Holy Paladin Gearing Guide

The War Within Season 2 Holy Paladin Tier Set Bonus:

• (2) Set Bonus: Your healing spells have a chance to apply Insurance! to their targets which applies a HoT for 15 seconds. Insurance is consumed if an ally drops below 40% health to heal them for a set amount.
• (4) Set Bonus: Divine Toll applies Insurance to allies it heals for 8 seconds. Divine toll cooldown is reduced by 1.0 sec each time you spend Holy Power

Besides giving us slightly more Divine Toll + Beacon of Virtue combos, neither (2) set nor (4) set bonus will change the way you play the game. These are sweet and simple increases to HPS and will just enhance what you’ve already been doing since the TWW prepatch.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Holy Paladin, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

The two best performing trinkets this season are: Eye of Kezan and Mister Pick-Me-Up.

Eye of Kezan - is the stat-stick of this tier, it comes with mastery which is a high priority stat for Herald of the Sun and an effect which gives a lot of intellect stacks. It’ll take about 4 minutes to reach full potential making it ideal for long raid encounters, but it’ll lose power in M+ if you spend a lot of time out of combat.

Mister Pick-Me-Up - this is a very simple Intellect trinket, with a strong passive healing effect.

From raid, honorable mentions go to Mug's Moxie Jug and Reverb Radio, both of these trinkets perform well, but not as well as our previously mentioned BIS trinkets.

Best alternatives from Mythic + are: Signet of the Priory and Carved Blazikon Wax.

Signet of the Priory - Intellect trinket with an on-use effect that grants secondary stats to both you and your party members with the same trinket (party members only, not raid). Best use it by binding it to your wings.

Carved Blazikon Wax - Intellect trinket with a chance to proc some versatility. It also gives a little extra versatility if you stand in the light it procs, but don’t play around this effect as its benefits are negligible.

Raid

Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension - This is a simple buff that stacks a random secondary stat as long as you’re in combat. It can be crafted on a weapon which is the biggest power boost you can get from a single item, so this should be the first thing you craft.

Writhing Armor Banding - Since Ascension is a Nerubian embellishment, this will double its effect. Craft it on whatever low ilvl piece of gear needs to be replaced, just make sure it’s not taking up a tier slot.

Keys

Since stacks drop when out of combat Ascension loses a lot of value in M+. Unfortunately none of the alternatives are very good. If min-maxing it’s recommended you first craft a Binding of Binding, as this is the biggest damage boost you can get, followed by a Fractured Gemstone Locket or Dawnthread Lining, the benefits are all marginal so don’t worry about it too much.

Cyrce's Circlet

Cyrce's Circlet is a unique ring introduced in Patch 11.0.7. Unlike traditional rings, it doesn’t provide any stats but features three sockets for unique gems that can be switched around freely once you’ve collected them. Following the recent buffs, this item is finally powerful enough to replace your item level 639 rings.

Recommended gems for pure healing:

• Yellow Socket - Stormbringer's Runed Citrine
• Blue Socket - Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine
• Pink Socket - Windsinger's Runed Citrine

Recommended gems for pure damage:

• Yellow Socket - Thunderlord's Crackling Citrine
• Blue Socket- Undersea Overseer's Citrine
• Pink Socket- Squall Sailor's Citrine