Paladin at level 60: Holy healing
At 60 most groups want the paladin as a Holy healer: strong single-target heals, cleanses and blessings for the whole raid. This is a starting point: Forever has no raid results yet, so treat the build as preliminary. Leveling first? See the Retribution leveling guide.
Build
| Talent split | Holy 31 / Protection 20 |
| Weapon | A one-hand with healing power and a shield or off-hand |
| Calculator | Open this build in the talent calculator |
| Tree | Talent | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Holy |  Divine Intellect |
5/5 |
| Holy |  Spiritual Focus |
5/5 |
| Holy |  Healing Light |
3/3 |
| Holy |  Consecration |
1/1 |
| Holy |  Unyielding Faith |
1/2 |
| Holy |  Illumination |
5/5 |
| Holy |  Improved Blessing of Wisdom |
2/2 |
| Holy |  Divine Favor |
1/1 |
| Holy |  Lasting Judgement |
2/3 |
| Holy |  Holy Power |
5/5 |
| Holy |  Holy Shock |
1/1 |
| Protection |  Improved Devotion Aura |
5/5 |
| Protection |  Guardian’s Favor |
2/2 |
| Protection |  Toughness |
3/5 |
| Protection |  Blessing of Kings |
1/1 |
| Protection |  Anticipation |
4/5 |
| Protection |  Improved Hammer of Justice |
2/3 |
| Protection |  Improved Concentration Aura |
3/3 |
Key talents. Divine Intellect and Spiritual Focus give mana and protect your casts from pushback. Illumination refunds mana on critical heals, and Holy Power makes critical heals larger, so crit is worth more for you than for other healers. Divine Favor guarantees a critical heal when you need one, and Holy Shock is an instant heal or damage spell. From Protection, Blessing of Kings is one of the best raid buffs and Improved Concentration Aura protects casters from interrupts.
Healing priorities
- Flash of Light for most healing: cheap and quick, and with Illumination your mana lasts.
- Holy Light when the tank takes heavy damage and there is time to cast.
- Divine Favor plus Holy Light for a big emergency heal; Holy Shock when you are moving.
- Cleanse poisons, diseases and magic when the raid leader asks you to.
- Keep your assigned blessing on every member of your groups.
Stats
Intellect and healing power first, then spell critical strike chance and mana regeneration. Stamina enough not to die to area damage.
In the group
Most raids give paladins tank healing and cleansing. Agree before each fight which blessings you cover and which aura you keep up. Lay on Hands and Divine Intervention are your emergency tools; save them for the moment they matter.
The build is checked against the Forever client files (build 1.60.1.70790); priorities and stats follow the original game and will be revised with Forever raid results.