Holy Paladin Healing Stat Priority — Midnight Season 1

Following this stat priority will provide you with a strong baseline for every form of content, increasing your healing as much as possible. When aiming to increase your damage, you may want to drop a bit of Mastery in favor of other stats that increase your damage output.

1. Intellect
2. Mastery
3. Haste
4. Critical Strike
5. Versatility

This stat priority focuses on maximizing the output of Herald of the Sun. Given that Mastery provides us with the largest HPS increase from secondary stats, it is what we will prioritize. Critical Strike will lose value from other builds due to it not having as much impact for Herald.

1. Intellect
2. Mastery
3. Haste
4. Critical Strike
5. Versatility

When playing Lightsmith, Critical Strike value will increase significantly due to Hammer and Anvil. This causes Judgment critical strikes to deal healing to nearby allies. Much of your playstyle revolves around maximizing your Judgment casts and we want to also increase the healing it does by increasing the amount of Critical Strike we have.

That being said, Mastery continues to be our strongest stat and it is what we will prioritize overall.

1. Intellect
2. Mastery
3. Critical Strike
4. Haste
5. Versatility

When playing Mythic+, you have quite possibly the most interesting choice when it comes to allocating secondary stats. Mastery will continue to provide you with the largest HPS increase, but it does not offer any increase to your damage like the other stats will.

We recommend sticking with Mastery until you gain more comfort with the new dungeons, increase your overall gear, and feel as though more healing isn't need. At this point you can consider dropping Mastery to the bottom of your stat priority in favor of stats that increase damage.

1. Intellect
2. Mastery
3. Haste
4. Critical Strike
5. Versatility

Understanding the impact of each stat is crucial if you aim to truly minmax your gear and performance. Below we will break down the impact that each stat has.

• Mastery — Increases your healing done based on the proximity of your target. The closer you are to players, the more healing you will do. It is important to note that Beacon of the Lightbringer changes this slightly. With this talent, the healing increase will also take into account the distance your Beacon targets are from players. If they end up being closer, the healing is increased relative to that distance rather than your own distance. This is one of the main reasons you are incentivized to spread your Beacons to ranged players who aren't often close to you. They can give you extra coverage in the room, increasing your Mastery effectiveness.
• Haste — Many spells in the game "scale with haste". What this means is that their cooldowns are decreased as you obtain more haste. For Holy Paladin, this applies to Holy Shock and Judgment most notably. The more haste you have, the lesser cooldown these abilities will have. Additionally, Haste will reduce the cooldown of cast times for spells such as Flash of Light and Holy Light.
• Critical Strike — Gives you an increased chance for spells and attacks to deal additional healing or damage. Additionally, some abilities will only trigger off of Critical Strikes such as: Hammer and Anvil for Lightsmith. While more procs of this ability can be a massive boost for players using Lightsmith, Critical Strike runs into an issue where you get so much of it through various talents that stacking it on your gear loses effectiveness. Holy Aegis, Divine Glimpse, and Avenging Wrath all modify your Critical Strike chance in some way, leading to you often having more of it that you need, decreasing the overall desire to target gear with Critical Strike.
• Versatility — By far the least interesting stat, this increases healing and damage done by a small amount and decreases damage taken. Unfortunately, this stat does not compare to the alternative options. In very high Mythic+ dungeons you may see players running more amounts of it in order to live very high damage intakes that would otherwise 1-shot them, but most players will not experience this. Outside of that specific situation, you will typically avoid targeting gear with Versatility.