Paladin specializationHealer

Holy Paladin

Holy is one of the three Paladin talent trees in WoW Forever. Its tree has 17 talents: 7 new, 4 changed, 4 moved and 2 same as in Classic. Forever removes 4 Classic talents from this tree. Our best-in-slot (BiS) list treats it as a healing spec.

Class: Paladin
Talents: 17
New in Forever: 7
Abilities: 23

Holy talents

The 17 talents of the Holy tree in the beta, row by row. Each one opens its own page: what every rank does, its requirements and what changes from Classic.

Try Holy in the calculator

What changes in Forever

What is new and changed for Holy compared with Classic Era: our change list, its talent tree and its abilities.

In our change list

CHANGEDBug fix

Consecration

· General

Forever

Fixed the increased damage effect not applying to some targets, the Z-axis inconsistency and the vertical pulling of targets.

Build 1.60.1.70009

CHANGEDSpell

Holy Strike (cooldown)

· Holy

Classic

Not in Classic. In the beta: 12 sec.

Forever

Cooldown lowered to 10 seconds.

Build 1.60.1.70009

REMOVEDTalent

Improved Holy Strike

· Holy

Classic

Not in Classic.

Forever

Talent removed from the Holy tree.

Build 1.60.1.70009

CHANGEDTalent

Holy Power

· Holy

Classic

Increases the critical strike chance of Holy spells.

Forever

Also increases Holy Strike critical strike chance by 15%. Retains its old effects.

Build 1.60.1.70009

CHANGEDBug fix

Flash of Light

· General

Forever

Fixed the cast animation.

Build 1.60.1.70009

Class-wide changes

They affect every Paladin, whatever tree they play:

New talents

Voice of Truth
Grants you immunity to Silence and Interrupt effects for 6 sec.
Reverence
Allows 30% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Purifying Power
Reduces 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 Light
Your 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 Precision
Improves your chance to hit with Holy spells by 18%.
Consecrated Ground
Gives your Holy spells 10% increased damage against the first 4 enemies that enter your Consecration.
Light's Vigil
Applies 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 182 Holy damage and refund 75% of Light's Vigil's Mana cost, or allied targets to heal their party for 324. You may only have one Light's Vigil active per party.

Changed or moved talents

Healing LightChanges: position, text.
Spiritual FocusChanges: ranks, text, numbers.
Improved SealsChanges: ranks, text, numbers, name.
Unyielding FaithChanges: position, text, numbers.
IlluminationChanges: text, numbers.
Divine FavorChanges: position.
Holy ShockChanges: position, text, numbers.
Holy PowerChanges: text, numbers.

Removed talents

New abilities

Changed abilities

Holy LightChanges: tooltip.
Lay on HandsChanges: cooldown, tooltip.
Blessing of WisdomChanges: tooltip.
ConsecrationChanges: tooltip, talent.
ExorcismChanges: tooltip.
Flash of LightChanges: tooltip.
Divine FavorChanges: level.
Holy ShockChanges: ranks, level, cost, cooldown, range, tooltip.
Seal of LightChanges: tooltip.
Seal of WisdomChanges: tooltip.
Blessing of LightChanges: tooltip.
Hammer of WrathChanges: tooltip.
Holy WrathChanges: tooltip.
Greater Blessing of WisdomChanges: tooltip.
Greater Blessing of LightChanges: tooltip.

Holy abilities

The 23 abilities the beta spellbook groups under Holy, by the level they are learned at. Each one opens its own page with its ranks, cost and changes.

See Holy in the spellbook →

Holy best-in-slot (BiS) gear

The site’s suggestion, not an official list: we score the beta items with our stat weights for each level. The beta is capped at level 30.

Full list by levelLevel 20 Level 30beta Level 40 Level 50 Level 60

Top picks at level 60

Main hand
1. Hammer of the Twisting Netheritem level 89 · Drops from Kel'Thuzad · Naxxramas (Classic data)
2. The Widow's Embraceitem level 81 · Drops from Grand Widow Faerlina · Naxxramas (Classic data)
Head
1. Don Rigoberto's Lost Hatitem level 81 · Drops from Ouro · Ahn'Qiraj (Classic data)
2. Redemption Headpieceitem level 88 · Quest: Redemption Headpiece · Naxxramas (Classic data)
Chest
1. Robes of the Guardian Saintitem level 77 · Drops from Fankriss the Unyielding · Ahn'Qiraj (Classic data)
2. Redemption Tunicitem level 92 · Quest: Redemption Tunic · Naxxramas (Classic data)

The two highest-scoring pieces in three slots. It is a forecast: until the beta reaches 60, items and their sources may change.

Full Holy list at level 60 →

Why these weights

Healer built around Holy Light and Flash of Light: healing is the king stat and spell power counts the same because it heals too. Intellect weighs more than for other healers thanks to Illumination (each crit refunds half the spell's base mana cost), so 1% crit ≈ 8 healing. 1 mana per 5 s ≈ 2.5 healing in long fights. No ranged slot: librams are not scored. Weapon + shield, weapon + off-hand item and two-hander are compared.