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Holy Paladin

Built to mix spells rather than spam one, with a damage option that does not ruin your mana.

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

Holy changes

  • Infusion of Light icon
    NewInfusion of Light

    Critical heals from Holy Shock and Flash of Light shorten the cast time of Holy Light.

  • NewLight’s Vigil

    High-cost cooldown that can reset Holy Shock and trigger either extra damage against enemies or party-wide healing through an ally. Only the damage version refunds part of the mana.

  • NewVoice of Truth

    Temporary immunity to Silence and interrupts.

  • Reverence icon
    NewReverence

    Mana regeneration from Spirit while casting.

  • Consecrated Ground icon
    NewConsecrated Ground

    Enemies standing in Consecration take increased Holy damage.

  • Holy Shock icon
    ChangedHoly Shock

    Moves to a 10-second cooldown.

  • Holy Strike (Holy) icon
    ChangedHoly Strike (Holy)

    Beta: cooldown 10 seconds instead of 12, and Holy Power adds 15% critical chance to it. Improved Holy Strike was removed from the tree because its effect became baseline.

Baseline changes — every Paladin

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

  • Holy Strike icon
    NewHoly Strike

    Level 6. Instant weapon strike dealing Holy damage on a 12-second cooldown. The beta raised its weapon damage per rank (25% at rank 1 to 50% at rank 8).

  • Seals and Judgment icon
    ChangedSeals and Judgment

    Casting Judgment no longer consumes your Seal, so you stop recasting it after every Judgment.

  • Consecration icon
    ChangedConsecration

    Baseline at level 20 instead of a talent. Full damage and threat on the first four targets, reduced beyond that — a tanking tool and a damage tool at once.

  • Blessing of Kings icon
    ChangedBlessing of Kings

    Baseline instead of a talent, like Divine Spirit for Priests and Improved Mark of the Wild for Druids.

  • Retribution Aura icon
    ChangedRetribution Aura

    Beta: its damage now scales with spell power — per the 1 October notes, the spell power of the player carrying the aura rather than the Paladin’s.

All Paladin changes

Every spec on one page.

Races & racials

Which race suits which class.

Levelling

Skip the climb — market rates.

Market check · 2 October 2026

Holy Paladin: skip the climb to 60

Levelling 1–60 takes about 150 hours of play by community estimates, and Blizzard has announced no WoW Token and no paid boost for Forever. These are the prices other sellers are already taking pre-orders at.

Market prices: pre-order listings on lfcarry.com, wowvendor.com, skycoach.gg, kingboost.net and others, checked 2 October 2026. Our own rates go up when realms open — no one can deliver Forever gold before 4 November.