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Holy Paladin FAQ - v1.0 (Pre-3.1)
Banana Shoulders —
... Holy Shock is a talent-based spell; it heals for a little more than Flash of Light, but is instant (with a 6s CD). Use this for an urgent heal. A crit Holy Shock gives you the Infusion of Light buff, making your next Flash of Light instant or your next Holy Light very fast and is a good way to put out a lot of healing fast. ...
Patch 3.1 PvE Holy Paladin Talents
Holypaladin.net —
... healing by half a percent. This is because crit heals add 50% to the heal amount. Think of it this way: if you have 100% crit, its the same as getting 50% increased heals all the time. 3% crit averages out to 1.5% increased heals. In addition, each percentage of crit reduces the mana cost of your heals. If you have 100% crit, your heals will all cost 60% less mana due to Illumination. Doing the math, 3% crit will reduce the average cost of your spells by 1.8%. Lastly, Holy Shock crits proc Infusion of Light, which means you’ll get ...
Holy Paladin Healing - Anub’Rekhan
Holypaladin.net —
... . You might need to throw a Holy Shock on the tank also as you’re moving into position. Feel free to spam as many heals as you can on the tank at this time since your other healers are probably moving into position as well and healing in general is going to be low. Your tank may also be out or range of your other healers for a bit. ...
Holy Paladin Healing Guide
Holypaladin.net —
... the person who will take the most damage - the main tank or possibly an off-tank. Sometimes the off-tank actually takes more damage due to adds or because they’re undergeared.
I cast Beacon on that same person.
I always try to stay on top of the tank on the pull until he is almost in position. That way the tank never gets out of range.
I use a judgement on the main target of the dps (usually the tank’s target).
I throw a Holy Shock on the tank to heal the burst damage that always happens on the ...
Is 10-man Ulduar difficult for Holy Paladins?
Holypaladin.net —
... a long period of time. But you don’t keep people alive with HPS. It’s not surprising that you’re finding Flash of Light to be insufficient when you refuse to gear and gem for Spell Power. You’ve built yourself around a Holy Light tank spam build, and now you’re wondering why you can’t raid heal and keep people up in 10-mans.
Are you finding that there’s too much movement required? Use (Spell Power enhanced) Holy Shock and instant or nearly-instant Flash of Lights. Spec and gear ...
Are Holy Paladins versatile healers?
Holypaladin.net —
... Healers? NO!!!111!!! Tank Heal or GTFO. We bring the strongest single target heals and Blessing of Kings.”
If “versatile” means we have a large number of different healing spells, then no, we are not versatile. However, if versatile means that we can handle any situation, then yes, I would argue that Holy Paladins are very versatile.
No, I will not GTFO…
Holy Paladins only have three healing spells. We also have a shield and a buff that can double our healing ...
Holy Paladin Gear - Haste or Crit?
Holypaladin.net —
... of Illumination. Also, your heals will heal more per mana spent, since crit heals will do more healing for the same amount of mana (even without Illumination). This is a very good thing, especially if you use Holy Light often. The high mana cost gets cut down quite a bit with each percentage of crit. This is also very different from Haste, which does the same healing per mana no matter how much of it you have.
Lastly, Crit gives us an extra added bonus whenever we use Holy Shock because of the Infusion of Light talent. Whenever your Holy Shock ...
Tank Stats - Mitigation, Avoidance and Stamina
Holypaladin.net —
... sets as well. Healing an avoidance tank can be a nail-biting, exciting experience. The key to remember is to not get complacent. You need to be prepared to quickly throw a large heal at all times, even if your tank hasn’t taken any damage in the last 10 seconds. Avoidance tanks can often get very lucky with their avoidance, but those are the times when they are most likely to die as the healer sits back a bit and gets bored or unprepared. You’ll probably need to use Holy Shock more with an avoidance tank as well as stop-casting ...
Healing with Addons: Bad Practice?
No Stock UI —
... Back in the days of my priest, I didn’t use any healing mods at all. I simply had CTRaid and dragged the raid frames out where I needed them to be. I used my 1-9 keybinds for my heals. Pretty simple stuff. Nowadays I still use my 1-9 keybinds, but other then Holy Shock, they don’t contain heals. I rely on ...
