PvP Guide | Best Talent Build for A Holy Paladin
For you who enjoy spending your time at the PvP Arena with your teamates, I believe that you will find this paladin guide for pvp very useful. With a paladin in your team, you will gain serious advantages over your opponent such as blessings and healing. Anyone who ever fighting against a team with experienced Holy paladin in it must know how he/she can give the opponent very hard time in battle.
Being a Holy Paladin doesn’t mean that you have to go deep in Holy tree; some paladins in the Arena PvP have tried to combine Holy and Retribution and it is works well for them. However, in this Holy Paladin talent build I will focus on Holy/Protection build (all maxed except the one that I put note):
Holy
1. Spiritual Focus: you are going to cast Holy Light often, so this is very useful.
2. Healing Light: increasing your healing power.
3. Divine Intellect (1 point)
4. Unyielding Faith: useful against Priest and Warlocks.
5. Aura Mastery: an anti Silence; nice since you are nothing without your spells.
6. Illumination: another mana source.
7. Improved Concentration Aura: Reduce duration of Interrupt.
8. Pure of Heart: another anti Warlock skill.
9. Divine Favor: when you need greater healing or damage.
10. Sanctified Light: chance to increase your healing and attack.
11. Holy Power: another power up chance to your Holy spells.
12. Light’s Grace: Useful in emergency situations.
13. Holy Shock: instant damage for your enemy or healing for your allies.
14. Holy Guidance: make your spells even more powerful.
15. Divine Illumination: cast this first before you cast a spell that cost much mana; obvious example: Beacon of Light.
16. Judgement of the Pure:increase the power of your Judgement spells, which will makes your opponent’s life even harder.
17. Infusion of Light: can be useful in some conditions.
18. Enlightened Judgements: another power up for your Judgement spells.
19. Beacon of Light: Saves mana when you have to heal more than one character. Based on the situation, you may have to cast it on yourself.
Note: Beacon of Light cost 35% of your base mana, which is a lot. If possible, use Divine Illumination before using Beacon of Light.
Protection
1. Divinity: increase your healing.
2. Stoicism: good protection against stun.
3. Guardian’s Favor: power up your hand spells.
4. Divine Sacrifice: combine it with bubble.
5. Improved Righteous Fury: makes you harder.
6. Toughness (1 point).
7. Divine Guardian: make you even harder.
8. Improved Hammer of Justice: annoy your enemies and save your allies. Other Paladin PvP guide may suggest taking Improved Devotion Aura instead, but I believe more Hammer of Justice can save your team from many potential dangers.
Notice that this talent build for holy paladin doesn’t only rely on healing spells to keep your teammates alive and kicking; use other spells too such as Hand of Sacrifice, Sacred Shield, or Divine Sacrifice.It is very important to be versatile so you can adapt to various situation;eg: read this rogue talent build to see a solid example of a versatile build.
Keep remind yourself that put Hand of Sacrifice and Divinde Sacrifice doesn’t mean that you will be in dangerous situation. If things start to get out hands, cast Beacon of Light to protect yourself and focus on keeping your friends alive.
You may get different suggestion from other pvp guide for paladin, but in my opinion a holy paladin can make greater difference in arena team that the one that focus on DPS. If you play your skills and spells right, you can keep the team survivability while helping them crushing the opposing team.
Learn about a guide that will teach you how to level, funding, and make your paladin stay at the top of the killing blows at Ultimate WoW Guide Review.
Note: if you enjoy PvP, you may want to build another popular PvP class: Warlock. Learn how to build a PvP Warlock at Warlock PvP Guide.