Holy Paladin The War Within 11.0.5 Guide

Hello I’m Joki and I’ve been playing holy paladin since TBC and I’ve been hardcore raiding since BFA (Crucible of Storms) when I joined Honolulu.

Holy paladin is an ever versatile spec with a wide range of utility spells such as stun, interrupt, immunity, freedom and damage reduction, coupled with a powerful reactive healing kit and an emphasis on spot healing.

While classes are buffed and nerfed over time, and metas shift, holy paladins have always endured and carved out a seemingly permanent group spot in all forms of content. The War Within is no different and the spec is in its best state in years. So if you’re considering picking up holy paladin, now is the perfect time to dive in.

Strengths:

• Strong spot healing.
• Brings a raid-wide damage reduction with Devotion Aura that can be empowered with Aura Mastery.
• Game changing utility kit with Blessing of Sacrifice, Blessing of Protection and Blessing
• of Freedom.
• Strong passive damage.
• Good personal defensives with Divine Protection and an immunity Divine Shield.

Weaknesses:

• Poor mobility.
• Melee Healer.
• Lightsmith mechanics are unappealing to many players.

The biggest change in patch 11.0.5 comes in the form of redesigned paladin Class Tree talents. Since the launch of TWW this side of the talent tree has been incredibly underwhelming, populated by talents that range from unimpactful, unfun, to the darn near useless. In the most recent patch Blizzard seeks to correct this, with one of their stated goals being that they want to give us more choice and prompt some genuine decision making when picking talents.

Have they succeeded? Unfortunately the answer is largely negative. While a lot of the useless/unimpactful talents have been removed and I'm happy to report that Strength of Conviction is among them, the new talents are almost nearly as bad.

Fear not however — none of the changes will affect our core gameplay, which is in the best shape it’s been in for years. Holy paladin will remain a staple for any good raid comp and an ever solid M+ teammate.