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Holy Paladin

Holy Shock moves to 21 points on a 10-second cooldown, and Light’s Vigil at 31 lets you heal the party or deal damage for a mana refund.

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Paladin talent window with Holy, Protection and Retribution trees
Paladin talent treesImage: Blizzard Entertainment

Holy changes

  • NewLight’s Vigil

    31-point talent. 1.5-second cast on an ally or an enemy, 6-second cooldown: your next Holy Shock on that target triggers no cooldown. On an enemy it adds Holy damage and refunds 75% of the mana; on an ally it heals the whole party.

  • NewVoice of Truth

    11-point talent. Six seconds of immunity to Silence and interrupts, 3-minute cooldown.

  • Infusion of Light icon
    NewInfusion of Light

    Crits from Holy Shock or Flash of Light cut your next Holy Light by up to 1 second.

  • Reverence icon
    NewReverence

    Keep up to 30% of Spirit-based mana regeneration while casting.

  • NewPurifying Power

    Cleanse and Purify cost up to 20% less; Exorcism and Holy Wrath cooldowns up to 33% shorter.

  • NewDivine Precision

    Up to 18% more hit with Holy spells. Requires Holy Shock.

  • Consecrated Ground icon
    NewConsecrated Ground

    Holy spells deal up to 10% more damage to the first four enemies in your Consecration.

  • Holy Shock icon
    ChangedHoly Shock

    Now the 21-point talent (was 31) with a 10-second cooldown (was 30).

  • ChangedDivine Favor

    Now the 16-point talent (was 21).

  • ChangedHoly Power

    Up to +15% crit for Holy Shock and Holy Strike; other spells stay at up to +5%.

  • ChangedIllumination

    Requires Reverence, can trigger from Light’s Vigil, and refunds 50% of the base mana cost.

  • ChangedImproved Seals

    Was Improved Seal of Righteousness. Covers all Seals and Judgements; 3 points instead of 5.

  • ChangedUnyielding Faith

    Moves to row 2 and shortens Fear and Disorient instead of adding resist chance.

Baseline changes — every Paladin

These apply to Holy too, regardless of where talent points go.

  • Holy Strike icon
    NewHoly Strike

    Level 6. Instant Holy damage equal to 50% of weapon damage plus a bonus that grows with each rank.

  • Seal of Fury icon
    NewSeal of Fury

    Level 10. Every swing adds flat Holy damage (best with fast weapons) and an absorb shield worth half of it; shields do not stack. Its Judgement deals extra Holy damage and taunts at 10 yards.

  • ChangedJudgement

    No longer consumes your active Seal.

  • Consecration icon
    ChangedConsecration

    Every Paladin learns it at level 20 instead of it being a Holy talent. Moderate damage to the first four enemies, very low damage to the rest.

  • ChangedLay on Hands

    Cooldown 20 minutes instead of 1 hour.

  • ChangedSalvation and Mass Salvation

    Salvation is no longer a Blessing, so it sits alongside another Blessing. The raid version for a whole class is renamed Mass Salvation (not live in the beta yet).

  • ChangedResistance Auras

    Fire, Frost and Shadow Resistance Auras cover the whole raid within 30 yards.

  • ChangedRighteous Fury

    Smaller threat bonus.

  • ChangedBlessing of Kings, Improved Blessing of Wisdom, Lasting Judgement

    Now baseline instead of talents.

  • RemovedSeal Twisting

    No longer works baseline. It returns only through the Retribution 31-point talent Twist of Light.

All Paladin changes

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