Classic Holy Paladin Healer Guide

As the champions of the light, Paladins bring powerful blessings, potent heals, and an array of auras that make them excellent at supporting a raid group. Paladins are also clad in plate armor, making them quite durable and hard to kill in PvP. Perhaps most importantly though, Paladins have a wide array of powerful cooldowns, some of which are considered to be among the most powerful in the game.

Holy Paladins are exceptionally good in both PvP and PvE. Most raid groups will look for at least 4 Paladins to ensure that the raid can make use of the powerful buffs that they bring, including Blessing of Might, Blessing of Wisdom, and Blessing of Salvation. These buffs are so powerful that many people consider Alliance to be the superior faction simply due to how strong Paladins are. While Holy Paladins do not bring AoE healing like priests, their single target healing with Flash of Light and Holy Light is quite good, and they make up for the slightly lower healing output by being the most Mana efficient healer in the game.

In PvP, Holy Paladins are incredibly strong due to their amazing survivability. With plate armor, strong healing, and an array of powerful cooldowns, Paladins are ideal healers for supporting melee in the middle of a fight. They can stay in the battle, healing and supporting a Warrior while not needing to worry about dying nearly as much as a Priest or Shaman would. As a Holy Paladin, you should have no trouble finding a group for both raiding and PvP.

Strengths

• Strong single-target healing.
• High Mana efficiency.
• Powerful cooldowns.
• Strong utility.Durable in PvP.
• Relatively easy to gear.

Weaknesses

• No multi-target healing.
• Limited damage options as Holy.
• Low mobility.

Holy Paladin brings strong, single-target heals that are unrivaled amongst all healing classes in Classic WoW. This makes Holy Paladin a great addition to any raid to help keep a tank alive, while also offering numerous, powerful buffs such as Blessing of Salvation and Blessing of Kings. That being said, Holy is a limited raid-spot and you will likely not find more than 1‒2 in most raids, making it difficult to find a permanent raiding spot.

Paladins auras are buffs that the Paladin keeps active for as long as they choose. Auras can be activated and de-activated whenever the player wishes to with only a short global cooldown, allowing you to use whichever aura is most beneficial. With 6 total auras available, you will have plenty of options to choose from such as Devotion Aura, Fire Resistance Aura, or Frost Resistance Aura, giving you a way to defend yourself against most attacks.

• Devotion Aura ‒ Increases armor when active, use this if you are primarily being damaged by Physical attacks.
• Retribution Aura ‒ Inflicts Holy damage to any enemies that attack you while activated. Great for dungeons and farming sessions!
• Concentration Aura ‒ Reduces the amount of casting pushback suffered when being attacked while casting spells. This is mostly used for PvP.
• Fire Resistance Aura ‒ Increases your Fire Resistance while activated. Use this when you are primarily being damaged by Fire spells.
• Shadow Resistance Aura ‒ Increases your Shadow Resistance while activated. Use this when you are primarily being damaged by Shadow spells.
• Frost Resistance Aura ‒ Increases your Frost Resistance while activated. Use this when you are primarily being damaged by Frost spells.

The best profession to have as a Holy is Engineering. It provides powerful items that you can use in both PvE and PvP content to either deal damage or help you get out of a tough spot. There are several unique items accessible only through Engineering that are considered to be some of the strongest utility items in the game.

While Engineering is a great profession, probably the more important thing to think about is how you plan to make gold. Gold is incredibly important in WoW Classic for a number of reasons and will be quite hard to come by, especially at the start. Check out the Paladin Goldmaking section for more information on other potential professions for making gold.

Find our new guides for Paladin in WoW Classic Season of Discovery below! The new game mode will have players find and utilize Runes that can then be engraved onto their gear to provide them special bonuses that augment already existing abilities or allow the class to use entirely new spells.

While Paladin was already incredibly flexible in WoW Classic, the Season of Discovery will make new builds possible, and increase the power of already existing builds.