This site makes extensive use of JavaScript.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser.
Live
PTR
10.2.5
PTR
10.2.6
How do you play a Holy Paladin?
Post Reply
Return to board index
Post by
415459
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
GenXCub
In PvE, stacking int has always been the way to go if you're not sure what you need, since it provides mana, crit, and mp5 via divine plea and replenishment. Crit and spellpower are needed stats as well, but I tend to not gem for them. I'll usually gem INT, enchant spellpower. Paladins do a LOT of overhealing. They'll always be on the top of the overheal meters, so you'll tend to get by better with slightly lower spellpower but a huge mana pool.
In general, you basically cast Beacon of Light on your tank, and then play whack-a-mole on your healbot healing whoever is getting hit (which will then heal your tank). Any time you need to move a bit, use holy shock to heal. It has the same extra crit that Holy Light has (and if you have 2 pc T7, it's more), and HS crits give you either an instant FoL or a 20% higher crit chance on your next HL.
Start off as a Flash of Light spammer. Get the Holy Light glyph. Use HL when there's a lot of predictable damage about to hit the tank.
don't get into spamming Holy Light until you're at a high crit % gear level. Just use it for big hits when you know you'll have time to cast it. At higher crit %, you can use it more exclusively, though this will probably change with 3.2's Illumination nerf.
FoL has best healing per mana, Holy Light has best healing per second. At some point, FoL spamming on your tank won't be fast enough healing for big damage.
Post by
magette
yep keep to using FoL and onnly use HL when really needed, u can switch do doing HL most of the time when ur gear has improved and u have a good mana pool&crit so u r unlikely to run out of mana during heroics.
with the upcming changes, increased mp5 from items and lowered illumination mana back, int is still most important to get via gems but try to get some of the epic plate items with mp5 on them so ur mp5 isnt totally disasterous
Post by
Fretold
In general, you basically cast Beacon of Light on your tank, and then play whack-a-mole on your healbot healing whoever is getting hit (which will then heal your tank).
I've cleared all of Ulduar (except alg) as a healadin and will say that that will probably get your tank killed. As a healadin its your job to stay on the MT the entire fight, leave the
raid healing
to the
raid healers
. Usually i will not use BoL at all, except in fights with alot of aoe dmg (eg: IC hardmode), where i will beacon myself and keep healing the MT.
As for FoL against HL, just spam FoL until your mana pool looks to be around 24k+ (unbuffed) then you should be fine spamming HL.
Cooldown rotation (for HL spamming) goes divine illumination after 1-2 HLs then once that is up, wait for about 5 HLs then pop DP and wings then rinse and repeat. Once you get down to about half mana use LoH on yourself.
Glyphs, currently i use SoW/HL/divinity. though with FoL spam u should switch divinity out for FoL glyph. You can also switch out SoW for SoL with divinity since when you use LoH on yourself with divinity you will get 7800 mana back instead of just 3900 (proven to be better for ur mana pool than BoL).
Stack intellect as much as possible, its about that mana pool. You should have around 35% holy crit as well.
I only do arenas as ret so i wouldnt knw much about pvp and holy.
Having around 27-28k mana unbuffed, i have around 32k mana buffed if i recall correctly, and i never drop below 75% mana, generally im always at 90-100% mana while spamming HLs for the entire duration of fights.
Post by
415459
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
pezz
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=66369
Check the stickies, I found this thread in the one with 'Read Before Posting' in its name. I know it's confusing to have three words which clearly mean nothing when put together and aren't worth reading in the title, but do make the effort to read stickies if you can.
Post by
TheJohan
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=66369
Check the stickies, I found this thread in the one with 'Read Before Posting' in its name. I know it's confusing to have three words which clearly mean nothing when put together and aren't worth reading in the title, but do make the effort to read stickies if you can.
Actually the stickies on Holy is kind of short and/or outdated.. It says almost nothing about the stuff that Fretold explained. Keep posting in this thread, someone might compile it into a new improved holy-guide! (Please?)
Post by
Synectics
In general, you basically cast Beacon of Light on your tank, and then play whack-a-mole on your healbot healing whoever is getting hit (which will then heal your tank).
I've cleared all of Ulduar (except alg) as a healadin and will say that that will probably get your tank killed. As a healadin its your job to stay on the MT the entire fight, leave the
raid healing
to the
raid healers
.
Thing is, the OP said he's never played a Holy Paladin. Perhaps he should be starting on 5-man's, where he's the only healer? In which case, the whack-a-mole sounds EXACTLY like what he should be doing. ;)
Post by
Squishalot
In general, you basically cast Beacon of Light on your tank, and then play whack-a-mole on your healbot healing whoever is getting hit (which will then heal your tank).
I've cleared all of Ulduar (except alg) as a healadin and will say that that will probably get your tank killed. As a healadin its your job to stay on the MT the entire fight, leave the
raid healing
to the
raid healers
.
Thing is, the OP said he's never played a Holy Paladin. Perhaps he should be starting on 5-man's, where he's the only healer? In which case, the whack-a-mole sounds EXACTLY like what he should be doing. ;)
Only once 3.2 comes out. If you just play whack-a-mole at the moment, then your tank will be the one getting whacked by the mobs, since Beacon doesn't do overheals, no? =)
Post Reply
You are not logged in. Please
log in
to post a reply or
register
if you don't already have an account.