Holy Paladin Healing Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.1.0)

Holy Paladin is one of the better healing specializations for Mythic+. It has excellent throughput for almost any healing situation in dungeons, many defensive tools, multiple cooldowns for emergencies, and good damage for a healer. Holy Paladin weaknesses in Mythic+ include low mobility, lack of a standard interrupt, and limited options for crowd control.

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated page below.

For a detailed rotational guide for not only healing but damage as well, you can visit our dedicated Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities page.

While Holy Paladin has a lot of strong single-target heals through Holy Shock and Word of Glory, the class can struggle when facing very hard-hitting party-wide damage. Most players will end up underusing cooldowns, which can make AoE damage feel much harder to deal with. Remember that Divine Toll has a short cooldown that you should be aiming to press them often.

One common mistake that players make that can make healing much more difficult is the overuse of Shield of the Righteous. When you are unfamiliar with how much damage your party will be taking, you should aim to sit on high holy power as much as possible so that in case unexpected damage occurs, you already have built up Holy Power ready to heal it quickly. This does not mean you cannot ever deal damage with Shield of the Righteous, but you should not spend 3 Holy Power on it the second you get that Holy Power. Try to save up until you get 4 or 5, and then spend Holy Power before building it up again.

Remember that you can easily import the talent tree below into the game with either of the two "Copy Export String" buttons:

Please note that our talents here are specifically focused on Mythic+. If you are interested in more generic talents or other forms of content, please refer back to our page dedicated to talents.

The class tree for Holy Paladin provides many strong abilities that can help to increase utility, damage, and even throughput. Quite possibly, the most vital talent is Rebuke, which allows you to have an interrupt again. This can make difficult packs and mobs much more manageable, as you will be able to assist with interrupting enemies. The rest of the talents selected aim to increase damage through the right side of the class tree as well as getting the strong capstone nodes, Of Dusk and Dawn and Divine Toll. The increased power from Dusk and Dawn is pretty self-explanatory, but Divine Toll is much more important. One of the historical problems for Holy Paladin in M+ is a lack of healing outside of Avenging Wrath.

Blessing of Summer is another extremely important ability to consider. This talent is the old Night Fae covenant ability. While it was never really popular in Shadowlands, it being only a 1-point talent makes it incredibly good. That being said, its value will come down to your usage. Some classes will benefit from the buffs more than others. You also need to use it as often as possible to cycle through the four buffs and get back to Summer as quickly as you can, as it provides the largest DPS increase.

For in-depth trinket analysis, you should visit QuestionablyEpic which will provide you with a tool to compare every trinket you have, as well as rankings of the best overall trinkets.

If you are interested in reading more about gearing your Holy Paladin, you can check out our page linked below.

This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depth explanations of all Paladin Abilities and Talents, including these, check out our Spells page.

On our Gear Page below, we have compiled BiS items for Holy Paladin that also apply to Mythic+.