Holy Paladin Healing Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — 12.1

Infusion of Light is a core passive for Holy Paladin. This effect has a 10% chance to be triggered whenever you cast Holy Shock. There are two different ways that you can utilize this buff:

• Flash of Light
  When cast with Infusion of Light, this ability becomes instant cast and the healing is increased by a significant margin.
• Judgment
  When cast with Infusion of Light, the Greater Judgment effect is increased by a large margin and generates 1 additional Holy Power.

The best choice for consuming Infusion of Light largely depends on the situation you are in. In Mythic+ and when absolutely no damage is needed, casting Judgment can be preferred due to it providing more Holy Power. However, anytime healing is needed you should absolutely be casting Flash of Light. Flash of Light offers significantly more healing and underutilizing it can result in you falling behind in healing in Mythic+, or struggling to keep up with your co-healers in raid.

Beacon of the Savior is the new Apex Talent added in Midnight. This will give you a new Beacon that will automatically be placed on the lowest health ally. Once the target is healed beyond their maximum HP or another target drops below 50%, the Beacon will move. There are a few interactions to keep in mind with this Beacon:

• This ability benefits from all talents that your typical Beacon of Light does. This includes Commanding Light, Saved by the Light, and any other Beacon-related talent.
• While you will still transfer healing to Beacon of the Savior like any other Beacon, you will also do additional healing to the target who has your Beacon of the Savior.
• Every 8 seconds, or when Beacon of the Savior is applied to a new target, a small shield will be placed on the target and they will also take reduced damage for the next 15 seconds.

Despite Beacon of the Savior targets receiving more healing, you will not want to continuously heal them directly. You should aim to heal them when they are in danger just like you would with any other raid/party member. The reason that the healing increase exists in the first place is to make it less punishing towards your healing to cast spells on your Beacon target. Due to the fact the target with your Beacon of the Savior is likely to be the lowest health member, you don't want to miss out on potential healing by directly heal them. The healing increase counteracts this, meaning that you should simply aim to heal the players most in danger.

Mastery: Lightbringer is the Holy Paladin mastery. This increases the healing done by your spells based on your proximity from the target. Beacon of the Lightbringer increases this effect further by adding your Beacons to the equation. The increase to healing will be calculated based on whoever is closer between yourself and players with your Beacons. In the past, it has been common to cast Beacon of Light and Beacon of Faith on tank players as they will always be taking damage. This is no longer true and you will want to place your Beacons on ranged players who have lower survivability. This will allow you to get good value from your Beacons while also providing you with increased Mastery values as they will be closer to ranged while you will be closer to melee. Below we will list out a few good choices for your Beacon of Light and Beacon of Faith targets. Of course if you are playing Beacon of Virtue this is not relevant.

• Balance Druid
• Shadow Priest
• Devastation Evoker
• Any Hunter spec
• If you have none of the above, place it on any remaining ranged.
• In small group settings with no ranged, you can often choose the tank and the melee DPS taking the most damage consistently.

Avenging Wrath is our main cooldown. This ability has a 2-minute cooldown by default and increases your damage, healing, and critical strike. You will want to use this cooldown as often as possible while ideally lining it up with longer duration damage windows due to it lasting 30 seconds by default. When active, you will want to follow your standard rotation, you will just be doing more healing!

Aura Mastery will only be used on Devotion Aura, meaning that you should have Devotion Aura selected from your Aura bar before using (you should always keep it on by default). When pressed, you will provide all allies with a 12% damage reduction. In a raid setting, this cooldown is likely to be assigned to a heavy-hitting mechanic by whoever is responsible for organizing your healing cooldowns. When you are on your own, you should prioritize using this ability anytime your party is likely to be in danger, ideally right before large damage happens.

Avenging Crusader replaces Avenging Wrath and grants different bonuses as well as having a much shorter cooldown. When cast, this ability will transform into Crusader Strike for the duration. While active, your Judgment and Crusader Strike abilities will now heal nearby allies when they deal damage. This means that your rotation will change slightly and you will be wanting to press as much Judgment and Crusader Strike as possible when the cooldown is active, while still prioritizing spending Holy Power when you are near capping.

Divine Toll and Holy Prism share a choice node in Midnight. When playing Lightsmith, you will have these replaces by Holy Armaments. Regardless of your ability choice, these are short-cooldowns which you will want to make frequent use of. When playing Herald of the Sun, pressing these abilities is what gives you access to Dawnlight, making them incredibly important.

Divine Toll casts 5 Holy Shocks when pressed. The important part of this cooldown is in who you are targetting when you use it. If you are targetting an enemy, then it will prioritize casting the 5 Holy Shocks on enemies. If there aren't enough enemies then it will cast the remaining number of Holy Shocks on allies. This means that when your goal is to do healing, you need to make sure that you are casting the ability at an ally, otherwise you will be wasting a ton of healing. As previously mentioned, your goal should be to cast this ability as much as possible when playing Herald of the Sun to proc Dawnlight.

Holy Prism functions very similarly to Divine Toll in the sense that it functions differently depending on if you cast it on an ally or an enemy. When cast on an ally, it will deal large single-target healing and AoE damage to enemies around you. If cast on an enemy, it will deal large single-target damage, and do AoE healing to nearby allies. You will generally prioritize casting this on enemies, in order to trigger the AoE healing effect. Additionally, you want to cast this ability as much as possible when playing Herald of the Sun to proc Dawnlight.