Holy Paladin PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.0.7)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Holy Paladin and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Holy Paladin PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Holy Paladins
Below is the talent build you should use in PvP if you want to play from ranged:
Alternatively, if you want to do damage to heal and play more aggressively, below is the best build for doing that:
Talents Summary
While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.
Paladin Talent Tree Highlights
Some important spells to note in the Paladin talent tree:
Blinding Light/
Repentance.
Blinding Light is great if your team already has a lot of stuns and a diminishing return with
Repentance, like RMP. Important note:
Repentance shares a diminishing return with spells like
Polymorph. You should not take Repentance when playing with a Mage.
Blessing of Protection/
Improved Blessing of Protection are vital talents to have. This is a powerful cooldown against any team that has melee damage or stuns.
Empyreal Ward makes
Lay on Hands a crucial cooldown, even late in dampening. This talent not only grants the target increased armor, but makes Lay on Hands ignore healing reduction effects.
Holy Paladin Talent Tree Highlights
Some important spells to note in the Holy Paladin Talent tree:
Saved by the Light is a crucial talent to have in every matchup. This provides a large absorption shield on a teammate that gets low on health and is great for when you are stuck in crowd control.
Inflorescence of the Sunwell gives your
Infusion of Light procs an additional charge and reduces the Mana cost of
Flash of Light. This is important so you can have multiple procs active simultaneously and not miss out on healing.
Tyr's Deliverance is one of your best cooldowns. This puts a HoT on any teammates you have and they will take increased healing from your
Holy Light,
Flash of Light, and
Holy Shock.
PvP Talents for Holy Paladins
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents, each has uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Blessed Hands makes your
Blessing of Freedom and
Blessing of Protection now have an additional
charge. This gives you additional utility for your teammates and gives you
multiple defenses. Abilities like Blessing of Freedom and
Blessing of Protection are already strong, but with 2 charges, you will
have much utility during an arena match.
Divine Vision increases the range of your Aura by 30 yards and
reduces the cooldown of
Aura Mastery by 60 seconds. This is great
for increasing your team's passive survivability and being able to use
Aura Mastery more often.
Situational PvP Talents
Searing Glare causes enemies to miss their spells and attacks
for 4 seconds. This is a great talent if you can time it correctly. Use
this against teams that will be within 25 yards of you and time it for
when they use their burst cooldowns.
Denounce is used on an enemy and prevents the target from
causing critical effects for the next 8 seconds. This replaces
Shield of the Righteous. This is great versus specializations, like
Fire Mage, that heavily rely on dealing critical strikes.
Cleanse the Weak makes it so that when you dispel a teammate
affected by your Aura, one of your teammate's with the same DoT will have it
dispelled. This is crucial versus specializations like Shadow Priest or
Elemental Shaman. This will allow you to dispel
Vampiric Touch on
multiple teammates in one global cooldown.
Changelog
- 29 Jan. 2025: Added second talent build.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 13 Nov. 2024: Updated Talents.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 22 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 12 Sep. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 23 Aug. 2024: Updated Hero Talents.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 26 Jul. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- Updated Recommended PvP Talents.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 12 Jul. 2023: Updated Recommended Talent.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 07 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- Updated Talent Tree.
- Updated Talent Calculator.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated Best talent build.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Pre-patch.
- 01 Aug. 2022: Reviewed for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
- Updated Best PvP Talents.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Updated PvP Talents.
- 02 Jul. 2021: Updated PvP Talents.
- 08 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 23 Dec. 2020: Updated Tiers 5 and 6 Regular Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 26 Oct. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- 25 Oct. 2020: Updated Tier 2 Regular talent.
- 15 Oct. 2020: Updated Tier 3 Regular talent.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch (Patch 9.0.1).
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