,

[04:03] and it's also your emergency healing

[04:05] button in a dungeon environment. You do

[04:07] expect to use it quite a bit, but don't

[04:09] always use it as your very first spell

[04:12] because it can cost an enormous amount

[04:14] of mana. Your infusion of light procs,

[04:16] as we mentioned before, should always be

[04:18] utilized on flash. And if the target of

[04:21] your beacon of the savior is also low

[04:23] HP, then you can prefer to cast it on

[04:25] that beacon of the savior target because

[04:27] it benefits from the bonus healing of

[04:29] moment of compassion. In low to mid

[04:32] damage periods, you always want to be

[04:33] using your holy shock to build up your

[04:35] holy power and of course spending it on

[04:37] eternal flame for those low to mid

[04:40] damage levels. Holy light should

[04:41] predominantly be utilized for very high

[04:44] damage periods where you need to just

[04:46] muscle heal through your problems. If

[04:48] there's nothing really going on or say

[04:50] light damage and you don't have access

[04:52] to your holy shocks, you could use

[04:54] judgment if there's not any healing

[04:56] going on or you could use flash of light

[04:58] and hard cast it, which means you're

[04:59] just fully casting the spell without the

[05:02] infusion of light buffs.

[05:04] That could also be used during low to

[05:05] mid damage periods. You always want to

[05:07] make sure you're utilizing your divine

[05:09] toll on cool down. Not only is it a

[05:11] short CD, but it also has a very high

[05:13] chance to give you infusion of light

[05:15] procs to help you heal more efficiently

[05:18] with those infusion of light procs being

[05:20] spent on flash of light. Now, if you

[05:23] target an enemy with the spell, it will

[05:24] cast it on enemies. You cast it onto an

[05:26] ally, it'll prefer to target your allies

[05:29] first. You always want to make sure

[05:30] you're not capped on holy power already

[05:32] before you utilize divine toll to take

[05:35] advantage of the five holy power that

[05:37] it's going to generate. There's a lot of

[05:38] times where it'll do a light amount of

[05:40] healing to your entire party. So, if you

[05:43] need to utilize the spell in advance of

[05:45] very bursty damage, feel free to do so.

[05:48] Your Avenging Wrath is not a massive

[05:50] cool down like it's been over the years,

[05:51] but it also lasts a very long time. And

[05:54] when you activate it, you also are

[05:56] getting access to those double instant

[05:59] cast Holy Lights through your Hand of

[06:01] Divinity talent. So, you want to make

[06:03] sure you're utilizing your wings

[06:04] frequently and at moments where you

[06:07] think you could take advantage of those

[06:08] Hand of Divinity procs. Cuz then you can

[06:11] heal so much more efficiently with your

[06:14] resources, and that'll also open things

[06:17] up a little bit later on for if you have

[06:19] a better mana economy, you can be more

[06:21] aggressively casting Holy Lights when

[06:23] you get into a dangerous position. The

[06:25] Hand of Divinity buff lasts for 20

[06:27] seconds while your wings with the

[06:28] Sanctified Wrath talent lasts for 30.

[06:30] So, you have a lot of time to spend

[06:32] those resources, so feel free to be

[06:34] aggressive with your wings. Aura Mastery

[06:36] is your defensive cool down for your

[06:38] entire party, buffing up your devotion

[06:41] aura to give damage reduction to your

[06:43] allies for 8 seconds. You always want to

[06:45] make sure you're utilizing this before

[06:47] damage is going out. So, if you know,

[06:48] especially for a bursty damage situation

[06:51] that is coming up, make sure you use it

[06:53] well in advance so that when the damage

[06:54] is actually happening, you're casting

[06:56] the Holy Lights or Flash or as needed to

[06:58] keep everybody healthy. Paladin also has

[07:01] access to a wealth of utility spells

[07:04] that can really make a massive impact on

[07:06] how much healing you have to do onto

[07:08] your allies. One of which is your

[07:09] Blessing of Sacrifice, which is

[07:11] transferring damage that an ally is

[07:13] taking and putting it onto you. Now,

[07:16] this can be kind of scary, especially if

[07:18] somebody's getting absolutely trucked,

[07:20] but you can also mitigate this by

[07:22] utilizing your Divine Shield to

[07:24] completely just immune any of that

[07:25] damage going out. But, spells like

[07:28] Divine Protection do not mitigate that

[07:30] damage. So, if you're putting up

[07:32] Blessing of Sacrifice on somebody, make

[07:34] sure you're utilizing your Eternal Flame

[07:36] on yourself because you're also healing

[07:38] yourself for more with your Eternal

[07:40] Flame, which can also be really helpful

[07:41] for when you have to deal with the

[07:43] negative healing absorb that light of

[07:45] the martyr is putting on to you. Now,

[07:47] light of the martyr increases your holy

[07:48] shock healing, but when you're casting

[07:50] the spell, it also starts stacking up a

[07:52] negative absorb, which cannot be healed

[07:55] through your beacons. So, you can't put

[07:56] beacon on yourself to just passively

[07:59] deal with this. You will have to heal

[08:01] yourself more than your other allies as

[08:03] a result. One great way to do it is

[08:05] during downtime be using that eternal

[08:07] flame onto yourself so you always have a

[08:09] small hot ticking away and slowly

[08:11] munching up that negative healing

[08:13] absorb. So, if you can't put your

[08:15] beacons on yourself, that means you got

[08:16] to put them on somebody else. And

[08:19] often really high-level players are

[08:21] going to be putting both their beacons

[08:22] in a party on ranged players that are

[08:25] squishier. Things like boomkins, mages,

[08:28] hunters, things along those lines are

[08:30] always great targets for your beacons.

[08:33] And that'll also make sure they're

[08:34] constantly getting healing transferred

[08:36] to them. You can absolutely directly

[08:39] heal those beacon targets if you need

[08:41] to, but it's often better to make sure

[08:43] you're healing the player that does not

[08:44] have a beacon if everybody is taking

[08:47] equal amounts of damage. Another big

[08:49] benefit to putting your beacons on

[08:50] ranged players is your mastery. The

[08:52] beacon of the lightbringer is not only

[08:54] increasing your healing based on the

[08:56] positioning of your character, but also

[08:58] where your beacons are located. And so,

[09:00] if you are in melee predominantly as the

[09:02] holy paladin, you put up your beacons

[09:04] onto ranged players, it's going to make

[09:06] it that much easier to have full mastery

[09:08] value for allies at range. Blessing of

[09:11] protection will help make an ally immune

[09:13] to physical damage, of which there is a

[09:15] lot in these dungeons. It also will

[09:18] remove a lot of the bleeds that are

[09:20] going out. And so, if you're into a

[09:21] dungeon like say Seat of the

[09:23] Triumvirate, which is putting out bleeds

[09:25] onto allies, you can very quickly just

[09:27] pop that target, completely remove the

[09:29] bleed, and not have to worry about them

[09:31] for a few seconds. There's also a lot of

[09:33] damage reduction that can be granted by

[09:35] utilizing blessing of freedom. Now,

[09:38] blessing of freedom is going to remove

[09:39] roots and snares. Snares are basically

[09:41] slowing effects. And there's some damage

[09:44] mechanics like in Seat of the

[09:45] Triumvirate with the subjugator mobs

[09:48] that are casting a snare onto the entire

[09:50] party. And so, if you're running with

[09:52] certain talents like unbound freedom

[09:54] where you can cast a freedom onto an

[09:56] ally and it also cast it onto yourself,

[09:58] 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

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