Introduction
Welcome to the Method Dragonflight Holy Paladin Guide.
Greetings and salutations, my name is Joki and I’ve been hardcore raiding since BFA (Crucible of Storms) when I joined Honolulu, however my Holy Paladin experience started much earlier than that, spanning all the way back to when I first started the game in TBC and made my very first character.
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
- Strong passive healing with Beacon of Faith and Glimmer of Light
- Good personal defensives with Divine Protection and an immunity Divine Shield.
Weaknesses:
- Poor mobility.
- Melee Healer.
- Cooldown dependent, especially Daybreak + Divine Toll and Avenging Wrath
What has changed
Patch 10.2.5 Changes
- Shield of the Righteous damage increased by 30%.
- Consecration damage increased by 30%.
Patch 10.2 Changes
In 10.2 the vast majority of Holy Paladin changes come down to tuning and as such will not significantly impact the way we play or our role within the raid/group. If you’ve had the chance to play hpala during 10.1.5 all of this will be very familiar territory. For those who haven’t it’s a great place to start as the spec is in a very stable and viable spot, equipped for any type of content you might enjoy.
- All healing reduced by 8%.
- Holy Light healing increased by 40%.
- Flash of Light healing increased by 30%.
- Daybreak now restores 2000 mana per Glimmer consumed at level 70 (was 3000).
- Reclamation now restores up to 10% of Crusader Strike and Holy Shock’s mana cost (was 15%).
- Glimmer of Light healing and damage is now increased by 4% per target (was 6%).
- Glimmer of Light damage increased by 10%.
- Hand of Divinity now increases the healing of Holy Light by 40% (was 80%).
- Saved by the Light’s absorb shield increased by 50%.
- Blessed Focus now increases the healing of Glimmer of Light by 40% (was 25%).
- Merciful Aura healing is now increased by 20% (was 50%) while Aura Mastery is active.
- Merciful Aura healing increased by 15%.
- Touch of Light healing now increased by 500% (was 700%).
- Word of Glory healing increased by 10%.
- Barrier of Faith now creates an absorb based on 25% of healing done (was 50%).
- Aura Mastery now increases the effectiveness of Devotion Aura to 12% (was 15%).
- Sanctified Plates is now 40% less effective.
- Blessing of Winter now restores 10% mana over 30 seconds (was 15%).
- Holy Shock now costs 2.8% base mana (was 2.4%).
- Holy Prism heal increased by 40%.
- Blessing of Sacrifice now splits 20% of all damage (was 30%).