Season of Discovery Holy Paladin Healer Guide
Welcome to our Holy Paladin Healer guide for WoW Classic - Season of Discovery, tailored for PvE content. Here, you will learn how to play the Paladin class as a Holy Paladin Healer. Click the links below to navigate the guide or read this page for a short introduction.
Overview
Holy Paladin is widely regarded as the best single target healer
in all of World of Warcraft Classic. With the addition of
the many tools added in Season of Discovery, they have become
even more powerful. While not only being an incredible healer,
Holy Paladin offers some of the games most powerful buffs and
life-saving cooldowns in the form of their unique Blessings. Abilities such as
Blessing of Protection can be used to immediately stop physical
damage on an ally close to death or even just allow them to play more
dangerously while the buff is active. Paladin is also the tankiest
of all healers naturally and has the ability to spend talent points to become
even beefier should you find yourself in a situation where you are constantly
taking damage, or facing other players.
Holy Paladin is one of the most highly sought-after healers due to their massive contributions to groups in the form of their incredible healing and powerful Blessings and Auras. Should you decide to play a Holy Paladin you will have absolutely no issue finding groups for all kinds of content, but especially Dungeons, Raids and Battlegrounds.
Incredibly sturdy and many tools to mitigate incoming damage
Strongest single target healing in the game
Powerful unique buffs
Great group utility in the form of powerful cooldowns
Extremely limited mobility
Very Mana reliant
Slow kill speeds
Season of Discovery
Paladin has received some major changes in the Season of Discovery version of Classic World of Warcraft, and with those changes come many new ways to play one of the games' original classes. We have included guides to keep you current on not only Season of Discovery changes, but general game play tips and lists so you are best prepared to tackle the new adventures that await you in the Season of Discovery on your Holy Paladin.
Through the addition of entirely new abilities and runes, the rotation, gearing options, and talent decisions for Holy Paladin has changed drastically with the coming of Season of Discovery. Use the guides located in the Table of Content at the top of this page to find all the information you'll need to master this new game mode!
Rune Engravings
Make sure to check out our Rune Engravings guide to best understand what each rune does for your Paladin. Likewise, if you're unsure where to locate these runes, we've listed the location for every Season of Dicovery Rune in the guide below to help you find the best available runes for your clas!.
Professions
Professions have always been a big part of Classic WoW but are made even more important in Season of Discovery with the addition of many new recipes.
Engineering provides tons of situationally useful goodies that will help you in combat both in PvP and PvE either to deal more damage or sometimes even a niche defensive cool down to mitigate or even entirely avoid incoming damage or crowd control.
Blacksmithing now provides even more great gear with the new recipes found in Season of Discovery. Many of the new Epic crafted items are Bind on Pickup so you will need the respective profession to use the items.
Changelog
- 11 Jul. 2024: Reviewed for Phase 4.
- 05 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Phase 3.
- 15 Feb. 2024: Updated for Phase 2.
- 16 Dec. 2023: Guide updated.
More Classic Paladin Guides
More Season of Discovery Class Guides
Classic Dungeon Guides
Classic Profession Guides
Classic Reputation Guides

This guide has been written by Mytholxgy, who plays healer in Liquid. He is a Templar in the Paladin class discord. You can reach him on Twitter and watch him stream on Twitch.
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