Arena Healing Tips for Holy Paladins
Holypaladin.net —
... ), since you can cast them while moving and they can’t be interrupted. You should be using Holy shock and instant Flash of Lights at every cooldown. Work on getting your Spell Power and Crit as high as you can to increase their power and get librams, glyphs and set bonuses that improve Holy Shock and Flash of Light. To expand on that: ...
The Dilemma of Holy Paladins
I am a Paladin... —
... has lousy lousy scaling but is being foisted on us. I will elaborate further on each of these points and then you'll know why I think Ghostcrawler is a f*cking ignoramus. I. How Paladins Heal Paladins only have ONE way of healing, single target direct heals . We have no AOE heals, no HOTs or smart heals. Anytime we land a heal is usually a result of a conscious decision on our parts to target and cast a spell. We have 3 spells in our arsenal, which are Flash of Light (FoL) , Holy Shock (HS) and Holy Light (HL) . HS is on a 8 second CD (or 7 if you ...
Best Holy Paladin 3v3 PvP Spec/Build?
Holypaladin.net —
... spec gives me a ton more buttons to push. I haven’t tested the spec out yet, but here’s the strategy ideas bouncing in my head:
Save Divine Illumination for when I use Beacon of Light (probably with a macro).
I now have 4 different instant cast spells I can use to deal with burst damage on a teammate (one extra one): Sacred Shield (which is now stronger), Hand of Sacrifice, Divine Sacrifice, and of course, Holy Shock.
Beacon of Light works perfectly with Hand of Sacrifice and ...
Healadin-ing 101
Pallymar's Take —
... it grants a 100% bonus to all *base* aura abilities (ie. It doubles the armor bonus from Devotion Aura but if a Protection Paladin put up Devotion Aura, it doesn't double the heal bonus.). Divine Favor - An instant cast spell that prefaces any of your three main heals (HL, FoL, HS) that causes that heal to automatically crit. It's an excellent tool, especially when you know exactly when the target is going to take a massive chunk of damage. Holy Shock (31 point talent) - Consider this one to be the crust to our bread and butter heal spells, ...
Holy Paladin Healing in Patch 3.2
Holypaladin.net —
... 3. Use Holy Shock (and Holy Light) less. Currently, I use Holy Shock a lot. I use it about every cooldown. I have to admit that its often unnecessary. Holy Shock and instant Flash of Lights every 6 seconds allows me to pump out a ton of heals in a short time, top the healing meters and keep people alive, but is it really necessary? There are times when a Flash of Light would have done just fine. There are times when a heal wasn’t really needed at all. Maybe a druid HoT would have done the same thing in 6 seconds instead of 1 or 2. ...
What makes a good healer in WOW?
Holypaladin.net —
... keep up with all the damage coming in on a typical encounter.
Here are the stats you should focus on to improve your raw healing output as a Holy Paladin:
Spell Power
Haste
Critical Strike
Intellect
These four stats will directly improve the raw numbers of how much heals you can pump out. The highest possible raw healing you can pump out is through the use of a combination of Beacon of Light, Sacred Shield, Holy Shock, instant Flash of Lights (with the new HoT) and Holy ...
PVE Healing = Prot Vs Holy
I am a Paladin... —
... and Holy Shock for incomparable mana efficiency. In terms of throughput, prot and holy healing specs should actually be very close depending on the skill and gear of the paladin. ...
PvP Prot/Holy Paladins Going Away
Holypaladin.net —
... I’ve seriously considered switching to full prot for PvP, but I’ve always held off. I just love the feel of the Holy tree and it feels wrong to heal with the Prot tree. I also loved Holy Shock and ...
Holy Scheming Paladins Batman!
Rawrbitchrawr —
... More importantly, why are players with alternative specs frowned upon by Blizzard? Is it so terrible for a paladin to heal with a prot spec and “double dip” for spellpower but not have his healing propped up with talents like holy shock, ...
Solo Healing Auriaya, the Crazy Cat Lady
Holypaladin.net —
... that the group never went more than one GCD without a heal. The rotation was something like: heal, heal, buff, heal heal, judge, heal heal buff, etc. When the tank’s HoT started to run down, I would throw a FoL directly onto him (often an instant), but besides that I never directly healed the tank. I tried to use Flash of Light when I could on others to conserve mana (especially when Holy Shock crit), but I spent most of the time spamming Holy Light and Holy Shock. The Glyph of Holy Light certainly helped a ton. ...
