Holy Paladin Leveling Guide
Holy Paladin Leveling Guide
11.0.5 - The War Within
Last Updated:October 24, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Holy Paladin leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0.5! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
It is highly recommended to level as Retribution Paladin!
Talents
Holy Paladin
Lightsmith Level 70
Spec Tree
- Avenging Wrath
- Increases all your damage done while active.
- Rising Sunlight
- This talent procs on use of Avenging Wrath and Divine Toll. Greatly increases your single target damage.
- Crusader's Might
- Using Crusader Strike reduces cooldown of Holy Shock and Judgment.
Class Tree
- Divine Toll
- On demand burst of damage used mainly to proc Rising Sunlight in order to make your Holy Shock strike 2 more times.
- Echoing Blessings
- Use it with Blessing of Freedom to get movement speed increase.
- Hammer of Wrath
- Greatly increases your damage, especially in execute.
Hero Talents
- Lightsmith performs better than Herald of the Sun due to the fact that it provides more damage especially on AoE enabling faster clear times. Consider respeccing to Retribution Paladin for an even faster leveling experience!
- Holy Armaments provides Sacred Weapon that provides extra Holy damage while it is up.
- Divine Guidance makes your Consecration do way more damage. Stack it up with Shield of the Righteous.
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Lightsmith as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Holy ArmamentsBlackened Soul[/wow-trait].
- Pick Divine Guidance.
- Pick Excoriation.
- Pick Hammer and Anvil.
- Pick Solidarity.
- Pick Forewarning.
- Pick Valiance.
- Blessing of the Forge.
- Pick Rite of Sanctification.
- Laying Down Arms.
Rotation
Holy Paladin
Single-Target
- You want to pull the mob with Holy Shock or any other range ability.
- Always keep Consecration down.
- Don't overcap on Holy Power.
- Use Hammer of Wrath on cooldown when you get resets.
AoE
- Pull multiple mobs with Holy Shock or any other range ability and stack them up before starting to "burst" them down.
- Always keep Consecration down.
- Don't overcap on Holy Power.
- Prioritise Judgment to proc an extra Consecration.
- Use Hammer of Wrath on cooldown when you get resets.
Shopping List
Holy Paladin
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Thaner
Reviewed by: Velo