3v3 Hunter/Healadin Arena Strategies and other tips
Holypaladin.net —
... Keep your teammates focus target targetted as much as possible so you can help with burst damage if he gets low. Often the key to winning arenas is by taking a risk and getting a little behind on heals in order to burn someone down instead. An extra Holy Shock, ...
Holy Paladin PvE Healing Guide - Patch 3.2
Holypaladin.net —
... , or at least some rollover macros. Healbot is easiest to set up, just download it and its ready to go. Grid + Clique is more customizable (although Healbot is pretty customizable too). Without one of these Add-ons, you are forced to target someone first and then hit your healing hotkey in order to heal. This isn’t BC days where we can wait 1.5 to 2.5 seconds between each heal. With the amount of haste on our gear in Wrath and our instant cast spells, you’re going to need to be able to target and heal multiple targets very quickly. Hitting two ...
Koralon the Flame Watcher Guide
Holypaladin.net —
... . These are spouts of fire that frequently shoot out from Koralon, land on someone in the raid and stay there burning as a large flame on the ground. The damage isn’t too hard to heal through, especially since its relatively easy to avoid. If a flaming cinder lands on you, you just need to move out of it immediately. As soon as you hear the alert from DBM or see the flame coming at you, stop casting and move regardless of what else is going on. Throw a Holy Shock on yourself during the move to heal up the damage you took and ensure you stay alive. ...
Tier 10 Healing Bonuses
World of Matticus —
... finalized yet but these are some serious bonuses. Check them out:
Druids
2 piece: The healing granted by your Wild Growth spell reduces 0% less over time.
4 piece: Each time your Rejuvenation spell heals a target, it has a 2% chance to jump to a new target at full duration.
Paladin
2 piece: The cooldown on your Divine Favor talent is reduced by 60 sec.
4 piece: Your Holy Shock spell causes the next Holy Light you cast within 10 sec to have 0.3 sec reduced cast time. ...
Holy Paladin Tier 10 Set Bonuses
Holypaladin.net —
... 4 Piece Bonus - Your Holy Shock spell causes the next Holy Light you cast within 10 seconds to have 0.3 seconds reduced cast time. ...
Don’t be that Holy paladin…
Holypaladin.net —
... Aura while everyone has Shadow Protection.
…who doesn’t have the Insightful Earthsiege Diamond in your helm.
…who uses nothing but Concentration Aura.
…who still puts Beacon on yourself.
…who decides to help out the dps with a Consecration and then pulls aggro and dies.
…who stays in melee range during a whirlwind and dies.
…who decides to help out the dps with a Holy Shock and then the tank dies.
…who specs into Judgements ...
Holy Paladin Healing Guide Q&A
Holypaladin.net —
... usually only running with one or two other paladins, and Twin Valkyrs has two targets for the dps, its essential that I keep up my own Judgement of Light on one of the bosses. It puts out a ton of healing over the duration of the fight and can really help out the raid healers and help keep people up. Unbelievably, I’m finding my T9 2-piece bonus to be actually useful. I’m also in love with the god of all healing spells, Beacon of Light. I also love Holy Shock.
What healing spell do you use least for your class and ...
Patch 3.3 Icecrown Avoidance Nerf
Holypaladin.net —
... To give an example, Holy Light is clearly the best spell to use on the Death Knight Understudies in the Instructor Rasuvious encounter in Naxxramas because it provides the most heals per second and there’s no chance of the understudies dying during the cast time. On the other hand, Holy Shock is clearly the best heal to use on someone who’s hit with Kel’thuzad’s ...
More Holy Paladin Arena Tips
Holypaladin.net —
... targeted. A lot of wins come when you aren’t just focused on your health bars but are also aware of the enemy’s health levels, positions, cooldowns, etc. Gladius can help with that by showing some of their ability cooldowns. Wins usually come when you take a risk and let your team’s health get low so you can do some dps and stuns at key moments to get the kill.
Make sure to use all your abilities. If your partner is getting burst down, hit him with a Holy Shock, then put Sacred Shield on him (if it isn’t already), then ...
Flash of Light vs. Holy Light
Holypaladin.net —
... , even when you’re stacking Spell Power. I don’t think the +25 spell power from the ESD is worth the mana return you lose from the IED. A Flash of Light spammer is still not solely spamming flash of light and having a little more freedom with your mana is never a bad thing. It lets you use Holy Shock more, use ...
